Claire Hamill

by **hullmick** on Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:46 am

Searching the SIngles boxes this morning for the 'first one i bought' - see other thread, H came before 'K for Kinks', and a very odd Hall & OAtes picture cover sleeve caught my eye. BUT directly behind it was a 'CLaire Hamill - Geronimo's Cadillac' single 1974 on Konk Records KOS1 blue label, produced by a 'Raymond Douglas Davies' - now there's a coincidence :roll:

ANyway, looks virtually unplayed, but the title seems to remind me of a refrain "OOh Baby, Take me BAck, i Wanna ride on Geronimo's Cadillac". Gotta get the turntable sorted again!

Is it really one and the same ClaireH? Checking t'Intranet, certainly her website suggests Konk records was a Ray DAvies outing.. (Yorkshire sub-text; is this 45 worth anything on eBay?!) Mick

by **Nizzy** on Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:25 am

Claire signed to Mr Davies' Konk label circa 1973 when she was but a bairn and he produced her Stage Door Johnnies (!) album.

by **hullmick** on Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:23 pm

Aye, Nizz, that's on her website (wonder if she still lives in Hastings; i'm a monthly visitor there). The single doesn't appear in my 1991 British Hit Singles book, so maybe it's a bit of rarity value? But the refrain is there, quite a catchy little pop song. Might seek out the album, although not a delicious title...

Spent an idle hour just now (flight to Muscat leaves this evening) perusing the alphabetical stock of my 73-81 DJ period, about 500 singles i guess. Mostly Disco, plenty of Sweet :oops:

and loads of '77/78 Punk singles, but Turned up a couple of old Bowie ones; Laughing Gnome on Deram from '67 and Mono Space Oddity on Philips from '69 (respectively 30p and 20p written on the labels, so i must have picked them up second-hand at some time!). A couple of Jethro Tull (Witches Promise; Life's a Long Song) bought in Cottingham Record Shop after school, & one Yes on Atlantic (Sweet Dreams/Dear Father) bought in Cologne or Zurich in '72, Cream's Badge on Polydor '69 and one i can't even remember when i played it - Genesis 'Happy the Man/Seven Stones '72 on Charisma - as i was seeing Genesis relatively regularly around then, i must have bought it in Hull - looks pretty much unplayed (and hearing it this morning, i can understand whay...) and again not in BHS list as a chart stopper. Where does one find out the value of old vinyl 45s, is there a Catalogue like Stanley Gibbons for stamps?? or do you just try eBay now (my experience there, some early Marvel comics i had, Doc Strange, FF and Howard the Duck from 69-71; and Daily Mirror moon landings issues; really poor returns like a tenner and a fiver overall respectively) - keep hearing rare Wishbone CDs fetch a premium there, though.

Sorry, off topic and rambling, must pack some WA t-shirts for the beach & wadis, see you all in ten days. Mick

by **hullmick** on Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:11 pm

Goodness me, that was a rambling post from 2010...anyway, just had an email from Trading Boundaries in West Sussex announcing a Yes-themed concert this weekend 27th Sept, in conjunction with their Roger Dean exhibition...featuring Fragile, with Claire Hamill as their singer (and also a French Yes tribute band, And You and Yes!!!) - don't know if this is a one-off, or is she touring with them?? Seems to be a venue trading in older bands...