B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet

Here it is - the 100th edition. We could bring it to an end now, tie up all the loose ends in a dignified 50 minute special with additional end-of-an-era pathos - much like the final episode of British sitcom Hi-Di-Hi when Peggy finally got her yellowcoat...

But no, we'll plough on with this pop treat from the Stiff label. Backed by Ian Dury's Blockheads, it's a throwback to sixties Brill building girl pop with a country edge.

Since quitting the music business, Rachel Sweet has made her living writing sit-coms for US TV. She wrote the pilot episode for the US version of Hi-De-Hi...

Actually the bit about Hi-De-Hi is a lie. I have no dignity.

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See Ya 'Round On The Rebound - Sandy Posey

Welcome to the Bubblegum Machine Christmas / New Year / 100th edition party / announcement that all your jobs are being outsourced to Bangalore (wherever the hell that is).

One cowboy boot-clad foot in Nashville, the other high heeled foot in Brill building girl group pop, here's Sandy Posey with some poppy Loretta-style 'Countrypolitan' (whatever the hell that is).

In true US sitcom style, I'm off to create a spin-off website where I open a restarant and move in with a young widow and her five adorable, wisecracking puppets.

Off to Nashville. Back end of January. Salut.

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Manifesto & Book News

If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, toothy teen idols or candy-based metaphors for carnal acts, it's in.

Lip-synching is not a crime



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