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Play It Again Mayhem – “Far Away Eyes” – The Rolling Stones February 16, 2024

Filed under: Play It Again Mayhem — justwilliam1959 @ 1:09 pm
Tags: Far Away Eyes, Rolling Stones, Some Girls

This is the twentieth song in the Play It Again Mayhem series, which began in 2020. Check out the previous entries along with this new one in the Play It Again Mayhem Spotify Playlist click here to take a listen! It has only been just over 2 weeks since the last entry, so do you fancy a quick one while she’s away? OK, that was a big tease, this post does not feature the Who! Once again it is back to the 70s though, to 1978. This means that so far, 15 of the 20 songs are from the 1970s. This time it is the turn of the Rolling Stones. This is the first non-single track to make the Mayhem Play It Again Playlist, although it was a B-Side. It appeared on the flip side of the Stones’ huge 1978 disco-funk-styled smash “Miss You”. It is called “Far Away Eyes” and like “Miss You” appears on the band’s 1978 album ‘Some Girls’. It is a delightful country pastiche or homage from the Stones. Jagger’s vocals are very much in a great country style and are split between spoken and sung. It is a lazy, lolloping rhythm. Ronnie Wood plays a fabulous slide guitar on it. This, maybe surprisingly, is my favourite ever Rolling Stones song. What is yours?

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“When I met you you were seventeen not just another teenage queen” Blog Advent Calendar day 18 December 18, 2014

Filed under: Christmas,Trivia — justwilliam1959 @ 1:10 am
Tags: Advent Calendar, Baby It's You, Blondie, Boy Oh Boy, Cherry Red, Christmas, Clive Wilson, Dion and the Belmonts, Fighting Chance, Kitty, Lay Your Love On Me, Mickey, Mickie Most, Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn, Phil Fursdon, Racey, RAK, RAK Records, Rest Of My Life, Rock It, Runaround Sue, Shame, Smash And Grab, Some Girls, Still The One, Such A Night, There's A Party Going On, Toni Basil

Wow there are now only seven big sleeps until the fat, weird, beardy bastard in red jams himself in your chimney. If that sounds like a double entendre or euphemism it wasn’t supposed to ok. Any it’s December 18th and day 18 of this years ABC of British bands advent calendar blog posts. That means we are at the letter ‘R’, would you like to know what is behind the little cardboard flap today? Okay then I’ll put you out of your misery, it’s Racey!

The bands was formed in Weston-super-Mare in the mid 70s by Phil Fursdon and Clive Wilson. Their first single was “Baby It’s You” in 1977 it was written by Chris Norman and Pete Spencer off of Smokie. Racey were signed to Mickie Most‘s RAK Records and their first hit, like many on that label, was written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. It was a big hit reaching number 3 in the UK chart, number 2 in Ireland and number 1 in Australia.

The follow-up was “Some Girls”, a song that was originally written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman for Blondie who were being produced by Mike Chapman at the time. Both songs were produced by Mickie Most. “Some Girls” fared even better than “Lay Your Love On me” reaching number 2 in the UK, number 2 in Ireland and number 1 in both Australia and South Africa. The band had one more UK top 20 hit before they broke up in 1985. That was in 1980 and it was a cover of the classic rock ‘n’ roll tune originally by Dion and the Belmonts; “Runaround Sue”. On their 1979 album ‘Smash And Grab’ the band recorded a Chinn- Chapman composition called “Kitty”. this later went on to be recorded under the title “Mickey” which was a big hit for Toni Basil in 1982. Now take some time to relive the late 70s and early 80s when Racey were at their peak.