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Showing posts with label vintage music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage music. Show all posts

Marianne Faithfull

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Marianne Faithfull, above, ultra-stylish in 60s mod clothes . Like a Rainbow Married and then separated to an artist, mother to a young ...

Where do you go to my Lovely?

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 Image by  Alain Elorza You talk like Marlene Dietrich  and you dance like Zizi Zeanmaire Your clothes are all made by Balmain  and the...

Bob Downe and Barry Morgan

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The irrepressibly upbeat Bob Downe In Praise of the Sickly Seventies If immovable hair, carbon nitrate teeth and polyester safari suits ...

Vinyl Records

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'Round & 'round.Vinyl record on the turntable. Source The Vinyl Comeback For some traditionalists, the exponential evolution...

Teenage Idol

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Ever since the term "teenager" was invented, there's been moves to create  the one, a   role-model youth who would have ...

Abba in Australia

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ABBA 70s Musical Kitsch In the 1970s, for reasons that are largely mysterious, Australians formed a great and lasting love affair with...

Skyhooks: Living in the 70s

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They had flares, glam jumpsuits, dubious hair and plenty of attitude...Melbourne group Skyhook s was the quintessentiall...

The Harpsichord

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A guide to all things harpsichord Although it may conjure images of Lurch and elderly ladies in musty chintz-curtained parlours, the h...

Split Enz

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Originality was the key to Split Enz's success The musically inventive and visually theatrical band Split Enz emerged in Australia...

Rudy Vallee

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Me and my Megaphone Rudy Vallee and his megaphone Musician, singer, screen actor, radio star and comedian Rudy Vallee was a bit hit in t...

Daddy Cool

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Daddy Cool CD , "includes every hit they had" Daddy Who? Daddy Cool? According to Australian rock legend, what began as a t...

The Theremin

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What's a Theremin...? You know that eerie, wailing, space-age music that enhanced the music soundtracks of many a sci-fi film in th...

Sadie, the Cleaning Lady

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In November 1967, blonde, clean-living English immigrant Johnny Farnham released his new single Sadie the Cleaning Lady ...

The Zombies

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UK band The Zombies had three major hits in the 1960s - She's not There, Tell Her No and Time of the Season (ironically, after the or...

Chick Henderson

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Chick Henderson British singer Chick Henderson had a warm, rich, emotional, yet manly voice, that could stir the heartstrings and g...

Swing Dancing: Lindy Hop. Jitterbug, Jive

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The Origins Of Swing Swing dancing goes right back to the raging 1920s, where it developed alongside jazz music among the bl...

Al Bowlly and Ray Noble

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, My father was a great fan of music of the 1930's, an appreciation buoyed by a great collection of vinyls, as well as old 78's an...