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YouTube video by Prince Buster Music Inc.® BUNNY AND SKITTER PRINCE BUSTER GROUP - CHUBBY

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Another Nyabingi track, recorded by Prince Buster in 1961, not long after Oh Carolina www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHH0...

YouTube video by Kingstoned - soundzz the maytals - treating me bad - prince buster records

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Treating Me Bad by the Maytals, produced by Prince Buster, has terrific Nyabingi drumming on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9O...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I have doubts about the Ivor The Engine connection. The earliest broadcast I have found was 28.12.59, when Townshend was 14. He'd have been aware of the cartoon from the listings, maybe, but he was too old for the target demographic.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Nyabingi album from 1983. As I understand it, it's a sacred ritual of chant and drumming where the whole is more important than the sum of the parts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Txk...

YouTube video by DON DIEGO Prince Buster - Hey Jude (1969) FAB 94 A

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Prince Buster's 'Hey Jude' cover - the rocksteady bass stands out www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7id...

YouTube video by Rich Hill Don Drummond - Bellevue Special

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Charlie Parker and Don Drummond both recorded compositions named after mental institutions in which they spent time: Relaxin' at Camarillo and Bellevue Special, although I'm not sure whether they or the labels chose the titles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=524m...

YouTube video by Don Drummond - Topic Green Island - Original

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Don Drummond track that features Burru drumming from Lloyd Knibb (Smiling is another but this one is more polyphonic to my ears, as a non-expert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwC...

YouTube video by cwilliams1976 Baby, I'm Want You (BBC2 1979-1983 and BBC North-West and Midlands trade opt-out)

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard" was one of the tracks used by the BBC to accompany the Test card from 1979-83. Starts here from 5:45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxW...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com If I had one criticism of The Temptations' catalogue, it would be 'Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You)' from Puzzle People. It quotes "I'm gonna get'cha" from 'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me' but in a much more threatening way. One of Motown's most misogynistic compositions.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Compare the bass intros to I'm Gonna Make You Love Me and What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted. They both have a heart-beat sound interspersed with a single drumbeat but the Ruffin intro is at a slower tempo. Both obviously just genius arrangements.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com There's a lot of vibrato in that P.J. Proby performance in the Cat Stevens episode.

YouTube video by 6hillsway Otis Redding - I Got Dreams To Remember

@andrewhickey.500songs.com One of Otis Redding's last recordings, released posthumously on The Immortal Redding, June 68. The horns in the middle 8 are particularly moving. Also interesting to compare with his older ballads, when his voice had a different texture www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooqq...

YouTube video by Al Green Al Green - Unchained Melody (Official Audio)

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al Green's arrangement of Unchained Melody is stunning www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkeE...

The Singles Collection 1962–1970 - Wikipedia

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All the singles were reissued.

TMG 555 - A 45 that refused to go away SOURCE MAGZINE - how many copies of the Isley Brothers This Old Heart Of Mine...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Tamla Motown had a strange lull in the UK in mid-1968. On 1.6.68 they had no singles on the Record Mirror R&B chart. The turnaround in the Autumn started with an oldie: This Old Heart Of Mine R&B No. 1 - but it had never gone away www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/fea...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com There's a parallel between Pete Townshend and Sly Stone - relative optimism in 1969 but cynical by 1971. Other artists probably had a similar journey but in their own unique ways - e.g. Marvin Gaye, Nick Drake - for different reasons.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Pete Townshend was interviewed by Keith Altham, published in Record Mirror, 13.12.69. Text: thewho.net/articles/69-...

George Davis Is Innocent: The 1970s Campaign That Proved The Police And State Were Not OK - Flashbak ON August 19, 1975, the third England v Australia Test at Headingley was abandoned following vandalism. A man who said he was a supporter of the George Davis campaign telephoned BBC radio London and c...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The Who played an interesting role in the "George Davis Is Innocent" campaign, notably the "loudest concert ever" (Guinness Book Of Records) at Charlton's football ground, 31.5.76. Good account: flashbak.com/george-davis...

YouTube video by Bionic Dub WINSTON WRIGHT with TOMMY McCOOK AND THE SUPERSONICS - Psychedelic Reggae [1970]

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Winston Wright and Tommy McCook helped to invent 'Pychedelic Reggae' in 1970, a subgenre that still exists in various forms (dub, etc). There's a bit of 'Harlem Shuffle' in this I think but with various effects www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp50...

YouTube video by Andrew Allcock Drink Wine - The Techniques with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - 1968

@andrewhickey.500songs.com My new favourite Jamaican recording - The Techniques backed by Tommy McCook & The Supersonics for Duke Reid in 1968. Utterly amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQS...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ernest Ranglin arranged 'Simmer Down' for The Wailers (Katz, Solid Foundation, p.89). There's a dispute over whether Rita Anderson was born in Cuba (she was turned down for a visa due to no record of being born there).

YouTube video by Arthur Conley - Topic People Sure Act Funny

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I wonder if it's a coincidence that Lee Perry's "People Funny Boy" is a similar phrase to this of the same year? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s3d...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com 'My Boy Lollipop' seems to stand somewhere between 'ska-lite' and 'R&B-lite' but then Blackwell seemed to have wanted that kind of hybridity throughout the mid-late-60s, with the Jackie Edwards then Jimmy Cliff UK recordings.

YouTube video by Ady Manifold If This World Were Mine - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This was a 1967 B-side but it's the most beautiful ballad I have ever heard. They both put their souls into a perfect performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4u8...

YouTube video by love marvin Marvin Gaye - My Love for You

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "My Love For You" (1965) by Marvin Gaye apparently wasn't released until 1995's "The Master" but it's a gem: the arrangement is like Bacharach meets The Dells www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDi...

Ska and reggae pioneer Ernest Ranglin played with everyone from Bob Marley to Jimmy Cliff. At 93, he plans to secure his legacy The guitarist guided the music of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Toots, Prince Buster among others – but thinks the magic might never have have happened if he’d had access to better gear

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ernest Ranglin says he arranged 'Easy Snappin'' but didn't seek credit because he needed to preserve his jobs in higher social class venues and recordings were viewed as lower class: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

YouTube video by History of LA Ska History of LA Ska: One On One Sessions - Episode 85 - Susan Cadogan (Jamaican Music Legend)

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Excellent interview with Susan Cadogan reveals, among many other things, that we've all been pronouncing her name incorrectly (we should elongate the middle syllable, as in 'Hoboken') www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpIF...

YouTube video by Prince Buster Music Inc.® PRINCE BUSTER - SHAKING UP ORANGE STREET

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Prince Buster's best rock steady track, and his first single on the FAB label (1967), which had superceded Blue Beat as Melodisc's UK label for his music. You can also hear him developing a soul voice on the chorus www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBt...

YouTube video by louis bertrand Prince Buster Wash Wash

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Prince Buster did a cover of "That Lucky Old Sun" and called it "Wash Wash" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ZO...