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The Swinging Blue Jeans - BBC Sessions (1963-1970)

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I'm prioritizing the posting of rare BBC sessions from the 1960s and 70s lately, especially the ones that are completely unreleased. Here's another case, the Swinging Blue Jeans.

The Swinging Blue Jeans were one of the many British bands that rode the wave of the British Invasion sound in the early 1960s. They started in 1957, and after some personnel changes, they found themselves honing their concert abilities at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, at the same time as the Beatles. In late 1963, a cover of the song "Hippy Hippy Shake" reached Number Two in the British singles charts, and suddenly they were stars. They had two more hits in Britain in 1964: "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "You're No Good," and another in 1966, "Don't Make Me Over."

But all their hits were covers. Unfortunately, the band didn't have big success writing their own songs, although they did put some on their albums and B-sides. Like many bands of their time, they were unable to keep up with changing trends when psychedelic music became all the rage in 1967. So it's not surprising that their BBC sessions petered out that year. However, they never really quit. They made one last BBC appearance in 1970 under a new name, "Music Motor," but their latest single failed to make the charts and they disappeared again. The band is still touring as I write this in 2025, though they no longer have any original members.

Here's a Wikipedia link:

The Swinging Blue Jeans - Wikipedia 

The vast majority of the songs here are from the "Top of the Pops" BBC radio show. None of those have been officially released, although I found a grey market collection of them while searching the Internet. Unfortunately though, those BBC sessions don't include their two biggest hits, "Hippy Hippy Shake" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly." The problem is the Top of the Pops show only started making records of each weekly show and sending them to overseas stations in mid-1964, which is how the recordings survive, and those two songs were hits before that. I would guess it's highly likely they were performed on the BBC, but those versions were lost. 

So I dug deeper, trying to find other versions I could include. I found an unreleased live performance of "Good Golly, Miss Molly" along with "Shake, Rattle and Roll" for the 1964 N.M.E. Poll Winners concert. So I included those. I also stumbled across a 1963 BBC performance, "It's Too Late Now." It survived because it was done for the short-lived BBC radio show "Pop Go the Beatles." All of those shows survived due to the intense interest in the Beatles. But I still couldn't find a good version of "Hippy Hippy Shake" version anywhere. Finally, I discovered that one best of collection included an alternate version recorded in the studio. There was a lot of dead air before the song started, but I left in a bit of the studio chatter to show it indeed is different.

While the Swinging Blue Jeans were never going to rival better known British Invasion bands, they were better than many, and their music is full of that elusive 1960s vibe, which I really like.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 It's Too Late Now (Swinging Blue Jeans)
02 Hippy Hippy Shake [Alternate Version] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
03 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Swinging Blue Jeans)
04 Good Golly, Miss Molly (Swinging Blue Jeans)
05 It's So Right [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
06 You're No Good (Swinging Blue Jeans)
07 Johnny B. Goode [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
08 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (Swinging Blue Jeans)
09 It Isn't There (Swinging Blue Jeans)
10 One of These Days (Swinging Blue Jeans)
11 Ol' Man Mose (Swinging Blue Jeans)
12 So Much in Love [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
13 Good Lovin' [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
14 Crazy 'bout My Baby (Swinging Blue Jeans)
15 Lovey Dovey [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
16 You Don’t Love Me (Swinging Blue Jeans)
17 I've Got a Girl [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
18 Don't Make Me Over (Swinging Blue Jeans)
19 What Can I Do Today [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
20 Tremblin' [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
21 Bye Bye Baby [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
22 Don't Go Out into the Rain (Swinging Blue Jeans)
23 It's Alright [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans)
24 Open Up Your Heart [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans [Music Motor])
25 Happy [Edit] (Swinging Blue Jeans [Music Motor])

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UBh2ic3L

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/UDrhoNB7xu3hTVb/file

I don't know anything about the cover photo except that it's from around 1965.



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