I was wading through some old records tonight, and suddenly got this longing for old treasured songs that I value much, so I dragged a couple of them forth for your listening enjoyment.I guess a whole lot of you have seen the movie To Sir With Love.
If not, check it out. Apart from being a decent tear-jerking feel-good movie, what grabbed me the most was the songs, and one of them, probably more than any other songs, stressed for me the importance of cheesy backing vocals, namely "It's getting harder all the time" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.
The Mindbenders also had a better known hit called "The Game of Love", and Wayne Fontana is probably still going strong, though his "official web site" isn't telling me anything useful right now.
Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders - It's getting harder all the time
About the same time on the other side of the pond, american teenager's were pounding away on their instruments in various garages. The Back from the Grave compilations do a decent job of compiling catchy songs played with more enthusiasm than skill, by youngsters who insisted on playing wether they could or not. Usually worse played and recorded than their british counterparts, and usually a whole lot louder and faster, and yet incorporating the whole wonderful cheesy backing-vocals thing, there's a good many fun songs on these albums. I'd like to introduce you to one of these that should be right up the twee-alley at least:
One Way Streets - We all love peanut butter
Check out the Back from the Grave series
Get into the groove with The Mindbenders
And that's enough of old stuff for tonight!
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