LIVE24SEVEN // Motoring, Sport & Entertainment B E V B E VAN’ S - CD P I C K S DEC EMB E R 2 0 1 7
Bev Bevan shares four of his favorite CD’s for our listening pleasure, enjoy the December fab four...
The December fab four...
Janis Ian – The Essential 2.0 (Sony/Legacy)
Ten-times Grammy-nominated Janis Ian is a songwriter's songwriter, an exceptional artist who from the age of 12 has penned a library of songs that have stretched across an impressive 52 years and appeared on over 15 major label albums. Her fans include Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Cher, Willie Nelson…and me! Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash were fans too. Artists who have recorded her songs include Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Glen Campbell and Celine Dion.
Now the original songs of Janis Ian are celebrated with this brilliant double-CD box set. No collection would be complete without the inclusion of At Seventeen, a timeless classic . Other standouts are Jesse, which Roberta Flack turned into a hit in 1973; the Dolly Parton duet My Tennessee Hills; Memphis, a duet with Willie Nelson; Stars, Danger Danger; a Giorgio Moroder extended mix of Fly Too High; Love Is Blind; Will You Dance; and the haunting Tattoo.
Overend Watts – He’s Real Gone (Angel Air)
Overend Watts, who died earlier this year, was a bass player, record producer , songwriter, author and a founder member of Mott The Hoople and was indeed the driving force behind the Mott The Hoople reunion shows of 2009 and 2013.
Before his death, after a long illness, he finally completed his solo album that he had been promising to deliver to his fans for the past decade, plus, and in keeping with his sense of humour, he decreed that as the album would be released after his passing that it would be called He's Real Gone and not She's Real Gone , as originally planned. As a bonus track for fans, Overend provided his own demo of his song Born Late 58, which he sang on the seventh and final album from Mott The Hoople back in 1974.
Andy Williams – In The Arms of Love, Honey, Happy Heart, Get Together With Andy Williams (Beat Goes On)
Though to many Andy Williams was square and unhip, he managed to stay in the game by adapting to the vicissi- tudes of the time and its changing tastes. As this four-album double-CD compilation shows, beginning with 1966's In The Arms Of Love, he began to tune into what was happening in the pop charts and started to offer his own cool and laid back interpretations of the hits of the day. This continued with the subsequent albums Honey, Happy Heart and Get Together With Andy Williams, which all followed a similar trajectory and found a crooner in his forties sharing stages with young, up and coming singers and bands. As the seventies beckoned, Andy Williams could look back with a sense of pride and look forward with a sense of optimism. For a country boy from a small town in Iowa, his career, thus far, had more than exceeded expectations.
There are 45 tracks in all here, including his stylised covers of The Very Thought Of You; Here's That Rainy Day; By The Time I Get To Phoenix; Spooky; For Once In My Life; Didn't We; Sweet Caroline; My Cherie Amour; Here There And Everywhere; and Little Green Apples.
Motörhead – What’s Words Worth? (Big Beat)
Recorded at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London on February 18th 1978, What's Words Worth? captures Lemmy Kilminster, Fast Eddie Clarke and Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor as their long career was beginning. For reasons long forgotten, Motörhead were billed as Iron Fist & the Hordes From Hell that night , with Wilko Johnson topping the bill .
The tapes remained in limbo until 1983 when new manager Doug Smith remembered their existence and he negotiated the album's release on Big Beat Records. In addition to five tracks from Motörhead's debut album, there are hard and heavy renditions of On Parade; I'm Your Witchdoctor; City Kids; and Eddie Holland's Leaving Here.
At the close of the show Lemmy, for some inexplicable reason, is heard to encourage the audience "… to read plenty of Wordsworth", hence the title of the album , which is available on lobster red vinyl.
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