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Bertha Torr
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Subject: Re: Traffic Island - Ron Goodwin version
11/01/2020 23:26 GMT
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Sorry, only just visited and seen your reply over a month ago, Wahski. Thanks very much for finding this - and I have now found the radio station's own playlist, which I've listened to the song on. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/72993 Traffic Island is at 43minutes in. (I was curious to hear the DJ talking but if you go on to the next track there is no DJ so it must be the music only.)
This IS is the exact version that is on the B-side of Nothing Better To Do. I know this because I have just bought the disc with my Christmas money from Canada via Discogs and the seller kindly sent me a soundfile first! I was sorely tempted not to follow through and buy the vinyl but she was agreeable to dropping the price a little and so I kind of felt morally obliged.
It is the song as in ISIRTA but with sound effects of gulls and waves, more as heard in the RNZ version which you can find on YouTube, with some great uke [?] accompaniment obviously laid on by Ron Grainer or his musician. But, scandalously, they have failed to credit Jo Kendall on the label! Bill, your feminist principles are affronted, I'm sure.
The other records you mention are intriguing; I shall check out the Timbo one at any rate.
EDIT Have just found 'MC Graeme'! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79eQWaDvdY The Timbo one is spoken word sketches btw. I don't have to take this kind of thing from you, you know! But I'm going to... |
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wahski
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Subject: Re: Traffic Island - Ron Goodwin version
03/12/2019 07:23 GMT
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Bertha Torr
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Subject: Traffic Island - Ron Goodwin version
01/12/2019 14:29 GMT
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Is anyone lucky enough to own Bill's 1964 single, 'Nothing Better To Do'? The A-side - a brilliant mods & rockers song that was banned by the beeb in case it inspired violence - is helpfully up on YouTube but not the B-side, which is 'Traffic Island', a Bil & Jo duet from Cambridge Circus/ISIRTA.
There is a good recording of Traffic Island amongst the Cambridge Circus RNZ recordings on YT but I've never heard the vinyl version. If the orchestration is at all similar to 'Nothing Better To Do' it will be fab so I would love to be able to hear this. (Yes, I am looking to buy the 7" but at present it goes for well over £100!!)
As a great admirer of Bill's music, I have an ambition to catalogue all his songs and transcribe all the lyrics. What a project to take on, eh? I don't have to take this kind of thing from you, you know! But I'm going to... |
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