This video of super 1960s singer Julie Driscoll performing Season of the Witch is so cool.

She wanted to sing self-penned songs, which were dismal.

She won "favorite singer" polls but she never settled into big sales as a solo artist.

What was the market for this? Brits into black music weren't going to make chart stars of these two.

If I had a seizure disorder, that video would induce one. Even though I don't, it almost did. It must have been made to be watched for people who were high.

Oh, so she’s the one responsible for AbFab’s awful theme song. I always wondered who sang that dreck. Thanks, OP.

Lana Cantrell?

Bump

She’s quite beautiful

OMG OP, that is exactly what I needed!!

r9 You are welcome.

Instead of relying on DL to inform you about so many subjects, especially pop and rock music, some of you simply need to Google.

If you did research on a DL topics you know little to nothing about, then you wouldn't come into a thread, to put down an artist's entire career based on ONE fucking song. Seriously? Are most of today's young people really this impatient, dense and clueless?

Seeing posts like this: "What was the market for this? Brits into black music weren't going to make chart stars of these two.”

It’s clear this person has [bold]absolutely no clue who Chris Farlowe is, let alone Julie Driscoll. [/bold] Chris was quite well known back in the UK. So was Julie.

Chris worked with many famous musicians including Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Farlowe had a hit with the the Jagger/Richards song “Out of Time”. Just because certain musicians weren’t big in the US sure doesn’t mean there weren’t well known and stars in their own country.

There is a world of music out there to explore, why are so many people close-minded?

Jools, as her fans called her, went on to perform free jazz with her husband Keith Tippet, it was clear she was done being a pop star. It was her choice to leave the world of pop music.

How sad that the few commenting here are completely clueless about past music artists.

'Jools' recorded with Carla Bley and other notables in the free jazz music scene.

Carla Bley, oddly enough, asked Linda Ronstadt, of all people, to perform on her free jazz masterpiece Escalator Over the Hill. Jack Bruce from Cream also appeared on that LP as well as many other famous jazz and rock musicians.

People need to expand their music listening repertoire!

Richard Avedon shot Julie for US VOGUE in 1969 and again in the 1970s.

Before Julie joined the Trinity she was in a band with Rod Stewart, Brian Auger and Long John Baldy (he was gay, btw), called Steampacket.

Julie with Brian Auger and the Trinity had a huge hit with the same Dylan/Rick Danko song in 1968.

Julie re-recorded This Wheels On Fire with Ade Edmondson (Jennifer Saunders husband) for Ab Fab. By all accounts, it was well received.

Who the fuck didn't work with Jimmy Page in the 1960s UK scene? He was a go-to session guitarist. Farlowe had Soul Man aspirations, which he was ill equipped to realize... He had a hit with a Rolling Stones song and that was pretty much it... Julie Driscoll also hit with a couple of covers... Neither really made it. Julie went into "Experiemental Jazz," which was the best place for her, in light of her inability to write a decent song...

STFU R15, no one wants to hear you amateur rock critic bullshit.

Most people into Zeppelin know Page was a well-known session musician, wow, what a fucking revelation!

Chris Farlowe went on to work with the progressive jazz-rock band Colosseum.

50+ years on, Colosseum's song The Kettle is currently being used in a TV commercial for Nissan. This song is actually used in two Nissan ads, the ads with actress Brie Larson. These car ads are in heavy rotation.

Some people out there are sure listening, especially those working at ad agencies. Creative Directors sure seem to realize most current pop music is garbage, if it's not crap, current pop sure is extremely derivative of past bands and singers. These ad agency people figure, we might as well use the original music.

btw, Fat Boy Slim sampled the Colosseum song The Kettle.

How fucked up is it that the original bands get little, if any, credit when their music is sampled.

[quote]Carla Bley, oddly enough, asked Linda Ronstadt, of all people, to perform on her free jazz masterpiece Escalator Over the Hill. Jack Bruce from Cream also appeared on that LP as well as many other famous jazz and rock musicians.

Pretty crazy record. Almost too much at times (it's a triple album) but there's nothing else like it. Even Viva (of Warhol fame) makes an appearance, along with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden. Carla's still making music in her mid-80s too. She put out an album in early 2020 called "Life Goes On" that I liked a lot.

[quote]Pretty crazy record. Almost too much at times (it's a triple album) but there's nothing else like it. Even Viva (of Warhol fame) makes an appearance, along with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden. Carla's still making music in her mid-80s too. She put out an album in early 2020 called "Life Goes On" that I liked a lot.

I have the original boxed LP set, I got it on eBay few years ago. It has the gold cover and the booklet. Think I paid about $15, wonder what's it's worth now. I also got the CD set as part of group of jazz CDs, the eBay Seller obviously didn't know to list that CD separately.

A friend of mine, when guests overstayed their welcome, would always put on one of the Jazz Composer Orchestra LPs or EOTH, that usually cleared out his place! Carla's music is definitely an acquired taste.

btw, Julie worked with Carla on Tropic Appetites.

Carla Bley lives near a friend upstate NY, or did. My friend and her husband would see Carla in town. She's hard to miss, she's rather tall and striking.

IIRC, Carla and Annette Peacock were married to the same musician, Gary Peacock?

Annette is another cool chick who never wanted rock fame. Bowie tried to sign her to his Mainman management company, it didn't work out. Annette had one of the first Moog synthesizers in the US, Moog gifted the synth to her and her then husband.

