The Old Forge (Saturday 14th October 2023)

Little to report about the day. In the evening I watched the Wes Anderson film Asteroid City, which I enjoyed.

L.
Sunday 15.10.2023 (1210 hr)

Blip #3974 (#3724 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2023 #180/265 + #085/100 Extras
Day #4950 (1166 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3114 (#2954 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Flora series
Poppies series
Still Life series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Spencer Davis Group - Every Little Bit Hurts (recorded live, Marquee, Wardour Street, London, 4 May 1965)
It was on this day, 14 October, in 1965 that I recklessly squandered 6/6d to see the Rolling Stones for the first time. They were touring to promote their new album Out Of Our Heads, and I saw the first of their two shows at the Birmingham Odeon (formerly the Paramount) that day. Supporting them were Unit Four Plus Two, The End (Bill Wyman's "other" band), the Spencer Davis Group, the Checkmates, the puzzlingly named Charles Dickens and the Habits (Habits?) and Ray Cameron, who I don't remember but might have been the MC.
I saw rather than heard the Stones due to the screaming fans, but it was Stevie Winwood, then seventeen, in his home town, who bought the house down, performing a very soulful version of the Spencer Davis Group's current single Every Little Bit Hurts (originally by Brenda Holloway) on the Odeon's pipe organ. This live version from the Marquee Club sadly lacks the grandeur of the pipe organ.
According to Wikipedia, "While still a pupil at Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham blues rock scene, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues and rock legends such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours, the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played. Winwood modelled his singing after Ray Charles."
Charles Dickens was the stage name of former fashion photographer David Anthony. Dickens released three singles, the second of which, I Stand Alone, was in the charts during October 1965. In 1966 he released the Jagger-Richard song So Much In Love on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label, and in 1968 starred in an obscure film called The Touchables – Love in the Fifth Dimension playing a pop-star called Christian. "It is true to say that this movie is not good, to say the least," read a contemporary review. "A light, nearly plotless, hip comedy" involves a "ludicrous story", read another, where Christian is kidnapped by four groovy, mini-skirted chicks, who imprison him in a PVC bubble, in order to have their evil way with him.
Ray Cameron, I have now found out, had a single out in 1967 co-produced by Stones producer Jimmy Miller and Spencer Davis Group producer Chris Blackwell. He went on to be a TV writer, producer and comedian. He worked on the Kenny Everett Show and produced Clive Dunn's awful Grandad novelty record before moving to America. He was the father of comedian Michael McIntyre, but died by suicide while abroad on Boxing Day 1993.

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