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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Hard to categorize Karen Dalton but I think her mastery was of the blues. She references Bessie Smith as her influence but to me she seems to have the feel of the great male singers www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxE...

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Karen Dalton: In My Own Time | Official Trailer

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The melody of Alice Cooper's "Reflected" was later recycled as "Elected".

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Elvis and Keith Moon both fatally overdosed on drugs that were legally, but unethically, prescribed. Daltrey and Townshend both seem to have been rather too public in their relief that they no longer had to work with Moon, whose decline was permanent.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Episode 136 refers to Generation X and the Marlon Brando film The Wild One. An interesting follow-up is that Billy Idol later covered Johnny O'Keefe's 'The Wild One', which I assume derives from that same film. The Who loved Eddie Cochran, who's along the same lines.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Revisiting your bonus episode on The Pretty Things, I went back to the album and it truly is an extraordinary work of art, and I would say outsider art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PyK...

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Private Sorrow

YouTube video by The Pretty Things - Topic

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I think Quadrophenia is The Who's best album. More thematically cohesive than Tommy or Who's Next and with phenomenal tracks like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohh...

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The Who - The Real Me

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The Overture to Tommy seems to quote the opening riff of "Three Steps To Heaven" (from 0:59). This is then modified perhaps in "Go To The Mirror".

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "Nancy's Minuet" by The Everley Brothers has an amazing sound for 1963, like a Lee Hazlewood track. But totally non-commercial for that era: www.youtube.com/watch?v=APv1...

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Nancy's Minuet

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I had a brainwave that the two-episode day might be Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway; 'First Take' being the all-time great album. I only recently found out that Hathaway co-arranged "Choice Of Colours", so twofer could also be Mayfield and Hathaway. Am I warm?

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I had previously guessed that two simultaneous episodes would be Supremes and Temptations but your latest description suggests I'm way off. I suppose you could do their collaboration as one episode, discussing both groups (and presumably taking The Supremes to their end).

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Did your opinion about Pete Townshend's character or Keith Moon's drumming (pros and cons) change in the course of researching the latest episode?

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Nyabinghi soul jazz: Count Ossie cover of Jr. Walker & The All-Stars track written by Wilson Felder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliy...

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COUNT OSSIE & MYSTIC REVELATION ♦ Way Back Home {NEW DIMENSION 7"}

YouTube video by Studio Seventeen

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com The Guardian's rock critic from 1968-72 was Geoffrey Cannon. Cohn was their critic in the 1990s. He wrote columns for the New York Times in 1969, such as a review of Abbey Road.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Mongo Santamaria's version of Cloud Nine signposts the crossover between soul and Afro-Cuban rhythm and perhaps their shared contribution to acid jazz (remembering also that Santamaria covered Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock in 1963): www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXF...

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Cloud Nine

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com re. Georgie Fame bonus episode: The Skatalites covered Mongo Santamaria's "Yeh Yeh" under the title "President Kennedy". Fame is rumoured to have played on "Wash Wash" by Prince Buster (recorded 1963 in London). Can anyone confirm that?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtBF...

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President Kennedy

YouTube video by The Skatalites - Topic

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This very nice instrumental cover of Je T'aime reached No. 18 in October 1969 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpk...

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Sounds Nice - Love At First Sight 1969

YouTube video by LostJukeboxVolumes 3

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com This extraordinary track from 1967, with its Middle Eastern melody, may have influenced the composition of "Ghost Town" by The Specials: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_2C...

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Prince Buster All Stars - Seven Wonders Of The World

YouTube video by V. ROCKET

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Blue Beat released a single by trans artist Brigitte Bond in 1964, just after she was photographed in London with Prince Buster: www.45cat.com/record/bb212

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com 15.4.64 Jamaican delegates preparing to fly to New York, including Jimmy Cliff, Byron Lee and Prince Buster. Spent 3 days promoting ska: www.facebook.com/largeupdotco...

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com If you plan to do a bonus episode on Desmond Dekker, I have done some research showing that his mother was born in 1927 (making her 13 or 14 when he was born) and died in May 1947, when he was 5. His dad cut sugar cane in Florida in 1946. Can supply.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Zoot Sims, aka Noel Simms, was in a duo in 1960 called Bonnie [Bunny] and Skitter, doing backing vocals on "Oh Carolina". Coxsone then got them another session with Count Ossie which produced this African nationalist tribute to Lumumba: www.youtube.com/watch?v=esgV...

