These guys had broken up by the time (1974) this European album cut got released as a Stateside single by Buddah -- I actually owned a promo copy, a treasured possession for many years --
-- and it remains one of my all time obscure faves. The lyrics are gorgeous, despite the fact (or perhaps because) English is composer Robbie van Leeuwen's second language, and the interplay between the dry, scratchy electric guitar strums and the acoustic finger-picking is just great.
And then, of course, there's that lead vocal by actual Gypsy front woman Mariska Veres...it is, as I am wont to say, to swoon.
Bottom line: I think this is as perfect a pop record as has ever been heard by sentient mammalian ears.
Coming next week: It's Serbo-Croatian Invasion Week!!! (I kid, I kid).
2 comments:
Hmmm. Can you also include Armenian Invasion Week? That way we could revisit Tonio K.
Heh.
:-)
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