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29 August 2017

No No Place Like Home, no Peep Show (sort of)

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Listening to the first episode of Robert Webb's memoir How Not to Be a Boy, serialised this week on Radio 4, I was surprised to hear...
21 August 2017

Tommy Hunt on Spencer Leigh's On the Beat, BBC Radio Merseyside

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Have just heard, and strongly recommend, a fascinating interview with Tommy Hunt, one of the two last surviving members of the Flamingos...
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10 August 2017

Bill Putnam and Universal Recording

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One significant name was left out of the recent series of posts about the Flamingos' early work: Bill Putman, who ran Universal Re...
6 August 2017

Flamingos # 17: Get With It & I Found a New Baby

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The Flamingos had a larger backing band than usual for two numbers in their final session for Al Benson's Parrot Records. The web...
3 August 2017

Flamingos # 16: I'm Yours & Ko Ko Mo

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[Marv Goldberg] The Flamingos' second (and final) session for Parrot also yielded some notable sides. The pick of the bunch is th...

Flamingos # 15: I Really Don't Want to Know

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Some time ago in this very blog I dared to suggest that Robert Pruter's assessment of the remaining song from their first Parrot ses...

Flamingos # 14: If I Could Love You

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"Swoonsome" is the term which springs to mind for the opening of If I Could Love You, though not in the teen idol sense. R...

Flamingos # 13: On My Merry Way

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On My Merry Way was also recorded at the Flamingos' first session for Parrot. Robert Pruter describes it as  "a routine jump w...
2 August 2017

Flamingos # 12: Dream of a Lifetime

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29 July 2017

Flamingos # 11: Listen to My Plea

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Listen to My Plea was one of the last sides the Flamingos recorded for Chance. An earlier attempt at the song during their Christmas Ev...
27 July 2017

Flamingos # 10: September Song

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September Song was well on the way to becoming a standard by the time the Flamingos recorded it in 1953. Written for the 1938 Broad...
19 July 2017

Flamingos # 9: Blues in a Letter & Jump Children

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The Flamingos' penultimate session for Chance took place on Christmas Eve 1953 and consisted of four sides: Blues in a Letter, Sept...
16 July 2017

Flamingos # 8: Hurry Home Baby

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Hurry Home Baby is the only song from the Flamingos' first session yet to be discussed in this series, although Robert Pruter's...

Flamingos # 7: You Ain't Ready

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Guitarist Lefty Bates can be heard to good effect on You Ain't Ready, another side from the same August 1953 session as Plan For Lov...
15 July 2017

Flamingos # 6: Plan For Love

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Plan For Love is an interesting performance in the context of the Flamingos' other work at this time, although it's not hard to s...
14 July 2017

Flamingos # 5: Someday, Someway

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11 July 2017

Flamingos # 4: If I Can't Have You

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5 July 2017

The hottest exhibition ever curated?

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1 July 2017

"Virtually mistake-free": a doo wop group in the studio

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26 June 2017

Flamingos # 3: Golden Teardrops & Carried Away

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17 May 2017

Waterloo Sunset on BBC Radio 4's Soul Music

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19 February 2017

The Lives of Sam (Sam Cooke plays and biopics)

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27 January 2017

New play at Theatre 503: Years of Sunlight by Michael McLean

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22 January 2017

New film features the El Dorados (Manchester By The Sea)

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1 January 2017

What a Crazy World to be shown on TV

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31 December 2016

It's Trad, Dad - Deal With It

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8 October 2016

Four in the Morning (Anthony Simmons) on London Live tonight

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3 September 2016

14 Karat Soul live on Switch, Channel 4, 1983

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17 August 2016

Neil Brand's original radio version of Stan

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14 August 2016

Gnome Thoughts ... 38 (Toll the Bell for Minnie Dyer by Myles Rudge and Ted Dicks)

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30 June 2016

Jeffrey Holland in play about Stan Laurel at the Jermyn Street Theatre

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22 May 2016

Barely Remembered Lil's

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11 May 2016

Freddie Davies Performing Masterclass London, May 31st

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27 March 2016

Flamingos # 2: That's My Desire

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21 March 2016

We ask: "What's the deal with Martin Kelner's sacking from BBC Radio Leeds?"

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27 February 2016

Weald (play by Daniel Foxsmith at the Finborough with David Crellin)

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30 January 2016

Barry Humphries' Forgotten Musical Masterpieces (BBC Radio 2 series currently available on iplayer)

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7 December 2015

Some posts about John Lennon

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18 October 2015

Flamingos # 1: Cross Over the Bridge

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1 October 2015

NRBQ (Not Round Britain Quiz)

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27 September 2015

Clyde McPhatter

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23 September 2015

A Few Thoughts on Clyde McPhatter

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19 September 2015

Beatles documentaries repeated

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15 September 2015

Theatre Book Prize judge Viv Gardner on Funny Bones

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If you haven't visited the blog dedicated to Freddie Davies's autobiography Funny Bones , which I cowrote, here is a review of the...
25 August 2015

More radio plays about AA Milne ... and a film

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7 August 2015

Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! (review of BBC Radio 4 play about E.H. Shepard and Christopher Robin Milne)

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25 July 2015

Morecambe, Wise and Nathan

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18 July 2015

Rock 'n' Roll America Episode Three (BBC 4 documentary series)

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14 July 2015

Rock 'n' Roll America Episode Two (BBC 4 documentary series)

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8 July 2015

The Spaniels # 2

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The previous post was a bit convoluted so I am going to add something today which will, I hope, be clearer. In the meantime I have been rere...