― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:v3obaK2rMWc73M:www.jazz-klassik.de/oper/b/05050010.jpg
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 19 March 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)
Search: "Choc Ice", "Love Loves to Love Love". "I'm a Tiger", "Me the Peaceful Heart", "Boy", "Oh Me Oh My", "Try to Understand".
And "To Sir with Love" is totally classic!
The MIckie Most-era is the best. There's a British compilation of her compete Mickie Most productions that I wish I had.
Her version of Bowie's "Watch That Man" is pretty funny--she repeats the title with an emphasis on a different word each time--"Watch that man! Watch that man! Watch that man!
― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― sleeve, away, Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)
i have that bowie-produced single somewhere. it is really shrill. not so bad (not so great either, but c'mon) is her version of "the man who sold the world" on the flip side.
let me try to find the cover of the corresponding lp online...it's a doozy... ah yes...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002576E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
no, there is no need to adjust your monitors.
she did "oh me, oh my (i'm a fool for you baby)" before aretha franklin. both versions are good.
she made a bunch of pretty decent white-soul records in her time, which were entertainingly overheated in her attempt to sound credibly "black". i don't love the gravelly quality of her voice too much but her phrasing was good and the mickie most arrangements were pretty fine.
also her "band" was called the luvvers which is neat. and she was scottish. and short. and she looked like a girl i went to college with.
"to sir w/love" is a strange song. i like when p.j. harvey begins singing it in that hal hartley movie, "the book of life."
― amateurist0, Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)
There was a fabulous video of her performing "The Boat That I Row" on YouTube but it was taken down. It was so shagadelic too...she had the Austin Powers outfit and everything...
― musically (musically), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― So Ho La, Monday, 20 March 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)
Her version of "Here Comes the Night" is fantastic. I'd never heard her before...thanks WFMU!
― john. a resident of chicago., Monday, 22 November 2010 04:23 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, like "Them", its on Decca, so you have to make sure of which version you are playing when you pick the record up.
― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lulu_cropped.jpg
She'd paint 'open eyes' on her eyelids so she could have a kip during boring signing sessions...
― Mark G, Monday, 22 November 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)
probably blocked by greedy tards like this male whore who sang about teenage kicks when he was a humanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p40rmuCzyQ&feature
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
Just bumping to say 'Melody Fair' is a perfect Sunday morning album.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 29 June 2025 12:15 (eleven months ago)