Saturday, October 26, 2019

"Dance in the Smoke"

I listened to Argent a couple days ago and noticed what might be a bit of the Beatles' influence in "Dance in the Smoke."  At the very end, the piano plays what I think are two E notes (one on each side of the C two octaves below middle C).  In both structure and pitch, this resembles the final E major piano chord in "A Day in the Life."

Thursday, October 17, 2019

"It's Not Easy" b/w "Twelve Twenty-Nine"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, Neil MacArthur's "It's Not Easy" b/w "Twelve Twenty-Nine" (Deram DM 275) was released in the U.K. fifty years ago to-day (17 October 1969).  The U.S. and Canada release (Deram 45-85054) was on 27 October.