The Squire Presents

We once again take a look at the song released by artists who became famous later on.

• Lovingly Yours – Mockingbirds (Graham Gouldman/Kevin Godley)
• London Is Behind Me – Justin Hayward
• Till You Say You’ll Be Mine – Olivia Newton-John
• How Long Must I Be Made To Wait, Wait – Giorgio & The Morodians (Giorgio Moroder)
• You Never Wanted Me – Alex Campbell & Friends (Sandy Denny)
• Say Those Magic Words – The Birds, Birds (Ronnie Wood)
• Pulsar – Flaming Youth (Phil Collins)
• Don’t Go Way Little Girl – Shame (Greg Lake)
• Mr Poem – Mike Batt
• Digger – A New Generation (Sutherland Brothers)
• I Can Hear Raindrops – The Valentines (Bon Scott)
• Who Has Seen The Wind – Simon Sisters (Carly Simon)
• Amsterdam, The First Days – Brainbox (Jan Akkerman)
• Silver Forest – Organisation (Kraftwerk)
• Rocking Chair Rock ‘n’ Roll Blues – Elf (Ronnie James Dio)
• Last Saturday – Pat Benatar
• It’s A Happy Day – Ellen Amos (Tori Amos)
• Arabadrengurinn (The Arab Boy) – Bjork
• Never Grow Old – Aretha Franklin

Before he became a household name and even into his early years of stardom, David Bowie released a good number of singles in his own name, bands he was then working with or songs he had placed with other artists. In this show we take a look at those songs.   

• Good Morning Girl – David Bowie
• Take My Tip – Kenny Miller
• And I Say To Myself – David Bowie & Lower Third
• I Dig Everything – David Bowie
• Over The Wall We Go – Oscar
• Silver Tree Top School For Boys – The Slender Plenty
• Little Toy Soldier – The Riot Squad
• Laughing Gnome – Ronnie Hilton
• Silly Boy Blue – Billy Fury
• Ragazzo Solo, Ragazzo Sala – Computers
• Right On Mother – Peter Noone
• Moonage Daydream – Arnold Corns
• Andy Warhol – Dana Gillespie
• Man Who Sold The World – Lulu
• Life On Mars – Barbra Streisend
• Growing Up, I’m Fine – Mick Ronson
• All The Young Dudes – Mott The Hoople

Once again I am joined by Darryl Bullock to talk about some of our favourite records of all time.  

• I’ll Be Back (Mono Mix) – The Beatles
• Good Vibrations (Mono Single Mix) – The Beach Boys
• Alone Again Or (Mono Single Mix) – Love
• Pleasant Valley Sunday (Mono Mix) – The Monkees
• I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
• The Village Green Preservation Society (Mono Mix) – The Kinks
• Because (Mono Mix) – The Beatles
• Bell Bottom Blues – Derek & The Dominos
• Going To California – Led Zeppelin
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
• The Great Gig In The Sky – Pink Floyd
• Teenage Kicks (Vinyl) – The Undertones
• Love Will tear Us Apart – Joy Division
• O Elbereth Gilthoniel – Stephen Oliver
• Waves – Blancmange (Original Version)
• Love Is (Dance Mix) – Troy Tate
• Blind – Talking Heads
• Dalliance – The Wedding Present
• Mary Jo – Belle & Sebastian
• All I Need – Air
• Do You Realize? – The Flaming Lips
• A Lady Of A Certain Age – The Divine Comedy

In another in our record label spotlight series, we take at reissue label Now Sounds, a label dedicated to dedicated to exploring the untrodden sonic avenues of the creatively fertile West Coast music scene and beyond.

