Tina Harvey I’m Waiting For The Man Junkshop Glam Punk Velvet Underground HEAR
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Tina Harvey – I’m Waiting For The Man/Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (UK, 1973) (UK 141) (2012 055) (Ex-) Velvet Underground 7”-Inch Vinyl Single in its original company sleeve. HEAR IT BELOW!
The A-side is an excellent Junkshop cover of the Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’, with a strong and cool female vocal from Tina Harvey and some great thumping backing with sharp guitars and loutish drums. The B-side ‘Baby, Let Me Follow You Down’ is an interesting folk rock song, a bit like Melanie.
This single was released on Jonathan King’s inspired UK label and the A-side was compiled on the 2005 revised version of RPM’s “Bubble Pop: 20 UK Pop Oddities.”
From the Black2com blog:
“Miss Harvey had a number of other releases for UK (including a cover of "Working My Way Back To You") as well as an album.
But for what it is, it is, to use that overused word, a wowzer worthy of the PUREPOP blog or perhaps one of those English glam/punk cusp collections that have been opening my eyes to a genre that hasn't quite been explored over these past few eons. Harvey's take on the Velvet Underground classic is better than I would have expected given how some of these covers can pretty much rot on the vine of good intentions, with a pounding instrumental backing that sounds as if the Spiders From Mars or maybe the Stranglers for all I know used the original as a boss template. I'll bet all of those bands who were playing this song throughout Ladbroke Grove sounded like this. Harvey's voice is suitable for this one since it ain't Olivia Newton-John drooly yet not Janis Joplin wail. Kinda tough in its own way and straightforward, extremely suitable for this version.
Flipster "Baby"'s the Dylan track and it's sure nice hearing a seventies Dylan cover that doesn't reek whole wheat smirk or seventies SoCal turquoise cocaine karma. Let's just say it's lucky that Peter Asher wasn't around to produce this one given its simple approach and Harvey's slight growl are enough to save this from being yet another schlock popster to toss on the heap of El Lay showbiz smarm!”
There are a couple of light 'pops' at the very beginning of the A-side before the vocal comes in, hence the 'Ex-'.
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE MP3s, WHICH WERE RECORDED FROM THE ACTUAL SINGLE:
Click Below To Hear The Track!
03 I_m Waiting For The Man.mp3
Click Below To Hear The Track!
04 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down.mp3
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY OTHER ITEMS. I AM SELLING MORE JUNKSHOP GLAM ROCK/PROTO PUNK/BUBBLEGUM etc.
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