Showing posts with label Radiohead. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Newly discovered Archie Bester song 'Twit'

Twit by Archie Bester 
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_Twit_.mp3 (2991 KB)

From: pb guttenburg
Subject: Newly discovered Archie Bester song:"Twit"

Andy the Northern Banjo Boy recently encouraged me to contact Mr Brian Harris (Hon. Chair) of the Bester Appreciation Society (Eastcote) over there in the U.K.to see if there were any unreleased Bester songs.
Imagine my surprise when Mr Harris replied that there is a song from 1954 taken from a privately produced acetate which he has been reluctant to distribute as it could change the accepted history of popular music.
Please take the time to listen -it is a remarkably familiar tune which concerns a plea to  Archie's tightfisted drinking mate "Johnny Fletcher".
It does contain a disparaging remark about Scotsmen but they were different times!

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Creep

Been working on a song by Radiohead - Creep. It's in a uke songbook I bought and, although it's a different kind of song to the folky stuff I've been looking at, it's got a simple chord progression G/B/C/Cm and has quirky feel.