New links for the deleted zippy links!!!

Hello Folks,
as i said in the posting before i have no clue what is happening with zippy. I have created new links for all the files people mentioned in their comments. Moby Grape is still in progress but i think it will also up in ten or fifteen minutes. Someone wrote me it had happened on other sites, too. I don't know. I hope everything will go on now fine again.

Frank

p.s.: Beryl Marsden, Shotgun Express, Normie Rowe, Shane, Moby Grape all with new links.

ZIPPY KILLS ?

Hi folks, as you may have noticed, files have been deleted by Zippyshare after a very short time. This have happened on other blogs and sites as well.

Mod/Power Pop by The Pleasers - Thamesbeat 1977 + EP & Single (1997 Lost Moment Records) Flac & mp3@320

10 years earlier this album would probably have hit like a rocket in the charts. Yeah, but that's how it is with pop music. It's often not enough to release a very good album, also the timing has to be right. That this is a very good album will not seriously deny anyone who deals with pop music of the sixties and seventies.

Absolutely recommendable for everyone who loves sixties mod pop sounds and of course the Beatles. Power Pop fans will certainly love the album, too. The band has a fine sense for great melodies and the arrangements also show sensitivity for the songs. The album was produced by Tommy Boyce. Hope you like it.
Have fun
                Frank

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Paul McCartney - Run Devil Run (1999 Parlophone) Flac & mp3@320

When Paul McCartney returned to the studio a year after his wife Linda's death, he wanted to cut loose and have a good time. He gathered a bunch of friends, most notably guitarist David Gilmour, with the intention of cutting a collection of rock & roll oldies with minimal rehearsal and a handful of takes.

On the surface, that makes Run Devil Run like Choba B CCCP, but there are subtle differences that make Devil a far superior effort. This time around, there's a real freshness to the performances. Gilmour, in particular, amazes, turning in some of his finest playing in years. Similarly, McCartney is invigorated, leaving behind his vocal schtick, laying back and rocking out with a set of fairly unfamiliar oldies.

Only three songs -- "All Shook Up," "Lonesome Town," and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" -- are radio staples; and while "I Got Stung," "Blue Jean Bop," "She Said Yeah," "Honey Hush," and "Movie Magg" are known by aficionados, they're not ubiquitous standards.

This leaves room for a few more obscure numbers, such as Little Richard's "Shake a Hand," the Vipers' "No Other Baby," and the Fats Domino B-side "Coquette," plus three terrific new songs from McCartney: "Run Devil Run," a fantastic Chuck Berry-styled narrative; "Try Not to Cry," a strong bluesy pop number; and "What It Is," a catchy up-tempo shuffle.

Best of all, McCartney and co-producer Chris Thomas create an appealingly out-of-time production -- heavily compressed sound, yes, but cleaner than '50s recordings and livelier, grittier than most '90s albums. It all adds up to a dynamic, loose, carefree, and utterly infectious record, one of his best solo albums.(allmusic.com)

Even today, in 2017 it is still one of his best solo albums for me. Without doing hero worship here (and the danger is always given to me by Beatles musicians) Macca presented a very expressive album here. The choice of songs is brilliant and his vocals almost become the yardstick for his other solo productions. And by the way he delivered  probably the best rock' n' roll album of 1999. Absolutely recommendable and not only for Beatles fans. 5 stars out of 5. Hope you like it like i do.
Enjoy
         Frank  



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Garage Pop Of The 60's: The E-Types Introducing...The E-Types 1965/66 (1995 Sundazed) Flac & mp3@320

Twenty-two tracks, including both sides of their four singles and previously unissued demos, outtakes, and live performances. The four singles are legimitately fine finds if you collect obscure '60s pop-garage. "Long Before," "I Can't Do It," and "Put the Clock Back on the Wall" are outstanding, and the cover of Lennon-McCartney's "Love of the Loved" (which the Beatles never officially released themselves) rates as one of the best unknown Beatle covers of the '60s. Most of the rest of this archival compilation is padding, though, consisting largely of faithful British Invasion covers and some outtakes that are markedly inferior to their singles. It's an enjoyable listen for collectors of mid-'60s rock, boasting considerably more pop-oriented material and accomplished production than the garage norm. But it couldn't be considered in the top drawer of this sort of thing.(allmusic.com)

 The band had a great weakness which prevented the big success with a lot of other talented bands: They didn't have enough convincing songs of their own. They had a good performance and very well arranged titles but remained a footnote in the history of pop music. This Sundazed collection make a lot of fun if you like 60s jangle pop music with a light garage feel.

