The stone classic rejected by the Drifters (or their management) has become the cornerstone ...

Following on from the previous post about Ben E King touring the UK with Johnny Moore in the eighties, here is a more recent example of Drifters Reunited - come to think of it, there are so many ex-members it's surprising there isn't a dedicated website of that name.

The Drifters on British TV 1985

This  is to let readers know that youtube currently has what appears to be the complete version of a Drifters appearance on TV in the UK in 1985 in which Ben E King is guesting with Johnny Moore's group.

They Turned Me On - Part Seven: Dilly Barlow

In an earlier instalment of this series I promised to devote a post to Dilly Barlow's long-vanished Radio 4 programme Friday Treat but - as is so often the way - I passed on to other matters and forgot all about it.

So here is my attempt to make amends and offer a belated but heartfelt thank you to Ms Barlow: her radio tenure, at least in the role of DJ, may have been short-lived in comparison to the likes of Hubert Gregg and Benny Green, then seemingly permanent fixtures on the sister BBC station Radio 2, but her musical choices had a profound influence on me.

Stan and Ollie (new Laurel and Hardy film biopic by Jeff Pope)

I have just returned from a screening of Stan and Ollie, the new biopic about Laurel and Hardy written by Jeff Pope, centering around their declining years. What follows, however, is not so much a full scale review as a simple reassurance to those who may, like me, have been apprehensive about the prospect of their heroes being subject to such a treatment.