Just off the phone with FotB for Fridays gig. He wants me to play Jimmy Buckley - Our Wedding Day. He only has it on cassette. Has anyone

a: even heard of it
b: if yes to 'a' where can I get it in less than 48 hours

Plan B will be to hook up a cassette player & use his or should that be hiss

Go for the tape option ... I've just run a CD search on CDDB.com, and theres only 5 "JIMMY" anyones, singing anything with "WEDDING" in the song title.

EG:

http://www.gracenote.com/music/search-adv....ng&n=10&x=0&y=0


Hook up the tape player, do your best with the equalisation, advise the audience that "The next tune is an original copy that the FofTB lent me, as I couldnt find it anywhere in 48 hours", and release the Pause button....

Thanks for that link Gary. I typed in just Buckley and no Jimmy appeared - it's probably his nephew

No problem for the link, I use the CDDB (CD database) alot, and normally for exactly the same thing that you needed .... tunes that have special meaning to the people who hire us.

The great thing is way that it tells you the name of the albums that have the track on it, even if its a compilation album, not just individual artists own albums.

When I was looking for your query, it did keep bringing up a riverdance/lord of the dance tune, of the right title - but it could be just a co-incidence.

Good luck with the tape deck

To report back on this one. The track is a country/waltz song in a Daniel O’Donnel sort of style. They brought the cassette to the function and I had dug out a Mraantz player that I hadn’t used for many years. I played it at the allotted time for the bride & her father and the sound quality was surprisingly good. Just as it finished the groom came up & asked if I could play it again in about an hour as the brides father had missed it (sounds familiar anyone)

Now to the good part. I cued up the track again and played it at a suitable time but, bearing in mind that this machine hadn’t been used for a long time, the heat during that hour had softened the belts and this time it played in the style of Freddie Starr doing his ‘Old Shep’ routine. (for those who are not familiar with this the song would go from very slow to extremely fast as he tried to keep up). Whether it was the alcohol or the fact it was an unfamiliar tune to most people they didn’t seem to notice and quite happily danced slow, slow, quick quick, slow whilst I hid behind the rig so they couldn’t see me laughing.