More ironing music...

Earlier this week my random play threw up the following and, byand large, did me proud whilst ironing shirts for work...

Who - 5:15 (Quadrophenia) - we started playing this again maybe 18 months ago and continues to be popular - "inside outside, where have I been? Out of my brain on the 5:15..."

Episode Six - Slow Down (The In Crowd - 60s Beat) - not quite the Larry Williams' original but a nice british beat version



I Roy - Hot Bomb (Trojan DJ Box Set 1) - early toasting at its best over a great rock steady beat

DJ Spinna - Spinning Wheel (Shirley Bassey Remix) - what I think the young people used to call "big beat" - close enough to the "original" to sound good but different enough to make a cover worth doing

Special AKA - Gangsters - I recall buying this downstairs in Boots (yes, the chemist) in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon when I was a mere slip of a lad and it was number one - still a great tune

Brenda Holloway - Lonely Boy - solid soul

Nancy Wilson - The End Of Our Love - a forgotten classic (well, by me) taken from my Kent Lp "Right Back Where We Started From" - I need to dig this out more often

Eddie Cano & Nina Tempo - King Kong (Latin Dance Party Vol 2) - latin boogaloo

Jame Brown - Cross Firing (Soul Pride Disc 1) - nice hammond

Soul Proprietors - All Alone (Purple Heart Surgery 2) - rare and solid freakbeat

Fred Lowery - Can't Get Enough Of My baby's Lovin' (RnB Meets Northern Soul 2) - not the strongest on the CD

Showstoppers - Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty - another tune I've played on and off for 25 years now and tend to overlook - then I'll hear it again for the first time in years and it will suddenly sound revitalised - in the same category I'd include Carstairs "It Really Hurts Me Girl", Yardbirds "For Your Love" and even The Jam "When You're Young". The tunes you know only too well and never play and consequently can smack you between the eys every now and again

Darrow Fletcher - My Young Misery - quality soul

On the CD player now? "Mojo Chess Originals" - a fantastic 25-tracker full of classic Chess blues and RnB - Howlin Wolf "Back Door Man" playing now. The sort of CD you probably have most of the tunes, but maybe scattered around your collection. Here all in one place and well worth a punt: