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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals 09:14 - Dec 19 with 4158 viewsDJR

I am not sure if this has been done before as a topic, but I was alerted to this by an article about Toni Basil in the Guardian. And the fact that it has a different title makes it particularly obscure.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:46 - Dec 19 with 656 viewsGlasgowBlue

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:45 - Dec 19 by GlasgowBlue

Better known as the 5th single from MJ'S Off The Wall album.



and of course there is this


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 15:37 - Dec 19 with 629 viewsWeWereZombies






Poll: Jack Clarke is

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 15:57 - Dec 19 with 612 viewsPlums

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 15:37 - Dec 19 by WeWereZombies







I'd never heard the original of that and assumed it was Purple's covered by Kula Shaker.
This has been a great thread

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:01 - Dec 19 with 608 viewsWeWereZombies

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 15:57 - Dec 19 by Plums

I'd never heard the original of that and assumed it was Purple's covered by Kula Shaker.
This has been a great thread


And if you know Lynn Anderson's country smash...


Poll: Jack Clarke is

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:01 - Dec 19 with 608 viewsWhos_blue


Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:06 - Dec 19 with 599 viewsWhos_blue

Going back to the OP.
In an interesting aside (to me anyway) "Lay your love on me" by Racey was the first single I ever bought.

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:09 - Dec 19 with 591 viewsWhos_blue

Not sure if this one will get past the committee or not.

The Pudding released this version of Magic Bus in 66. A full two years before The Who released their version.


Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:13 - Dec 19 with 586 viewsDJR

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:14 - Dec 19 with 585 viewsMrBeckinsale



Might upset some that Natalie wasn't the original.
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:21 - Dec 19 with 578 viewsDJR

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:23 - Dec 19 with 575 viewsDJR

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:09 - Dec 19 by Whos_blue

Not sure if this one will get past the committee or not.

The Pudding released this version of Magic Bus in 66. A full two years before The Who released their version.



It's good enough for me.
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:37 - Dec 19 with 564 viewsGodzilla

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(No subject) (n/t) on 16:46 - Dec 19 with 555 viewsDJR

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Some mores songs covered by the Clash.





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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 17:18 - Dec 19 with 542 viewsGlasgowBlue


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 17:55 - Dec 19 with 519 viewsDJR

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:46 - Dec 19 by GlasgowBlue

and of course there is this



Nothing obscure about that, listen to it all the time, surely everyone does..
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 18:05 - Dec 19 with 512 viewseireblue

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 17:18 - Dec 19 by GlasgowBlue



Yeah, that one not so much…
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 20:54 - Dec 19 with 474 viewsWeWereZombies


Poll: Jack Clarke is

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:06 - Dec 19 with 462 viewsGlasgowBlue

More bounce than the more familiar Paul Young version


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:15 - Dec 19 with 460 viewsgiant_stow

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 10:20 - Dec 19 by WeWereZombies

Just been lisening to Lee Child's Desert Island Discs and he played Zep's 'Lemon Song', but...



Mr Zombie, you have taste - didn't know this, so thanks. I think you also passed on that ENVY/Charge it song? cracker...

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:25 - Dec 19 with 449 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Though covered superbly by Harry Nilsson, this


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:27 - Dec 19 with 445 viewsIndependentlyBlue

Though not now the definitive version, as he admitted….


Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:31 - Dec 19 with 443 viewsIndependentlyBlue

From late 50s


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:35 - Dec 19 with 440 viewsIndependentlyBlue


Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:41 - Dec 19 with 424 viewsDJR

What seems to be the earliest recording of a German song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertholt Brecht. Both fled the Nazis in 1933.

When translated the song became Mac The Knife.

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