Righteous Ray
Jul. 3rd, 2010 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI'm listening to my Righteous Brothers anthology at the moment. I hadn't realized how many older songs they covered: "The White Cliffs of Dover" (which I didn't know was written as a song of hope in the dark days of the Blitz), "Ebb Tide", "That Lucky Old Sun", and quite a few others.
On a whim, I looked up that last song in Wikipedia. It's been covered quite a bit, notably by Ray Charles - and I'd love to hear that version. I see that the relevant album, "Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul", has been rereleased in a double CD, along with "Have a Smile for Me". I shall have to put that one on my list.
(On the subject of covers: I finally got around to listening to my Roy Clark album. There was only one song on it whose title I recognized - "Yesterday When I Was Young". Imagine my surprise when the very first song on the album, "Tips of My Fingers", suddenly began to sound familiar. I struggled to recall where I'd heard it, and it finally hit me: I have a cover by reggae master Desmond Dekker. Very interesting, and not a pair of artists one would normally link....)
On a whim, I looked up that last song in Wikipedia. It's been covered quite a bit, notably by Ray Charles - and I'd love to hear that version. I see that the relevant album, "Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul", has been rereleased in a double CD, along with "Have a Smile for Me". I shall have to put that one on my list.
(On the subject of covers: I finally got around to listening to my Roy Clark album. There was only one song on it whose title I recognized - "Yesterday When I Was Young". Imagine my surprise when the very first song on the album, "Tips of My Fingers", suddenly began to sound familiar. I struggled to recall where I'd heard it, and it finally hit me: I have a cover by reggae master Desmond Dekker. Very interesting, and not a pair of artists one would normally link....)
