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bandcampsnoop · 7 months

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9/19/23.

I feel like I keep a pretty good eye on Last Night From Glasgow, the label based in...Glasgow, Scotland. But I somehow missed this excellent release from The Muldoons (Paisley, Scotland...basically just west of Glasgow). This really sounds like an excellent C86 band. When the trumpet kicks in they sound like The June Brides. When the jangle kicks in they sound like The Smiths. And sometimes they have a vibe that makes me think of fellow Glaswegians Belle and Sebastian.

And finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Northern Portrait. Simply put this is fun, foot-tapping, sing-a-long indie pop. While you cannot buy the vinyl on Bandcamp, you can find a 2nd pressing at Last Night From Glasgow. Or you can find copies on Discogs.

Be sure to listen to The Muldoons' excellent cover of "Cath" (The Bluebells).

#The Muldoons #Paisley #Glasgow #Scotland #Last Night From Glasgow #C86 #The June Brides #The Smiths #Northern Portrait #The Bluebells #Belle and Sebastian #Bandcamp

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intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd · 4 months

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CINDY BIRDSONG

1939

The Supremes

Cindy Birdsong was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, US. Her family lived in Philadelphia during her childhood and then moved back to New Jersey. Birdsong dreamed of becoming a nurse and after schooling she went to study at college. In 1960, a friend contacted her and asked her if she could replace another singer in her group the Ordettes.

Birdsong is best known for being one of the singers in the group The Supremes in 1967, when she replaced co-founding member Florence Ballard. Birdsong had previously been a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebells. She first met The Supremes when The Bluebells opened for them in 1963 and the two groups travelled together. Supreme singer, Ballard suffered from alcoholism and depression and Birdsong stood in for her as a stand-in during concerts. In 1967, Birdsong left The Bluebirds without telling her co-singers to join Diana Ross and The Supremes. The Bluebirds were angry and refused to talk to her (they changed their name to Labelle). For the first two years with The Supremes, Birdsong’s voice was rarely heard on music releases. Diana Ross left The Supremes in 1970 because she felt she outgrew them and wanted to go solo and Jean Terrell replaced her and Birdsong’s voice was heard more prominently. She left the Supremes when she became pregnant in 1972 and returned in 1973.

Birdsong lives in Los Angeles, and was married to Charles Hewlett in 1970; they had a son David and divorced in 1975.

In 1969, Birdsong was kidnapped at knifepoint by a maintenance man who worked in the same building where she lived. She, Hewlett and friend Howard Meek had returned to her apartment when the man threatened them with a knife. He made Birdsong tie up the two men and then forced her downstairs and into his car. She escapes unharmed by jumping out of his car on the San Diego freeway. The kidnapper, Charles Collier, is arrested in Las Vegas, 4 days later.

In her later life, Birdsong suffered from several strokes and her family revealed that her carer and friend prevented them from being able to support her, a judge awarded her family with conservatorship in 2023.

#cindybirdsong #thesupremes #thebluebells

#cindy birdsong #cindybirdsong #the supremes #the bluebells

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petitworld · 2 months

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Ashenbank woods near Cobham, England by Simon Bolton

#cobham #england #uk #flower path #path #nature #naturecore #bluebells #nature aesthetic #flowers #flowercore #woods #forest #sunny #beautiful #petitworld favs #petitworld

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sillydegu · 7 months

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The challenges of egg

#rat #cute #ratblr #petblr #enrichment #Bluebell #video

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my-chaos-radio · 10 months

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Release: July 1, 1984 / March 15, 1993

Lyrics:

Young at heart

Yet what a start

Old before their time

They married young

For love at last

Was their only crime

How come I love them now?

How come I love them more?

Young at heart

You're so young at heart

Young at heart

Yet not a chance

To be a child at all

They told us tales

They told us lies

Don't they know

They shouldn't have told us at all

How come I love them now?

How come I love them more?

When all I wanted to do when I was old

Was to walk out the door

Young at heart

You're so young at heart

Young at heart

You're so young at heart

How come I love them now?

How come I love them more?

How come I love them now?

How come I love them more?

Young at heart

They told us tales

They told us lies

They shouldn't have told us at all

When all I wanted to do when I was old

Was to walk out the door

Songwriter:

Young at heart

Young at heart (you're so young at heart)

You're so young at heart

Young at heart (you're so young at heart)

You're so young at heart

Young at heart (you're so young at heart)

You're so young at heart

Young at heart (you're so young at heart)

Bobby Valentino / Robert Hodgens / Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey

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zivazivc · 4 months

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Like a completely normal adult person, after watching the new trolls movie, I obsessively started putting together the brothers' backstory, the deeper reasons for their separation as well as how that all took place without disregarding the fact that they were trapped in the troll tree, which of course evolved into a fic in (forever) progress... yeah

Anyway, even though they aren't actively in the story much, i needed to design the parents, so uh meet Rosiepuff's daughter, Tulip, and her husband Branch.

I designed them based on the brothers' adult looks and in Tulip's case also on her mom's.

bonus baby branch: