Alas, I can’t sing to you through the blog (and you wouldn’t
want me to anyway – I don’t even do Raglan
Road any more, just the occasional Parting
Glass.) But I can tell you this:
Back in the salad days when I used to entertain the gang on
camping trips, a favourite component of the repertoire was the old Stones
classic Ruby Tuesday. I think it was because
I was seeing my future there. My favourite recorded version wasn’t the
original, however, but the one done by Melanie in 1971. It has the tone of
insipient tragedy just about right.
And Melanie Safka came from New York. It seems that an awful lot of what’s
good comes from New York.
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