Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat.

[mickd1961]

I’ve probably posted this before but this really is a classic.

Evokes memories of the mid 70’s.

Such a smooth and classy piece of music beautifully performed!

https://youtu.be/tqW4xIr7nj0

[phild]

Yes you have Mick and its still excellent

[phild]

Another song from the 70s, who remembers this world wide no1 classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O465enGz03w

[mickd1961]

Another song from the 70s, who remembers this world wide no1 classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O465enGz03w

I loved Mouldy Old Dough Phil😎

1972.....it was absolutely massive, remember the old dear on the piano?

Great song.

[mickd1961]

2 millions copies sold according to a report on Midlands Today.

[kettering_baggie]

The 70’s was indeed a great decade for music, however, that Mouldy Old Dough didn’t contribute to it, in my opinion!

[mickd1961]

The 70’s was indeed a great decade for music, however, that Mouldy Old Dough didn’t contribute to it, in my opinion!

I think the point is sometimes missed with tracks like this Kets.

You can become a “music snob” if you’re not careful.

I believe that music of many variants becomes the backdrop of your life when you sit back and think of your past.

It’s only now as I’m getting old that I realise how important certain tracks are in my own story.

Down Town by Petula Clark - First song I can remember loving when at home as a tot with nun.

The Batman theme.

Thunderbirds theme.

Burt Bacharach songs like “This Guys In Love With You”.

Andy Williams.

Keith West - Song From A ****age Opera.

Little Arrows by Leapy Lee.

All kinds Of Everything by Dana.

Fastest Milkman In The West - Benny Hill.

I could go on forever, some you would no doubt class as rubbish, many I didn’t appreciate at the time but I do now.

Not everything can be the quality of Albatross or Man Of The World with the genius of Peter Green involved.

Music is more than that and 2 million people disagreed with you in 1972.

Not many songs sold that many records even then, it was the second best seller of 72.

I like rubbish like this as well, it reminds me of being 14-15 and having no worries or pressures but it’ll be denounced as garbage by you purists I guess.

It’ll make Swedish happy though and it’s not ABBA!

https://youtu.be/vV0pcIRgcOk

[kettering_baggie]

I play in three music groups, playing all sorts of stuff, some of which I really like and other songs which I very much dislike. It does, though, help me get to play better (plenty of scope for that) by doing lots of different types of song. I am now the bass player in a ukulele orchestra and for an upcoming gig and one of the songs we’re doing is Karma Chameleon, a truly horrible number, but sometimes you have to take the good with the bad! I just really enjoy playing.