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The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (Beatles Edition) #22 The Bedrocks

Continuing our journey into One Hit Wonders of Beatles’ covers, today’s group is Leeds based band The Bedrocks. Formed in Chapeltown, Leeds, England, in late 1967 and originally called The Bedrock Sunshine Band, this West Indian sextet comprised of Trevor Wisdom (b. Jamaica; organ), Owen Wisdom (b. Jamaica; bass guitar), Leroy Mills (b. St. Kitts;Continue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (Beatles Edition) #22 The Bedrocks”

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #19 The Untouchables

It’s a wet and blustery Sunday here, so I was hoping the Spinney Wheel Thing Of Destiny will be benevolent and pick a number to warm us up, and SWTOD has picked a cracker indeed. Here’s The Untouchables 1985 hit, Free Yourself, which reached #26 in April. The Untouchables are a soul/mod revival band fromContinue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders #19 The Untouchables”

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #9 Locomotive

Ho, ho, ho and all that guff. It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apparently), so let’s see what present Santa has left for me in my stocking (the less said about the presents left by his bloody reindeers on me back patio the better). Today’s OHW is Rudi’s In Love by Locomotive whichContinue reading “The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #9 Locomotive”

The Documentaries of Wolfgang Büld

Due to a combination of the nights fair drawing in, some slight (non-Covid) sniffles, and the rain lashing down so hard that a 600-year old man knocked on my door and asked if I had any spare gopher wood, Xmas at mi casa was an sedate, indoor affair. After filling up on so much sugaryContinue reading “The Documentaries of Wolfgang Büld”