The Old Forge (Sunday 13th December 2015)

As a result of having moved large items of furniture around and got my CDs sorted into some semblance of order, a lot of things had become displaced and were inconveniently taking up space in wrong places, including stacks of A4 folders, photographic paraphernalia, documents and magazines.

To help organise these I ordered 40 recycled cardboard A4 'bankers boxes' and have been filling them up over the weekend, including this section of copies of The Wire. By Saturday evening I had used up all the boxes and had to order a further 20.

L.
14.12.2015 (1537 hr)

Blip #1719 (#1969 including archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #003
Day #2090
LOTD #953 (#1077 including archived blips)

Lens: Pentax smc P-DA 17-70mm F4 AL (IF) SDM

Old Forge series
Treasure Trove series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Sonny and Chér - The Beat Goes On (recorded 13 December 1966)
I know they were fake hippies from the Los Angeles hipster scene, but I hugely enjoyed their records in the sixties, buying all the Chér and Sonny and Chér albums on Liberty and Atco, and even backtracked to their earlier pre-hit recordings when they were Caesar and Cleo.
Sonny's background as a songwriter and gofer went back to the fifties when he was at Specialty Records and wrote hits for Larry Williams for whom I believe he was his driver, including She Said "Yeah".
He also wrote Wynona Carr's Touch And Go and Don and Dewey's Koko Joe among others there, and was co-writer of Jackie De Shannon's big hit Needles And Pins. Of course he later wrote all the Sonny and Cher hit singles, classics like Bang Bang, I Got You Babe and The Beat Goes On that went on to be recorded by many other artists.
He became a gofo and promoter for Phil Spector, whose production style and sound he tried to emulate, using the same studio, Gold Star in Hollywood, and the Wrecking Crew session musicians. There he met Chér when she was a backing singer on some Ronettes records.Their arranger, Harold Battiste, was from New Orleans and produced Dr John's Gris Gris album at Gold Star in 1968.
On this day, 13 December 1966, The Beat Goes On by Sonny & Chér was recorded at Gold Star. Sonny both wrote and produced it, and the arrangement was by Harold Battiste. The record reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was taken from their album In Case You're In Love. Session players included Dr John (guitar), Michel Rubini (keyboards), Frank Capp (drums), Jim Gordon (percussion), Lyle Ritz (bass guitar), Barney Kessel (guitar) and Carol Kaye (guitar)  who came up with the classic bass line in the song. It was the only track done in a 3 hour session.

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Coca-Cola Santa Comes To Swindon