Enjoy   Frank

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Psychedelic Pop Of The Sixties: Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean 1967 (2007 Sunbeam Records) Flac & mp3@320

Imagine the late-'60s Kinks crossed with a touch of the absurdist British wit of the Bonzo Dog Band, and you have an idea of the droll charm of Blossom Toes' debut album. Songwriters Brian Godding and Jim Cregan were the chief architects of the Toes' whimsical and melodic vision, which conjured images of a sun-drenched Summer of Love, London style.

With its references to royal parks, tea time, watchmakers, intrepid balloon makers, "Mrs. Murphy's Budgerigar," and the like, it's a distinctly British brand of whimsy.

It has since been revealed that sessionmen performed a lot of these orchestral arrangements, which embellished the band's sparkling harmonies and (semi-buried) guitars. But the cello, brass, flute, and tinkling piano have a delicate beauty that serves as an effective counterpoint. The group sings and plays as though they have wide grins on their faces, and the result is one of the happiest, most underappreciated relics of British psychedelia. [Ten bonus tracks were added to the 2007 Sunbeam edition.] (allmusic.com)

Certainly one of the most extraordinary works of 1967 in the field of psychedelic sweetened pop music. And one of the best of the year as well. The band had really good musicians in their rows. Jim Cregan, for example, who later accompanied Rod Stewart as a sideman to his rise to pop stardom and played a not inconsiderable musical part in it. But that's another story. Have fun with the great album of the Blossom Toes.
cheers
            Frank

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Link for ''If Only For A Moment''

Australian Normie Rowe - Shakin All Over - 30 Of The Best 1965 - 1973 (1999 Raven Records) Flac & mp3@320

Normie Rowe is one of those perennially popular figures on the Australia music scene--given that his career has carried him from covering rock 'n roll standards like "Shakin' All Over" to playing Valjean in the Australian cast of Les Miserables, he might be most easily compared to Tommy Steele or Joe Brown in England, except that his music has crossed several rock genres, even brushing up against psychedelia during the late 1960's.
Rowe was a part-time singer who never intended to become a full-time entertainer until he was fired from his day job because of the length of his hair. A white soul-style singer in the manner of Fred Heath, aka Johnny Kidd of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, emerged as a popular figure in Australia fronting a band called the Thunderbirds, who managed to compete effectively with the English bands that dominated the island-nation's charts during the mid-1960's. He became popular on local television in the mid-1960's, and in 1965, with his group the Playboys, he hit the charts for the first time with a version of "It Ain't Necessarily So." Later that year, Normie Rowe and the Playboys were responsible for the biggest Australian rock 'n roll hit of 1965, a version of "Que Sera Sera" done in the style of "Louie, Louie" and the manner of "Hang On Sloopy." The whole record was knocked off on the fly, in a quick session that even resulted in a whistled cue ending up on the finished track, but it outsold every other homegrown piece of rock 'n roll released that year.