• Come To The Sunshine (Instrumental Mix) – Harpers Bizarre
• Windy (Acoustic Demo) – Ruth Friedman
• You (In My Mind) – The Cowsills
• Enter The Young – The Association (Withdrawn 45 Mix)
• Easy To Be Hard (Acetate) – The Sugar Shoppe
• To Put Up With You (Non LP 45)– The Holy Mackerel
• Little Girl – Tiny Tim
• Leave Him To Me – Donna Loren (Previously Unreleased)
• Young Birds Fly – The Cryan’ Shames
• Legend Of Paul Revere (Unedited Version) – Paul Revere & The Raiders
• Illusions – The Serendipity Singers
• Silently (Philippines 45 Version) – Del Shannon
• I’m Aware (Alt. Mix) – The Knack
• Fantastic Four (Session Outtake)– The Mamas & The Papas
• Strawberry Jam Man (Alt Version) – Jamme
• No One Knows (Mono 45) – Every Mothers’ Son
• Time Will Equalize – MC Squared
• Lisa, But Not The Same – The Critters
• New In Town (Non LP B-Side) – Gary Lewis
• Mary – Twinn Connexion
• Right Or Wrong (Demo) – Colours
• Smokey Joe’s – Tina & The Mustangs
• Frog Prince (Alt. Mix) – the Parade

In the second of our two shows, we take another look at the world of the demo recording. 

• Quicksand – David Bowie
• Nobody’s Fool – The Kinks
• Symphony – Marvin Gaye
• Behind Blue Eyes – Pete Townshend
• Ghetto Child – Curtis Mayfield
• The Pearl – Judee Sill
• Out In The Streets – Blondie
• Collections – Anthony Phillips
• Second Hand News – Fleetwood Mac
• Interzone – Joy Division
• The Doctor (Comfortably Numb) – Pink Floyd
• Lime Time – The Cure
• Dignity – Bob Dylan
• Bye Bye Badman – The Stone Roses
• Just A Girl – Suede
• Carousel – Sun Dial
• It’s Not Me – Supergrass
• Kelly Watch The Stars – Air
• Love Like Laughter – Beth Orton
• I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart – The White Stripes
• Love Is A Losing Game – Amy Whitehouse
• Storm Song – Smoke Fairies
• Candy – Talk Talk
• Free Bird – Lynyrd Sknyrd

Before a tune becomes a finished song, they tend to have a demonstration version made. With the advent of the deluxe edition of albums and career overviews of artists, some of these demos have come to light so in the first of two episodes, we take a look at these recordings. 

• Along Comes Mary – Curt Boettcher
• My Mind – The Misunderstood
• Another Day, Another Heartache – P. F. Sloan
• Rose Of Aberdeen – Simon & Garfunkel
• Prominent Men – Velvet Underground
• One Day I’ll Say Goodbye – The Zombies
• Hey Now Princess – Cream
• Second Generation Woman – The Factory
• She Is Beautiful – Genesis
• She Sleeps Alone – The Parade
• My Friend Jack – The Smoke
• Wee Wee Baby – Taste
• Pawnbroker – Barbara Ruskin
• Lamplight – The Bee Gees
• Portobello Road – Billy Nicholls
• Both Sides Now – Fairport Convention
• Love Makes The World Go Round – Jamme
• Everything’s Changing – Kak
• No Matter What – Badfinger
• The Pond & The Stream – Forthingaye
• Love Story – Harry Nilsson
• Chimacum Rain – Linda Perhacs
• This Time Tomorrow – The Move
• Surf’s Up – The Beach Boy

In this episode, we take a look at some records interesting records that have found their way into the Squire’s record collection over the last few months. 

• Tedesco & Pitman – The Ronnettes
• Purple Rain Drops – Stevie Wonder
• If I Had You – Tom Jones
• We Can Take It – The Smoke
• Be Mine – the Tremolos
• After The Fox – The Holllies & Peter Sellers
• The Plague – Scott Walker
• Look At The Sun – Louise
• Constant Journey – Chaps
• La Question – Marc Hamilton
• Born On The Bayou – The Short Kuts
• I’m Alive – Don Fardon
• You Know What Has To Be – Frozen Tear
• Ski “Full-Of-Fitness” Theme – Manfred Mann & Mike Hug
• High Sherriff of Calhoun County – Tony Joe White
• Super Duper Love (Part 1) – Sugar Billy

In this episode, we continue with our journey looking at psychedelic music form round the word.

