Birthday

 

Some days seem as if it's just a continuation of the other really, little really separates it from the other and others stand more for being like that as much as times aren't as they were either domestically or in the wider world involving current affairs presently.

One day late last week was different for being my birthday, less "getting older" more getting more polished as we go around the sun one more time which was marked at EB with birthday wishes from the members of that great fiction site and a couple of persons at GT who did remember.

My BFF remembered and sent me an e-card, then she never forgets and we do have rather a lot in common both with interests and this other life.

I did a couple of cd sets that looked at that point where things moved from the late 1950's when rock and roll seemed to drop out of favour with relatively tame singers and groups to the period modern music exploded and all the social conventions just changed.

It's not that I don't have some compilations on cd overing this period but this is a broader collection from many labels as licensing tracks can be difficult,

This set has notes on each track helping to place them in context although I generally prefer year by year sets and takes us from the last months of 1959 to the end of 1962 when things were going to change rapidly.

The Second volume came out a week or so ago that covers a shorter period - 1963 and 1964 where that bug name group from Liverpool came from just strong support in the North-west of England to international stars and on the back of that many UK groups had great success in the United States that had been largely insulated from transatlantic trends. 

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones are not represent due to licensing issues but many british acts such as Herman's Hermits, Animals, Searchers and the Kinks are as are american acts whose appeal still held such as Elvis Presley and american surf acts whose novelty status got them some UK attention such as Jan and Dean and the Surfaris and acts that were to become massive in a years time such as the Beach Boys.

Bond movies started in 1962 and the songs from them are represented within these sets such as Goldfinger and Motown, a cult interest in the UK around 1960-63 became more popular by 1964 scoring well on the charts as much as in the main british acts dominated that era and in time Tamla_Motown the UK imprint of Motown was established in early 1965.