My main present for Christmas 1973 was a cassette recorder and I was soon busy taping music off the radio. I remember recording the year's top 60 singles, stopping the tape every time Peters and Lee put in an appearance.
And I remember taping a snatch of this record from a trailer for a Radio One programme. Looking at BBC Genome, it must have been for the edition of Sounds on Sunday broadcast on 6 January 1974.
I had no idea what the song was or who the singer was, but I thought it was wonderful.
Whispering Grass was made famous by The Ink Spots in the 1940s and was to reach the top of the charts in 1975 thanks to Windsor Davies and Don Estelle.
These two were playing their characters from the comedy It Ain't Half Hot Mum. One day I will write a post offering a limited defence of that show.
Later, like all sensible people, I came to worship Sandy Denny's singing. Despite the appearance of biographies, though, her life and character remain opaque.
1 comment:
i remember her from Fairport Convention and Fotheringay and when she went solo. Who knows where the time goes, I believe her best AND it has been covered by so many artists.Sad she had to die at a young age.
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