Post by cofi on Mar 7, 2008 12:15:06 GMT
Thunderclap Newman Something In The Air
A video of Thunderclap Newman, the band was a late 1960s one-hit wonder group from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", a 1969 UK Number One hit, remains in demand for television commercials, film soundtracks, and compilations.
In 1969, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, created the band to play songs written by the former Who roadie, drummer / singer John 'Speedy' Keen (miscredited as "Keene" on the single's label). (Keen wrote the opening track on "The Who Sell Out" LP, Armenia City In The Sky. Townshend produced the single, arranged its strings, played its bass guitar under the pseudonym Bijou Drains, and hired for it eccentric GPO engineer and jazz pianist Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman (born Andrew Newman, in 1943) and the fifteen year old Glaswegian Jimmy McCulloch.
The single was Number One for three weeks, holding off Elvis Presley in the process. The scale of the song's success surprised everyone,
Thunderclap Newman Something In The Air
Enjoy
some nice Bass playing off Pete Townshend
Cool 60s sounds, 
there was a lot of good music written around then 60s-70s, 