Monday 18 January 2010

Del Shannon 'Gemini'


I only discovered this in the last year or so, after getting into some of those Pilooski Dirty Edit re-edits. This is a real treat- off Del Shannon's late 60s baroque- psyche 'lost masterpiece' (everyone in the 60s has got one of those havn't they?) The Further Adventures Of Charles Westover. Ended up buying a re-issue of the album on cd, and it's good-ish, but this is clearly the standout. The Pilooski edit's good too, and out there somewhere in internet land, but this is better. He did a similar job on The Human Beinz 'Nobody But Me', equally great source track and re-edit. Brilliant song, great instrumentation, great vocals. Enjoy it.

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4 comments:

  1. Plough Your Own Furrow22 January 2010 at 00:05

    You should hear his Marie is the name of my latest flame .. recorded before that much bigger rock god - Elvis

    Stuart (Charles put me onto you blogosphere) ... trust you're well

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  2. swiss adam22 January 2010 at 08:55

    Blimey- Stuart! How you doing?

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  3. Plough Your Own Furrow22 January 2010 at 09:01

    I'm doing good ... will post a link to your blog from my Facebook

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  4. Plough Your Own Furrow22 January 2010 at 09:05

    Going back to Del ... crack double CD compilation and has this brilliant version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7WXuCVyuU

    I love your story based approach to talking about music .. wish I could be so diligent at posting ... I started to try it but died a death without even trying

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