Pete S

It's an accordion!

Eddie Parker boot £110...we could be here all night

What type of accordion?

I wasn't being sarcy Steve by the way, it really is all I meant - old backing track, jazzed up a little

I'd have drunk my pint and left after the third one...gone to find a Northern Soul night

This was posted up ages ago, when they first did it, it actually got positive reviews at the time I think, I was sort of "whats the point" I do think it's way better than those terrible remixes.

Is it not the same person with a vocal overdub maybe?

It's very simple. The original backing track has been overdubbed with synthesised strings.

I'm afraid they sound nothing like real strings to me...

Yeah it must have been Haydn, I sold it to him a while back with some other memorabilia, where did you see it?

Yeah I was a bit shocked when he sang, he's doing a Frankie Valli impersonation but we're used to hearing the first part of that song done in a deep voice

Why is thr singer wearing a giant plastic bag over his suit? Or is it a suit protector?

Ian - I don't know what it is but Joe Meek was making sounds like that in the early 60's with technology he built himself - Telstar for a start - as were the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Kev's probably sat there laughing his head off at this debate, about a book he originally put out 15 years ago, who'd have thought it would be taken as gospel and provide us with a new term for music which some consider played out, "Top 500". Yet half of them aren't played out and at least half of them are totally brilliant records. At least half.

See post 933 and 941 also...

"The Phoenix" label was from L.A., at least the one that Sandy Golden is on is from L.A.

Have we had this conversation before this is Owen Gray's backing Band, the Sound System, on Island 253, credited to Millie & Jackie. And on a Millie & Her Boyfriends Trojan LP which is where I found it in the first place.

Sorted

Such a shame Rich Chorley's top 100 never came to fruition, he was so close to completing it as well, but he had an illness which was life threatening so the project was never completed, he did stacks of work on it.

It's a really good 'bathroom book'. I had it in there for ages. At the moment I've got one called "1000 tracks you must hear before you die" which is great for a 5 or 10 minute dip into when you're in the bathroom doing whatever you do in there.

Post of the week.

I'd buy a book just with 500 label scans in, because I like that sort of thing. Who can say whats good or bad about a book?

Read it and find out for yourself. Because whatever I say, you'll say it's shit.

Read it and find out for yourself. Because whatever I say, you'll say it's shit.