Friday On My Mind 28: Something In The Air

Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 14:00 on 15 October 2010

This one kind of sums up that revolution that never happened thing.

While folk were singing songs like this the world went right on ignoring them. But it captured the aspiration.

Thunderclap Newman: Something In The Air

Sonnyrock

19 October 2010 at 20:56

Funnily enough, I was playing their album, “Hollywood Dream” only last week. Produced by Pete Townshend, although I’m not sure if he actually plays on it, there are some excellent solos on it ( from future Wing, Jimmy McCullough, who must have been about sixteen at the time) and on the whole the album stands up pretty well. Nice mastering on the cd version I have, by Dennis Drake. Speedy Keen is also credited with writing “Armenia, City In The Sky”, on The Who’s “Sell Out” album from a couple of years earlier, so I guess that is where the Townshend connection stems from.
jackdeighton

5 April 2016 at 20:45

Sonnyrock,
It seems Townshend got the whole Thunderclap Newman thing on the road in order to showcase Speedy Keen’s songwriting.
Not Friday on my Mind 39: Wilhelmina – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton

8 April 2016 at 12:00

[…] of Andy Newman who lent his nickname to the group of whose biggest hit, Something in the Air (see Friday on my Mind 28) this song, an odd mix of oompah music, kazoo and a rock guitar solo, was the […]

A Son of the Rock