I have a modest but quite eclectic collection of vinyl from the 60s and 70s. I still have a decent turntable and I play them once in a while. My wife is almost 20 years younger then me and she is not familiar with a lot that music. Still, she pointed out that it was a period when even the mediocre musicians played an instrument, as opposed to current music that seems to mostly come out of a box. So she asked me to put down some of the things I know about music, the kind that was not always played on the radio. It’s a serious amount of work, but I agreed to do it slowly. So I put together a blog named at her suggestion and yes I really like the name. Anyway, I haven’t actually posted anything for a while, but here I go again. My idea is to write some notes about bands and musicians that I loved in the 1960s and 70s. Some of them quite obscure, which befits the blog’s title, and others not obscure at all, but there are things that most people may not know about them. Doing my reaserch, I find that the majority of them are quite well documented by wikipedia and some others. So I decided that some brief notes about them might be easier to peruse and if interested, the readers can always follow my links to wikipedia, as well as links to youtube that will play that music. If you are reading this, I assume that you might be interested and chances are you have some things to add. Please feel free to do so. Just have a little patience. The next entry is going to be just part one of UK Blues, Jazz + R&B.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows were undoubtedly the biggest influence on my musical preferences. I first heard them sometime in 1961. At the time I was 14 years old. Of course I heard many other kinds of music before that. My musical memory begins with my mother’s voice – it was amazing. She had a fantastic soprano and she used to sing around the house all the time. Unfortunately, she had a very melancholy disposition, so all the songs she sang were very depressing. The one that I remember the most, is called Gloomy Sunday. As my parents were both from Transylvania, she would sing it in the original Hungarian. 
