Tower of Strength - Gene McDaniels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyitdO740c Gene McDaniels was one of the many MOR pop /soul singers making a quiet living in the US in the early sixties, until the British Invasion, spearheaded by the Beatles, effectively reducing them to musical also-rans.. (Others, for interest, included Garnett Mims, Chuck Jackson and even the wonderful Ben E,. King). He did have later success as a songwriter though, penning Roberta Flack's third and final US number one, "Feel Like Makin'
Compared to What - Roberta Flack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk9Lsy_yQ A severe attack of polymalgia rheumatica (a form of arthritis) that has lasted since just before Christmas till now has curtailed my keyboard time, but now the purchase of a new computer-friendly chair and a course of steroids has eased the keyboard pain. As a result I'm now almost exactly a year behind my remembrance of the musical troubadours queueing up at St Peter's gates. And there's plenty to get through, which I'm going to vi