In the wake of the success of "Que Sera Sera," he left Australia for England. The Playboys, known in England as the Australian Playboys and featuring Kevin Peacock in their line-up with Rowe, released an extraordinary 45 r.p.m. single in 1967 on the Immediate label--"Black Sheep RIP" b/w "Sad" was a classic and bold piece of psychedelic pop featuring some memorable guitar behind Rowe's singing, but like most Immediate singles it never sold, and is a seriously collectable record. Rowe later toured Canada and America before returning home, where he was drafted and served in Vietnam. Rowe's career never regained the prominence and momentum that he'd had in the mid-1960's. Like a lot of other early '60s rockers, he moved to the cabaret circuit and gradually regained some of his popularity. He later emerged as an all-around entertainer and singer, most notably taking the part of Jean Valjean in the Ausatralian cast of Les Miserables. In recent years, he has also taken up an anti-drug crusade, partly because of his daughter's life-threatening experiences with heroin. Rowe remains a fondly remembered icon from early Australian rock 'n roll, and a much-loved musical figure.(allmusic.com)

Normie Rowe is certainly one of the most underrated Australian artists in Europe and the United States. His songs always had a convincing urgency in his kind of performance. And he was certainly not the worst singer either. On the contrary, as his musical works prove. Raven has put together a really good compilation and Normie Rowe should not be missing in any good collection of  Australian pop music.
 Have fun
                   Frank

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Four Track Single: The Shotgun Express - I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Around (1966 Columbia EMI) mp3@256

Here is the four track single by The Shotgun Express with members Rod Stewart, Beryl Marsden, Peter Green, Peter Bardens and Mick Fleetwood.

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Sixties Pop By Beryl Marsden - The Story Of Beryl Marsden (2012 RPM Records) Flac & mp3@320

Hello friends and folks,
First of all, I would like to thank you again for your kind comments about my return to Blogger land.
At first i want to post Beryl Marsden today. For me, Beryl Marsden is and was actually the woman of the British 1960s women's pop scene, who deserved a career similar to that of Cilla Black.
Okay, I hope you have just as much fun with this really fine compilation. For those who are interested i will post the Shotgun Express single also later but i have it only in mp3. Below you can read a review from allmusic.com about the album. It's a little different to my opinion about Beryl Marsdens skills, haha.

Have fun and enjoy
                                 Frank

And to stay in comparison with Cilla Black for a while; in my opinion Beryl had the better songs, the better performance and the better vocal expression. Which I don't mean that Cilla Black doesn't deserve to be in the limelight like that. But in my opinion, Beryl Marsden was not only Black's toughest competitor, she was the real number 1 in the then popular girls' pop scene. ''Gonna Make Him My Baby'','' Who You Gonna Hurt'' show only two sides of an artist who was extremely versatile in her musical expression.

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Beryl Marsden is one of those names that diligent British Invasion scholars are likely to be aware of, but unlikely to actually have heard much or at all. She has footnotes in some history books as being one of the most popular woman vocalists in Liverpool in the early to mid-'60s, as well as for singing on a 1966 single by the early quasi-supergroup the Shotgun Express (who also included Rod Stewart and Peter Green). This has all dozen of the tracks she issued on Decca and Columbia from 1963-1966, as well as, less interestingly, three 1979-1981 recordings, and eight done just a few years prior to this 2012 compilation. It's one of those anthologies that doesn't really live up to the reputation of the artist, frankly, as Marsden was an OK singer, but not superb. Her '60s singles (there's also a live track from the At the Cavern LP) had serviceable covers of American soul and girl group-type songs that didn't match the originals, as well as some more Merseybeat-influenced pop tunes (including "Love Is Going to Happen to Me," co-written by a young Lesley Duncan with her brother).

The orchestrated pop of the Shotgun Express single "I Could Feel the Whole World Turn Around," though not typical of her style, is actually the best song (a previously unreleased alternate take of the subsequent Shotgun Express track "Funny 'Cos Neither Could I" including her voice is also here, though the issued 45 did not include her vocals). The recordings of a more modern vintage are way too synth pop-heavy (even on the '60s soul/girl group covers) to be of much if any interest to those who are curious about her British Invasion-era recordings,

though her voice remained in good shape. The compilation's for a specialized audience even by British Invasion collector standards, but the packaging's excellent, the lengthy liner notes including many recollections by Marsden herself.(Richie Unterberger, allmusic)

At Request! Shane - Saint Paul - The Very Best of Shane (1969-1973) (2001 EMI Music NZ Ltd.) Flac & mp3@320

