I let it get away; been payin' every day

The weekend can't come soon enough!

Oh dear. Mr Henry Fambrough has spun off departed for the glitterball-illuminated "Discotheque-a-Go-Go" in Fabulon. Who? I hear you ask...

The last surviving member of the original Detroit Spinners, his distinctive baritone was to be heard on every record and at every live appearance by the band, from 1954 to April 2023, when he finally retired. Phew!

By way of a tribute, and to get the weekend off with an appropriate bang, here's a double-bill of the group's biggest hits here in the UK - so Thank Disco It's Friday!

Detroit Spinners - Cupid

Legs and Co - Detroit Spinners - Working My Way Back To You

[Their dance routines were always sooo literal.]

Have a great weekend, dear reader!

Burning love inside

Ah, weekends, how we love them... Especially Bank Holiday ones!

Continuing a hectic week, I have tickets to be part of the audience for Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night celebration of the almost 70-year-old radio programme Desert Island Discs tonight, which should be fab, and tomorrow we're all off en masse to Shoeburyness, Southend and Leigh-on-Sea for a day at the sea-side.

To celebrate, let us revisit one of the hits from Alistair's very drunken 50th birthday party last Saturday - the Detroit Spinners and Working My Way Back To You. Here, Legs and Co show us exactly how we should have been dancing to it...

Legs and Co - Detroit Spinners - Working My Way Back To You

Thank Disco It's Friday!!