Forgotten Musical Treasures Chapter V

Roy Wood? Remember him? He’s still going strong you know. Some might not remember him as ‘him’ but remember his bands. The Move with ‘Blackberry Way’ and so forth. The Electric Light Orchestra followed all too briefly before Wood hopped it and formed Wizzard who had massive hits with ‘See My Baby Jive’ and ‘Angel Fingers’ and such like.

My mum and dad, back in the early 70’s, hated most pop and rock music. Well, actually they hated it in the late 70’s, 80’s and onwards come to think about it.

Mind you, when your mum thinks ‘The Black and White Minstrels’ are ‘hot’ then you just know David Bowie, Elton John and Roy Wood are on a hiding to nothing don’t you?

I remember Roy Wood having a solo hit with ‘Elaine’, which I liked a lot, and then nothing really. I can’t actually recall anything about Wood after ‘Elaine’ albeit I do vaguely remember a review of a song in the New Musical Express, I think, that said it was ‘an unashamed stab at the charts’. It never got there sadly, whatever the song was. At any rate it never made the top 20 which was all we got to hear on radio and TV on the whole back then.

Rather oddly really, my dad really liked Wizzard’s ‘See My baby Jive’ until my mum told him he didn’t 😉

Most people I mention The Move to say “Yeah! ‘Fire Brigade’ or ‘Blackberry Way’ or ‘Flowers In The Rain” and all were magnificent songs but, somehow, the Move song that just edges it for me is ‘California Man’ – possibly because even back then I had a fixation on the USA.

Anyway. Enjoy a quick bit of my musical youth that I’d quite forgotten until I happened to type ‘The Move’ into You tube.

Let’s face it, anyone who has The Move, ELO and Wizzard on his musical CV has to have something eh?

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