This is a new one for me : how come I’m discovering a real treasure trove of doo-wop and rock’n’roll records for the first time in 2025 ? Simply because they only started coming out in the spring of 2024 … Go look and listen for yourself on the YouTube channel of *Don Juan AI […]
Music/Dance/Reads
2023 ‘This train’ by Alan Power and the Aftershocks
This is basically not a music site, but sometimes a little-known band play a tune in such a way that it deserves its place here. But there is more, it is a text-book example of how to rock up a song, not only through instrumentation and the arrangement, but also through the voice. EXPAND.
Jewish ‘Teds’ bopping (2021 upload)
1958 The hand jive
Only one of the dances associated with 1950s rock’n’roll has the distinction of being British, the ‘hand jive’. In 1957 when filmmaker Ken Russell was a freelance photographer, he recorded the teenagers of Soho, London hand-jiving in the basement of The Cat’s Whisker coffee bar, where the hand-jive was invented by Leon Bell of Leon Bell and the Bell […]
70s Flying Saucers’ performances
1975 Vierzon, France 01.07.1976 Dutch tv pop show ‘TopPop’ 1978 St. Helier Arms, Carshallton, London
1965 ‘jan pehchan ho’ Mohammed Rafi
For those who saw ‘Ghost World’ (2001), one of the most interesting scenes of this excellent film was its opening scene which is simply a performance of the song ‘jan pehchan ho’ by Indian singer Mohammed Rafi taken lock, stock and barrel from an earlier Bollywood film ‘Gumnam’ (1965). ‘jan pehchan ho’ is a Hindustani […]
