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CW: Way Out West ft Miss Joanna Law - "The gift"
A burst of chillout brilliance from 1995. Joanna Law's cover of "The first time ever I saw your face" is chopped up and reassembled over a gentle ambient beat.
Sounds as good with your posse on the dancefloor as cuddling with your cutie under the stars on a warm summer's evening.
#FirstLastEverything #WayOutWest #Joanna Law
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CW: "The lion sleeps tonight" - Tight Fit
It started as "Mbube", translated as "Wimoweh", hit big for The Tokens.
"The lion sleeps tonight" was a number one hit for Tight Fit - model Steve Grant with singers Denise Gyngell and Julie Harris.
They looked great on #TOTP, with literal choreography. And they could sing! But management didn't pay wages, and the group split within months They've reunited for the nostalgia circuit.
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CW: Spike Jones And His City Slickers - "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer"
You are a travelling big band. You play the same standards every night. You get bored and uninspired, so you mix things up a bit.
The William Tell Overture on kitchen implements! A song called "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"!
This "Rudolph" was a top ten Billboard hit from 1950, just one year after Gene Autry's syrupy original.
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CW: Ned's Atomic Dustbin - "Trust"
Rock week continues with one of the best bands I've ever seen.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin rocketed to fame on the back of Pop Will Eat Itself and The Wonderstuff, the closest we got to a Stourbridge Scene.
Their brand of funk-punk may not have sold huge quantities, but their Christmas shows at the #Wolverhampton Civic became legendary parties, crowds of merry festive debauchery.
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CW: "Hallelujah" - Rosa Linn
#FirstLastEverything gets modern.
Rosa Linn's new single is fresh off the press. It's only released today.
"Hallelujah" works on a lot of levels, just like similar titles by Leonard Cohen and George Handel. Religious iconography? Not out of place.
It's got a scrapbook video, which recaps everything in the life of last year's #AMPTV entrant to #Eurovision. #RosaLinn has embraced that start, and extended it far beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
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CW: "Holding on to the earth" - Sam Phillips
An ecological song from 1988.
T-Bone Burnett's wife turned her back on Christian music, to channel her secular singer-songwriter talent. It's a single from "The Indescribable Wow", which reminds me of late-era Beatles psychedelia, or the work of Bourgeois Tagg.
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CW: Evans Blue - "The pursuit"
I'm slightly reaching to fill #FirstLastEverything with songs by performers that both begin and end with the same letter.
Toronto lovelies #EvansBlue put out this hard rock song in 2007. The lead single from their second album is about a breakup where one party's not ready to move on.
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CW: Aztec Camera - "Spanish horses"
#FirstLastEverything continues with another A.
#AztecCamera were Roddy Frame and his session musicians. Two big hit singles in the 1980s, and a stream of well-regarded albums. The band continued to record well into the 90s.
"Spanish horses" was a single ahead of the 1992 Barcelona sports event, later turned up on the album "Dreamland". Ryuichi Sakamoto produced - or dare I say "over-produced"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Q2_do3nuc