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If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Billy Joe Royal
Author: Joe South
Label: Columbia
Year: 1967
Who also cut Joe South's Down In The Boondocks and I Knew You When. Produced by the author.
Covers:
Somebody's Image [hit down under]
Kris Ife [inspiring Deep Purple]
Deep Purple [top 5 US]
Jimmy Frey [in Dutch]
Johnny Hallyday [as Mal]
Joe South [author]
Blue Swede [in medley with I'm Alive (see there)]
Russell Morris & The Rules [Somebody's Image lead singer solo; again hit Aus]
Santa Esmeralda [title track lp]
Prisoners [on Don't Let The Hope Close Down]
Dan Baird [with Joe South on second voice]
Joe South also wrote Games People Play, Walk A Mile In My Shoes, Down In The Boondocks and above all Rose Garden. He once confessed Hush's lyrical idea was inspired by an old gospel: Hush, Somebody's Calling My Name, credited to Hendricks/Young/Otis and cut by the Galilee Singers ('45), Golden Gate Quartet ('46), Brother Joe May ('58), Jackie Verdell ('62) and the Supreme Angels ('69).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)