Yesterday Once More: Meet Another Group of SPMM DJ Trainees - Vanessa, Renee, Gina, Kara and Ellie!

 Ellie Appleton - Yesterday Once More 

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"It's Not Unusual" - Tom Jones

(May/June 1965, highest chart pos. #10 Hot 100 & Cash Box,

live perf. on June 28, 1965 TV special Murray The K –

It's What's Happening, Baby) 

Kicking off this special sneak preview, a rare clip of Welshman Tom Jones

before he became a superstar and heartthrob to millions of women all over

the world. You saw Tom at the start of summer, 1965, entertaining animals

at the zoo singing his breakthrough international hit "Its Not Unusual" on

the American TV special Murray The K – It's What's Happening, Baby.

 Hello, I'm Vanessa Kensington... 

a beautiful, determined, intelligent young woman who partners

with British spy Austin Powers in the 1997 comedy film

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

I'm sure you are familiar with Austin as the semi-regular host of the

Valentine's Day dances here at Shady's Place. I've got great news.

Austin and I are reuniting as hosts of our own radio show.

 Stay tuned for the debut of The Spy Who Shagged Me featuring the best

of Brit pop, coming soon to S-P-M-M... the station with personality. 

 I'm 

 Renee Clemons, 

a reporter working at the

San Francisco Globe on

the TV series Gracepoint,

the American remake of

the hit UK drama series

Broadchurch. I'm happy

to report that I will be

joining five other news

gathering women as

anchors of the new

S-P-M-M radio show

The I-Team. The

"I" does not stand

for "investigation."

You see, every song we

play on our show will have

an "I" word in the title.

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Here's a sample "I" song from

our series, one of the biggest

hits of the 60s, the Four Tops

reaching #1 on the pop and

soul charts with-- "I Can't

Help Myself (Sugar Pie

Honey Bunch)!" 

"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" - Four Tops

(May/June 1965, highest chart position

#1 Hot 100 & Cash Box & R&B) 

 I'm WPC Gina Dawson 

on the British period police drama TV series WPC 56. 

I'm the first WPC (woman police constable) to join the

Midlands Constabulary at Brinford Police Station in 1956.

 

Soon I'll be joining other

fetching, feisty females as

presenters on a S-P-M-M

radio show that we're going

 to call British British Swag,

and I've got a sample, a song

recorded and released 10 years

after I joined the police force.

That's around the time my

job description no longer

included making coffee

for the men. The song

is by The Rolling Stones,

a cut from their 1966

album Aftermath,

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This is one of their most popular songs from the period, yet it was never

released as a single in English-speaking countries. Here are Mick and

his mates, the kings of British swag, on the UK music TV show

Ready Steady Go! doing-- "Under My Thumb." 

"Under My Thumb" - The Rolling Stones

(from Apr. 1966 album Aftermath, perf. on

May 27, 1966, ep. of Ready Steady Go!) 

 Hi, I'm 

 Kara Danvers... 

a bright, bubbly, somewhat

shy and awkward young woman

working as a personal assistant

and later a reporter on the DC

Comics superhero TV series

Supergirl. Some people say

I look and sound almost

exactly like Supergirl...

that the only difference

between the two of us

are the glasses and

the red and blue

caped costume.

That's crazy talk! Supergirl and I are nothing alike,

so just put that notion out of your mind, mister. 

I'm here to play a song sample from

my new radio show Kara Danvers

Supertunes coming soon to SPMM

Supersonic Radio. It's a wonderful

performance by a Nashville-based

band called imy2 which, in modern

code-speak, stands for "I miss you,

too." The group is fronted by blue-

haired beauty Annalise Mahanes,

a singer with the super power of

being able to cover songs from

a variety of genres and make

it seem like they were

written just for her. 

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Here are Annalise and imy2 with a super cover of

Michael Jackson's-- "The Way You Make Me Feel!" 

"The Way You Make Me Feel" - Michael Jackson

cover by imy2 (Sept. 2020) 

 And I'm 

 Ellie Appleton. 

Do I remind you of

Lady Rose Aldridge

on Downton Abbey?

I get that a lot.

You say goodbye

and I say hello

and welcome to my

segment giving you

a sneak peak at my

new radio show

coming soon to

Shady's Place. 

