Monday 15 October 2018

El go-go



What a hideous change in the weather - from balmy to maelstrom in just 24 hours. On Saturday night I was sat outside in shorts after 10pm. Yesterday, it was utterly foul, wet and gloomy, and this morning is much the same. I hate getting up in the dark, but such is our lot from now until March...

Enough of the dankness - on this Tacky Music Monday we have something special from Spain to cheer us up. Señorita Silvana [or Sylvana; nobody seems to know how she actually spelt her name] Velasco (for it is she) was a teen singer who rose to fame in the mid-60s, just when the French yé-yé style of go-go-pop was at its height. She had a few successes at the time, mainly with covers of songs by artists such as Dusty Springfield, Sandy Shaw and Petula Clark, but, according to the Ready Steady Girls website [the font of all knowledge in such matters]:
"Theoretically, Silvana was the perfect yé-yé singer. She was already known to the public for her films, and her prettiness and up-to-the-minute fashion sense caught the eye of young and old alike. However, her sexiness failed to translate musically..."
Regardless, what I do know, is that whether or not she hit the "big time", her legacy certainly appears camp as old tits. On this Tacky Music Monday, let's yé-yé!


That's better.

Have a good week, dear reader!

4 comments:

  1. I I love the safety gays standing there doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

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    1. This video was obviously filmed in the midst of the great "Safety Gay Strike" of '64. Jx

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  2. Difficult to look sexy whilst balancing on a girder, with a couple of uninspiring planks looking on, I imagine.
    Meanwhile, we had appalling weather Friday and Saturday - high winds stripping the leaves from the trees and horizontal rain!
    Sx

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    1. Difficult to look sexy in that "Grattan catalogue" jumper. too, I'd imagine!

      Oh, yes, the leaves... Our garden looks somewhat bedraggled at the moment, under a brown slimy carpet of them. Yuk. Some trees may have looked beautiful for a few days, and indeed some still do, but what follows is horrid. I hate this season. Jx

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