Not A Bummer

The last clip from ‘Marc’ for now features his dancetroopers ‘Heart Throb’ jiggling about to the current T-Rex single ‘Celebrate Summer’. It’s a dull routine with a boring backdrop which nevertheless contains some elements that the girls quite obviously struggle with, particularly the sudden backwards arching hand to hand shift that accompanies the ‘summer is heaven in 77’ segment.

I feel a bit sorry for them, really, and for Marc as, despite featuring this song virtually every week on a popular television show, it didn’t chart. Oh, and then he died.

Nowadays, of course, his passing would have catapulted the single to Number One, but people were a lot harder in the olden days.

The Way In

The first day of Summer is officially on June 21st, but calendars are for squares, man, I say it's the first of June, even if its snowing. So, in celebration of the sticky weather soon to delight, then annoy, then grind us down, here's a mix I call 'The Door Into Summer'.

It's a mixed bag, but it's all decent stuff. At least one of the tracks has appeared in a previous mix I did elsewhere, but I'm very much a flow kind of mixer, and the whole thing just didn't seem right without it. Anyway, I've said too much...



Tracks:

001 Music De Wolfe: Country Haze 002 Bitter-Sweet: What A Lonely Way To Start The Summertime 003 Margo Guryan: Sun 004 Melodic Energy Commission: The Doorway Into Summer 005 Lalo Schifrin: Bees, Wasps & Mayflies 006 Francois de Roubaix: La Canal Gele 007 Hoyt Axton: The Sunshine Fields Of Love 008 Tully: I Feel The Sun 009 Dick Mills: Seascape 010 Ars Nova: Walk On The Sand 011 Ora: Seashore 012 Friends: One Sweet Day 013 The Advisory Circle: Sundial 014 Blur: Essex Dogs 015 Greta Ann: Sadness Hides The Sun