Conference marvin::uk_music

    Bill, re. 2. in your basenote, the group who sang this were The
    Emotions (backing singers for E.W.& F. for a short while).  Excellent
    track, but I'm sorry to say I don't know which album (if any) it
    was taken from.
    
    Regards,
    
    D o u g i e
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    I borrowed an album from the Library once that contains Gordon
    Giltrap's Holiday music.
    
    I think it was called "Fantastic Journey" or something like that.
    
    Can't quite remember yet.
    
    

re .0

1) "Heartsong" is from the GG album "Perilous Journey" (close .2 !!)

2) "Happy Aniversary Baby" is from the LRB album "Diamantina Cocktail"
   (close .0 !!)

   A couple of other good LRB albums are -

   "Little River Band", their first (contains "It's a Long Way There")
   "Sleeper Catcher", contains "Reminiscing"

Keith   
    

    
    
      Thanks a lot for the info.,I'm feeling better already !!
    
    		Cheers...mcbill
    

    More nostalgia - one of the replies in another topic mentioned 
    Albertos Y Los Trios Paranioa, which rang a bell in my mind. I recall
    seeing them twice, around 1975-time. Anyone out there remember them?
    All I can remember is some zany music, and a drummer dressed up
    as a spiv, wearing an *enormous* garish kipper tie.
    
    Mike

    Yea!! I remember them.
    
    At one time I had their banned double A side single 
    'Thank you / **** you' (same tune different words!). 
    
    I think they also did the 'Quo' version of "Heads down no nonsence 
    mindless boogie, bang your head on the wall", what a title!.
                     
    Whats happened to them ?.
    Anbybody got the double A side single ?
    
    
    Gary.

    
    
    
    
     Yip,what a band,I saw them at the Reading rock festival in about
    75.They were on before YES,when the Albertos had finished it started
    to rain and YES wouldn't come on.....I think the albertos came back
    on and the crowd wouldn't let them off to allow YES to get on or
    something like that...was anyone there ?
      I remember the guitar player doing a wild solo using only a length
    of rubber hose stuck down his tights....the solo was introduced
    by one of the other band members saying...you will now hear the
    fastest guitar solo ever played by the best guitar player you will
    ever hear,in fact he's so good that he doesn't use a guitar only
    a length of garden hose stuck down his Y-Fronts.
    
      What a band,what happened to them...perhaps they work in the City
    as Insurance Clerks,
    
    	MCB
                            

    I remember seeing them at the UCG tramps ball 1977 in
    Leisureland Galway.Nobody in the crowd could figure out
    what they were at,partly due to them and partly due to
    most of us being half pissed. I remember them being somewhat
    'vulgar' and not being able to understand their accent.
    
    I also remember somebody(actually a girl I met that night)
    throwing bottle(plastic) of ketchup and hitting the front
    man/(woman?) smack in the face.His face was covered in the
    stuff and most people including himself thought 'blood'.
    They walked off stage(to most people's delight) but were
    inticed to return after a while by the organisers.I guess
    we weren't prepared for their type of 'act'!!!
    
    I remember reading that a member of the band died a couple
    of years ago(I think in a car crash),it may have been the
    lead 'singer/performer'. But they all 'died' that night in
    Galway 1977. I'd love to have seen them again,you now that
    I'm a little older,wiser and slower ;-)
                                           
    - Dave K.(as on ketcup)
    

    re .6, 
    I've got the double single by the Albertos which features
    "Heads Down No-Nonsense Mindless Boogie" / "Thank You"
    "**** You" / "Dead Meat (Part 2)"
    
    Dead Meat is a spoof interview between Whispering Bob Harris and
    Roddy Llewellyn, then Princess Margaret's consort. Great stuff.
    I don't know if this will ring any bells, but the songs are credited
    to N. Sleek. 
    
    Paul

    Is my memory failing me (again), or was one of the Albertos an actor
    called Michael Deeks (or something like that) who was briefly famous
    for being in some highwayman-type TV series ('Dick Turpin' ??).

    Someone please tell me whether I'm a loony or not - this is driving
    me scatty !!


    Frustratedly,

    Derek.

    
    Great band ... a song on one of their albums is a Hawkwind/Floyd
    rip-off, and another (could be same song) as about 5 false endings
    - lovely!!!!
    
    Life is a cliche
    It's all been done before
    Death is the only thing
    We've got to live for
    
    
    David.
    

    I saw the Albertos in 77/78 when they were doing a punk spoof at
    the Roundhouse. It was called Snuff Rock and also some songs made
    it onto a Stiff records EP of the same name. One of the really funny bits
    was before the show and during the intermission a DJ would do a
    screaming, ranting Johnny Rotten type introduction for records such
    as Anarchy, New Rose etc but over the pa would come Sinatra, Perry
    Como and Bing.
                 
    Mike.

    I also saw them at the Roundhouse about 73/4 when their stage show
    consisted of a lot of soundalike numbers introduced by a member
    of the band who adopted the persona of a very stoned hippie type
    complete with greatcoat, loonpants (remember loonpants?) and an
    enormous joint (and I'm not talking about the Sunday roast here)
    They could sound uncannily like Jefferson Airplane, Quo, Grateful
    Dead and many others.
    One particular memory was an impersonation of Captain Beefhearts
    rendition of Walking in a Winter Wonderland. Another time their
    set consisted of one song at the end of which they left the stage
    and then continued to come back on for about 15 encores ("thank
    you thank you we were in the helicopter to our next show but youre
    so wunnerful we had to come back and do just one more for y'all")
    Also a mock c&w number about finding Jesus and giving up sex and
    drugs springs to mind
    A classic band, a million laffs
    
    Bob

    re.0
    > 2  I need the name of the singer of a single that was a big hit (in 
    >  the UK anyway) about '77,the single was called "Best of My Love",
    >  the singer was female and black,Linda Lewisy type.(ps its not
    >  a cover of the eagles song of the same name.
     
    Could it have been Natalie Cole?
    
    Sue

     .14  I was actually a band called the Emotions,Dougie Robb got
    it in .2 +/- 1 or 2 
    
     However,anymore info on the paranois boys,laffs from their gigs,where
    are they now etc etc  Whats the closest thing to them knocking around
    today ?
    
     Yours,by_order_of_antibes_pest_control_dept.,mcbill
    

    Re The Albertos:
    
    They do an excellent Charles Aznovour(?)ish version of 
    "Anarchy in the U.K."
    
    Favourite tongue-in-cheek line:
    
    "Women's liberation 
    Is a pain in the a*se.
    They need to have their faces rubbed
    In sheets of broken glass..."
    
    Ouch!!