smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Halfway to Paradise |
| Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:10:47 -0700 |
[Part 1 text/plain iso-8859-1 (1.3 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Jennie Barnett" <barnett@u...> wrote:
>
> Tongue in cheek or not, I must point out that the British hit version of
> "Halfway to Paradise" was by the extremely cool Billy Fury. I never
> heard
> the Tony Orlando version, and maybe Nick Lowe didn't either ...
>
> Jennie
D'oh! I feel like such a fool for not having realized this, with all the UK
chart books I have lying around! It reminds me of when I was a teenager and
some teenage relatives from Australia had come to visit. We were talking
about songs we'd been hearing on the radio, and "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"
came up. They said it was by Paper Lace, and I said, defiantly "no, it's by
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods!". Of course we were both right, because each
of these versions were hits in our respective countries, but in my teenage
naivete I argued to high heaven that they were wrong!
And it's haunted me ever since that I hadn't considered that another version
might have been a hit somewhere else...and oops, I did it again. Oh, the
agony!
However, none of this changes my original assertion that Tony Orlando & Dawn
are indeed cool!
There, I've run rings around you logically!! :-)
--
Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.