Music Box 24th May 2025

We start with Canned Heat , a seminal American blues rock / boogie rock band founded in December 1965 in Los Angeles. Here's single Let's Work Together (Liberty 7" 1969), which reached No.2 on the UK singles chart (26 in US).
Hazel English is an Australian singer-songwriter, born November 27, 1990 in Sydney, Australia, but currently based in in Oakland, CA, USA. Here's the lyric video for I'm Fine, from the E.P. Never Going Home (House Anxiety/Marathon Records 12"/CD 2016)
Moby Grape was an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music. This is single Omaha (CBS 7" 1967)
Pale Saints were an alternative rock / shoegaze band from Leeds, UK, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1996.  A Thousand Stars Burst Open comes from their second LP In Ribbons (4AD 1992)
We conclude with a brace from British prog-rockers Procol Harum. First, their debut and UK no.1 single (and a respectable no.5 in the US)  A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Deram 7" 1967), then we finish with A Salty Dog (Regal Zonophone 7" 1969), the title track to their third LP A Salty Dog (Regal Zonophone 1969). Until next week ...

Comments