by 8 boston square » 05 Jan 2019, 04:18
Can you remember climbing the stairs as the interval is coming to an end? Just been down stairs to watch the guest group, kindly supplied by Nigel, then heading upstairs about 915pm, 917 and the Offbeats are back on stage, sound check, one, one, one, a bass note, treble note, a chord then one, wow, three four! We are off for the second half.
So then at number 1 for the restart is a Beatles track, a nice melodic number with Paul on vocals, a track that reminds me of "The Rampant Horse" at Gayton, this was where I first saw "The Vampires" play and this a number that they did and they did it very well, from 1963 then its "All My Loving."
At number 2 we will have a bit of ABBA, this song always seemed to me to be from a time gone by, a sound that would fall easily into the late 50's early 60's but its from 1974, not one of the biggest hits but every tribute act I saw included this one, clearly "Honey, Honey." goes down well with the fans and my partner as well, can you avoid tapping your foot or swinging a leg?
Number 3 and Danny steps down for a short while, this track is from 2017 and a band from Cambridge called Clean Bandit, you probably know this better as the backing track to the Marks and Spencer adverts on tv and so its an instrumental version of "Rather Be."
At number 4 another instrumental from 2001 this time and a group from Norway, now that's got you thinking eh! Ok then no more suspense its Royksopp with "Melody AM."
We get Danny back on stage now for number 5 and a song rarely heard by me on the local band circuits in fact I don't ever remember hearing it, for sure it would have gone down well but there is only so much time available to play the tracks for the evening and each band had its favourite tracks and the ones the audience expected to hear so this one never showed for me, so, without more ado lets go back to 1962 and meet "The Girl from Ipanema" from Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66.
Tracks 6-10 next week but before I go just a last thought on the "novelty" records, we were not alone the Americans had them as well one that remember around was Stan Freberg who did take offs of the US crime show from 1951 "Dragnet" its hero was Joe Friday and " only the facts mam, we only want the facts" , "Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent" One of them that I recall was called "St George and the Dragonet" My brother had a right rum idea of what records to buy in those days, they were different times.