Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[myglaren]

I for one welcome our new P?????? overlords

[myglaren]

Inspired by the above, two of dozens on my son's front path

[NewcastleFalcon]

Original 78 of this record was number 38,698 co-incidentally the milage at the end of the month on the Leaf mileometer



Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Shouldn't that have been this one Neil?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Shouldn't that have been this one Neil?

Yes the same number for both Imagination was the A side and Bewitched was the B Side both with the catalogue no 38698. I listened to Imagination but liked Bewitched better

Of the two bewtiched was the more well known tune, and I thought Imagination was a bit slow, so I plumped for bewitched

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Yes the same number for both Imagination was the A side and Bewitched was the B Side both with the catalogue no 38698.

Of the two bewtiched was the more well known tune, and I thought Imagination was a bit slow, so I plumped for bewitched

REgards Neil

That explains it then, obviously with only your picture to go on I wondered if YouTube had thrown a wobbly and put up a different track from the one you selected!!

[myglaren]

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well it is almost the time of year for the pickledeggjukebox winter selection which kicked off with Joni doing the same song. Not a bad effort from Jackie, faultless really. Joni lived it as well as wrote it.

Pickled egg jukebox winter playlist

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

It just showed up on my recommendations. Not a real Christmas song of course, and just as well.
Don't forget to put the sprouts on!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Strangely reminded me of this track from Joni's masterpiece Hejira, as the XUD vs HDi thread veered off-topic into such matters

He keeps referring back to school days
And clinging to his child
Fidgeting and bullied
His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild
He asked me to be patient, Well I failed
"Grow up!" I cried and as the smoke was clearing he said
"Give me one good reason why"

REgards Neil

[myglaren]

"Amelia" from "Hejira" is exquisite!

[myglaren]

This came up elsewhere - actually their first hit but that was introduced by Jimmy Savile so we'll skip that one.
Cringy song but allegedly the first female pop drummer.

Honey Lantree was the drummers name. What a great name. Worthy of a movie star but she was a drummer and a good one. She was born in the UK in 1943 and passed in 2018.

Her life changed after a chance encounter with a drum kit in 1963.

She was working in a hair salon in London owned by her friend Martin Murray. Mr. Murray moonlighted as the rhythm guitarist in an amateur rock ’n’ roll band called the Sheratons, whose drummer had recently quit. His drum kit was still set up at the group’s rehearsal space, and Ms. Lantree, who was there for a guitar lesson, asked if she could try it.

Mr. Murray acquiesced, not giving any thought that she would jump on these drums and play like she had her whole life.

“She was just a born, natural drummer; she hadn’t played before and just went for it,” Mr. Murray continued. “I was aghast, staring at her, and said, ‘All right, you’re our new drummer.’ ”

From there the Sheraton’s changed their name to The Honeycombs and came out with the hit song Have I the Right with the weird guitar sound and nifty drums. The group also featured Dennis D’Ell as lead singer, Allan Ward on lead guitar and John Lantree, her brother, on bass. They performed nightly at a local pub that quickly became swamped with admirers. The band broke up in 1967 with no other follow up hits

Anne Margot Lantree, or Honey Lantree passed away at age 75 from cancer. Will there ever be a cure for that insidious disease?

She paved the way for the great female drummers who would follow her footsteps or should I say drum beats in the future.

Karen Carpenter had said that Honey was her inspiration for taking up the drums.

A very big drummer salute to you Honey, and thank you.

[mickthemaverick]

Here is a JS free clip of the song I remember better from The Honeycombs:

[myglaren]

That's the one with him edited out.

[myglaren]

Jeanne de Clisson was a rather average French noblewoman, a wife to a rather average French nobleman. Or rather, she was, until her husband was executed by the French king Philip VI for a treason that never actually happened.

Instead of crying her eyes out and eventually remarrying, Jeanne made a different choice. She swore revenge on the king and the country, sold away everything she had - castle, land, family riches - and used the money to buy a small fleet of three military ships painted black, along with the crew. Then she set sail to the channel of Le Manche.

In the years to come, Jeanne became quite famous as “The Lioness of Brittany”. She was a pirate in all but name, roaming the Channel and specifically picking out the French ships, forts, and coastal villages. Upon capturing those, she killed almost every person there, sometimes personally executing the nobles, letting only one or two of the crew leave to tell the tale. Specifically, to tell the tale to the king himself - if he ever gets into her hands, he will die as well. The English ships she encountered were completely safe - and in fact, she openly collaborated with the English crown more than once. For more than a decade her reign of terror continued, until she finally resigned from revenge and once again returned to the land, to die peacefully only a few years later, at the age of 59.

Hell hath no fury, indeed.