Sounds of the Sixties

I had an early start on Saturday due to a meeting I'd arranged with a client for 7:30am. By the time we had finished, it was still early morning and I drove through a deserted Nottingham city centre with BBC Radio 2 blaring out my car stereo. I had no idea they did a 'Sounds of the Sixties' show...! It was awesome, and helped me uncover this little gem:



Sounds a bit like Jagger singing a song by the Who. Never heard of Thane Russal, and apparently neither has the Internet. Here's a snippet from a blogspot called PopArchives:

Thane Russal's British version of Security (1966), a garage-style pop arrangement of the Otis Redding song, seems to have been popular nowhere except in Australia, where it was quite a hit (#7 Sydney #24 Melbourne #4 Brisbane #8 Perth). In fact, a lot of Aussie Boomers might even know it better than the original.

Hopefully (thanks to some fine broadcasting by the Beeb) a few more people will have got to hear this awesome cover - aside from the Aussies!