Tag: Porpoise Song
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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Goodbye goodbye goodbye, Gerry Goffin
Sadly the porpoise is waiting: Gerry Goffin the songwriter has died – with Carole King he wrote some amazing songs. I’ve posted Porpoise Song before when Davy died, so here’s another, Goin’ Back performed by Dusty Springfield who recorded quite a few Goffin/King songs. And No Easy Way Down, which ties for my favourite Dusty…
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Davy Jones of the Monkees RIP
Apparently dead at 66 from a heart attack – hoping it was one of those twitter/internet hoaxes but no, BBC and Rolling Stone have it up so it’s unlikely. 🙁 Seems appropriate to post Porpoise Song as he shares lead vocals on this pioneering track (and amazingly underrated film ‘Head’). Here’s a more traditional lead…
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Radio Clash 94: Halloween comes Early
Ghouls and boggarts, rattle those chains and beat those b-movie drum thingies made of skulls , cos Halloween has come early. So come and dance to the Monster Mash while we try and work out what other monstrous metaphors to squeeze into this horrible excuse of a pustolous post… It’s the voodoo that you do…