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Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - the Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIDiho9gUg Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9U75YC-jA The Mills Brothers were the precursers of doo-wop and also the first great early US black...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o It has always struck me that slow doo-wop has a kind of Christmassy, hot chestnuts by the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSC0rujhwQ Howard DeVoto was of course lead singer of Manchester punk band Buzzcocks before leaving to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUqM8jf3mU Also in Manchester, a fellow student who lived in the same house as us was the divertingly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypF1N4884lQ Continuing on the literary references in pop / rock, apart from Sparks (see last post) and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGmz1nVgUE Another band who has been knocking around for years, always re-inventing their unique mix of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUk1R_fKEA Back to the amazing Scott Walker. He has a voice to die for and that would have been enough...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJEorm42vI and you still don't get it? You still don't get Jacques Brel? Well this should do the trick,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtZf62BQzM The Walker Brothers had a short string of hits in the sixties, but they all fancied...