...please enjoy an absolutely blistering version of Frankie ("Sea Cruise") Ford's 1959 B-side classic "Roberta."
A song, I should add, that I mostly know from the version on The Animals 1965 album Animal Tracks.
I should also add that I don't know how I missed this album when it originally came out, but it's absolutely freaking brilliant. And both Holland -- the original keyboard genius of Squeeze and the long time host of perhaps the best pop music TV show out of England ever -- and SIR Tom Jones (I didn't know he'd been knighted) absolutely cover themselves in glory on it.
BTW, because I love you all more than food, I'm including a YouTube link to "Roberta"...
...in case you're one of those readers who have problems with the audio links from The Box I usually post.
No Nostalgia here. That just rocks like it was recorded yesterday.
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ReplyDeletetruly a match made in Heaven
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