Tuesday the 20th of January is Penguin Awareness Day, according to the WWF, and who doesn't appreciate a nice penguin?
And yes, that means Namesakes will be a day late this week - because penguins come first! (I hope George isn't too upset.)
Here are a few appropriate tunes...
Nic Jones - Farewell To The Gold (from the album Penguin Eggs)
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They don't live together, you know.
Fleetwood Mac - (I'm A) Road Runner (from the 1973 album, The Penguin)
My p-p-p-pick of the Penguins comes from 1954 when it was originally released as a B-side to a forgotten tune, Hey Señorita. DJs began flipping it and playing the B-side and a million-selling record was born... one that iffypedia informs me, "became the first independent label release to appear on Billboard's national pop charts". Does that mean it was the first ever indie record? The band never had another hit, but a lot of lawyers made a lot of money out of various court cases regarding who actually wrote the song (among other contentious issues).
I, like many children of the 80s, first heard Earth Angel performed by Marvin Berry & The Starlighters (with Marty McFly on guitar) as the dramatic climax of the movie Back To The Future. That's when I fell in love with the tune... although it took me a while to finally hear the original...
I am distraught. If you have to mark this made-up day could you not have done a Penguins Namesakes? According to Discogs there are at least four, one of which appears to be Muppets penguins singing "Moves Like Jagger" with Pepe the Prawn - surely worth a feature on its own.
ReplyDeletePosting the majestic Nic Jones track means all is forgiven. Penguin Eggs is one of my All Time Top Ten Albums
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