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Kerry Lee Crabbe Memorial
Artist:
Runswick, Daryl Ray Russell
Format: CD
New: Available
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Formats and Editions
1. Sweet Old-Fashioned Thing
2. Whiskey Haze
3. The Colours Ran
4. Lying Again
5. How Come I Missed it?
6. Let Yourself Off Your Lead
7. She Got the Curves, I Got the Angles
8. One Night Stand
9. Taking and Leaving
10. Edge of the City
11. Rock 'n Roll Won't Fade Away
12. Take 3 of A Simple Song
13. True and a Lie
14. My Father's Hands
15. People Stay in Rooms
16. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
17. Sun Dance
18. Too Much to Ever Touch
19. Philosophical Song
20. I Like it Here
21. I Never Want to See Another Rose
22. Feet of Clay
23. Such a Gift, Such a Burden
24. Big Black Car
More Info:
Together with Young Man Songs (ASC ASCCD181/ASCLP003) here are nearly all the songs Kerry Lee Crabbe and Daryl Runswick wrote (and Daryl sang) which are good enough to be issued. The subject matter here is wider ranging than on Young Man Songs: love songs, but also family, heroes and antiheroes, zen, celebration, nostalgia, philosophy, life and death. Daryl Runswick writes: "I first set Kerry Lee Crabbe's words to music in 1967; for the last time in 2010. Our most prolific period was 1970-1980 during which time we had considerable success as a songwriting team, though we didn't have big hits. The pinnacle for us was when Cleo Laine recorded a whole album of our songs (One More Day: well worth looking out for on vinyl or CD). There are a number of reasons for our lack of hits: songwriting was for neither of us our main job - not 'the principal source of his revenue' as Paul Simon put it (One Trick Pony) - we did it in our spare time. Also, neither of us had any interest in being an entrepreneur, nor did we employ a manager to push the songs; also, perhaps we were snobs who disdained moneygrubbing; but perhaps the main reason was that these are art songs: art songs in the style of pop music, yes, but not aimed (other than tangentially) at the commercial market. We'd have loved to have hits but that's not why we did it and we didn't bother overmuch flogging our wares around. Kerry and I were introduced to one another as undergraduates at Cambridge University. Kerry had written the book and lyrics for a musical (Someone is Squeaking) and I was instructed by Clive James, then President of the Footlights Club where I was Musical Director, to compose the songs. It was put on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1967 with Julie Covington in the lead role. Kerry directed and I was musical director, playing piano in the accompanying trio. After that summer I went down to London to be a jazz bass player while Kerry had a further year at Trinity College, Cambridge. After he came down, we got together again and continued making songs. "Email Signup
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