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    Posted: March 22 2013 at 09:52
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

In its original edition, the album was available at Woolworths for 50p. LOL
I was working as a "Saturday Boy" in Woolies when it was released. That's when I bought it.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Blackfoot Sue were a great rock band that like The Sweet adopted the glam image to sell records, (I wouldn't be surprised if their name wasn't derived in part from The Sweet's Wigwambam), Standing In The Road (JAM records) is one of the great singles of the 70s. I recall they appeared on the Benny Hill show once as his backing band.
 
I always preferred "Sing Don't Speak" - I tried to download it recently and the only version I found seems to be a recent remake . Unhappy
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
I remember that, I never realised it was Thin Lizzy though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Junction Smile
In its original edition, the album was available at Woolworths for 50p. LOL
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I have this album which covers Elton John's days as a cover artist:
 
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
I remember that, I never realised it was Thin Lizzy though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Junction Smile
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Jimi Hendrix - British Gold??? Confused
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^British band, Hendrix lived here....i can see a good case for it.
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

^damn straight, Hendrix was a marginal figure in the USA until Chas Chandler imported his art back to the USA from the UK. I can't resist rejoicing in the delicious irony of this musical invasion being tantamount to an aesthetic Pearl Harbour launched by the perfidious albion'
Absolutely. Hendrix was an American musician but the Jimi Hendrix Experience was a British group formed in London by Chandler as a vehicle for Hendrix with two British musicians. Wikipedia lists The Experience as an  English-American group yet calls Placebo and English group even though Molko and Olsdal are American and Swedish musicians because they were formed in London.
 
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

 
I used to have a couple of 20 Fantastic Hits albums in the 70s. I remember a couple of Blackfoot Sue classics that were on them. Anyone remember them?
Blackfoot Sue were a great rock band that like The Sweet adopted the glam image to sell records, (I wouldn't be surprised if their name wasn't derived in part from The Sweet's Wigwambam), Standing In The Road (JAM records) is one of the great singles of the 70s. I recall they appeared on the Benny Hill show once as his backing band.


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
I remember that, I never realised it was Thin Lizzy though.
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I've got the "By Invitation Only" album on cassette.   At the time, the big deal was that ELP Karn Evil 9 Parts 1 & 2 were presented without a break/fade out.  
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^damn straight, Hendrix was a marginal figure in the USA until Chas Chandler imported his art back to the USA from the UK. I can't resist rejoicing in the delicious irony of this musical invasion being tantamount to an aesthetic Pearl Harbour launched by the perfidious albion'
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^British band, Hendrix lived here....i can see a good case for it.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Two more, slightly older:
 
 
A1 Who, The –  Substitute   
A2 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The –  Fire   
A3 Procol Harum –  Whiter Shade Of Pale   
A4 Cream (2) –  Sunshine Of Your Love   
A5 Jimi Hendrix –  Hey Joe   
A6 Elton John –  Crocodile Rock   
A7 Ashton, Gardner & Dyke –  Resurrection Shuffle   
A8 Faces, The* –  Stay With Me   
A9 Derek & The Dominos –  Layla   
A10 Thunderclap Newman –  Something In The Air   
B1 Spencer Davis* –  Give Me Some Lovin'   
B2 Free –  My Brother Jake   
B3 T-Rex* –  Get It On   
B4 Joe Cocker –  With A Little Help From My Friends   
B5 Status Quo –  Down The Dustpipe   
B6 Manfred Mann –  54321   
B7 Move, The –  Blackberry Way   
B8 Hollies, The –  Here I Go Again   
B9 Kinks, The –  All Day & All Of The Night   
B10 Deep Purple –  Hush 
 
 
A1 O'Jays* –  Backstabbers   
A2 Johnny Nash –  There Are More Questions Than Answers   
A3 Roxy Music –  Virginia Plain   
A4 Atomic Rooster –  Devil's Answer   
A5 Judge Dread –  Big Six   
A6 Dave And Ansil Collins* –  Double Barrel   
A7 John Kongos –  Tokoloshe Man   
A8 Daniel Boone –  Rock And Roll Bum   
A9 Free –  All Right Now   
A10 Faces (3) –  Stay With Me   
B1 Tyrannosaurus Rex –  Debora   
B2 Mac Davis –  Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me   
B3 Lesley Duncan –  Sing Children Sing   
B4 Colin Blunstone –  I Don't Believe In Miracles   
B5 Pioneers* –  I Believe In Love   
B6 Johnny Pearson –  Sleepy Shores   
B7 Greyhound (4) –  Black And White   
B8 Lindisfarne –  Meet Me On The Corner   
B9 Dandy Livingstone –  Big City   
B10 Cat Stevens –  Moonshadow 
 
