What I’m listening to.
Today’s impossible task: pick a favourite from these two versions of the same song …
Mitty Collier – Aug ’64 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxzWfkiaSk
Dusty Springfield – Sep ’65 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFXlDuLInUw
In my youth I dabbled with playing bass guitar, but I’m very rusty now.
Rusty Bass … Online jigsaw target time 5:13
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=0aab82aa14d1
The Gramophone Allstars were formed to play a fusion of Jamaican music and jazz, soul, or funk. Then they grew from an octet to a big band!
Read about them on their website, https://thegramophoneallstarsbigband.com/, which is presented in Catalan.
Listen to them on the Spotify playlist I’ve cobbled together with their five studio albums … https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57FMxq9Y5PIvRQsHXzUlVE
Confessin’ the Blues a la Rolling Stones … Most of the original blues songs that the Stones covered … everything from ‘Blue & Lonesome’ plus 30 more tracks.
… Sorry, I couldn’t be arsed to make a YouTube playlist.
Broadcast just three months after I arrived in Toronto, this is an example of what the discerning listeners were tuned into on a Saturday Night while more sensible people were sleeping …
Where It’s At … Top 30 R&B Chart 18 Nov 1967
John Donabie – 1am to 6am Saturday night on CKFM 1430 Toronto
[source: https://www.facebook.com/CanuckistanMusic]
