Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Bernard Cribbins
The Best Of Bernard Cribbins
(EMI Regal Starline, 1970)
Yuck-worthy British comedy tunes by enduring thesp. Cuppa tea, Charley?
Bernard Cribbins - actor, comic, storyteller and voiceover kingpin - has been around forever. And while he's expressed bemusement at his brief spell as a chart buster in 1962 (when he had two Top 10 hits), this collection of singles, b-sides and songs off the A Combination Of Cribbins LP still packs a pre-Beatles light entertainment wallop. Throughout, Bernard's verbal versatility, George Martin's production and the witty, dextrous songwriting of Myles Rudge (words) and Ted Dicks (music) are a rare combination. Some of it's inevitably of its time - how the national service generation must have chortled at The Bird On The Second Floor (a mildly swinging, less strenuous variation on Twenty Flight Rock), and with self-deprecating songs like Winkle Picker Shoes (a thwarted youth club lothario rues his choice of footwear) or I Go A Bundle ("...on Camden Town, sitting down and geraniums") it couldn't have deviated more from the priapic American rock'n'roll model if it tried. And there's more of the kind of uncomfortable Britishness that - don't laugh - Alan Bennett or Morrissey gravitate to on Double Thinks, where our hero talks to himself, wracked with self-doubt and class-cringe over a haughty object of desire. But the real gems are big hits The Hole In The Ground - one of Noël Coward's Desert Island Discs - and Right Said Fred. Respectively a working man's revenge tune and a Beckett-Carry On hybrid about removal men, both of which were sampled by Big Audio Dynamite on their Megatop Phoenix album, they're still entertaining kids today. And if you're wondering, that's six cups of tea they have while failing to move the unidentified object left standing on the landing.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 10/12/2009
Further Listening
Kenneth Williams - On Pleasure Bent (Decca, 1967)
Sir John Betjeman - Late Flowering Love (Charisma, 1975)
Morrissey - Kill Uncle (HMV, 1991)
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