What is East Dulwich Listening to?

[mockney piers]

See my Baby Jive by Wizzard*. Trust me to be born just before punk!

Eeh gads, in the states it was My Love by Wings.

Clearly my b'day will live in infamy.

*I can see where Lordi got it from now.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Roy Wood rocks MP - be proud.

Mine was Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis

[RosieH]

In a similar vein - Skweeze Me Please Me by Slade

actually I really quite like See My Baby Jive

[citizenED]

Jah, you say Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head was written by Cathy Dennis. According to Paul Morley it was written by Rob Davies, formally of Mud.

PGC - you say yours was Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis. Funnily enough, Morley reckoned a test for any great Pop sng was whether you could imagine it sung by Elvis. Works surprisingly well for "can't get you out of my Head" but somehow can't imagine him doing justice to "This Charming Man"

[Jah Lush]

Well that pretentious prat Morley is wrong CitizenED. Rob Davies had a co-writing credit on Sophie Ellis Bextor/Spiller - Groovejet, which is a great pop record. Perhaps he was confusing the two or you are?

[barrymarshall]

Elvis - cool!

Wizzard - .... hmmm, er, yeah, exactly!

[mockney piers]

I was under the impression it was Cathy Dennis *sigh* and Wikipedia backs me up:

"[Cathy's] highest-selling composition, "Can't Get You out of My Head" (recorded by Kylie Minogue), spent four weeks at number one in Britain, rekindled interest in Minogue in America, where it hit #7 on the Hot 100, and sold over three million copies worldwide to become the world's second highest selling single in 2001."

[Jah Lush]

Thank you Mockney. I rest my case.

[KidKruger]

Re: What is East Dulwich Listening to? new

Posted by: SeanMacGabhann Yesterday, 05:07PM

"this is what we want - more gig recommendations

I'm in" - SeanMacGabhann

OK SeanMacGabhann see you at the the Hope & Anchor on 22/1.

Junkbox are a top pseudo-punk outfit IMO.

I am setting a band night up at the 10 Club on Oxford St. in either June or August it'll be 8-10 quid for 4-5 bands.

Top venue, cheap beer and handy location.

More info to appear once the Saturday evening is booked.

[Keef]

Good old Cathy, she did a lovely version of Waterloo Sunset at some stage in the 90s.

When I think about defining pop moments, I think of Thriller (the song itself not the whole album, although you could argue both), and I guess Wannabe (horrific as it is).

[embellina]

My B'day number one was Way Down by Elvis, although he was dead by then. My eldest sister is always so incredulous that I have never been alive at the same time as Elvis. Unless you believe what's written in the National Enquirer that is...

[citizenED]

No Jah, I am not confusing anything about the writing of "Can't get you out of my Head" - that is down to Paul Morley, for it was him, honest governor what said it was Rob Davis: I am the humble messenger, so please don't shoot! However, further to Mockney's post re Wikipedia and Cathy Dennis, my own little bit of snoopery found this quote in Sound on Sound magazine: "Rob Davis is one of the most successful professional songwriters in Britain. With Cathy Dennis, he wrote and produced Kylie Minogue's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head',"

[mockney piers]

There's a feature on The Foals in this moths The Fly

http://the-fly.co.uk/webmag.aspx

[capt_birdseye]

My birthday No 1 - Slade Merry Xmas Everyone (the first time around, I wonder if it sounded quite fresh back then).

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

That's pretty cool. I think Noddy Holder has one of the most underrated voices and Jimmy Lea is an ace musician.

[Keef]

My birthday number 1 was "You're the one that I want" from Greece. I'm jealous of Fear n Boozin who has Wuthering Heights.

[LizzygotDizzy]

My birthday number one was "Puppet on a string" Sandie Shaw, ! Lol!

Oh Bugger, got the date wrong by 5 years, just re-checked lol, it gets even worse my birthday number one was

The Pipes & Drums & Military Band

of The Royal Scots Dragoon

Guards - Amazing Grace

[TillieTrotter]

Mine was Penny Lane/ Strawberry fields forever - Beatles. How cool is that!

[capt_birdseye]

Can't be right Tillie, Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields never made it to Number 1 in the UK, they were controversially held off the top spot by Englebert Humperdink's "Last Waltz" - yes I am a nerd.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

That's not the point Cap'n - now we know how old she is.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Tillie was talking about the re-release of Penny Lane/ Strawberry fields forever in 1975 - which DID get to #1

[atila the gooner]

Bridges - Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson

Closer to the source _ Leroy Hutson

Trouble man - Marvin Gaye

Steppin in to tomorrow - Donald Byrd

I've got my own album to do - Ronnie Wood

Black Ceasar - James Brown

Beck Ola - Jeff Beck

Royal Scam - Steely Dan

Cultue in Dub - Culture

Harlem River Drive - Bobbi Humphrey

I'm the one who loves you - Delroy Wilson ( possibly the best reggae tune ever)

All hugely recommended

[capt_birdseye]

Apologies then. It seems I have fish and finger pie all over my face.

[mockney piers]

Anyone got the new British Sea Power album, I think it's out today.

Sadly I may have to wait, with Fopp closed and now Zavvi/Virgin shut, I am shopless :(

[atila the gooner]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Anyone got the new British Sea Power album, I

> think it's out today.

> Sadly I may have to wait, with Fopp closed and now

> Zavvi/Virgin shut, I am shopless :(

Buy it online via somone like Play.com.