• 125 – The Haunted (Canada)
• Vous – Michel Pagliaro (French Canadian)
• Hang Out – The Kaleidoscope (Mexico)
• People – Ladies W.C. (Venezuela)
• Inferno No Mundo – Bango (Brazil)
• Break It All – Los Shakers (Uruguay)
• Hermano Perro – Almendra (Argentina)
• I Wonder Who – Aguaturnia (Chile)
• It’s A Sin To Go Away – We All Together (Peru)
• A Day In My Mind’s Eye – Human Instinct (New Zealand)
• The Real Thing (Parts 1, 2 & 3 Into Paper Walls) – Russell Morris (Australia)
• Lavender Popcorn – Scrugg (South Africa)
• A Madman’s Cry – Otis Waygood (Zimbabwe)
• Hide If You Want To Hide – The Cedars (Lebanon)
• Too Much in Love  – Churchills (Israel)
• Turkuz Turku Cagiririz (Sur Efem Atini) – Mazhar Ve Fuat (Turkey)
• Sweet Sixteen – Ros Serey Sothea (Cambodia)
• Magic Colours – Teddy Robin & The Playboys (Hong Kong)
• Blind Bird – The Mops (Japan)
• Beautiful Rivers & Mountains – Shin Jung Hyun & The Men (South Korea)

In this, the first of two episodes, we take a journey to check out psych from around the world.

• My Life – Thor’s Hammer (Iceland)
• Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room – Orange Machine (Republic of Ireland)
• Music – Objectivo (Portugal)
• Nobody Wants You Now – Los Brincos (Spain)
• Une Petite Fille – L’Empreinte (France)
• No Place For The Lonely People – Adam’s Recital (Belgium)
• Wedding Of The Hundred Brides – The Motions (Netherlands)
• Mr Pseudonym – Joy Unlimited (West Germany)
• You Don’t Understand – Mother Sunday (Switzerland)
• Slaves Time – The Slaves (Austria)
• Sospesa As Un Filo – I Corvi (Italy)
• Valley Of Sadness – Aphrodite’s Child (Greece)
• Bebel – Delfini (Yugoslavia)
• Remlatomas – Hungaria Egyuttes (Hungary)
• Válka Je Vůl – Synkopy 61 (Czechoslovakia)
• Dziewczyna I Pejzaz – Trubadurzy (Poland)
• Wege Mit Guten Namen – Scirocco Combo (East Germany)
• Poor Bobby – Sir Henry (Denmark)
• Fuzzy Patterns – The Tages (Sweden)

The first era of Psychedelic music arguably lasted only a couple of years in the late 60s, but the amount of songs that have come out that did not see the light of day back then is staggering. In this months episode, we take a look at some of those unreleased tunes.

• Jug-A-Jug Song – Jesse Harper
• Come On Up – Carley Hill Blues Band
• Try Me on For Size – Those Fadin’ Colours
• Without Her – Coconut Mushroom
• Our Love Will Be Strong – The Majority
• Will I Find Love – Fire
• Just A Dream – Peanut Rubble
• In The Park – The Cortinas
• Sister Saxophone – Turquoise
• How It Is – John Pantry
• I’ve Been There Once Before – The Iveys
• This Little Man – Grapefruit
• Dogs In Baskets – Geranium Pond
• In The Sunset – Barnaby Rudge
• Crushed Purple – Jade Hexagram
• Shadow Man – Schadel
• Sad Sad Sad – Sheridan’s Bitter Sweet
• Rosemary’s Bluebell Day – The Picadilly Line
• Yesterday Was Such A Lovely Day (Elsie) – Sadie’s Expression
• Matilda Mother (Alternative Version) – Pink Floyd