 
Jimi Hendrix - British Gold??? Confused
 
I used to have a couple of 20 Fantastic Hits albums in the 70s. I remember a couple of Blackfoot Sue classics that were on them. Anyone remember them?
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2013 at 07:33
Not K Tel but does anyone remeber this?
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Originally posted by Ajay Ajay wrote:

Stool Man's thread about 20 Dynamic Hits sent me on a nostalgia trip,

 
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.
As Bob said earlier - some of the sessions musicians on those albums later became famous in their own right. Rick Wakeman did hundreds of sessons recordings at that time (the contentious "Piano Vibrations" album is an example of that). I have an album called "Funky Junction plays Deep Purple" which was a sessions recording of Purple covers by a band that later became Thin Lizzy.
 
 
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^I remeber not realising they were all cover versions at first and then  I  though...this Sweet song doesn't sound quite right!

Not bad versions though...not so much covers as clones.


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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Never had a K tel album, had a few Top Of The Pops ones.
My sister had this one:
 
These regularily topped the UK charts in the early 70s and if I remember correctly the reason why budget albums were eventually excluded from the charts was because a Top Of The Pops album containing a cover of Maggie May knocked Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story (that contains the original version) off the number one spot.


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Never had a K tel album, had a few Top Of The Pops ones.
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^Oh, my father has this one! 
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This is the one I had when growing up.
The Rock Album

The ROCK Album (1980)

Side One:
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Dirty White Boy - Foreigner
Two Tickets To Paradise - Eddie Money
Too Rolling Stoned - Robin Trower
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Dream Police - Cheap Trick
Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer

Side Two:
Renegade - Styx
More Than A Feeling - Boston
Something's On The Move - Jethro Tull
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' - Journey
Isn't It Time - The Babys
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
Hold The Line - Toto



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Two more, slightly older:
 
A1 Who, The –  Substitute   
A2 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The –  Fire   
A3 Procol Harum –  Whiter Shade Of Pale   
A4 Cream (2) –  Sunshine Of Your Love   
A5 Jimi Hendrix –  Hey Joe   
A6 Elton John –  Crocodile Rock   
A7 Ashton, Gardner & Dyke –  Resurrection Shuffle   
A8 Faces, The* –  Stay With Me   
A9 Derek & The Dominos –  Layla   
A10 Thunderclap Newman –  Something In The Air   
B1 Spencer Davis* –  Give Me Some Lovin'   
B2 Free –  My Brother Jake   
B3 T-Rex* –  Get It On   
B4 Joe Cocker –  With A Little Help From My Friends   
B5 Status Quo –  Down The Dustpipe   
B6 Manfred Mann –  54321   
B7 Move, The –  Blackberry Way   
B8 Hollies, The –  Here I Go Again   
B9 Kinks, The –  All Day & All Of The Night   
B10 Deep Purple –  Hush 
 
 
A1 O'Jays* –  Backstabbers   
A2 Johnny Nash –  There Are More Questions Than Answers   
A3 Roxy Music –  Virginia Plain   
A4 Atomic Rooster –  Devil's Answer   
A5 Judge Dread –  Big Six   
A6 Dave And Ansil Collins* –  Double Barrel   
A7 John Kongos –  Tokoloshe Man   
A8 Daniel Boone –  Rock And Roll Bum   
A9 Free –  All Right Now   
A10 Faces (3) –  Stay With Me   
B1 Tyrannosaurus Rex –  Debora   
B2 Mac Davis –  Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me   
B3 Lesley Duncan –  Sing Children Sing   
B4 Colin Blunstone –  I Don't Believe In Miracles   
B5 Pioneers* –  I Believe In Love   
B6 Johnny Pearson –  Sleepy Shores   
B7 Greyhound (4) –  Black And White   
B8 Lindisfarne –  Meet Me On The Corner   
B9 Dandy Livingstone –  Big City   
B10 Cat Stevens –  Moonshadow 
I've highlighted the Lesley Duncan track here because this album was my first introduction to her wonderful voice, she never found much success as a solo singer but produced two notable albums, Sing Children Sing and Earth Mother, worked with Elton John, sang backing vocals on Dark Side Of the Moon and lead on Alan Parson's Eve. Sadly Lesley died in 2010 after a long illness.
 
Lesley Duncan
 
Her song "Love Song" has been covered by over 150 different artists, this early acid-folk version is the original.
 


Edited by Dean - March 21 2013 at 14:25
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