Post any old song you can think of.

[Highway Man]

Some British traditional music now!

Billy Pigg played the Northumbrian smallpipes, an instrument similar to the Scottish bagpipes but smaller and higher pitched, and with the bellows strapped around the player's waist. I've got a couple of Billy Pigg LPs - after a while the sound of the instrument becomes irritating, but is, in small doses, very impressive. There are players nowadays keeping this music alive, the most well-known being Kathryn Tickell.

I went to a wedding reception and they were all irish, the band that is usual at these do's turned out to be a guy playing uilleann pipes, at first it was ok but as the night drew on OMG I felt like ripping the things from him and throwing them out. It really grated on you after a while and you have to be in to that type of music, that all said I do like traditional bag pipes.

 

[Highway Man]

The talent on that stage, how many do you recognise?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Picketywitch ''That Same Old Feeling'. Everyone was in love with Polly Brown...

Bit of trivia - Sheila Rossall was a singer in mid 70s (not the blonde in your vid) with Pickettywitch. She was also famous, especially in Bristol, as the woman was was diagnosed with total allergy syndrome. She spent years in a barren, sterile flat in Clifton, Bristol - afraid to go out or come into contact with anything from the 20th century that would bring on an allergic reaction. We still refer to the flats as the Sheila Rossall flats. Sadly she died in 2006.

 

[SPLINE]

Bit of trivia - Sheila Rossall was a singer in mid 70s (not the blonde in your vid) with Pickettywitch. She was also famous, especially in Bristol, as the woman was was diagnosed with total allergy syndrome. She spent years in a barren, sterile flat in Clifton, Bristol - afraid to go out or come into contact with anything from the 20th century that would bring on an allergic reaction. We still refer to the flats as the Sheila Rossall flats. Sadly she died in 2006.

Sad story - I didn't know about that, thanks. Pickettywitch were one of those groups who had a big hit (or hits) in the 60s/70s but didn't make it big, and ended up playing in the 'chicken in a basket' variety clubs, mostly in the North, through the 70s and into the 80s. I never saw them, but did see the Searchers on that circuit.

Polly Brown (the blond singer) had a patchy career after Pickettywitch, including a cover of Abba's 'Honey Honey', for which she coloured her face to pass herself off as a brown girl!

 

[pete01]

 

[Ihavenojob]

 

[SPLINE]

In post 2,185 we saw Polly Brown, singer with Pickettywitch. Here she is a few years later as part of a duo called Sweet Dreams, doing a cover of Abba's 'Honey Honey' (they actually released it before Abba did).

This is one of the great oddities of British pop music, because Polly appeared in 'blackface' when performing in this duo. Dunno why - maybe she or her managers though it would sell more records...

 

[Highway Man]

In post 2,185 we saw Polly Brown, singer with Pickettywitch. Here she is a few years later as part of a duo called Sweet Dreams, doing a cover of Abba's 'Honey Honey' (they actually released it before Abba did).

This is one of the great oddities of British pop music, because Polly appeared in 'blackface' when performing in this duo. Dunno why - maybe she or her managers though it would sell more records...

great tune but his part was totally uncalled for, sang one line which wasnt needed.

 

[SPLINE]

I love this - it's just a list of threats!

The Angels 'My Boyfriend's Back'...

 

[pete01]

I love this - it's just a list of threats!

The Angels 'My Boyfriend's Back'...

Was written by Bob Feldman, Corey Feldmams Dad...

 

[Highway Man]

 

[SPLINE]

Richard Thompson 'Roll Over Vaughan Williams'. Thompson is in my top 5 of guitarists. A rocker but with a difference...whilst brought up on the American rock and roll that all British rock stars were, Thompson incorporated traditional British music in much of what he recorded, and his guitar playing was influenced as much by English and Scottish dances as much as it was by Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry.

In post 2189 we heard the Northumbrian smallpipes of Billy Pigg. Thompson emulates that sound on this song.

 

[fillyboy]

Guitar wise, I likes a bit of Wilco.

 

[Highway Man]

Guitar wise, I likes a bit of Wilco.

I have always hated the mouth organ, it grates on me and how it ever made it as a musical instrument is beyond me. I once bought one and it went in the bin the next day.

 

[Highway Man]