Stop The Cavalry

 

The Christmas song that actually wasn’t released as a Christmas song! For years my mum always said that when she heard this song on the radio then she knew it was getting close to Christmas.

The song reached number 1 in the French charts during the summer of 1981!  In the UK it was released during November and the song features the line “I wish I was at home, for Christmas” and has been a Yuletide hit since!

This song has been Lewie’s one and only hit – kept of the top slot in the UK by two reissues of John Lennon singles released after his death. He was also part of the Stiff Records roster, a label I have always associated with a more punk and new wave labels. He would have rubbed shoulders with the likes of Madness, Nick Lowe, The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl, Motorhead, The Plasmatics, The Adverts, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and The Damned!

Posted on Jukebox 20

December 11th 2008

Hello World  I’m back!

Trying hard to get into the festive mood, but working in retail doesn’t help, neither do the near tropical temperatures we are experiencing at the moment.  Looking out of the window and it’s blue skies and 9C, so listening to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra sing about Ghosts of Christmas Eve and doing their version of O Come All Ye Faithful just feels wrong!

Desert Rose

Long ago I was at my parents and my dad was (very badly) singing this while he had the cd playing. Dad and me share some taste in music (I got the taste for Tears for Fears off him) and anyway, I fell in love with this song. While I got some things off my dad, I don’t think I have a rush to go out and read Louis L’Amour just yet, so admitting to Desert Rose, I think I’m safe.

Originally posted on Jukebox20 July 29th 2007.

The wife and I originally did something like this way back in 2007 on Live Journal. Every once in a while when I do a search for something I occasionally Jukebox20 links pop up.

This morning I’ve had a scroll through, I never realised it was going for so long – nearly 18 months and over 200 posts!  My first post was by Metallica – who I haven’t got around to doing yet! and Snowy’s was the very first post on the site and it was a B-52’s song.

I think now I’ve found it again, and surprisingly all the write ups are still there I think I might revisit it every now and again, like some kind of flashback Thursday but maybe on a Sunday – I just need a catchy tag!

Anyway, Snowy, this one’s for you.  I know it means a lot to you. xxx

A View to a Kill

Let’s spin back, way back… and a bit more. That’s it. We’re there!!

Like a kid of a certain era I was one of many who used to sit by the tape deck on a Sunday evening listing to the UK top 40 singles chart and pressing record on something that I liked.

This one is quite apt with the latest James Bond film opening on Monday.

My earliest musical memories involved the early to mid 80’s chart music. Three decades later it could be construed as a guilty pleasure, but a lot of tracks from back then are in my iTunes library.

There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure!!