A deep dive into the hard drive, plenty of interesting suggestions and a little help from my friends meant that I finally managed to come up with three GG's to feature today.
Apart from the obvious one who of course was never going to appear there was the other obvious one with Lynchie being the first to suggest Gloria Gaynor. However I'm not posting the obvious one. Rather you are getting Honeybee an album track from her 1975 album Never Can Say Goodbye ( the title track of which might have been another obvious one).
George was the first of you to come up with the Go-Go's. Their website proclaims them as The most successful all female band of all time. That may be so but they don't appear on the shelves.I did find something on the hard drive though. The band who gave us Belinda Carlisle. Calm down there Jez
Marie cleverly ensured that one of her choices got a mention by forwarding me a track.It is the first I have heard from 50's Rockabilly artist the splendidly named Glen Glenn and it is rather good.
Like Rol I have a couple of solo covers by Glenn Gregory which I don't recall having listened to. I give his version of Wichita Lineman a listen. You may notice that it does not feature. That is because I've taken one for the team. Sacrilege is all that I will say
HH next week.Another pretty tricky one but I think I can come up with a couple
Oh and if you are in the vicinity of Aachen and you see a house with a lovely garden pop in and say hello to Dirk
Gloria Gaynor - Honeybee
The Go-Go's - The Whole World Lost Its Head
Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin'
H. Hawkline is the first name that springs to mind.
ReplyDelete...oh, and Herbie Hancock.
ReplyDeleteHugh Hopper.
ReplyDeleteI can come up with nothing for HH so far
ReplyDeleteHawkshaw Hawkins or Herman's Hermits (hahaha) or a deep soul track by Herman Hitson (You Are Too Much For the Human Heart).
ReplyDeleteI was going to say Herman's Hermits... (sad face)
DeleteThere was a 1940's British big band leader called Henry Hall.
ReplyDeleteDid he not play for St Johnstone?!
Delete..and his wife was a PE teacher when I was at school.
DeleteBy the way, I am listening to Glenn Gregory's Wichitaw Linesman. It's a real shocker.
Henry himself played for United after St Johnstone. He was then a PE teacher at Kirkton High and Rockwell in Dundee, both very very challenging schools
DeleteHenry Hall did a version of The Sun Has Got His Hat On. I use a clip from it in my class to illustrate personification.
DeleteI could offer you a triple-H in the form of Hot Hot Heat. I have one track by them!
ReplyDeleteHa Ha Tonka.
ReplyDeleteNo, really.
The Headless Horsemen
ReplyDeleteHelen Humes - They Raided The Joint
Herman Hammond - Funk Up
Hillbilly Hellcats
Him & Her (M. Ward & Zooey DeSchanel)
At two extremes, Haley Heynderickx (first album out last year) or Hawkshaw Hawkins (died in the same plane crash as Patsy Cline). But my tip for the top is Higher Heights, the name given a collaboration between the Twinkle Brothers and a family of traditional Polish singers. It is the best Polish folk dub reggae record ever made. I'll "do a Marie" and stick one in the post.
ReplyDeleteWould the reverend Horton Heat count? or is that RHH? and what about Helen and the Horns?
ReplyDeleteNo
DeleteYes
I recommend Helmut Hattler, the former bass player by German post Krautrock band Kraan. For many years now he's doing his own rock-jazz thing and it still sounds fresh and unique.
ReplyDeleteSo far no visitors, Stevie, despite of your suggestion. But I'm waiting - beer is in the fridge!
ReplyDeleteAs for my HH's: Henry Houston, Hirameka Hi-Fi, Homer Henderson, Hopeless Homer, Howard Hughes, Hula Hoop.
I was sure I'd be the first with Hirameka Hi-Fi but sadly not. In desperation, Halfman Halfbiscuit? No, that's just silly.
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