Smooth Joe

It is a miserable day here in London. Half the buses are on strike, half the tubes aren't running, my team lost and it's raining. How better to soothe the troubled brow than with some smooth Latin soul from Mr Joe Bataan. Both these tracks are from 1970's "Singin' Some Soul" album.

"Unwed Mother"

"Cowboys To Girls"

There are a lot of great musical Joes - Tex, Simon, Ely and Shirimani to name just four. But the coolest daddy of them all is Joe Dolan. There is a fantastic clip of him in his prime doing "You're Such a Good Lookin' Woman" here. If that is one click too far for you, here he is in his experimental disco period:



And speaking of cool Daddies:



Or even better (watch out for top Den Hegarty nonsense in this one):