As the co-star of Yesterday...

the 2019 musical rom-com

film that's loaded with great

 covers of Beatles songs, my

show on S-P-M-M Retrosonic

Radio will be wall-to-wall

Beatles, including classic

original recordings by the

Liverpudlian mop-tops

themselves, and terrific

Beatles covers by artists

of the past and present.

Quite rightly, my new

program will be called

Yesterday Once More. 

To close today's sneak

preview special, I've got

a sensational sample for

you. It is one of the best

covers I've found of a

song written by John

Lennon and recorded

by The Beatles. It was

released as the lead

song on their 1969

album Abbey Road

and as a single that

topped the chart

in the U.S.

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Here's the Ukranian duo Sershen & Zaritskaya - Sergey on guitar, Daria on vocals -

taking it to the next level with-- "Come Together." Now this is Ellie Appleton.

Thanks for joining us and see you soon on Yesterday Once More!

"Come Together" - The Beatles cover

by Sershen & Zaritskaya (Mar. 2021) 

B in 23 + S & Z = !!!!!

BREAKING NEWS:

THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Dear friend, this post was completed

more than a year ago and scheduled

to run sometime in 2022. I decided

to publish it today because I found

a time sensitive message directly

related to the current crisis in

Ukraine. It was placed on

 YouTube and Facebook by

the Ukranian rock duo Sergey

Sershen and Daria Zaritskaya,

the featured artists in this post.

Their message to concerned

fans reads as follows:

This video was supposed to be released on feb 24, but the war had other plans

for us. It’s been 13 days since we’ve been living in fear, (Editor's Note: 21 days

as of today's publication date), not knowing if there will be tomorrow. But even

in the darkest days, music has always been our salvation. We simply refuse to

  give up on our dreams, we refuse to stop fighting, refuse to abandon things

we love to do. We refuse to lay down our arms- guitars, mics and drumsticks.

We will clench our teeth and cling to our hopes with every fiber of being.

With life being so unpredictable today - at any moment we can lose this

connection, or they’ll shut down YouTube, we decided to share this

video now. We’ve had such a massive support from you guys.

We are so thankful to have such an amazing community!

Together We Stand!

- Sershen & Zarítskaya, March 8, 2022 

NOW, HERE BELOW IS THE POST

AS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED:

WASSUP,

U PARTY

MONSTER?

I'm Chloe, the titular

(don't you just love

that word?) "B-----

in Apartment 23" on

the television sitcom

Don't Trust the B-----

in Apartment 23.

I'm a hard-partying,

irresponsible, free-

loading, sexually

adventurous con

artist described as

having "the morals

of a pirate" - and

those are my

good qualities!

I love rock & roll,

so put another dime

in the jukebox, baby.

I'm revved up and

ready to rock your

world with totally

awesome sights

and sounds.

Consider this a sneak preview

of what I hope will someday

become my very own radio

show here on S-P-M-M.

I was thinking of calling

it "Whiskers on Kittens"

but I decided to go with

BLUNT

FORCE

TRAUMA.

In this sneak preview, I am excited

to present Sershen & Zaritskaya,

the Ukranian duo made up of

guitarist Sergey Sershen and

singer Daria Zaritskaya (right).

S&Z are shaking up the rock

world with their cover videos,

and I'm going to play a few

of their best. Are you ready

to par-tay down with Chloe,

the B---- in 23? Let's rock!

In 1990, Alannah Myles scored a chart-

topping hit with "Black Velvet," a song

that in 1991 won the Canadian singer

and songwriter the Grammy for Best

Female Rock Vocal Performance. 

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Thirty years later, Daria Zaritskaya

sizzled and smoked as she and her

band performed a cover that will

stand the test of time as a

classic in its own right! 

"Black Velvet" - Alannah Myles cover

by Sershen & Zaritskaya (Nov. 2020) 

Sershen & Zaritskaya have the knack

of authentically performing songs in

various genres and styles, from

mellow, laid-back, unplugged 

soft rock to hard rock and metal.

The dynamic duo's metal cred

 is proudly on display as they

blaze through this medley +

mashup of songs by Metallica

which includes "Wherever I

May Roam," "Sad But True,"

"Master Of Puppets," "Fuel,"

"Enter Sandman"  and

"So What." 

"Metallica Medley + Mashup ("Wherever I May Roam,"

"Sad But True," "Master Of Puppets, "Fuel," "Enter Sandman"

and "So What") by Sershen & Zaritskaya (Feb. 2019)

START VIDEO NOW!

