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August 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 65

Buddy Morrow And His Orchestra, Big Band Beatlemania (1964) Maybe my Beatlemania streak was shining deep on that day…I saw this and had to have it and do I need it? Fuck no! But do I have it anyway. Hell yes! Actually, the guy in the shop goes, “that one must be a freebie” since […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Beatles, Beatles Covers, Big Band, Buddy Morrow, Buddy Morrow And His Orchestra, Covers, His Orchestra, Instrumental, Jazz, LP, Mono, Orchestra, She Loves You, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 65, Vinyl ·

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July 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 87

Pablo Casals, The Art of Pablo Casals (1964) “What is that beautiful cello?” Someone visiting said recently. “Who is playing that? Where did you get it?” And the answer of course is Pablo Casals. And the other answer is: This fantastic fucking junk shop in Masterton for $2! (Well, alright, they’re all junk shops in […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Après un rêve, Cello, LP, Masterton, Mono, Pablo Casals, Record, The Art of Pablo Casals, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 87, Vinyl, Yo-Yo Ma ·

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July 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 97

Miles Davis, Live In Europe (1964) There was a time when I had a hundred or more Miles Davis albums loaded onto an iPod. When I lost the iPod in a burglary it was gutting – we’d been robbed, while we slept! – but there was a certain freedom or catharsis that came from no […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Jazz, Joshua, Live, Live In Europe, LP, Miles Davis, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 97, Vinyl ·

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September 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 377

Doc Watson, Doc Watson (1964) I’ve been really enjoying this lately – the debut, self-titled album by Doc Watson; one of those guys that is kinda bigger than music – just there always, deep inside the grooves, be it country, folk, blues, gospel. In the post-Oh Brother country music book he got a new wave […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Acoustic, Banjo, Black Mountain Rag, Blues, Country, Debut, Doc Watson, Folk, Gospel, Guitar, John Herald, LP, Nashville Blues, Record, Records, Self-Titled, Sitting On Top Of The World, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 377, Vinyl ·

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August 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 382

Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) I’ve recently decided I am going to try to own everything by Bob Dylan on vinyl – I have a few already, so I’m not starting from zero. But I will be re-buying some of the 80s albums I guess – I had them, gave them away, […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Acoustic, Another Side, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob, Bob Dylan, Dylan, Folk, LP, Record, Solo, The Vinyl Countdown # 382, To Ramona, Vinyl ·

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October 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14: Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”

I’ve always loved Dusty Springfield – right from when I first heard her, Bacharach compilations, and then finding out it was her that was the voice on that Pet Shop Boys song and from there to classic Dusty compilations, of course the Dusty in Memphis album – a masterpiece; a revelation – and not that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1964, A Girl Called Dusty, Bacharach, Burt Bacharach, Dusty In Memphis, Dusty Springfield, Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”, Sixties, Stay Awhile – I Only Want To Be With You (1964), Stay Awhile I Only Want To Be With You, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14:, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14: Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”, Tom Petty, Warren Zanes ·

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September 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 13: Solomon Burke – “Rock ‘N Soul”

Seven Top 100 hit singles on this album – Just Out of Reach (Of My Open Arms), Cry To Me, Can’t Nobody Love You, If You Need Me, Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye),You’re Good For Me and He’ll Have To Go. Man, how had I never hear this?! Opening track, Cry To Me. BOOM! That’s a […]
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August 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 511

The Yardbirds, Five Live Yardbirds (1964) These days I would struggle to give anything resembling a fuck for almost anything Eric Clapton does – but I found my way to him and his legacy at a young age and got properly hooked on all of it – the solo years but especially the bands. There […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Eric Clapton, Five Live Yardbirds, Heart Full of Soul, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, The Vinyl Countdown # 511, The Yardbirds, Too Much Monkey Business ·

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July 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 535

V/A, The Lively Set [OST] (1964) I haven’t seen the film but now I want to. A pretty great little soundtrack this – the score and songs credited to Bobby Darin – but a great deal of it is instrumental, slinkly little surf-pop and jazz-lite numbers; Randy Newman has a co-writing credit on a track […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1964, Authors I Admire: #4 Clive James, Bobby Darin, Doug McClure, Film, Joanie Sommers, Marilyn Maxwell, Movie, Pamela Tiffin, Randy Newman, Soundtrack, The Lively Set, The Surfaris, The Vinyl Countdown # 535, Wink Martindale ·

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May 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 558

The Orlons, Bon-Doo-Wah/Crossfire [Single] (1964) A great Philly-soul pre-cursor, The Orlons – a little bit doo-wop, a little bit Motown, a bit of pop with some soul and R&B, I don’t even know how I found out about these guys; probably from a compilation (or two) that I no longer remember the name of…all I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, Bon-Doo-Wah, Crossfire, EP, LP, Philadelphia, Philly Soul, R&B, Single, Soul, The Orlons, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 558, Vinyl ·

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March 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 576

V/A, The Jazz Story Volume 3 (1964) I think it’s a 5-volume set, but I saw the first four in a store on a day and bought them all then and there. And I haven’t looked for volume 5 – I wonder if they were all sold together originally? Anyway, good set of second-handers to […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1964, 5 LP Set, Blues, Compilation, Duke Ellington, Instrumental, Jazz, Sophisticated Lady, Swing, The Jazz Story Volume 3 (1964), The Story of Jazz, The Vinyl Countdown # 576, V/A, Various, Various Artists, Vinyl, Volume 3 ·

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July 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 662

The Beatles, Introducing…The Beatles (1964) I’m not a hound for different versions, for special international pressings, etc – but I’m in America at the moment and we were in a Punk/Hardcore specialist store, cool store. But they have good “other” stuff too – it’s not just all punk and/or hardcore. So then I spy this […]
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