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Category : 60s Revival

The Jessica Fletchers
Summer Holiday & Me

Some delicious and bouncy tracks come to us from The Jessica Fletchers. And despite (or perhaps because of) the similarities in their standout 60s grinder track Summer Holiday & Me to a certain Kinks song, I feel the need to keep rewinding the tape and playing the song over and over. They really strut their chords on this track.

There is no bio on their site that I could find, but I found them through 3hive who says that they are actually from Norway. The band is made up of Thomas Innstø (lead vocal, guitar), Rune Somdal (guitar, vocal, percussion), Andreas Mastrup (bass, vocal), Jan Henning Sørensen (drums), Mats Innstø (rhodes/organ, vocal, percussion). I guess all the funny looking O’s in the names should have been a giveaway…

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Tony Penultimate
I Made You Love Me

Boy I was thrown for a loop with Tony Penultimate which is actually the pen name for Peter Brooke Turner who plays in the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and the Ukulele Kings. Apparently the Ukulele Orchestra is of some reknown across the sea though I’ve never heard of them. A whole fleet of ukuleles is something I have to hear.

But this isn’t straight up ukulele music (though Tony did write most of the songs on one). This is some campy Elvisey lounge music that hiccups through various genres in a matter of two and a half minutes. The song available on his website is “I Made You Love Me”. In fact I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry or cringe with this music which takes the macaroni and cheesey feel to a new level. The coolest thing is that he’s singing the song with a completely straight face. Somehow that made it just too good to be bad, if you know what I mean.

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