I was rather proud of this limerick I featured on Saturday Snapshots a week or so back...
There was a young lass from North Scotland
Who decided to form a Snap-Shots band
She got C on guitar
CC on sitar
But Ernie on drums, George could not stand.
Anyway, it got me thinking about bands named after this blog's only other successful feature.
And here they are...
THE SNAPSHOTS #1
We'll start with these guys because there's no date on the record, but they only had black and white cameras, clearly. From The Keg & Quarter, wherever that is / was. Philadelphia, probably, and maybe early 60s according to a rather rambling write up on the Tube of You.
The Snapshots - A Whole Album Of Lounge Jazz Joy
That'll keep George busy for a while.
THE SNAPSHOTS #2
Soulful Snapshots next, from West Coast USA in 1963.
THE SNAPSHOTS #3
Norwegian Snapshots, also from 1963. Be careful on that ladder.
The Snapshots - Tatervise Ved Bålet
THE SNAPSHOTS #4
US Doo wop Snapshots from 1965, with a song written by Don Robertson, The Happy Whistler.
The Snapshots - Condemned Without Trial
THE SNAP SHOTS #5
Belgian "Psych Freakbeat" from 1968. Look, if this isn't George's favourite this week, I'll eat Ernie's hat.
The Snapshots - Hip Hip Hurray
THE SNAPSHOTS #6
Frank Corbo, John Winhimmer, Robert Bunnyman Rocco, Robert Mag and Vinny Perrone make up the New York Snapshots from 1980... some pretty Noo Yoik names in there.
THE SNAPSHOTS #7
And finally today...
Discogs is trying to convince me these guys are from Italy, but I'm not buying that. I'm betting on the USA, in 1983 (?) Anyway, they're giving a helping hand to Andy J. Forest, whose "harmonica work is 100% explosive hot" according to the Tube of You.
Andy J. Forest & Snapshots - Midnight Plans
Which are your Saturday Snapshots?
I'm only listening to the first track of #1. It's total bobbins of course. (Are there any bands called Bobbins?). Bloody hell this track is annoying
ReplyDeleteThe Norwegian Shadows (#3) could be the winner. Re #5, I expect you to supply photographic evidence. #7's mouthie work is hardly explosive. So it's #3 for me.
DeleteThe Internet has exploded. What next - an episode of Snapshots where are the bands are namesakes?
ReplyDelete#5 is my favourite so does that mean you eat George's hat instead? Quite like #2 as well
I'm hungry enough at the moment to eat both your hats.
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