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mikerhyl SUBS 24th Feb 2023
| | @ slholzer Around this time Joe and Petula were working with the Radio Revellers on Polygon who were probably on this recording too |
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Tomasz Poszwiński 21st Feb 2018
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Redpunk SUBS 12th Dec 2017
| | Added more legible scans with a nod to nanocyar. |
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bigyella 14th Feb 2017
| | Henderson's first UK chart hit, spending four weeks in the top 20 in June 1955. |
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slholzer 24th Dec 2016
| | You can hear both sides of this disc combined into one YouTube performance online. It sounds like more than three friends to me, but who really knows.
The YouTube performance probably utilized the Nixa 45 EP version, which combined the songs from P.1167 on one side and the songs from P.1184 (Sing It Again With Joe) on the other. Both 45 labels are displayed during the performance but only the songs from P.1167 are sung. Possibly there's another YouTube out there with the other side?
More legible copies of both labels from P.1167 are viewable on discogs. The tunes on Side A and their composers (Parts in brackets are added by me, the rest is as they appear on the label) are: Margie ([Benny] Davis, [Con] Conrad, illegible fourth, [J. Russel] Robinson)/I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now ([Gus} Kahn, [Ernie} Erdman, [Billy] Meyers, [Elmer] Schoebel)/Somebody Stole My Girl ([Leo] Wood.
The tunes on Side B and their composers are: Moonlight Bay ([Percy] Wenrich, [Edward] Madden)/By The Light Of The Silvery Moon ([Gus} Edwards, [Edward] Madden)/Cuddle Up A Little Closer ([Karl} Hoschna, [Otto] Harbach)
As a matter of history, there probably shouldn't be a fourth composer involved in Margie. Every source I checked listed Davis, Conrad and Robinson, nobody else. "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now" is occasionally found as labelled here, but more usually as simply "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" or "You're Nobody's..." etc., which last is the form the lyric takes on this disc. "Somebody Stole My Girl" should properly be called "Somebody Stole My Gal" and it is sung that way on the record. |
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Alan Warby 1st Jul 2013
| | Reached Number 14 in the NME charts, 3 Jun 1955. |
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LouisSidney 27th Feb 2013
| | Joe Henderson's 'Friends' were Petula Clark, Stanley Black and Alma Cogan, according to a reissue on a Sepia CD ("Partners In Music"). |
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