[Quote] Most people into Zeppelin know Page was a well-known session musician, wow, what a fucking revelation!

Nice attempt at deflection. No one even implied that as you well know. Someone DID imply that Chris Farlowe was worthy of consideration via his association with Jimmy Page, which says a lot about Farlowe's relative obscurity.

[quote]Nice attempt at deflection.

It wasn't a "defection" you moron. It was about one of these obscure, to you, performers, such as Farlowe, who is stated as an influence, usually by much more famous musicians.

Lots of fairly obscure musicians are always mentioned as being influential to very famous musicians.

Not enough LSD in the world.

[quote]Not enough LSD in the world.

Typical DL bullshit, another tired lame response, apropos of nothing.

This is always the case when a poster cannot contribute anything interesting to a discussion, usually because they know little to nothing about the subject being discussed. These types come barreling in to post some irrelevant unfunny snarky response.

How about you stay out of DL threads about people you know nothing about? That's what I do, if there's no interest in a subject, I don't enter the thread.

This would give you more time for the threads you care about, likely those endless tedious porn threads, where so many posters seem to know the intimate details of long dead male pornstars, and the equally repetitious drooling over some truly hideous male politicians. usually some GOP asshole.

I get it, you weren’t born when most of these musicians first hit the music scene. So why are you here? In the same way I could give a shit about Britney, Taylor Swift and so many other no-talents. I stay away, so should you.

Hall Monitor never works as a tactic.

[Quote] It wasn't a "defection". It was about one of these obscure, to you, performers, such as Farlowe, who is stated as an influence, usually by much more famous musicians.

Jimmy Page listed Chris Farlowe as an influence? Do you have a link to the quote?

And if you are going to mention how I know about "those endless tedious porn threads, where so many posters seem to know the intimate details of long dead male pornstars, and the equally repetitious drooling over some truly hideous male politicians" if I never enter them.

There's enough info in the subject title and the opening posts to see on the thread page. Anyone can easily see what those threads are about.

[quote]Hall Monitor never works as a tactic.

Not a tactic and certainly not a "Hall Monitor" at all, simply stating the facts. It's easy to see that you know little to nothing about Julie Driscoll and other British pop of that era, why are you here? Grow up.

Next post from you? Calling me a frau. that's not going to work either.

You can scroll on by comments just as other can scroll by threads... But you want to be scold...

[Quote] simply stating the facts.

You were not simply stating facts. Someone else's opinion triggered you. And you want to stamp out their participation in this thread. Good luck with that.

I thought this thread would be filled with British elder gays sharing their appreciation of a 60s female British pop star, instead it's filled with a bunch of snarky jerks who cannot appreciate a really cool video of a great singer.

She reminds one of the Supreme Commander on Blakes 7. How one adored seeing her pick her way with contempt across alien planets in evening gowns and stilletos.

[quote]I thought this thread would be filled with British elder gays sharing their appreciation of a 60s female British pop star, instead it's filled with a bunch of snarky jerks who cannot appreciate a really cool video of a great singer.

OP, I'm sure not a "snarky jerk", I appreciate all sorts of music, Jools is one of my fave singers. I even followed her career after she left the pop music scene. btw, her solo LP '1969' is great.

I grew up surroundedsby all sorts of music, I had musicians in my family and few were touring musicians while the others were session musicians. I sure knew who Julie Driscoll was.

I simply was trying to inform the moron who put down Jools and Chis Farlowe's duet. Their assumption seemed to be that Julie was never a sensation, when she sure was. As for Chris, he was well respected by his peers.

You must realize, people come into so many DL threads they care nothing about, simply to name call. As for you, do you enjoy the term "elder gay"?

I’m kind of scared to post on this thread, since I haven’t heard of Julie Driscoll before and have no intelligent insights about her career. I just want to thank OP for sharing this, because I never would have seen it otherwise. That’s part of the reason I come here every day. Season of the Witch is such a great song, but what does “pick up every stitch” mean?

It's a knitting term.

[Quote] Their assumption seemed to be that Julie was never a sensation, when she sure was.

It's funny how you type moron about another poster...

[Quote] She won "favorite singer" polls but she never settled into big sales as a solo artist.

This is fact.

"a sensation". LOL. Thanks for the laff OP.

If a wet fart is a sensation, then Julie had her 5 minutes.

And I think we can all agree that the set is a perfect time capsule.

[quote]She won "favorite singer" polls but she never settled into big sales as a solo artist.

Intelligent people can tell the difference between talent and hype, they definitely know "big sales" are never a barometer of actual talent. There are tons of very rich and famous Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop and R'n'B performers, not all of them possess unique talent or originality. Is that fact too deep for you to comprehend?

Bowie talked about this same subject many years ago, he mentioned how many talented musicians never get their due, while numerous mediocre performers became very rich and very famous.

No one can accuse the general public have having good taste, that's for sure.

[quote]It's funny how you type moron about another poster...

People who cannot tell the difference between raw original talent and hype/artifice (Madonna comes to mind, it doesn't matter how famous and rich she became, lots of people cannot stand her 'music' and most of her imagery was stolen, she didn't have one original bone in her body. Don't forget, MTV was extremely instrumental in her success)...year, dear, I will call those clueless easily swayed people, 'morons.' Because they certainly are.