If you're just tuning in I'm Chloe,
the B----- in 23 and your new

BFF, and this is a sneak peek

at my upcoming radio show

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

(or something like that) on

S-P-M-M... the station that

rocks harder. Continuing

now with my salute to

Sershen & Zaritskaya, the
exciting duo from Ukraine,

here they covering Skid Row's

"Youth Gone Wild," a single

that brushed the UK top 20

in the summer of '92. Hell,

S & Z don't just tackle

this rock classic...

they wrestle it to

the ground, babe!

"Youth Gone Wild" - Skid Row cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Aug. 2019)

START VIDEO NOW!

In case you're experiencing sensory

overload by now and can't even think

straight, I will remind you that you're

hard wired to a sneak preview of

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

(or something equally shocking)

with little old me, Chloe, the B

in 23, apprentice Shady Bunch

deejay in training, right here at

your home for rock... S-P-M-M.

We're plowing thru a 7-in-a-row

rave party... running down the

 hard and heavy sound of the

fabulous Ukrainian duo

Sergey Sershen and Daria

Zaritskaya. In Nov., 2019,

S & Z took the frequently

recorded AC/DC hit

"Back In Black" and

made it their very own!

"Back in Black" AC/DC cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Nov. 2019)

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Moving ahead to December,

2019, we find our featured

artists Sershen & Zaritskaya

doing justice to one of the best

known Kiss songs. It's shock

and awe time as S & Z prove

they're for real covering--

"Detroit Rock City!"

"Detroit Rock City" - Kiss cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

ft. Kim and Shturmak (Dec. 2019)

I hope you had a blast getting it on with guitarist Sergey Sershen

and vivacious vixen Daria Zaritskaya, a duo from Ukraine

that really knows how to rock.

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Stick around because I'll be back someday, hopefully sooner rather than later,
with more top shelf party sounds to rock you around the clock. To play us off,
here again are my featured artists S & Z, covering glam rocker Billy Idol's

hit "Rebel Yell." Now this is Chloe, the B in 23, reminding all my party

peeps to keep on rockin', and when you do, be sure to rock hard!

"Rebel Yell" - Billy Idol cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Mar. 2020)

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

(OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT)

STARRING CHLOE, THE B----- IN 23

COMING SOON TO SHADY'S PLACE!

Together we stand.

“Are you ok?” are more than just 3 words today. It’s “I care for you”,

“I’m here for you”, “I love you”. So I just wanted to let you guys know

that me and the guys are safe, we are in Kyiv and we’re not gonna run.

Thank you for showing that you care - as I’ve said million times before.

“Together We Stand” - like this picture says. - Daria Zaritskaya

Singer Victory Vizhanska is another Ukrainian

artist that I have featured in Shady's Place posts.

Please take a couple of minutes to read Victory's

words and watch her two latest videos. They tell

the heartrending story of her plight as the war

drove her and her mother and their cats from

their home and turned them into refugees. 

VICTORY

VIZHANSKA

FEBRUARY 27, 2022 

I am a simple Ukrainian girl, I am 17 years old, I live in Kyiv. I had many

goals and dreams! But there was a war. Russia attacked my country. 4 days

we sit in fear. Outside the window, explosions, automatic bursts, it's very

scary. I planned to move to America in the future. Or to Europe to become

a world star. But this is in the future, these were plans, get a visa, get on a

plane and start a new life. But now I'm crying, out of fear, my mother reads

a prayer all the time. In the early days, we were unable to leave on the

evacuation train to the border, now we have a curfew, if in the coming

days I manage to survive, I'm afraid every night, maybe my mom and

my cats, we can get on at least some train, and we can survive. I pray

for it. This cover, I recorded it in my favorite room, which I dreamed

of since childhood, and which I will have to leave so quickly, fleeing

the bombs of Russia. If I stay alive, I will continue to sing, and I will

try to achieve my goal! Thank you all for your support! I don't say

goodbye! I believe and pray🙏 And I love you all❤❤❤ 

- Victory Vizhanska 

"Hallelujah" - Cover by Victory Vizhanska (Feb. 22, 2022) 

MARCH 13, 2022 

Putin's troops attacked Ukraine. The war began on February 24, 2022, at 5 o'clock

in the morning. Until that time, we lived, practiced beauty, sang, loved! But at once

it all ended and it was necessary to choose the risk of life under the sound of siren

explosions, or escape and look for ways to survive, but go through the evacuation.

