by Paul
And now for something completely different… In 1972 Vicky Leandros had a European hit with “Après Toi” (After You), and I went on my first overseas trip from New Zealand, to the French Pacific colony of New Caledonia. All the time we were in Nouméa, its capital, we heard the song “Après Toi” again and […]
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by Paul
In the late Seventies Jackson Browne wrote a song about being a rock musician on tour called “The Load Out”, which morphed into “Stay”, and featured David Lindley on slide guitar/lap steel guitar (and a falsetto voice on the chorus). I don’t really remember “The Load Out” part too much, but “Stay” (Oh won’t you […]
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by Paul
Michael Martin Murphey is another one of those names that would have meant nothing to me if you had asked me about him – until just now when I came across the 1975 hit “Wildfire”. Then I knew who he was. I used to love that song. “Wildfire” is about a horse, as the video […]
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by Paul
Every time I open a certain web editing program I think of the Gary Wright song “Dream Weaver” that came out in 1975. And when I think of that song, I think of my room in the student hostel in my first year of university, because that was where I heard it a lot, in […]
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by Paul
The song “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” suddenly popped into my mind while I was doing the weather report for a newsletter I edit (all the places are sunny this week, after a few mixed weeks) so I looked it up, and found Bill Withers sang it in 1971. The name didn’t really mean […]
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