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@andrewhickey.500songs.com Do AuDHD drug treatments have a strong scientific basis or are they guesswork? Do they work?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Do AuDHD drug treatments have a strong scientific basis or are they guesswork? Do they work?
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Correction to my previous post: Al Capone by Prince Buster entered the Jamaican Top 10 on 24.9.65 and Record Retailer Bubbling Under on 28.1.67, but it was his Ten Commandments that entered the US Cashbox Looking Ahead chart 14.1.67 (p.10) and Billboard Hot 100 on 4.2.67.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Correction to my previous post: Al Capone by Prince Buster entered the Jamaican Top 10 on 24.9.65 and Record Retailer Bubbling Under on 28.1.67, but it was his Ten Commandments that entered the US Cashbox Looking Ahead chart 14.1.67 (p.10) and Billboard Hot 100 on 4.2.67.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Jamaican Daily Gleaner charts for the 60s obtained by this website from Kingston archives in 2020: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Jamaican Daily Gleaner charts for the 60s obtained by this website from Kingston archives in 2020: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al Capone by Prince Buster entered the Jamaican Top 10 on 24.9.65, US Cashbox Looking Ahead chart 14.1.67 (p.10) and Record Retailer Bubbling Under 28.1.67. The latter dates opened the floodgates for Rudeboy ska outside Jamaica: Dandy Livingstone, Derrick Morgan.
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Al Capone by Prince Buster entered the Jamaican Top 10 on 24.9.65, US Cashbox Looking Ahead chart 14.1.67 (p.10) and Record Retailer Bubbling Under 28.1.67. The latter dates opened the floodgates for Rudeboy ska outside Jamaica: Dandy Livingstone, Derrick Morgan.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Reading David Katz's biography of Lee Perry has convinced me that Perry was the most important individual in Jamaican music in 1968-70, although he couldn't have done any of that work without supremely gifted groups of musicians and an international distribution network.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Reading David Katz's biography of Lee Perry has convinced me that Perry was the most important individual in Jamaican music in 1968-70, although he couldn't have done any of that work without supremely gifted groups of musicians and an international distribution network.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Fonella Bass's 1965-1966 singles titles had a woman in distress theme: Rescue Me, Recovery, I Surrender, Safe And Sound. Not sure if that's symbolically significant. Would not be your typical white female pop titles of the time.
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Fonella Bass's 1965-1966 singles titles had a woman in distress theme: Rescue Me, Recovery, I Surrender, Safe And Sound. Not sure if that's symbolically significant. Would not be your typical white female pop titles of the time.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Count Ossie of "Oh Carolina" fame also did a version of Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata that reached the Jamaican top 10 in September 1967. It's terrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ly0...
PATSY & COUNT OSSIE BAND - Pata Pata Rocksteady [1967]
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November 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Count Ossie of "Oh Carolina" fame also did a version of Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata that reached the Jamaican top 10 in September 1967. It's terrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ly0...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ella Fitzgerald doing Sunshine Of Your Love is really good, channeling her inner Janis www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5h...
Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine Of Your Love 1968
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November 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ella Fitzgerald doing Sunshine Of Your Love is really good, channeling her inner Janis www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5h...
@stevenc63.bsky.social Favourite Van Morrison album: Into The Music (1979). I think it's his most successful synthesis of everything he'd been developing since Astral Weeks (or TB Sheets). His 80s and 90s work is arguably variations on this LP.
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
@stevenc63.bsky.social Favourite Van Morrison album: Into The Music (1979). I think it's his most successful synthesis of everything he'd been developing since Astral Weeks (or TB Sheets). His 80s and 90s work is arguably variations on this LP.
@stevenc63.bsky.social @andrewhickey.500songs.com I corresponded with Peter Watkins, who has just died, in December 2020. He composed his open letter about peace in Dec 68 but, as he was working in Sweden, it was distributed on an ad hoc basis over the next two months, including to John and Yoko.
