Comments on: JULIE COVINGTON - “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:15:34 +0000

Re 41/42/45 et al - I’ve found a good conceptual song called ‘The B Side’ - its by Morecambe & Wise! “You’ve paid to hear me on the hipside - why should I have to bother with the flipside?”

By: Drucius

Drucius — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:50:16 +0000

Nobody mention Charlotte Cornwell’s bum!

By: Waldo

Waldo — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:33:20 +0000

DJP # 65 - …yep, and Miss Denby-Ashe can certainly do a turn keeping me warm night and day…

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:23:25 +0000

There is already a list - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/populist/ - it’s just a matter of linking to it better :)

By: rosie

rosie — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:17:20 +0000

I agree about the list of reviewed number ones - we need an index of some kind. Now that we are up to 400 - yes, another milestone passed - it is getting cumbersome looking back. And after all it’s ‘my’ period - say 63 to 73 - that’s of most interest to me just as the later 70s sets some pulses racing and I’d imagine others like Tom finding ‘their’ music starting to emerge later in 1977… AAAAAARGH, NO, NOT THE GIANT CARROT!

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:16:42 +0000

it was evil elves in flight from the fall of otherwhere

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:56:27 +0000

I didn’t notice anything happening! I’ve been busy catching up at work after being off sick the last cpl days, though.

Alan and I are working to make the Popular format a little more user-friendly (in terms of huge thread lengths, easier access to the list of reviewed #1s for new readers, etc.) - so it might be he was experimenting a bit.

By: rosie

rosie — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:34:38 +0000

Did we get hacked, or what? My morning wasn’t complete without Popular and The Guardian…

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:55:16 +0000

With Kris Marshall in “who are these people” mode obv. and consequent hilarious additional amnesia-related long-running sitcom strand.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:49:08 +0000

i’m hoping the russell t. davis revamp of “my family” will actually OVERLAP with the original run

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:35:01 +0000

In viewer demographic terms, My Family is only a Heartbeat away…

By: Waldo

Waldo — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:26:25 +0000

Oh, what a circus. Oh, what a typo. I think I meant “singlet”, not “signet”, which is a little creature that provides sport to Canadians with clubs. I’ve only just noticed and will write the correct word out fifty times to satisfy our brace of teachers. As for Daniela, she is certainly the only reason to watch the risible “My Family”, the longevity of which is truly mystifying.

By: Snif

Snif — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:52:44 +0000

Of course, Napoleon XiV aka Jerry Samuels took the B side cake with the B side of “They’re Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha!”, entitled “!Ah Ah Yawa Em Ekat Ot Gnimoc Er’Yeht”, and consisted of the A side played backwards.

Never liked this track much, but loved JC’s version of “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” which was a medium sized hit down under.

By: crag

crag — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:04:28 +0000

Re:B-sides- the B-side of Adam Ants Apollo 9 was called B-side Baby.
For me Webber/Rice’s greatest achievement was undoubtably JCS-a better display of using the rock form to tell a whole continuous story than Odgen’s Nut, The Wall or any of Townsends efforts and, IMO, stands as one of the great records of the rock era.
Julie Convington meanwhile will always be Beth from Jeff Wayne’s WOTW to me…

By: Waldo

Waldo — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:13 +0000

# 55 + 56 - Actually, I can’t recall Charlotte as Dave Boy Green. I must have missed that episode. My abiding memory of “Rock Follies” is when they wailed out a number called “Glen Miller Is Missing”, which I thought was complete cobblers.

Btw, I’d certainly like to see Daniela Denby-Ashe in boxing signet and shorts, although my next stop would be an oxygen tent.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:54:22 +0000

She played a character called ‘Rox’ apparently, and has a long list of other credits

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429495/

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:47:43 +0000

DJP @ #58

You might remember her better as Judith, Brian’s sort-of love-interest in “Life of Brian”.

I don’t remember her from RF either, I presume she must have been in the second series which wasn’t really as popular as the first had been.

By: lex

lex — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:46:22 +0000

Ironically, given how blah her own version of this song is, I think the only reason I like Evita at all is because of Madonna. (I have a long-standing hatred of the entire musical genre otherwise, not unrelated to my hatred of all comedy ever. It’s too ‘wacky’, and it reminds me of the scary plastic smiles on the faces of kids’ TV presenters (NB: I hated kids’ TV even more when I was actually a child).)

Not much to add to Tom’s og ‘Argentina’ piece - I also think the Sinéad version is the best I’ve heard, and the Miami mix of Madge’s is maybe the most camp thing in the world - other than to say I wish loads more people would cover this just because it’s one of those standards where, contra ‘Dancing Queen’, I think anyone can make their own, and where someone’s interpretation of it can be really revealing.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:37:56 +0000

I’m blowed if I can remember anything about Sue Jones-Davies, though (she is credited on “OK?”).

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:37 +0000

By far the best bit of the notorious 1977 “punk” episode of The Goodies, is their Rock Follies pastiche, ‘Rock Goodies’, in the first five minutes. As I remember, Tim is Julie Covington. They end every line with “cock”, and the number they play, ‘Shiny Shoes’, is one of Bill Oddie’s best songs.

I really ought to get around to seeing Rock Follies… It does sound like 100% my sort of thing.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:28:47 +0000

- cue Waldo reminiscences and reflections here, surely?

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:13:40 +0000

Charlotte Cornwall was the one I fancied in Rock Follies (I was immune to Rula’s pre-Raphaelite locks and Julie C. was a bit too butch for me), there was an episode that involved them boxing for some reason and seeing Charlotte bouncing around the ring in little satin shorts and a vest gave me palpitations.

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:09:54 +0000

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?

Well done, Mr Lineman.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:39:24 +0000

Presumably it was to rake in a bit of dosh (if it had been a hit) for the non-songwriting Stones. Which says a lot about what Andrew Oldham thought of Brian Jones.

The Shadows released a double ‘B’ side in 1966, The Dreams I Dream b/w Scotch On The Socks, on a white Columbia demo with two lovely red B’s. It must have tickled them, but I bet their promo man could’ve wept. It duly became their lowest charting single in seven years, and they wouldn’t trouble the Top 10 until 1978, with Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.

Ah, that felt good.

By: Rob M

Rob M — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:34:57 +0000

Regarding b-sides about b-sides, there’s an Andrew Oldham single from the sixties - one of those “Rolling Stones Orchestra” things I believe - whose main title escapes me, but the b-side is entitled “I do like to see me on the b-side”. What’s odd about it is the composer credit goes to “Oldham / Wyman / Watts”!