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Lumumba - Bonnie & Skitter

YouTube video by magic_star.h

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Prince Buster's "Rum And Coca Cola", from his eclectic LP 'Ska-Lip-Soul' (1965), is extraordinary because he seems to be parodying The Andrews Sisters' cultural appropriation and mock pronunciations rather than Lord Invader's original www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Xr...

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Rum and Coca Cola

YouTube video by Prince Buster - Topic

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Another Nyabingi track, recorded by Prince Buster in 1961, not long after Oh Carolina www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHH0...

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BUNNY AND SKITTER PRINCE BUSTER GROUP - CHUBBY

YouTube video by Prince Buster Music Inc.®

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Treating Me Bad by the Maytals, produced by Prince Buster, has terrific Nyabingi drumming on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9O...

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the maytals - treating me bad - prince buster records

YouTube video by Kingstoned - soundzz

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com I have doubts about the Ivor The Engine connection. The earliest broadcast I have found was 28.12.59, when Townshend was 14. He'd have been aware of the cartoon from the listings, maybe, but he was too old for the target demographic.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Nyabingi album from 1983. As I understand it, it's a sacred ritual of chant and drumming where the whole is more important than the sum of the parts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Txk...

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Charlie Parker and Don Drummond both recorded compositions named after mental institutions in which they spent time: Relaxin' at Camarillo and Bellevue Special, although I'm not sure whether they or the labels chose the titles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=524m...

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Don Drummond - Bellevue Special

YouTube video by Rich Hill

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Don Drummond track that features Burru drumming from Lloyd Knibb (Smiling is another but this one is more polyphonic to my ears, as a non-expert) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwC...

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Green Island - Original

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com "(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard" was one of the tracks used by the BBC to accompany the Test card from 1979-83. Starts here from 5:45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zxW...

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Baby, I'm Want You (BBC2 1979-1983 and BBC North-West and Midlands trade opt-out)

YouTube video by cwilliams1976

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com If I had one criticism of The Temptations' catalogue, it would be 'Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You)' from Puzzle People. It quotes "I'm gonna get'cha" from 'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me' but in a much more threatening way. One of Motown's most misogynistic compositions.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Compare the bass intros to I'm Gonna Make You Love Me and What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted. They both have a heart-beat sound interspersed with a single drumbeat but the Ruffin intro is at a slower tempo. Both obviously just genius arrangements.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com There's a lot of vibrato in that P.J. Proby performance in the Cat Stevens episode.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com One of Otis Redding's last recordings, released posthumously on The Immortal Redding, June 68. The horns in the middle 8 are particularly moving. Also interesting to compare with his older ballads, when his voice had a different texture www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooqq...

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Otis Redding - I Got Dreams To Remember

YouTube video by 6hillsway

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Tamla Motown had a strange lull in the UK in mid-1968. On 1.6.68 they had no singles on the Record Mirror R&B chart. The turnaround in the Autumn started with an oldie: This Old Heart Of Mine R&B No. 1 - but it had never gone away www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/fea...

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TMG 555 - A 45 that refused to go away

SOURCE MAGZINE - how many copies of the Isley Brothers This Old Heart Of Mine...

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com There's a parallel between Pete Townshend and Sly Stone - relative optimism in 1969 but cynical by 1971. Other artists probably had a similar journey but in their own unique ways - e.g. Marvin Gaye, Nick Drake - for different reasons.

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Pete Townshend was interviewed by Keith Altham, published in Record Mirror, 13.12.69. Text: thewho.net/articles/69-...

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’69 Record Mirror Article – thewho.net

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Winston Wright and Tommy McCook helped to invent 'Pychedelic Reggae' in 1970, a subgenre that still exists in various forms (dub, etc). There's a bit of 'Harlem Shuffle' in this I think but with various effects www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp50...

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WINSTON WRIGHT with TOMMY McCOOK AND THE SUPERSONICS - Psychedelic Reggae [1970]

YouTube video by Bionic Dub

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com My new favourite Jamaican recording - The Techniques backed by Tommy McCook & The Supersonics for Duke Reid in 1968. Utterly amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQS...

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Drink Wine - The Techniques with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics - 1968

YouTube video by Andrew Allcock

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SatchmoDistel @satchmodistel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ernest Ranglin arranged 'Simmer Down' for The Wailers (Katz, Solid Foundation, p.89). There's a dispute over whether Rita Anderson was born in Cuba (she was turned down for a visa due to no record of being born there).

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