Young And Naive. Heather rigdon cover

Billy Fury - Wondrous Place (Cottam Tongue In Cheek Rub)

Here is my homage to this wonderful song ...

Some magic by https://soundcloud.com/richardelcox
Mastering by https://soundcloud.com/xvkilist

"Don't Be Cruel" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was listed #197 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is currently ranked as the 173rd greatest song of all time, as well as the sixth best song of 1956, by Acclaimed Music.

Billy Swan, though, was 33 (and in common, seemingly, with everyone in the 70s, looked a decade older), and he did know how life could let you down. His version is of a man who's realised he's lost everything. Coming out of the chorus, an acoustic guitar picks out a woozy, dizzy descending pattern, the sound of that fall in your stomach when the realisation strikes that something awful has happened. Even as he sings "Please let's forget the past/ The future looks bright ahead," you're sure it's anything but. By the time of the marriage proposition in the final verse, virtually all the instruments have dropped out, as if Swan's now dreaming, divorced from the reality that his relationship is indisputably over. It's a record that has some of the near-hallucinatory clarity of extreme tiredness, when everything about the world looks somehow altered.

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Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel (Matija sittin' home all alone EDIT)

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