Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 11 December 2015
The Move’s only no 1 hit. Obviously influenced by Penny Lane but supposedly also Strawberry Fields Forever. I am informed that Blackberry Way is a street in The Move’s home city of Birmingham.
This is the version from the record (which means you get the mellotron flavour) but laid over a live TV performance from Colour Me Pop.
The Move: Blackberry Way
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 13:00 on 28 October 2011
Speaking of Jeff Lynne, his first brush with fame came with The Move’s Birmingham contemporaries The Idle Race.
One of my schoolmates raved about The Skeleton And The Roundabout though it didn’t trouble the charts much; and nor did other Idle Race tracks.
If you listen closely you’ll hear that the singer actually pronounces the unusual (for a song’s title) word in the song’s title “skelington.”
The Idle Race – The Skeleton And The Roundabout
