Marmalade Originals
What's in a name? Well, a lot, really, if you are trying to break into the pop scene in the Beatles-infused heady days of the mid-Sixties and you are going by the moniker of 'Dean Ford and the Gaylords'. The times may have been a-changing, as Bob Dylan would have it, but the name proved something of stigma to success for this working-class Glasgow-based quintet -- Dean Ford, Graham Knight, Pat Fairley, Junior Campbell and Ray Duffy -- who soon found fame and fortune with a swift 1967 name change over the breakfast table to 'Marmalade'.
It's said that they done for Scotland what 'The Beatles' did for England by putting their native country on the world's musical map - and it came with the cover version of a Lennon & McCartney reject of 'Ob La Di Ob La Da'. In 1968, it allowed them to become the first Scottish band to get a UK No.1 hit - and I well-remember them celebrating in style with a kilted shock appearance that week on Top of the Pops.
However, for a true Marmalade original, the boys hit gold again in 1970 with their timeless 'Reflections of my Life' that also to its credit knocked Rolf Harris's 'The Two Little Boys' off the number one spot. A great song with meaningful lyrics - and one that I found listening to again and again after discovering it being used right at the end of the great BBC Life on Mars time-travel-cum-cop-drama I recently binge watched on DVD.
And the opportunity, with the 'Marmalade Originals' sign in the background was just too good to miss, and well worthy of the $2 contributed to ask for a rendition of 'Reflections of my Life' from the talented busker Nick Moyer, who ply's his trade at streets and stations across America, where he simultaneously plays accordion, trumpet, tambourine, and suitcase-drum: an instrument on every limb! You can read about him here: untappedcities.com/2011/05/30/the-busker-of-morningside-h...
Leica M4 & 50mm Zeiss Planar
B+W Yellow Filter
Sekonic L-308S
Ilford FP4+ (@125)
HC-110 (Dil. H - 10min)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan
Marmalade Originals
What's in a name? Well, a lot, really, if you are trying to break into the pop scene in the Beatles-infused heady days of the mid-Sixties and you are going by the moniker of 'Dean Ford and the Gaylords'. The times may have been a-changing, as Bob Dylan would have it, but the name proved something of stigma to success for this working-class Glasgow-based quintet -- Dean Ford, Graham Knight, Pat Fairley, Junior Campbell and Ray Duffy -- who soon found fame and fortune with a swift 1967 name change over the breakfast table to 'Marmalade'.
It's said that they done for Scotland what 'The Beatles' did for England by putting their native country on the world's musical map - and it came with the cover version of a Lennon & McCartney reject of 'Ob La Di Ob La Da'. In 1968, it allowed them to become the first Scottish band to get a UK No.1 hit - and I well-remember them celebrating in style with a kilted shock appearance that week on Top of the Pops.
However, for a true Marmalade original, the boys hit gold again in 1970 with their timeless 'Reflections of my Life' that also to its credit knocked Rolf Harris's 'The Two Little Boys' off the number one spot. A great song with meaningful lyrics - and one that I found listening to again and again after discovering it being used right at the end of the great BBC Life on Mars time-travel-cum-cop-drama I recently binge watched on DVD.
And the opportunity, with the 'Marmalade Originals' sign in the background was just too good to miss, and well worthy of the $2 contributed to ask for a rendition of 'Reflections of my Life' from the talented busker Nick Moyer, who ply's his trade at streets and stations across America, where he simultaneously plays accordion, trumpet, tambourine, and suitcase-drum: an instrument on every limb! You can read about him here: untappedcities.com/2011/05/30/the-busker-of-morningside-h...
Leica M4 & 50mm Zeiss Planar
B+W Yellow Filter
Sekonic L-308S
Ilford FP4+ (@125)
HC-110 (Dil. H - 10min)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan