Wildcat

I used up a lot of 'special' stamps, bought throughout the year, on Xmas cards, including this one, and had accumulated so many I didn't get around to buying any Christmas stamps this year. This has been treated with FastStone's Oil Painting filter, as used on previous blips.

L.
22.12.2012

Blip #882
Consecutive Blip #095
Day #1003

Oil Painting series

Wildcat (Wikipedia page)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Marty Wilde and the Wildcats - Bad Boy (1959)
Bad Boy was written by Marty Wilde (he later co-wrote a lot of daughter Kim's hits, including the recently infamous Kids In America, when busked by her and brother Ricky on a tipsy train trip to Potters Bar) and was a Top 50 hit in the US in 1960. The nineteen-fifties idea of a bad boy was clearly rather tamer than it is now.
The song was covered in 1964 by Françoise Hardy, and later, rather surprisingly, by Nirvana. Robert Gordon also did a rockabilly version of the tune.
The Wildcats included Big Jim Sullivan, a venerable session player in later years. On this track he plays a Gibson Les Paul, reputedly the first to be played in Britain, bought for him by Marty Wilde, who had bought it from the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Just knowing that makes the record better.

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