Before Focus, Jan Akkerman was in the Group “Brainbox” and did a cover of Gershwins “Summertime”
I got a partial recording of that song on my reel to reel tape recorder in 1970. It haunted me until Napster came out around the year 2000 and I searched and download as many versions of Summertime I could in order to find it. I found it at about version #150. By then I had a new hobby. Today I have about 1900 versions of that song, all started by Jan Akkerman and Brainbox.
I also remember the first time I heard Focus do “Hocus Pocus”
It was amazing, and I wondered what they would call their second song.
“Hocus Pocus” is an iconic song. Even though it was recorded almost 50 years ago, most any 20 something around here would know that song. It is still being played.
It is outrageously different, you’ll have to admit that at least.
They are not so many institutions that have disappointed me. Youtube are very close to the border, after which I will forget that they exist. There are many, many dead links to them… However I appreciate the free services, they still provide.
Alexis Korner & Steve Marriott - One Scotch, one Bourbon, one beer
Yes, I remember Flash when I was a teenager. More like a name of that time, but and with first progs I heard then…
Thanks for reminding me
A little wink to the early 70s again. Not as a musical top but part of the theater culture of that time.
A bit later, I was grateful to hear and have the first Wild Cherry album, and I became addicted to funk music as well.
Maybe Earth, Wind & Fire with Boogie Wonderland, September, Lets Groove etc. remains the culmination of the genre for me. Ocean of sounds, choreography and colors in one rhythm.