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CONNIE FRANCIS – "Who's Sorry Now?"
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Popular: #71, 16th May 1958
— 22 January 2004 Tom 6 comments

At first I thought it ran out of steam early – 90 seconds in, she’d made her point, why did she have to reprise it in high-kicking swing-vamp style? I was completely wrong of course – the last 45 seconds of “Who’s Sorry […]

THE JOHNSTON BROTHERS – "Hernando's Hideaway"
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Popular: #38, 11th November 1955
— 7 October 2003 Tom 13 comments

“All you see are silhouettes / And all you hear are castanets / And no-one cares how late it gets / Not at Hernando’s Hideaway” – late night Spanish-themed drinking dens are romanticised by the Johnstons. Perhaps some of the s[…]

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  1. You should have scoured the Internet for Yanou's take on this. Yanou being the classically trained musician/producer claims to have…

  4. I know "Stuck On You" sounds like Gordon Lightfoot, but which song specifically?

  6. There's a 2005 VW campervan on my street with Lyla written on the side. 60s nostalgia made unfussy and functional…

  7. Yeah but. It was of it’s time, we loved it at the time, and perhaps most key of all, they’ve…