31 January 2019

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.

27 January 2019

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.

13 January 2019

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.

6 January 2019

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.

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