Mom and I decided to take one suitcase in which we put only two favorite dresses

and sneakers. Tears tears tears. We left everything we had. My brother stayed

in Kyiv with his family.  In this video that I want to show, not even half of what I

had to go through. What will happen next, I don't know. We are with my mother

and cats in Poland, have not yet moved away from all this terrible. Thank you

for staying with me! Thanks for being so kind! I wish you all never go

through what I went through! I wish you all peace!

- Victory Vizhanska 

"Memories. Sweet Home" - Victory Vizhanska (March 13, 2022) 

Symphony of Destruction! Halloween Rocktoberfest Pt. 2 Featuring G.L.O.W. - the (Gorgeous Ladies of WOW!)

FIRST TO ELEVEN 

KISS 

"I Was Made For Loving You"

Kiss cover by First To Eleven (Oct. 2020) 

Kiss and makeup - that was Audra Miller and her Erie, Pennsylvania,

band First to Eleven with a Halloween hoot, a cool and capable cover

of "I Was Made For Loving You," a discofied hit for Kiss in 1979. 

Hi, I'm Kelly "That's a hard pass" Maxwell... a young woman dragged

into the fight against evil on the comedy horror television series

Ash vs Evil Dead... (not to be confused with Romper Room). 

You've heard of tough love. With Ash, it's chainsaw love.

I've learned that when dealing with the undead it's

best to follow Ash's golden rule - shoot first

 and ask questions never. 

Welcome to Pt. 2 of Shady Del Knight's 

Halloween Rocktoberfest featuring the

gorgeous ladies of rock and metal with

introductions by the gorgeous ladies of

TV and movies that will soon be joining

The Shady Bunch DJ team on S-P-M-M.

If you liked Pt. 1 of this series, you're

 gonna love Pt. 2. You axed for it -

you got it! (See what I did there?)  

I think it's high time to bury

the hatchet... (in some scary

evil dead dude's back), so I

need  to get outta here. 

Join me for my brand new S-P-M-M radio show

Grace Kelly Rear Window,

coming soon to Shady's Place!

I'm Ainsley Whitly from the TV crime drama Prodigal Son. 

I'm the ambitious younger sister of Malcolm Bright, a brilliant police profiler

with the ability to view crimes from the killer's P.O.V. I work as a TV news

reporter and have deep, dark secrets of my own. Come over to my crib

sometime and meet the skeletons in my closet. In the meantime,

join me and other fictional news women on our S-P-M-M

radio show The I-Team, coming soon to this station.

DARYA TYUSHEVA 

KISS

You just heard First To Eleven cover

a monster hit by Kiss. Now, here to

do another Kiss killer is a Gorgeous

Lady of Wow that you met in part 1.

Watch and listen as Russian rocker

Darya Tyusheva performs a guitar

cover of the seductive Kiss klassic

"Let's Put The X In Sex!"   

"Let's Put The X In Sex"

Kiss guitar cover

by Darya Tyusheva

(June 2020) 

Good day (or maybe not), my name is Sarah and my last name is a mystery.

I'm the star of the 2019 horror movie 1BR, the story of an aspiring costume

designer who moves into a one-bedroom apartment in LA, unaware that the

complex is owned by a cult that uses torture to force new residents to join

their community. Hey, as long as the manager cuts me a deal on the rent,

I'm there, dude! I hope you'll join me on the new Shady's Place radio

series Thru the Spooking Glass, coming your way soon!

SONIA ANUBIS &

ESMEE VAN SINDEREN 

POISON 

I have two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW for you - two more

hot rock guitarists. You met

Dutch guitar siren Sonia

Anubis in part one. Today,

Sonia is joined by Esmée

van Sinderen, also based

in The Netherlands. The

WOW women perform a

guitar cover of a hit by

those rowdy boys from

up Shady's way in PA--

Mechanicsburg to be

exact. They're the glam

metal band Poison, and

Sonia & Esmée do justice

to their nasty nugget--

"Talk Dirty To Me!" 

"Talk Dirty To Me"

Poison guitar cover by

Sonia Anubis & Esmée van Sinderen

(Apr. 2021) 

Hi there, I'm Alice! That's me, bound and  gagged above, in a scene from

the 2019 horror movie The Cleaning Lady. I'm a young woman who made

two big mistakes. One was having a fling with a married man. The other

was hiring a creepy cleaning lady whose face is scarred from severe burns.

