NOT HERE

Abergavenny Town Hall

Not here but overseas. But the music is here.

Australia - Rolf Harris - Sun arise
Ireland - Merv Griffen - The Kerry Dance
Egypt - Paul Clayton - Pharoahs Army
Certainly not here - Summer - still seems like Winter at times although it is slightly improving - Jerry Keller - Here comes summer
Wales - Marty Wilde - Abergavenny

I am of Welsh descent and some years ago we went to Abergavenny and stayed a couple of days touring the area. Quite a pleasant place.

COVER VERSIONS

Some songs made more famous by others for you -

Floyd Robinson - Rainbow. Not a bad version but not up to Russ Hamilton's great one.

Marianne Faithfull - What have they done to the rain

Mickey & Sylvia - Oh yeah uh huh. The original and much superior version was by Col Joye.

Bonnie Lou - I'm available

Patsy Cline - Rose of San Antone. She recorded it as that name as that is the words of the song

Deep within my heart, lies a melody

A song of old San Antone

but Bob Wills originally wrote it as an instrumental and later added the words and called it San Antonio Rose or New San Antonio Rose.

ALL OLD - ALL ENZED

Some real oldies here. So old that the NZ recording industry was very poor and the technical quality (let alone the locally written songs) left a bit to be desired.

Bas Tubert - The Hu Hu bug. Bas was a bit of a star in Wellington being the morning radio host on 2ZB and also appearing on TV when it was in its infancy in NZ.

A story - the TV studios were near where I worked in Wellington (Waring Taylor Street from memory) and one day I was walking along near them when Bas came towards me. I thought I knew him and said Hi. We then spoke for a few seconds - usual nothing - hows it going etc. Then we went on our separate ways. A minute or two later I realised who he was and that I didn't know him from a bar of soap!!

I suppose he got it all the time.

Holden Brothers - So how come
Max Merrit and the Meteors - I'll take you home Kathleen and You made me love you. From Christchurch - their big hit was Slipping Away
Teddy Bennet - Clap your hands
Johnny Cooper - Giddy up a ding dong
Meta Amos Quartette - Fools paradise
Maori Hi Five - Hippy hippy shake

S FOR SATURDAY

All of todays songs start with S

76 Trombones - Robert Preston from the musical The Music Man.

Sing Boy Sing - Tommy Sands who married Nancy Sinatra. The song came from his film of the same name.

Sugarbush - Eve Boswell

Some People - Jet Harris and Tony Meehan who broke away from Cliff's Shadows to go it alone with some success

Sare Marais - Jim Reeves. A great South African song

Summertime - The Jamies - not Gershwins great standard from Porgy and Bess

Sorry I ran all the way home - The Impalas

(To listen click the S)

MOSTLY KIWI

As we wind down (or are we wound up with the stress of it all) for Xmas we have today for your listening pleasure some mostly Kiwi with a smattering of some other male singers:

The Kiwis -
Ivor Fisher & The Reataz With the Satellites - Wild One
Ivor Fisher & the Satellites - Call On Cupid
Paul Walden - King of holiday island
Q-Tees - All Shook up

and the others -

James Darren - Tom Hawk (Tom Hark)
Jerry lee Lewis - Whole lotta shaking going on (Adult Version)
Marty Wilde -A Teenager In Love
Ricky Nelson - Have I told you lately that I love you
Showaddywaddy-Heartbeat
Tommy Steele - Singing the blues
Tommy Steele - Butterfly

MORE XMAS

Some more for the Xmas season here - some serious ones this time.

Paul Walden - A Penny Christmas Card. A kiwi singer of the 1950's
Les Paul and Mary Ford - Jungle Bells
A Strings - Jingle Bells. Incredible but true - Jingle Bells was actually written by James Pierpont in 1857 for Thanksgiving. Originally called The one horse open sleigh somebody said it was a 'merry little jingle' and the new name was born.
Harry Simeone Chorale-The Little Drummer Boy
David Whitfield - Santo Natale

FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER

Xmas is coming fast...........

So a few funny ones relating to Christmas are here.

Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
The Royal Guardsman - Snoopys Xmas
Teresa Brewer - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus as well as the original version by Jimmy Boyd