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For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler and the Impressions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3N7v2AhO5E There are many examples of groups suddenly suddenly discovering that one of their number is now being credited as the leader with the rest consigned to the nominal role of backing singers or band: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Eric Burden and the Animals, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and so on. And there are often many different reasons for this, not always the ones that Ross, Burden, Harley and co give. While groups such as Tommy

Friday on My Mind - the Easybeats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSowZcvoqr4 I confess that I had never heard of Snowy Fleet (real name Gordon Henry Fleet) until he died on February 17th of this year. He was drummer for the Australian band the Easybeats which had one huge hit in the UK and the US in 1966, and pretty much nothing else in either country. But what a hit: "Friday on My Mind" is one of those anthemic songs that sums up a state of mind recognised by ordinary people that is universal. As much as an

The Gypsy Faerie Queen - Marianne Faithfull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwbCZ5mDZWM Marianne Faithfull's 1978 album "Broken English" (see last post) included three tracks co-written by her and on her next album after that all 9 tracks bar one were co-written by her. Thereafter Faithfull's next thirteen studio albums consisted mainly of tracks in which she was cowriter, providing the words with others composing the music, with the exception of four LPs deliberately dedicated to recording covers: "Rich Kid Blues", "