songs to bring out your inner Saxondale

 

Not dissing Saxondale 

No indeed - I'd go so far as to say that I'd be suspicious of anyone (or anybloke let's say) (it's A Bloke Thing) who didn't identify just a teensy tiny bit with Saxondale...  recognise a glint of affinity  

It's a top tune, any road. 

I wonder what Aaron Copland made of it. I checked and he was still alive when this was a hit. 

Now this - Mussorgsky Moogified - doesn't sound nearly as good but the visuals are mad

"Groundbreaking cinematic techniques" said Richard Williams, the presenter of Old Grey Whistle Test when they played a clip (at 8.02)

But it's just the same howlround plastic-fantastique FX used on Top of the Pops whenever they had a glammy groop on. 

And a barrage of comic strip Pop Arty images in garish hues overlaid.

I don't know why they turn the FX off half way through - after that, who wants to look at Emerson Lake and Palmer au naturel? 

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What are the other Saxondale jams? 

"Jessica" by the Allman Brothers? 

 (Aka the Top Gear theme tune)

Rock 'n ' Ravel

Beggars belief that this was considered a giant leap for rock guitarism. 

 When Bo Derek's character in 10 avers that Ravel's  Boléro was the most erotic piece of music ever, I don't think she had this Prince Buster rip off "Wreck A Pum Pum" in mind. Quite astonishingly raunchy and graphic for 1968.

Whereas Tomita's treatment is subdued and almost sedate 

Mostly though it's proggers and then metalloids who've taken it up

Crikey - well I guess Jim Lea had proggoid potential, having been in jazz youth orchestras and such 

A very early 'rock' version

There's a guide for anything and everything on YouTube!

Well, obviously this below is by infinite distance the best use of That Rhythm: 

Then again, the video claims that "School's Out" by Alice Cooper  is a Boléro 

It seems to pop up quite often as a momentary passage - like the middle-eight or the bridge bit - an intensification of rhythm... bammity-bammity

The idea that the Ravel piece is about sex is not an invention of Bo's character in 10 

postscript: 

Ed in comments points out that Buster's "Wreck A Pum Pum" is a rip-off of "Little Drummer Boy" rather than "Bolero". Which plain fact (the paruppa pum pum bit!) eluded me somehow! On the other hand, the two tunes / rhythms have a proximity such that people have combined them 

Indeed a webzine tracking all the versions of  "Carol of the Drum" aka "Little Drummer Boy" (there are many, many - and this list doesn't even include the Pentatonix take) says this:

"Written already in 1941, loosely based on a Czech fairytale. In one of Martin Luther's christmas carols, children play as little drummer boys near newborn Jesus. The tune is related to Spanish song Tamborilero and to French song Le Jongleur (Middle Ages), it also somewhat reminds Ravel's Bolero (1928)."

Here's a female answer song / counter-cover of the Prince Buster tune - the lyrics are just as raunchy - slackness before slackness

Never heard the Trapp Family Singers

I always wonder if Bing respected Bowie as a singer, or just did this because the bookers on his show thought it would be a "with it" move. I think they sound just wunnerful together. Bowie is clearly chuffed at ascension into the Showbiz Pantheonic Heights (much like he was mega-chuffed round about this time when he signed on to do Just A Gigolo, thinking that he'd be acting face to face with Marlene Dietrich)

If ears could puke...