@andrewhickey.500songs.com Jamaican Daily Gleaner charts for the 60s obtained by this website from Kingston archives in 2020: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al Capone by Prince Buster entered the Jamaican Top 10 on 24.9.65, US Cashbox Looking Ahead chart 14.1.67 (p.10) and Record Retailer Bubbling Under 28.1.67. The latter dates opened the floodgates for Rudeboy ska outside Jamaica: Dandy Livingstone, Derrick Morgan.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Reading David Katz's biography of Lee Perry has convinced me that Perry was the most important individual in Jamaican music in 1968-70, although he couldn't have done any of that work without supremely gifted groups of musicians and an international distribution network.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Fonella Bass's 1965-1966 singles titles had a woman in distress theme: Rescue Me, Recovery, I Surrender, Safe And Sound. Not sure if that's symbolically significant. Would not be your typical white female pop titles of the time.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Count Ossie of "Oh Carolina" fame also did a version of Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata that reached the Jamaican top 10 in September 1967. It's terrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ly0...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ella Fitzgerald doing Sunshine Of Your Love is really good, channeling her inner Janis www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5h...

@stevenc63.bsky.social Favourite Van Morrison album: Into The Music (1979). I think it's his most successful synthesis of everything he'd been developing since Astral Weeks (or TB Sheets). His 80s and 90s work is arguably variations on this LP.

@stevenc63.bsky.social @andrewhickey.500songs.com I corresponded with Peter Watkins, who has just died, in December 2020. He composed his open letter about peace in Dec 68 but, as he was working in Sweden, it was distributed on an ad hoc basis over the next two months, including to John and Yoko.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This might make a useful audio clip insert into the Jamaica episode: Bob Marley illustrates the differences between ska, rocksteady and reggae: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNuy...

Terrific live version of 'Tupelo Honey' by Van Morrison www.youtube.com/watch?v=hco9...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com A story circulated for many years that the 1971 'Surf's Up' track was done against Brian's express wishes but it appears that he was ambivalent rather than opposed ("I'll let you do it if you're forcing me."). Did he have the power to block it had he refused to consent?

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "Wet Dream" (Max Romeo) was co-produced by Harry Robinson (Lord Rockingham). This fact needs to be more widely known. Although Derrick Morgan turned it down in 1968, he released a cover of the song in 1975. www.discogs.com/release/6161...

@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...

@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...

@davidstubbs.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...

@stevenc63.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Cracking answer record to the song in Episode 134: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN3...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This is a terrific documentary on the origins of Rocksteady www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKm...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Can I ask which Jamaican track will be the episode header: Israelites, Liquidator, Pressure Drop all have claims (but Israelites was a No. 1 single and Dekker has a timeline that goes back to 1961)? It Mek strikes me as having a James Jamerson influence on bassline.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Val Bennett, who played sax on 'Al Capone' by Prince Buster, also did this cover of Take Five for Bunny Lee in 1968 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMN...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rock Steady cover of The Beatles' "Michelle" by Tommy McCook And The Supersonics. I believe it's Jackie Jackson on bass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwk7...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Have you decided how to cover the 1966-69 phase of Jamaican music? It's bewilderingly complex but I found David Katz's biography of Lee Perry to be very helpful. The number of key players is in the dozens - really a collective culture producing a dazzling range of music.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Esther Phillips' cover of When A Man Loves A Woman (with the genders switched) is absolutely terrific www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVn1...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Bridget St. John is often compared to Nick Drake but on this 1971 track, a Donovan cover, there are complex backing vocals that Drake never included in his arrangements. She may have surpassed Drake in her imaginative scope by 1971: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEk...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Linda Perhacs interview. Useful for a bonus episode? She was living in Topanga Canyon at the time of Parallelograms, 1970, produced by film composer Leonard Rosenman, who had been mentoring her. You can hear that influence in her harmonies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCav...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Why isn't Linda Perhacs massively famous? Her artistry is stunning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0D...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The Skatalites did a cover of 'Yeh, Yeh' called President Kennedy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtBF...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Was that disturbing song by Donovan a temporary aberration by him or a symptom of an abusive culture in which far too many musicians partook?

@andrewhickey.500songs.com When you cover Band Of Gold, Marcia Griffiths' version would be a worthy inclusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX2k...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com You Won't See Me - Clarendonians. When the backing harmony kicks in... www.youtube.com/watch?v=acq-...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I'd love an episode on Jamaican rocksteady from 1966-69 but realize it might be outside your remit. It's a relatively autonomous history from roots reggae, which emerged from Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica in 1966 and the subsequent greater influence of Rastafarianism.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Excellent Jamaican version of "I Wish It Would Rain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlOi...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I think this is fantastic, from the era when ska was slowing down into rocksteady (1966-68), which might be my favourite Jamaican era because I like Jamaican sweet soul (which this era originates, with Bob Andy, Marcia Griffiths and so on) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC30...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Are there really some people on the left who sincerely argue that an evil person's death should not be celebrated? I can only assume that such arguments are religiously motivated, a misguided attempt to virtue signal, or bad faith posturing.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Nina Simone dedicated "For A While" to her lover in Liberia, whom she left behind when she went to Switzerland in 1977. The dedication is in the 1984 Ronnie Scott's performance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq12...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Carli Munoz with The Beach Boys, 1970

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The musicians on Watertown include Jay Berliner, a key player on Astral Weeks.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Devil's Advocate question: Can we say for sure that Led Zeppelin's sexual conduct was morally more heinous than that of Dennis Wilson, whom we tend to condemn less severely?

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I noticed that one of your subscribers and admirers is Steve Lillywhite, who commented on your Brian Wilson post: www.patreon.com/posts/brian-...

@stevenc63.bsky.social Did Yoko cave to the censors given that the track omitted from the box was actually her phrase? It does show however just how taboo that word is now compared to the 1970s, when it frequently appeared in movies as well as songs (Patti Smith, for example).

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al Jardine on NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/22/n...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al and Darian's band performing "Love You" on July 24: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x456...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rob Chapman (Record Collector) claims that Saturday Sun uses the same opening chords as Aretha's version of You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman. Here's the earliest version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2Q...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This is a good site for Lingo The Drifter. You Bet Your Life was 27.12.56. He did TV appearances with Pete Seeger c.1959 to 1963. Name possibly taken from Luke The Drifter (Hank Williams 1953 LP)? bookofwands.com/art/history....

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Who inherits the CDs and books when all your projects are finished?

@andrewhickey.500songs.com While I agree that Who Knows Where The Time Goes is very Laurel Canyon, it also has a British pastoral aura to my ears, much like Bryter Layter (which Richard Thompson contributed to).

Some new thoughts on Beyond A Boundary by CLR James cricketdescribed.au/2025/05/19/c...

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The Originals were an important bridge to 'What's Going On' for Marvin Gaye, with the vocal stacks and the confidence he gained as a producer. Also perhaps an important step towards the "sweet soul" group vocal sound that brought gospel back to the centre of male groups.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Intermezzo from Bizet's 'Carmen' - I saw this arranged for ballet in Miami and it moved me greatly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Sv...