And speaking as we were yesterday of the great Gerry Goffin and Carole King -- and in honor of Rosh Hashanah -- please enjoy, from 1964, the great Maxine Brown and the original version of Goffin and King's exquisite "Oh No, Not My Baby."
For some reason -- incipient senility, perhaps -- I was convinced King herself had a version of this on the radio in the pre-Tapestry Sixties.
Wrong! She didn't release her own performance of the song until 1980.
In any case, Good Yontiff, everybody!
POSTCRIPT: Here's Rod Stewart (with Faces) covering it in 1973.
Believe it or not, kids, there actually was a time that Rod Stewart wasn't an embarrassing asshole.
Let's make this a Goffin/King week here at Powerpop!
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Sometimes my favorite Goffin/King composition. I finally fulfilled a lifelong wish to hear Maxine Brown sing it live. She, along with several other soul singers, performs occasionally at Sid Gold's Request Room in a little boro we call Manhattan.
ReplyDeleteDave F
....fer me: TwoJews Blues is always Bloomers and Goldberg....
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