Soothe Me - Sam and Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN1WNlC2mE Sam and Dave were, thus far, the greatest soul duet ever. Sam Moore died on January 10th...
You were on my Mind - Crispian St. Peters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOKZleJejw I used to do one other nearly solo performance in our Reigate singing sessions if they went...
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2m--R3J6f4 For 10 years, when I was in my twenties, I played a kamikaze wing forward for Reigate Rugby Club, the motley local rivals to the more "respectable" grammar school old boy team of Old Reigatians. As well as occasionally beating them, we were also proud of the fact that we could outdrink them and outsing them. While the former was often disputed, there was never any question about the latter. Reigate RFC was blessed with a number of
The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbZ413-78ok In my last post I suggested that Brenton Wood's best song by far was "Gimme Little Sign"....
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79LIAy_qp8 Haydn (?Hofstetter) String Quartet Op. 3 No 5. We may never know for sure Who wrote that...
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_MTXQALa0 Way back in 1974, the brilliant and hilarious satirical songwriter and mathematician Tom...
Tin Man - America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGl4PP9xaaQ Another lyric mis-hearing (see others in recent posts on "Angel Mine" and "Angel of the...
Angel Mine - Cowboy Junkies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2aNnij82U Another mis-hearing (see "Angel of the Morning post for 30th December), or rather , in this...
Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfVDxF9NJ8 According to the Shorter Oxford English dictionary 1983 edition, an angel is: "a ministering...
Angel of the Morning - P.P. Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchEYeJw7E0 In 1967, when I was twelve, my distorted perspective on modern romance and the much...
