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This is a fabulous piece of music. I also first heard Karl Denver's version back in the early 60s. Obviously back in the 30s to the 60s it certainly was the wild west and some of todays publishing houses were built very differently. I know of latin songwriters with now very famous standards selling off literally piles of songs/music to major publishers in NY. It was obviously a very different world then and accepted practice. I found an article that seems to explain the background of this song very well....   Wimoweh. For the last 50 years, that happy little...

SCOTT WALKER - JACKIE 1967 ***** A work of art from Jacques Brel -w- lyrics by Mort Schumann. This was originally banned by the BBC (how times have changed) :) @RVMediaGB 

You've Really Got A Hold On Me · The Miracles

written by Smokey Robinson it became a 1962 Top 10 hit. One of the Miracles' most covered tunes.....

Manfred Mann Pretty Flamingo Mark Barkan's superb song about being in London 1966. More below video... The song became a hit in 1966 when Manfred Mann's recording of it was released as a single. and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 5 May 1966. The recording features future Cream bassist Jack Bruce, who briefly joined the band in 1965. The original demo of the song was recorded by noted New York City vocalist Jimmy Radcliffe stylized for The Drifters, but songwriter Mark Barkan was dissatisfied with the overly produced results and had Radcliffe recut the song with a...