Woops, I thought I had added that one to the CD list as well.

Thanks, Graham.

Still make it 7 tracks published.

It also strikes me that Ferry has never done Desert Island Discs.
But I'm loving this on a Friday afternoon post -Christmas.
He once did a similar exercise for Radio 1 in 1980/81, I used to have it on tape in the days when one could record off the radio. I think it was an interview with Johnnie Walker. My top twelve , it might have been called.
I'm sure he included Roadrunner then. And My Only Love , and one other track from Flesh and Blood.

He also recorded Some Other Spring during the As Time Goes By sessions but this track has never been released.

J.O'B.

Frantic Album 2002 (started during the Taxi sessions)
Goodnight Irene

As Time Goes By album 1999
When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful

Dylanesque Tour 2007
Body and Soul

Unreleased from the As Time Goes By sessions 1999
Some Other Spring

2013 tour segue into N.Y.C.
Au Privave

Sun Records Tribute CD 2002
Don't Be Cruel

Taxi Album 1993
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

The Bride Stripped Bare album 1978
That's How Strong My Love Is

These Foolish Things album 1973
The Tracks of My Tears

Unreleased from the Dylanesque sessions August 2006
Like a Rolling Stone

In Your Mind Tour 1977
Road Runner

Dylanesque Album 2007 (began mid 1990's
All Along the Watchtower

I make that :
6 released on BF albums
1 on a Various Artists album
2 recorded by BF but unreleased so far
3 Performed live on BF tours

J.O'B.

I wonder when BF will do Da Do Ron Ron then??

Listening to Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of my tears" on this show reminds me of how "These Foolish Things" was received back in 1973. As I recall the NME hated it (" My Foolish Doings" , they called it.) At this time Eno had left Roxy and "Stranded" was in the pipeline. The critics must have thought Ferry to be a bit cocky and arrogant to put out an album of cover versions of songs dating back to the 1930's. As a 14 year old I just lapped it up, now I see it for the master stroke that it was and one facet of Ferry' s creativity that's never diminished.

Cher avalon_eyes,
I'm not sure from your post if you "lapped" up the NME perspective or the "creativity"? I'd love to know which it was? Perhaps you could elaborate?
As a more aged hipster (I was twenty in '73), I confess to remembering the album as a creative shock on the richter scale of Dylan going electric!
I remember being quite rattled and enthused at the same time. Rattled because I was heavily into the Roxy groove and this was clearly another furrow.
Enthused because I loved his choice of songs, his eclectic taste and the fact that for me, they weren't covers, they were interpretations.
This last point was really what turned it from a surprise into a shock.
As many will remember, although our hero will argue that songsmiths have been covering the work of others since time immemorial (and he's right ) his reference point in saying this is really pre '65.
For my generation, once the Beatles and Stones had started writing their own material, the practice of a serious, hip, creative artist recording the material of others had become quite demode. Particularly if it had been recorded successfully already.
Of course there were exceptions - The Animals with "The House Of The Rising Sun," etc. But, for the most part, post '66, the seriously intentioned did their own stuff but here we had the lead singer and songsmith of the most creative and stylish band of troubadours going apparently doing exactly that thing.
It was a huge shock. Furthermore, he had tampered with some pretty sacred material (Dylan fans were more akin to sack cloth priests at this point in history) and made it undeniably his own. He'd sprinkled Ferry dust on everything. The audacity of it all!
Of course, he'd exercised his talent to entertain and educate us all at the same time and in the most stylish of fashions but, it was a move that should not be underestimated for it's huge courage. Happily for all of us, it payed of big time and we got two massively creative furrows being ploughed in tandem. Perhaps he got it from his farther after all?
Regards,
Windswept

Dear Windswept
I lapped up the wealth of material coming my way. The first Roxy/Ferry album I bought was These Foolish Things. I hadn't beem much impressed by Pyjamarama at the time , so the first Roxy albums had passed by me. I was 14.
It was Ferry's bravura and thrilling performance of " A Hard Rain's a gonna fall " on Top of the Pops that hooked me, on top of that black t shirt and rock and roll quiff that graced the cover. The album was a must and I still play it often.
When StreetLife came out later in the year and Ferry appeared tuxedo'd on Top of the Pops and in a Sounds magazine centre pull -out, well, that was that, the boyhood crush turned into a lifelong relationship. With boundaries.

Cher avalon_eyes,
Taste from the get go - bravo!
Regards,
Windswept

At the age of 12 in 1973 I was already aware of and enjoying Roxy, although almost certainly only the two singles; pocket money wouldn't stretch to LPs!

TFT was probably my first Ferry-related LP purchase (probably had some Xmas or birthday gift vouchers to break the back of the cost...) and it's probably the closest I've ever come to wearing out a piece of vinyl! (I prefer IYM & TBSB, but I still have a soft spot for TFT; favourite tracks were, and still are, Hard Rain, River Of Salt & Sympathy For The Devil.)

It even survived the fact that my mum (a Perry Como fan) & my sister (a follower of Cliff Richard AND the Bay City Rollers, so no saving grace there!) liked some tracks, which would normally render an album distinctly uncool!

I don't recall being struck by the stylistic difference between group & solo stuff; I was just happy to have anything by a geezer as cool as BF. Happy days...

Article from the NME, 8th September 1973.