I didn't forget him...I never even heard of him! I'm going to check him out on youtube.
Forgotten/Neglected Artists?
Time moves on as it must, and with over 60 million tracks available on sites like spofity there’s a good chance many celebrated and once popular artists will disappear from public broadcasting.
It happens to every generation, and even Elvis hardly gets much FM airplay nowadays. Yet there are some artists that seem to have virtually dropped off the radar altogether.
One such artist seems to be Adam Faith. Yet looking closer at his output, especially during those orchestral string (pre-Beatlemania) years between 1960 and 1964, he recorded some fabulous music.
Some excellent songs include the following.
A Girl Like You
Who Am I
How About That
As You Like It
Easy Going Me
This Is It
Baby Take a Bow
Fare Thee Well My Pretty Maid
as well as his possibly better known material such as
Lonely Pup in a Christmas Shop
Poor Me
What Do You Want
Message to Martha
Someone Else’s Baby
I wonder what other great music is now at risk of dropping off the public radar?
It happens to every generation, and even Elvis hardly gets much FM airplay nowadays. Yet there are some artists that seem to have virtually dropped off the radar altogether.
One such artist seems to be Adam Faith. Yet looking closer at his output, especially during those orchestral string (pre-Beatlemania) years between 1960 and 1964, he recorded some fabulous music.
Some excellent songs include the following.
A Girl Like You
Who Am I
How About That
As You Like It
Easy Going Me
This Is It
Baby Take a Bow
Fare Thee Well My Pretty Maid
as well as his possibly better known material such as
Lonely Pup in a Christmas Shop
Poor Me
What Do You Want
Message to Martha
Someone Else’s Baby
I wonder what other great music is now at risk of dropping off the public radar?
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Lewis Taylor, for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjzN8cPbw8&list=PLe9wPpDHR5ti1RAviQEiIomzhXn0fmqAq |
@fuzztone, 'Coincidence I just listened to some Adam Faith before I saw this post. I just can't get into the arrangements.' Those arrangements seem to have gone out of style but back in the late 50s/early 60s they were all the rage. Thanks mainly to one man, Anthony Newley. Newley had a huge influence on not just people like Adam Faith and the young David Bowie, but all of British showbiz generally. Yet now some 60 years later, he's hardly ever mentioned. Strange how the current zeitgeist operates. People get forgotten, then rediscovered, then forgotten again... |