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yesterday's gone
(WAS 2002, summer
1964)
A Summer Song
(2:38)
Now and Forever
(1:45)
Dirty Old Town
(3:04)
Like I Love You Today
(2:38)
September in the Rain
(2:30)
Yesterday's Gone
(2:29)
If She Was Mine
(2:03)
Willow Weep for Me
(2:33)
Only for the Young
(2:55)
Too Soon My Love
(2:28)
The Truth Often Hurts the Heart
(2:49)
No Tears for Johnny
(2:58)
CHAD
RECALLS:
This was our very first attempt. An
exciting time because everything was so new. To his great credit, John Barry not
only approved my very first song, (Yesterday's Gone) as our first single, but he
also let me arrange it. Wow! heady stuff for a green young musician just out of
college.
We never thought Summer Song could
possibly be a single. It was just a pretty, romantic song. Or so we thought . .
. you never can tell, can you?
We were
just a couple of folkies really, even though I played in rock bands to pay the
rent. And the concept of doing the odd ballad now and then was validated by
McCartney's singing "Till there was you". All in all, it made for quite a grab
bag of styles. Two characters in search of a musical
identity!
But the really scary part was yet to
come. After you've written a hit song, what happens next? You write another one,
at least that's the theory. After getting lucky two times in a row, I started to
feel like I was on a surfboard for the first time having caught a wave entirely
by accident. Everyone's watching and I have no idea what to do next! "Come on
kid! Write another hit!" Not as easy as you might
think.
WHERE TO FIND IT:
The best source for these tracks is an out-of-print
German CD, on Repertoire Records, called Sing For You/Second
Album , which includes every World Artists master take except "Only
for the Young". It is on a 1992 Canadian Polytel Elite CD called Sing For You.
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