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06 september, 2023

Maggie MacNeil - I Heard It Through The Grapevine b/w Isolation (1971)


Sjoukje van 't Spijker (Tilburg, 1950). Lid van het duo Mouth & MacNeal, met Willem Duyn. 
Ze brengt in 1971 haar eerste solo single uit, het welbekende "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967.
The Marvin Gaye version was the second and most famous to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967.
De B-kant is het nummer "Isolation", a 1970 song appearing on John Lennon's first official solo album release, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band".


A - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (3:05)
      Written By – B. Strong, N. Whitfield

B - Isolation (3:37)
      Written By – J. Lennon 


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Notes
Released: 1971
Format:  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Decca Records

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14 januari, 2023

Theo Vaness - Sentimentally It's You b/w No Romance Keep/On Dancing (1979)


Zanger Theo van Es (ex-The Shoes) maakt begin jaren zeventig soloplaten en stort zich als Theo Vaness op de disco. Hij tekent een contract bij een Franse platenmaatschappij.

"Sentimentally It´s You" is afkomstig van zijn derde en laatste solo album Bad Bad Boy (1979). Verder van dit album de singles "As Long As It's Love", "I'm Bad Bad Boy".



A - Sentimentally It's You  (3:20) 
       Written-By – Michaële-Lana Et Paul Sebastian

B - No Romance / Keep On Dancing  (4:08) 
       Written-By – Michaële-Lana Et Paul Sebastian


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From the albums "Theo Vaness – Bad Bad Boy" 1979 RCA Victor – PL 37263


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Release: 1979
Format
Genre: Disco
Label: RCA Records

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07 januari, 2023

Allman Brothers Band - Revival (Love Is Everywhere) b/w Leave My Blues At Home (1971)


"Revival", sometimes listed as "Revival (Love Is Everywhere)", is a song by the American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. It was the lead single from their second studio album, Idlewild South (1970), released on Capricorn Records. The song was written by guitarist Dickey Betts, his first songwriting credit for the group.
It was the first Allman Brothers song to chart, peaking at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971.

His first songwriting contribution to the band, guitarist Dickey Betts initially wrote "Revival" as an instrumental. He began singing along, and lyrics came as an afterthought, which was not typical. Betts tended to naturally write instrumental songs first; he later commented, "You have to have an altogether different approach; an instrumental has to be real catchy and when you succeed it’s very satisfying because you have transcended words and communicated with emotion." Duane Allman plays the acoustic guitar heard on "Revival", as he was better at obtaining a nice acoustic sound due to his studio experience.

The song was covered by John Mayall on his 1979's album Bottom Line. 



A - Revival (Love Is Everywhere) - 2:40
      Written-By – Dicky Betts

B - Leave My Blues At Home - 4:16
       Written-By – Greg Allman


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Notes
Released:  1971
Format:  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
Genre:  Southern Rock
Label:  Atlantic Records

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03 januari, 2023

Wings - Mary Had A Little Lamb b/w Little Woman Love (1972)


"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney and released as a non-album single by the British–American rock band Wings in March 1972. It is based on the traditional nursery rhyme of the same name. 

At the time, some observers such as Roy Carr and Tony Tyler of New Musical Express presumed the song was recorded by McCartney in response to the BBC ban of his previous single, the political "Give Ireland Back to the Irish",but McCartney has denied this, saying that it was a sincere effort to write a song for children. In fact, the song was written before "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", as a demo of the song can be heard during an interview recorded for radio station WRKO in December 1971. For the front and rear cover and the labels, two illustrations by Clara Miller Burd were used.

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" was released as a single on 12 May 1972 in the UK, moved back from its original planned date of the 5th. The record was released in the US on 29 May. On 25 May, the band mimed a performance of the song for BBC TV's Top of the Pops TV show.

The song was attacked by several contemporary rock critics, with one commenting that McCartney had "fallen to tripe" of this genre. However, some critics suspected this immediate change in musical direction to be a deliberately ironic musical manoeuvre.Cash Box said of it that "the nursery rhyme we all know and love gets a bouncy treatment." It reached the top 10 in the UK, peaking at number nine. Some US radio stations also played the pop/rock B-side, "Little Woman Love". Apple Records in the US even revised the picture sleeve for the single to credit both sides by name (see reverse cover), but the single still failed to rise above number 28 in the US.


A - Mary Had A Little Lamb  (3:30)
      Written-By – McCartney And McCartney

B - Little Woman Love  (2:06)
      Written-By – McCartney And McCartney


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Released:  May 29, 1972
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Genre:  Pop
Label:  Apple Records 

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