Friday, July 27, 2007

A Meaningful Date

A day to reflect on the passage of time.

Sandy Denny performs a nice, acoustic demo version of her song.



Here's Sandy with Fotheringay doing a live version of one of Dylan's great but lesser-known songs.



Fotheringay doing another nice cover. What a classy band.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Meanwhile, During The SUMMER OF LOVE...

The Number 1 song in the US for the month of July in 1967, featured a nice vocal arrangement and production by Curt Boettcher:



At the same time, this solidly upbeat little ditty was charting Number 1 in the UK:



BONUS SOUNDS -- Here are three more songs with Curt Boettcher involvement. The first two are both performed by the group SAGITTARIUS on their album Present Tense, which was produced by Gary Usher. The last is from Curt's early folk group, The GOLDEBRIARS. (Even in 1964, he'd already got a flair for vocal arrangements.)