A song from my childhood
A lot to choose from.
And yet an easy choice.
Like many of my generation, it all used to be about Thursday night.
Not so much for the comedy sets, the bad miming, the substance-fuelled over-acting, the bad punning from the DJs, or the hilariously out-of-step-with-the-youth dancing from Pam’s People.
Top of the Pops was, for me, about the sounds.
Bands that I would talk to my mates about the next day, in school.
I was learning to play brass at the time, so anything with a good brass riff was immediately something I would fasten my ears on.
And one day, this happened:
I remember this coming out. Alexis Korner wasn’t it? In fact I think I even bought the single. If not , I definitely recorded it when it was on the chart countdown.
God, yes! I remember this.
Cool tune.