Seems the cleaning lady has taken a shine to me. (See what I did there?)

She's become obsessed with me - a new best friend from hell. She wears

my clothes and makeup, and basically wants to trade lives with me. 

BLOOD BATH & BEYOND

All hell breaks loose. Blood is spilled. Yep, it's hard to find good help these days.

Let's put it this way - Norman Bates was safer to be around than this psycho!

Before I get chloroformed in my sleep again and forget, be sure to tune in

for the debut of my S-P-M-M radio show Thru the Spooking Glass...

starting soon exclusively here at Shady's Place Music & Memories!

LILIAC 

MEGADETH 

Alice here, in case you didn't recognize

me without the gag. It's time for me to

introduce the next two Gorgeous Ladies

of WOW! You met these Transylvanian

transplants in part one.  Today they're

back in black and ready to, in their

own words, "rock on and rock hard."

 They're the LA-based family band

Liliac featuring not one but two

G.L.O.W. nominees - lead zinger

Melody Cristea, and sister Abigail

who plays and slays on the drum kit.

The band performs their version of

a song covered in part one by UK

guitarist Sophie Burrell. Here are

the rockin' Liliac siblings doing

Megadeth's "Symphony

of Destruction!"

 

"Symphony Of Destruction"

Megadeth ciover by Liliac

(May 2021) 

ANNA ELISE 

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 

Ello, hey up and all that rot.

I'm D.I. Kate Bishop from

the BBC comedy-drama

police procedural Vexed,

a TV series set in present

day London. Join me and

my English sisters from

other misters on our new

S-P-M-M radio show

British British Swag...

Our next Gorgeous Lady

of WOW is YouTube drum

sensation Anna Elise. Anna

has been performing since

age ten. She specializes in

doing covers of hard rock

and heavy metal anthems.

Anna's channel is called MistakesHaveBeenMade

but, make no mistake, this

young woman kicks butt.

Behold Anna as she beats

her skins into submission

with a drum cover of the

Motionless In White song

"Necessary Evil!" 

"Necessary Evil" - Motionless In White drum cover

by Anna Elise aka ANNA (Nov. 2020)

Hello! I'm the lady in red (above) - Jess Parker - from the British sci-fi

TV series Primeval. I'm field coordinator of a team that battles prehistoric

and futuristic creatures that emerge from Anomalies, time/space portals,

and attack humans in London town and all around. Madcap hijinks ensue. 

Coming soon, I'll be hosting

a new show here on S-P-M-M

Tyrannosonic Radio called

Primeval Platterpus.

The records I'll play from the

60s, 70s and 80s might seem

like dinosaurs to younger

listeners but, to Boomer

ears, they're the latest

and the greatest. It's

yesterday once more! 

SOPHIE BURRELL 

AC/DC

You met this next Gorgeous lady of

WOW in part one. She's another

fine UK guitarist by the name of

Sophie Burrell. Sophie's back

to rock your world again

with an electrifying

guitar cover. 

Listen as Sophie plays along

to one of AC/DC's great rock

songs-- "Shoot To Thrill!"

"Shoot To Thrill"

AC/DC guitar cover

by  Sophie Burrell

(July 2021)

 

SERSHEN & ZARITSKAYA 

RAY PARKER JR. 

Hi, I'm Meredith Harlow, a burlesque

dancer on Reprisal, the action drama

that follows a relentless femme fatale

who, after being left for dead, leads

a vengeful campaign against a

bombastic gang of gearheads.

Fun for the whole family!

Catch me in my new role as

a DJ on the S-P-M-M radio

show M Squad coming soon!

The last of our Gorgeous Ladies of

WOW is Ukrainian rock goddess

Daria Zaritskaya. Together with

guitarist Sergey Sershen, Daria

formed the dynamic duo Sershen

& Zaritskaya. Recently, the act

expanded to a quartet with the

addition of drummer Dmitry

Kim and Alex Shturmak on

bass. To conclude Shady's

Halloween Rocktoberfest,

S & Z gives a rock make-

over to "Ghostbusters,"

OST theme song of the

1984 blockbuster movie.

"Ghostbusters OST"

Ray Parker Jr.

cover by Sershen & Zaritskaya

feat. Kim and Shturmak (Oct. 2020)

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!