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
@stevenc63.bsky.social @andrewhickey.500songs.com I corresponded with Peter Watkins, who has just died, in December 2020. He composed his open letter about peace in Dec 68 but, as he was working in Sweden, it was distributed on an ad hoc basis over the next two months, including to John and Yoko.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com This might make a useful audio clip insert into the Jamaica episode: Bob Marley illustrates the differences between ska, rocksteady and reggae: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNuy...
The difference between Ska, Reggae and Rocksteady
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November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com This might make a useful audio clip insert into the Jamaica episode: Bob Marley illustrates the differences between ska, rocksteady and reggae: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNuy...
Terrific live version of 'Tupelo Honey' by Van Morrison www.youtube.com/watch?v=hco9...
Van Morrison Tupelo Honey Live with great solo by Pee Wee Ellis
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Terrific live version of 'Tupelo Honey' by Van Morrison www.youtube.com/watch?v=hco9...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com A story circulated for many years that the 1971 'Surf's Up' track was done against Brian's express wishes but it appears that he was ambivalent rather than opposed ("I'll let you do it if you're forcing me."). Did he have the power to block it had he refused to consent?
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com A story circulated for many years that the 1971 'Surf's Up' track was done against Brian's express wishes but it appears that he was ambivalent rather than opposed ("I'll let you do it if you're forcing me."). Did he have the power to block it had he refused to consent?
@andrewhickey.500songs.com "Wet Dream" (Max Romeo) was co-produced by Harry Robinson (Lord Rockingham). This fact needs to be more widely known. Although Derrick Morgan turned it down in 1968, he released a cover of the song in 1975. www.discogs.com/release/6161...
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com "Wet Dream" (Max Romeo) was co-produced by Harry Robinson (Lord Rockingham). This fact needs to be more widely known. Although Derrick Morgan turned it down in 1968, he released a cover of the song in 1975. www.discogs.com/release/6161...
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
@davidstubbs.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
@davidstubbs.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
@stevenc63.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@stevenc63.bsky.social Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Mark Lewisohn is circulating an op-ed he has written about the BBC's restrictions on access to the Written Archives Centre. I would be grateful if you could repost it: cstonline.net/defending-th...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Cracking answer record to the song in Episode 134: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN3...
Ann Mason feat.Little Mac & The Big Boss Sounds
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October 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Cracking answer record to the song in Episode 134: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN3...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com This is a terrific documentary on the origins of Rocksteady www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKm...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com This is a terrific documentary on the origins of Rocksteady www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKm...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Can I ask which Jamaican track will be the episode header: Israelites, Liquidator, Pressure Drop all have claims (but Israelites was a No. 1 single and Dekker has a timeline that goes back to 1961)? It Mek strikes me as having a James Jamerson influence on bassline.
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Can I ask which Jamaican track will be the episode header: Israelites, Liquidator, Pressure Drop all have claims (but Israelites was a No. 1 single and Dekker has a timeline that goes back to 1961)? It Mek strikes me as having a James Jamerson influence on bassline.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Val Bennett, who played sax on 'Al Capone' by Prince Buster, also did this cover of Take Five for Bunny Lee in 1968 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMN...
The Russians Are Coming
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October 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Val Bennett, who played sax on 'Al Capone' by Prince Buster, also did this cover of Take Five for Bunny Lee in 1968 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMN...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rock Steady cover of The Beatles' "Michelle" by Tommy McCook And The Supersonics. I believe it's Jackie Jackson on bass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwk7...
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - "Michelle" (Official Audio)
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October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rock Steady cover of The Beatles' "Michelle" by Tommy McCook And The Supersonics. I believe it's Jackie Jackson on bass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwk7...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Have you decided how to cover the 1966-69 phase of Jamaican music? It's bewilderingly complex but I found David Katz's biography of Lee Perry to be very helpful. The number of key players is in the dozens - really a collective culture producing a dazzling range of music.
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Have you decided how to cover the 1966-69 phase of Jamaican music? It's bewilderingly complex but I found David Katz's biography of Lee Perry to be very helpful. The number of key players is in the dozens - really a collective culture producing a dazzling range of music.