Hey Folks,
i'm back from vacation with my family and I think now I have to come back to earth, lol. We are already a few days back and I also used it to

Various Artists - Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962 - 1970 (2016 Ace Records) Flac & mp3@320

Once the British pop boom took hold in the wake of the Beatles in 1962, Decca compensated for their Fab fumble by signing a lot of acts, including a bunch of female singers. Ace's 2016 compilation Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962-1970 chronicles a lot of these signings, including such stars as Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, and Twinkle (the latter's "Golden Lights," later covered by the Smiths, is featured here), but the fun of the collection is how it rounds up singers who didn't enter the history books even if they happened to have hits at the time. There are some sonic constants -- big beats, blasts of brass, swirls of strings, tambourines out of Tamla, fuzz guitars, a transatlantic dilution of the Wall of Sound that remains potent -- so this holds together, but what's fun is digging out particular favorites. Beverley's "Where the Good Times Are" contains an insistent blissed-out R&B rush, the Orchids bring the Ronettes to Britain for "Love Hit Me," the Vernons Girls' "Dat's Love" is a bizarre sendup, and Sandra Barry & the Boys' "Really Gonna Shake" is an absolute raver, a single that's worth the price of admission. Other songs provide a similar kind of buzz, and the reason why Love Hit Me! is worth a listen is how the whole package provides a vivid flashback anchored by enduring pop 45s.(allmusic.com)

24 songs from the sixties presented by exclusively female artists, including Marianne Faithfull, Billie Davis, The Satin Bells with a strong song, Beryl Marsden, Twinkle, Sandra Barry and a lot more. Ace presents once again a really great compilation of British female pop music from the sixties.

Have fun
                     Frank                 Flac part 1  &  Flac part 2         mp3@320

Classic Debut: Moby Grape - Moby Grape 1967 (2007 Sundazed Remaster) Flac & mp3@320

Moby Grape's career was a long, sad series of minor disasters, in which nearly anything that could have gone wrong did (poor handling by their record company, a variety of legal problems, a truly regrettable deal with their manager, creative and personal differences among the bandmembers, and the tragic breakdown of guitarist and songwriter Skip Spence), but their self-titled debut album was their one moment of unqualified triumph. Moby Grape is one of the finest (perhaps the finest) album to come out of the San Francisco psychedelic scene, brimming with great songs and fresh ideas while blessedly avoiding the pitfalls that pockmarked the work of their contemporaries -- no long, unfocused jams, no self-indulgent philosophy, and no attempts to sonically re-create the sound of an acid trip.

Instead, Moby Grape built their sound around the brilliantly interwoven guitar work of Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis, and Skip Spence, and the clear, bright harmonies of all five members (drummer Don Stevenson and bassist Bob Mosely sang just as well as they held down the backbeat). As songwriters, Moby Grape blended straight-ahead rock & roll, smart pop, blues, country, and folk accents into a flavorful brew that was all their own, with a clever melodic sense that reflected the lysergic energy surrounding them without drowning in it. And producer David Rubinson got it all on tape in a manner that captured the band's infectious energy and soaring melodies with uncluttered clarity, while subtly exploring the possibilities of the stereo mixing process.

"Omaha," "Fall on You," "Hey Grandma," and "8:05" sound like obvious hits (and might have been if Columbia hadn't released them as singles all at once), but the truth is there isn't a dud track to be found here, and time has been extremely kind to this record. Moby Grape is as refreshing today as it was upon first release, and if fate prevented the group from making a follow-up that was as consistently strong, for one brief shining moment Moby Grape proved to the world they were one of America's great bands. While history remembers the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane as being more important, the truth is neither group ever made an album quite this good.(allmusic.com)

It certainly corresponds to the audible facts that neither GD nor JA ever made a better album, that's because the Dead were never an album band but clearly a live band. Jefferson Airplane offered good songs in my opinion, but they didn't manage to do a consistently strong album on this level as Moby Grape did here. In my opinion a classic of American pop music of the sixties. Highly recommended!

Have fun
                    Frank                     Flac part 1  &  Flac part 2        mp3@320