Category: Music

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]

From April ’64 through May ’65 the Kinks were the soundtrack to my romance with a girl named Sue … I’m fairly certain that Ray Davies was stalking me.
I have set up a playlist for this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgRpXNRmOnO0F9lSZSaXwltNvjYm3FN9v
(B-side) “You Do Something to Me”, “You Really Got Me”, “All Day and All of the Night”, “Tired of Waiting for You”, “Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy”, “Set Me Free”.
A tip o’ the flat ‘at to Graeme Eldred for tripping a memory switch with his Sixties Single of The Day today.