Robert Plant/robert Palmer.

[Tilly2]

Why can I never distinguish between these two?

[tonyav]

Here you are then, Yilly.
Great song, but I didn't know that you can make wine from lilacs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RfTsZvk4M

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Yont. I think you can make wine from any flowers really. Not that I do.
I prefer someone else to do the bare feet squashing thing.

Fabulous song.

[Tilly2]

Just listened to the version I found. It's dreadful, people singing along with her.
Yont's is better.

[tonyav]

Glad you liked it, Yilly.

[Ellipsis]

Think Animal/Vegetable/Mineral ...

Robert Plant is an animal (human), named after a vegetable (plant), who sings music named after a mineral (rock).

Does that help?

[factor-fiction]

Good evening, Tony. I've only just realised that Robert Palmer was a member of the Alan Bown Set, although it looks as if he didn't join them until after they'd recorded this great track. (So it's just a weak excuse to play one of my favourite Northern Soul tracks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgkzUqts0NQ

[factor-fiction]

I liked this Robert Plant track but have never been sure what it's about. And of course there were many Led Zep classics, especially Trampled Underfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04HjD1qGe8

[Tilly2]

I'm getting mixed up again. Plant, Palmer.

Ellipsis, A palm is a plant too so that doesn't really help. Thanks for trying though.

[Tilly2]

Mr Tilly has just seen my OP and has laughed out loud! He's said, 'You're going to get some stick for that!' How right he is.

[factor-fiction]

Some stick? A big log, more like

[Tilly2]

He did mention abuse, too.

[ladybirder]

Thanks Tilly and Tony, lovely to hear it again, she had such a distinctive voice, recognise it anywhere.

[Tilly2]

You are welcome LB. Have a listen to this, see if you like it. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX_2zkA0KA

[tonyav]

Good evening, ff, and thanks for the Northern Soul track.

My favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SAMrDnXOE

[tonyav]

Dunno what happened then, should have read my favourite Robert Palmer track.

[jeffa]

"Big log" is American trucker slang for a long stretch of highway - "red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles". RP has said more than once in interview that the song uses this as a metaphor for his insatiable sex drive.

[Tilly2]

Oh, rightho, jeffa. Thanks for that info.

(Actually I had missed Factor's clever connection. I might give him best answer)

[mastercraft]

...with Elkie Brooks (she's a singer)

And she stands up when she plays the piano!

[scorpiojo]

..in a nightclub

[Tilly2]

She wanted to be Betty Grable.