That's this blog at http://1001sasongs.wordpress.com/

Funny that. Dicky Loader used to teach my mother guitar. apparently he spent more time playing his songs to them than teaching.

X-rated Bob wrote: That's this blog at http://1001sasongs.wordpress.com/

That is well cool!

Aaaah,,,Dicky Loader....that brings back the 60s....

The road is rocky, but it won't be rocky long....Rocky Road Blues!
A great little rocker and pipe-opener for a gig.

With Grahame Beggs on lead guitar (strat)...

The same G. Beggs who went to Midem and picked up the publishing for ABBA in the Southern Hemisphere about four weeks before they cracked the charts with Waterloo......

A lot of cool stuff here. But I wonder how much potential greatness we lost due to Apartheid radio restrictions. If the BBC wasn't that wild about the excesses of the Rolling Stones, I can only imagine that stuff had to be pretty unthreatening to get airplay in SA. And a fair number of these are pretty lame pop numbers - Eurovision style stuff. Hard to imagine AC/DC arising out of SA as they did out of Australia.

singemonkey wrote: A lot of cool stuff here. But I wonder how much potential greatness we lost due to Apartheid radio restrictions. If the BBC wasn't that wild about the excesses of the Rolling Stones, I can only imagine that stuff had to be pretty unthreatening to get airplay in SA. And a fair number of these are pretty lame pop numbers - Eurovision style stuff. Hard to imagine AC/DC arising out of SA as they did out of Australia.

As far as the blogger goes, he's casting his net wider than what Springbok radio played. He's got James Phillips's "Shot Down" which was never going to get anyway near the radio at the time Phillips was actually performing it.

A lot of stuff got released with no chance of getting radio play. Just about anything on Shifty Records pre-1990 would fit that definition. Roger Lucey's stuff attracted a lot of attention from the special branch and the censors, and the records were banned outright or heavily censored, but the master tapes survived and so the music wasn't lost - though it never got to be fired at it's target either.

I hope they included "Ag Pleez Daddy" ???

Luckily I found a Rabbitt song, 'Morning Light'.



And I have to post this...Trevor Rabin, Genius.

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I know its not to be taken literally but if i was going deaf very few old sa songs would be on my playlist ..... Maybe miriam makeba or dollar brand ..... But eish most of the rest leaves me cold ...and best lost in time ..... Although i love some new acts like lira ....

Sneaky Pete wrote: Aaaah,,,Dicky Loader....that brings back the 60s....

The road is rocky, but it won't be rocky long....Rocky Road Blues!
A great little rocker and pipe-opener for a gig.

With Grahame Beggs on lead guitar (strat)...

The same G. Beggs who went to Midem and picked up the publishing for ABBA in the Southern Hemisphere about four weeks before they cracked the charts with Waterloo......

Very few people here will know about Loader and Beggs ?

Vic wrote:

Sneaky Pete wrote: Aaaah,,,Dicky Loader....that brings back the 60s....

The road is rocky, but it won't be rocky long....Rocky Road Blues!
A great little rocker and pipe-opener for a gig.

With Grahame Beggs on lead guitar (strat)...

The same G. Beggs who went to Midem and picked up the publishing for ABBA in the Southern Hemisphere about four weeks before they cracked the charts with Waterloo......

Very few people here will know about Loader and Beggs ?

Too right Vic... there are not that many of us left. ?
I used to teach guitar at the same music school as Dickie in Durban in the early 1970's (Jack Dowel School of Music).
I also used to play the odd gig with him... post The Blue Jeans.

I saw Dicky Loader and the Blue Jeans at the Palm Grove in Margate.

..and don't forget.....101 SA Songs You Must Go Deaf Before You Hear,,,,

Squonk wrote: I saw Dicky Loader and the Blue Jeans at the Palm Grove in Margate.

Lance James still plays in Emmarentia on a semi-regular basis.

X-rated Bob wrote:

Squonk wrote: I saw Dicky Loader and the Blue Jeans at the Palm Grove in Margate.

Lance James still plays in Emmarentia on a semi-regular basis.

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I actually saw Lance James singing in a restaurant in the old Horison View Shopping Centre a few years back. He was using backing tracks and promoting his new album. It was quite scary! ?

Just one of those random things where the wife and me on a rare night that we had babysitters went out to the Cinema and had to choose that restaurant to have a meal. Will always be etched in my memory ?

PeteM wrote:

Vic wrote:

Sneaky Pete wrote: Aaaah,,,Dicky Loader....that brings back the 60s....

The road is rocky, but it won't be rocky long....Rocky Road Blues!
A great little rocker and pipe-opener for a gig.

With Grahame Beggs on lead guitar (strat)...

The same G. Beggs who went to Midem and picked up the publishing for ABBA in the Southern Hemisphere about four weeks before they cracked the charts with Waterloo......

Very few people here will know about Loader and Beggs ?

Too right Vic... there are not that many of us left. ?
I used to teach guitar at the same music school as Dickie in Durban in the early 1970's (Jack Dowel School of Music).
I also used to play the odd gig with him... post The Blue Jeans.

ha ha Pete...OR not many from that era are members here :-\
Dickie Loader was one of only a very few SA artists in the early 60's who was under contract with EMI (Parlophone label). Graham Beggs was an excellent guitarist in those days. I sometimes listen to their music ( still have two LP's of theirs) and I'm still impressed with the stuff they did...albeit covers. ?