Sunday, May 29, 2005

Song Of the Day: May 28, 2005


The Favorites-SOS


4 Play Records 45, 1979

The UK Favourites made two terrific singles; after much deliberation, we have decided to run this one, a cover of some Swedish band I forget the name of. The morse code guitar bit is pertty clever, no? Their other single, "Angelica"/"Cold," besides being another solid two-sider, had a great sleeve, a parody of Blondie's Eat To the Beat LP. All the singles tracks plus demos are available on a vinyl LP (sorry, no CD) on the Low Down Kids website.


6 Comments:

CW said...

God... I know I've heard this before. Has anyone else covered this?

I lurv the Morse guitar. Cheesy musical puns warm my cockles.

7:04 AM  
CW said...

They played this on Oldies 95 yesterday (the original, not this one). Spooky.

7:19 AM  
Anonymous said...

How great to hear Nottingham's Favourites again! Sudden flashback to Darryl insisting we 'dance in our favourite shoes'...

5:35 AM  
erin said...

wow! this is amazing!

12:47 PM  
Anonymous said...

SOS was recorded at Spaceward Studios in Cambridge on the night that Thatcher was elected.

9:22 AM  
paul t said...

Saw the Favourites a few times at the Imperial on St James' Street, Nottingham. Still have this as a 45 in my collection from the days when Forest were the Kings of Europe.

3:02 PM  

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