Fool if you think it's over-Chris Rea

[buffaloboro]

There is an interesting cover of this song and I've posted the link. Read the information given by the up loader ( Jorge m)- basically there was a huge legal wrangle in the USA re both versions. I tried to copy what was written on you tube but I couldn't.
I think this is a better version.. Any thoughts?

 

[Muttley]

That is dreadful, horrible. It adds nothing to the original and is more like pastiche than reinterpretation

Accept no substitute

 

[buffaloboro]

Ha, I think it's a bit clearer, try to read the article about it. They would have been released in the USA at the same time. Rea never made it in the USA, I don't think he wanted to tour over here

 

[Hicktonpen10]

Didn't Elkie Brooks sing it as well

 

[Malaguena]

Whatever happened to Benny Santini is a magnificent album

 

[buffaloboro]

Didn't Elkie Brooks sing it as well

I think she did.

 

[buffaloboro]

 

[Muttley]

now that is a decent cover, it sounds like it came out of Motown or Philly lovely vibe.

 

[stjohn]

Much prefer the original.

 

[buffaloboro]

You're obviously anti-american

 

[spanishman]

Whatever happened to Benny Santini is a magnificent album

A little bit of trivia for you about that album. My brother, who is no longer with us, was a roadie for Chris Rea. Both before and after Chris was signed to a record deal.

He had an agreement that if Chris made an album my brother would get a playing credit on it. So he got a credit on one of the tracks on that album. For percussion (clams). Apparently this was a reference to his loud and smelly farts in the van when they were going to gigs.

 

[Erimus74]

Class record from our Chris

 

[buffaloboro]

A little bit of trivia for you about that album. My brother, who is no longer with us, was a roadie for Chris Rea. Both before and after Chris was signed to a record deal.

He had an agreement that if Chris made an album my brother would get a playing credit on it. So he got a credit on one of the tracks on that album. For percussion (clams). Apparently this was a reference to his loud and smelly farts in the van when they were going to gigs.

Sorry to hear about your brother , may I ask if it was financially worthwhile?

 

[Erimus74]

A little bit of trivia for you about that album. My brother, who is no longer with us, was a roadie for Chris Rea. Both before and after Chris was signed to a record deal.

He had an agreement that if Chris made an album my brother would get a playing credit on it. So he got a credit on one of the tracks on that album. For percussion (clams). Apparently this was a reference to his loud and smelly farts in the van when they were going to gigs.

Sorry to hear that spanishman

 

[spanishman]

Sorry to hear that spanishman

It was a few years ago now. He is still with me on the golf course though. As I have a pitch mark repairer and ball marker that I got from Romanby Golf Club. The day after we had been in England for the funeral.

My brother and I used to play at Romanby with my wife in the 90s. When we were back from London to visit my parents. When all 3 of us were beginners.

 

[WindyNook]

Sorry Buffalo great song gash version.
Saw him first perform it as support act for Lindisfarne at their Christmas concert in 1978.
Seen him many times since the last time was at the Sage just a week before he collapsed on stage in Oxford December 2017. Been trying on and off since then to find out how he's getting on but news is hard to come by

 

[Hicktonpen10]

Sorry Buffalo great song gash version.
Saw him first perform it as support act for Lindisfarne at their Christmas concert in 1978.
Seen him many times since the last time was at the Sage just a week before he collapsed on stage in Oxford December 2017. Been trying on and off since then to find out how he's getting on but news is hard to come by

He was on the Mortimer and Whitehouse fishing show recently

 

[spanishman]

Sorry to hear about your brother , may I ask if it was financially worthwhile?

As far as I know all he got was a bag of kudos.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

I had no idea it was a Chris rea song.

 

[spanishman]

As far as I know all he got was a bag of kudos.

My brother had loads of stories from his trips around the world with Chris. Plus we got quite a few free tickets to watch Chris when he was playing in London.