Not Friday on my Mind 74: Legend of Xanadu. RIP Alan Blaikley
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 23 September 2022
One of the two men behind the hits of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich (not to mention The Honeycombs and The Herd,) Alan Blaikley, died in July but I only found out when his obituary was published in today’s Guardian.
The two were apparently the first British composers to write a song for Elvis Presley.
An (incomplete) list of the songs the duo wrote is here. It’s not a bad CV.
This is the one featuring the “man with the whip” as the Queen Mother is supposed to have said to Dave Dee. In reality I believe the sound was made by scraping a bottle across the strings of a guitar.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich: Legend of Xanadu
Alan Tudor Blaikley: 23/3/1940 – 4/6/2022. So it goes.
Tags: Alan Blaikley, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich, Elvis Presley, Friday On My Mind, Ken Howard, Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, Legend Of Xanadu, Not Friday On My Mind, Queen Mother, The Herd, The Honeycombs
