Music Box November 23rd 2024 (amended)

Amended: removed the Cookies video as I had posted it only a few weeks ago, replaced by The Isley Brothers.

We start today with my favourite movie score for my favourite film. John Barry, from Walkabout Soundtrack (The Roundtable 2016) here's title track Walkabout, from the 1970 Australian film of the same name. Absolutely beautiful.

Now for an all-time classic. Free, an English rock band founded in London in 1968 and disbanded in 1973, and here's the full length album version of single All Right Now, from their third album Fire & Water (Island 1970).

Here's The Isley Brothers, with their classic hit single Twist & Shout (US: Wand UK: Stateside 7" 1962) which was one of The Beatles favourite songs, so much so they finished their debut LP Please please Me with a memorable one-take cover.

Ken Thorne was born in Dereham, a town in the English county of Norfolk. Thorne began his musical career as a pianist with the big bands of England during the 1940s, playing at night clubs and the dance halls. At age 27, Thorne decided to seriously study composition with private tutors at Cambridge and later studied the organ for five years in London. Thorne began composing scores for films in 1948. This is amazing piece of incidental music Incidental Cue 2-42 from TV show The Zoo Gang OST (Network 2010).

We conclude with a brace of official videos for Liverpool band Echo & The Bunnymen's (website) finest singles, Seven Seas (Korova 7"/12" 1984), and The Killing Moon (Korova 7"/12" 1984), from their classic fourth LP, th eabsolutely stunning Ocean Rain (Korova 1984). Until next week ...