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Saturday 23 February 2019

Double Initials GG


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'

20 comments:

  1. H. Hawkline is the first name that springs to mind.

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  2. I can come up with nothing for HH so far

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  3. Hawkshaw Hawkins or Herman's Hermits (hahaha) or a deep soul track by Herman Hitson (You Are Too Much For the Human Heart).

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    1. I was going to say Herman's Hermits... (sad face)

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  4. There was a 1940's British big band leader called Henry Hall.

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    1. Did he not play for St Johnstone?!

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    2. ..and his wife was a PE teacher when I was at school.
      By the way, I am listening to Glenn Gregory's Wichitaw Linesman. It's a real shocker.

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    3. 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

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    4. Henry Hall did a version of The Sun Has Got His Hat On. I use a clip from it in my class to illustrate personification.

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  5. I could offer you a triple-H in the form of Hot Hot Heat. I have one track by them!

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  6. The Headless Horsemen

    Helen Humes - They Raided The Joint

    Herman Hammond - Funk Up

    Hillbilly Hellcats

    Him & Her (M. Ward & Zooey DeSchanel)

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  7. 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.

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  8. Would the reverend Horton Heat count? or is that RHH? and what about Helen and the Horns?

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  9. 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.

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  10. So far no visitors, Stevie, despite of your suggestion. But I'm waiting - beer is in the fridge!

    As for my HH's: Henry Houston, Hirameka Hi-Fi, Homer Henderson, Hopeless Homer, Howard Hughes, Hula Hoop.

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  11. 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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