Casper Giles McCloud - "Why Oh Why?" on Youtube

My first post was about Caspar Giles McCloud. Since then the "Messin' Around" single was reissued by Vinyl Countdown. Zac Webb has dug up a video clip of Caspar doing an unreleased song "Why Oh Why". I hope he can dig up a studio recording!

Hot Chocolate - I Believe In Love

What a great tune by Hot Chocolate! I love how loud the hi-hats are in the mix. It reminds me of how loud the hi-hats are on the Blond album. I first saw this video courtesy of my friend Jessica. This comes from a series of VHS tapes called Music Unlimited that had all these music promos filmed in the early 70's of artists like The Equals, Tony Hazzard, Emitt Rhodes and The Sweet among others. Anybody know the history of these clips?

Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night

The MFQ, Phil Spector and Harry Nilsson nearly beat the Beach Boys at their own game. I wish they had made a 45 of this tune! This was the theme song to the Big TNT show.

The fabulous For The Love Of Harry blog has a sound clip of Harry Nilsson's demo.

Greg Shaw predicts the future/present in January 1979

In the January, 1979 issue of Bomp, part of Greg Shaw's "The Beat" editorial column proposes the creation of a "society for the preservation of pop culture." The proposed foundation could be headed by the likes of Jerry Wexler, Clive Davis, Seymour Stein, John Hammond and Andrew Lauder and funded by the major record labels. In the process, Shaw predicts a future that looks identical to the present day. Read how Shaw envisioned it:

"...The primary goal would be the collection, on tape and microfilm, of a definitive library of music, film, video, and printed history of pop music, starting with today and working backwards into the early years of the century, eventually linking up with other organizations dedicated to preserving the history of jazz, folk music, etc. But first taking care of rock & roll. At the rate the cybernetic revolution is progressing, by the time this could be done every school, library and maybe even home, in America would probably be able to have direct access to all this material. Imagine 20 years from now, if every teenager could sit in his bedroom with a computer screen and terminal (with stereo speakers attached) and call up anything he wanted from Billy Ward & the Dominoes to Ed Banger & the Nosebleeds - see what they looked like, read extracts from fanzines and historians who wrote about them, cross-referenced to other artists and sources, and above all hear the music, and maybe even see film footage if any exists. All of this is feasible with the technology of today and the next couple of years. It's effect would be to create a lasting rampart against the danger of gigantic industry brainwashing the public and eliminating all roots, all variety from our culture. Even disregarding that, it would be a worthwhile effort from the standpoint of preserving a huge chunk of American culture..."

Alan Merrill solo in Japan

Tremeloes - By The Way

Great song...