Friday, May 13, 2022

THE COOL CHICKS (SLIGHT RETURN)

After posting the covers the other day, I had "Talking About You" stuck in my head. Not Chuck Berry's version or the Stones' cover. It was the Liverbirds' version. I didn't even remember whether I'd heard it via a live video or a record. So I went looking. Turns out that exactly one year ago today I'd posted some of their stuff. You know what's coming: repost. Here's the drivel I posted a year ago with a couple added tidbits:

I ran into a couple semi-recent Liverbirds videos so, yeah, time to update things. One video is a short sixteen minute documentary, the other is a clip of a musical about the Liverbirds with two of the original Liverbirds joining in on bass and drums. They're at the bottom with the other links. Here's what I said the last time I posted their stuff:

You just know that before they were ever known as a band, the Liverbirds were already the cool chicks. They had to be. In terms of coolness, you don't just go from wallflower to that photo above without a head start. Check the video below for further evidence. The icing is their choice in covers.


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Listen: 
The Liverbirds - Talking About You mp3 at The Rising Storm
The Liverbirds - Hands Off mp3
at The Rising Storm
The Liverbirds - Peanut Butter mp3 at Internet Archive
The Liverbirds - For Your Love (streaming) at YouTube
Video:
The Liverbirds - Diddley Daddy
at YouTube
The Liverbirds - Why Do You Hang Around Me?
at YouTube
Liverbirds, the Musical - Peanut Butter
at YouTube Just after the 1:00 mark, two of the real Liverbirds (bassist and drummer) join in. The drummer really wails.
We're Britain's First Female Rock Band. This is Why You Don't Know Us. - Mini-Documentary
at YouTube 16 minutes
Read:
The Liverbirds
- Feature at the Liverpool Echo
The Liverbirds profile
at The Hound Blog

3 comments:

espege said...

4-hour home exam (English studies) today, Tom (boosting my qualifications this year - and consequentially, next years salary). Due in a couple of hours, but plenty of time to read about Scouser beat chicks (while trying to indicate where/why - Question 5 - speaker A, B and C are from... Answer? A is from Scotland, B from the States and C is a Cockney).

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espege said...

Well fuck me, if closer phonetic scrutiny didn't show that speaker B was from Northern England! Yet another case of transatlantic ESP!

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Tom G. said...

Ha! The only true English accents in the U.S. are from English people. The others are just musicians that wish they were from England. And any Cockney accents can be further narrowed down to Sham 69 fans.