Song Sung Blue versions?

ken garner ken_garner@...
Sat Jun 20 15:53:53 CEST 2009


thanks, all, that's that cleared up

k

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <so_it_goes_2512@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin
> 
> Yes, I stand corrected. My memory was of JP talking about it on the 25 May 2004 show, when a listener asked him if he had sung on a Hefner session track, to which he replied that he hadn't sung on ANYTHING...apart from the AI track, which he thought he did 'pretty well'. I assumed at the time I wrote the Wiki page that this was the session: however, coupled with what he said on Peeling Back The Years (and the subsequently played recording, which is from Pinky Blue), I have to admit that he couldn't have been on both. Apologies.
> I've altered (no pun intended) my earlier comments, and direct interested parties to my TK piece on the band where I transcribed his exact words from 1987: 
> http://festive50.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/song-sung-pinky-blue/
> 
> Best wishes
> Steve [TK]
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Martin Wheatley <martinw@> wrote:
> >
> > At 04:03 19/06/2009, you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >Dear Ken
> > >
> > >The session recording on the 17 DVD torrent definitely has him on 
> > >it, as Clare Grogan mentions him by name: 'Absolutely anybody can 
> > >sing it...we're absolutely certain that John Peel could manage to 
> > >sing it. It's only a few bars left now, John: this is your big 
> > >chance', and then a rugby-type chorus eventually chimes in. In 
> > >Peeling Back The Years, JP mentions some whistling also done by him, 
> > >which is on the LP version but not the session, so it would seem he 
> > >appeared on both.
> > >Hope this helps.
> > >
> > >Best wishes
> > >Steve [TK]
> > 
> > I think that is Clare trying to persuade Peel to sing along with it in the
> > studio when the session was played rather than him being actually there
> > at the session (which he never did)
> > 
> > martinw
> >
>






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