Blimey, doesn’t time fly. No sooner have you whacked up the playlist from one show than you find you’ve two others to catch up on.
For the show on 2 November, Laura Rawlings from The BCB Sessions bobbed in for a chat and reignited the flame of our occasional feature Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed & Something Blues. I’m very glad to say that the ever-dependable Laura took to the task with appropriate gusto, and linked her selection of tracks to match the categories with magnificent tenuocitude. Bat For Lashes’ What’s A Girl To Do for the “Old” link was a particular favourite, as it is from the album Fur & Gold. Eat your heart out Steve Wright, that’s quality radio items your moustached fisog could only dream of.
Playlists:
Selection Box Show 111
Transmitted 2/11/09
1. Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men
from: Picturesque
2. Alvin & Bill featuring The Invictors – Typing Jive
from: Stomper Time 7 (various artists)
3. La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy (Jack Beats remix)
from: http://www.myspace.com/jackbeats
4. Flowered Up – Weekender (12″ version)
from: The Best Of Flowered Up
5. Nina Simone – Blues For Mama
from: Nina Simone Sings The Blues
6. Bat For Lashes – What’s A Girl To Do?
from: Fur & Gold
7. Trembling Bells – Goathland
from: Carbeth
8. Elton John – The Day Is Done
from: Saturday Sun Sessions
The frankly dreadful cover to Elton John's Saturday Sun Sessions - a collection of covers of songs by Nick Drake recorded in 1970
9. New Order – Crystal
from: Get Ready
10. Shelby Smith – What’s On Your Mind
from: Memphis Rockabillies, Hillbillies & Honky Tonkers, Vol 3 (various artists)
Selection Box Show 112
Transmitted 9/11/09
1. Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Licking Stick
from: The Best of Desmond Dekker
2. Clothilde – Fallait Pas Écraser La Queue Du Chat
from: Swinging Mademoiselle (various artists)
3. The Flaming Lips – Convinced Of The Hex
from: Embryonic
4. The Daisies – Weekender (12″ version)
from: Talcum Soul Volume 3 (various artists)
5. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
from: Veckatimest
6. Thomas Wayne – You’re The One That Done It
from: The Last Great Rockabilly Saturday Night Volume 2 (various artists)
7. Nancy Sedibe – Holotelani
from: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume One (various artists)
8. Nick Drake – At The Chime Of A City Clock
Elton John's Nick Drake cover last week was followed by yer actual Nick Drake this week; played in tribute to arranger Robert Kirby (above), who sadly died last month.
from: Bryter Later
9. Regina Spektor – Eet
from: Far
10. Fraanchini & Dettborn – Palakiko Blues
from: Classic Slide Guitar Volume III (various artists)
11. Stereolab – Metronomic Underground
from: Emperor Tomato Ketchup
12. The Miller Sisters – Ten Cats Down
from: Good Girls Gone Bad (various artists)
13. Marcelinho da Lua Feat. Martinho da Vila – Plim Plim
from: The Rough Guide To Brazilian Street Party (various artists)
Nice one for playing something for Robert Kirby – his arrangments were great.
and also I can’t imagine Elton John doing an album of Nick Drake covers – particularly as early as 1970, as I thought Nick Drake had only had one album by that point.
Indeed 1970 does sound early, but all the information I have on this suggests it is right. It seems that gleaning knowledge on the subject is not easy – indeed if you Google “Elton John Saturday Sun Sessions” my blog above appears on the first page of results.
However, claiming that it is a “collection of covers of songs by Nick Drake” is a bit of a lazy misnomer on my part, as only four of the eleven tracks recorded for the sesson are by Nick Drake – Saturday Sun, Way To Blue, The Day Is Done and Time Has Told Me. The others tracks are songs penned by John Martyn, Beverley Martyn, Mike Heron (the folk singer not the former Marine who is set to marry Kate Silverton off of BBC Breakfast) and Ed Carter. The last four tracks of the album feature Linda Peters – latterly Linda Thompson – on lead vocals.
that should go into some kind of hall of fame for bad album art.
Elton John played the piano on “Back Home” by the England World Cup Squad in 1970. He’s also on He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother by the Hollies – none of which is strictly relevant but who else am I going to share these things with ?