Marianne Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Faithfull began her singing career in 1964, landing her first gigs as a folk singer in coffeehouses. She soon began taking part in London’s exploding social scene. In early 1964 she attended a Rolling Stones launch party with artist John Dunbar and met Andrew Loog Oldham, […]
Sunday Songs
Finally we have arrived at the last in our series of songs for days of the week. Interestingly, whilst most of the Saturday songs focussed on the evening, the morning predominates in our selection of Sunday songs. So here we go – “Sunday Morning” is a song by American band No Doubt for their third […]
Saturday Songs
Well for some the songs for Saturday proved an embarassment of riches, for others just an embarassment! What do you think? “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” is a song originally recorded by Elton John. John composed it with his long-time songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. It was released on John’s best-selling album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road […]
Friday Songs
So at last it is Friday, the notional end of the working week. The day for which we should give thanks to God (TGIF) and if can remember that for back ‘Crunchie’. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The […]
Thursday Songs
On we go into the second half of the working week with some songs appropriate to Thursdays. Interestingly all the songs today are straightforwardly related to the day. No hinkey connections today. So we begin with Jersey Thursday by Donovan from 1965. Donovan Leitch is a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He developed an eclectic […]
Wednesday Songs
So the search for themed or appropriate songs continues. Today Wednesday. I wonder what musical delights await us? Well just to continue the tradition of beginning with a Wednesday that is not quite a Wednesday, we bring you and extract from the original TV series of The Addams Family. Here is a dance designed to […]
Tuesday Songs
After yesterday’s post of Monday songs, I wondered if it might be possible to find a selection of songs to represent Tuesday. I knew that there would be Monday songs, but I thought that Tuesdays might have been neglected. How wrong I was! Here we go with some fine tunes for a Tuesday morning, and […]
Monday Songs
We have just had a week off and now it’s Monday morning again, so I thought we might be in need of some good music to ease us into the new week. So here are some Monday songs. I have tried to restrict myself to songs that actually reference Monday in their lyrics but obviously […]
Paul Mirfin Band
The Paul Mirfin Band are a folk rock band from Knaresborough that formed in May 2015. The founding member was Paul Mirfin (lead vocals, guitar, merlin, harmonica) who, whilst working as a train conductor on Northern Rail, began writing and performing songs at music events that he organised at the local Caffe Nero branch in […]
Pentangle
Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz group with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz and blues influences. The original group formed in 1967. Renbourn and Jansch were already popular musicians on the British folk scene, with several solo albums each and a duet album. Their use of complex inter-dependent guitar parts, referred to […]