Loki, God of Mischief (Monday 2nd January 2023)

I ended the year with a canal and begin the next with a cat, of course.

L.
Tuesday 3.1.2023 (1818 hr)

Blip #3791 (#3541 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #001/265 + #001/100 Extras
Day #4665 (1133 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2932 (#2772 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax KS-1 (Blue) and Pentax smc P-DA 50mm F1.8 prime lens

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Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Janet Kay - Silly Games (1979)
Janet Kay was awarded an MBE in this year's New Year's Honours list for services to music. She must have done a lot that I don't know about. This is the 12" mix, apparently being played from vinyl, so enjoy the added surface noise. It was written and produced by Dennis Bovell. The song was revived in 1990 by Lindy Layton using an arrangement that owed something to Soul II Soul and featured Janet Kay on guest vocals, as seen in the video.
Explaining how he approached the composition, Dennis Bovell says: "There was an advert for Memorex where Ella Fitzgerald sang a note and broke a glass, and I wanted a song with a note like that; little girls always try to sing a high note, so when I wrote Silly Games and put that high note in there, it meant that every female in the dance would try and sing that note."Now considered an anthem of its genre,Silly Games has been called "probably the most popular of the lover's rock songs from the '70s".Bovell has said: "...it was a song constructed with a verse and a chorus and a bridge and a 'tickling piece' at the end and an intro to catch you so you would have to sit up and listen to what was coming next.... To this day, that song is still on the radio constantly. But that song, it was constructed to be a hit."
Dennis Bovell played guitar, bass and synthesizer, Drummie Zeb from Aswad played the drums and Janet Kay sang.
The song features prominently in Steve McQueen's film Lovers Rock, the second film in his 2020 anthology series Small Axe.As described by The New York Times: "The lovesick kiss-off  Silly Game'and its indelible high note play a pivotal part" in the film, and Bovell has a cameo role. - Wikipedia