SFR Soundsystem 23rd June 2012

I've been meaning for a while to put together another cover versions show & finally got round to it. The biggest problem with cover versions is deciding which ones to leave out - I hope you enjoyed the ones that made the final playlist:

1. Madness - Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames (Prince Buster)
2. Rainy Night in Georgia - Lord Tanamo & the Skatalites (Brook Benton)
3. Black Magic Woman - Winston 'King' Cole (Fleetwood Mac)
4. Blam Blam Fever - The Simmertones (The Valentines)
5. Leaving on a Jet Plane - David Isaacs (Peter, Paul & Mary)
6. Just Dance - London Ska Orchestra (Lady Gaga)
7. Hungry Like the Wolf - Reel Big Fish (Duran Duran)
8. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - Ska Cubano (The Four Lads / They Might Be Giants)
9. My Sweet Lord - Freddie Notes & the Rudies (George Harrison)
10. I'm Only Sleeping - Suggs (The Beatles)
11. She's Leaving Home - Easy Star All Stars (The Beatles)
12. Daytripper - Bombskare (The Beatles)
13. Darker Shade of Black - Jackie Mittoo (The Beatles)
14. And the Beat Goes On - Prince Fatty (The Whispers)
15. Ali Baba - Dreadzone (John Holt)
16. Hey Joe - Dolphin (Jimi Hendrix - big thanks to Mark W for this one)
17. Stand & Deliver - Mark Foggo's Skasters (Adam & the Ants)
18. The Tide is High - The Selecter (The Paragons / Blondie)
19. You Keep Me Hanging On - Madness (The Supremes)
20. Hoots Mon - Bad Manners (Lord Rockingham's XI)
21. Take Five - Rico (Dave Brubeck)
22. The Russians are Coming - Val Bennett (Dave Brubeck)
23. Declaration of Dub - King Tubby (Dave Brubeck)
24. No, No, No - Gussie Clark & King Tubby (Dawn Penn)
25. Stranger on the Shore - The Upsetters (Acker Bilk)
26. Theme form 'Shaft' - Byron Lee & the Dragonaires (Isaac Hayes)
27. 54-46 was my Number - Ernest Ranglin (The Maytals)
28. Massachusetts - Alton Ellis (Bee Gees)
29. Winter Shade of Pale - Dennis Brown (Procul Harem)
30. Tracks of my Tears - Pat Kelly (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
31. Fever - Junior Byles (Elvis)
32. Duke of Dub - Tommy McCook & the Paragons (Gene Chandler)
33. Swan Lake - The Cats (Tchaikovsky!)
34. Your Turn - Prince Buster (Otis Redding)

Madness strip!

Does anyone remember this strip in Look In comic in the early 80's? Just found this in a book I picked up at a school fete. Other 'highlights' include two Haircut 100 comic strips, a Bucks Fizz picture story and one detailing the early life of Wee Jimmie Krankie. There's a pin-up of Debbie Harry (a bit fuzzy but she's gorgeous in or out of focus!) All in all a nice little trip down memory lane for the grand total of 30p. Not that I was a reader of Look In - I was way too cool for that in 1981, honest!

Look In comic 10th October 1981. Art: Harry North. Story: Angus P. Allan
Taken from Look In - Best of the 80's - Prion Books

Normal(ish) service is resumed...

I've had a few weeks away from presenting my SFR show and posting my random ramblings on here. I don't think it's any big secret that I suffer from periodic bouts of severe depression and I've just endured one of the more severe bouts I've had for a year or two. I seem to be over the worst of it now thankfully and tonight I ventured back on to the virtual airwaves. The playlist is below; no particular theme or anything worthy of special mention - just what I consider to be tunes worth sharing. I'd like to say a huge than you to the folks at SFR for taking my unplanned absence in their stride and being so encouraging & supportive. A big thanks to other friends and listeners too for their concern, support & help. OK, enough of the mushy Oscar-winner's-speech cack - here's the playlist:

1. King Hammond - Return of the Kung Fu Skinhead
2. Symarip - Back from the Moon
3. The Deltones - Back a Yard
4. King Stitt - Lick it Back
5. Shoot the Moon - Get in the Van
6. Hepcat - Penny Reel
7. Bombskare - World Turned Upside Down
8. The Crashers - Hurry Come Up
9. Marcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me Down
10. Boris Gardiner - Elizabethan Reggae
11. Madness - In the Hall of the Mountain King
12. Bad Manners - Night Bus to Dalston
13. The Specials - Do Nothing (live at Glastonbury 2009)
14. Jackie Mitto - Ghetto Organ
15. Ernest Ranglin - Summertime
16. BamBooligans - Following the Sun
17. Drewvis - These Three Words
18. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant - One Inch Punch
19. Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby
20. Pama International - To Have & Have Not (feat. Billy Bragg)
21. Roland Alphonso & the Skatalites - VC10 (Shake a Lady)
22. Lloyd Brevett & the Skatalites - Fugitive
23. The Skatalites & King Tubby - Give Thanks
24. I-Roy - Straight to Prince Jazzbo Head
25. Prince Jazzbo - Straight to I-Roy Head
26. The Upsetters - Dub Organizer
27. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Concrete Jungle
28. Tommy McCook & Bobby Ellis - Green Mango
29. Dave Barker & the Upsetters - Sound Underground
30. The Maytals - Johnny Cool Man
31. Jimmy Cliff - King of Kings
32. Lord Creator - Wreck a Pum Pum
33. The Pioneers - Jackpot
34. Derrick Morgan - Rough Rider
35. Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames - Black Head Chineman
36. Prince Buster - Time Longer than Rope