BUT NOW I KNOW
Created on 23/11/2021Latest update on 17/07/2023
Artist: Noel Purcell
Author: Philip Green
Label: EMI/Bagatelle
Year: 1973
B-side of The Filly With The Long Black Mane, also written by Philip Green. Noel was an Irish actor, big enough to grace his own (50 Irish cents) postage stamp. Noel sang this at the age of 73, with a last verse climaxing in the line: One Hope is worth a thousand memories, left aside in Gabin's English version.
Covers:
- 1974:
Jean Gabin [as Maintenant je sais, translated by Jean-Loup Dabadie; top 3 Fr & hit B; French actor Gabin was 70 and also covered the English version in '75]
- 1974:
Anton Peters [Flemish actor as Ik Heb Geleerd; at the age op 51]
- 1974:
Ko van Dijk [Dutch actor as Nu Weet Ik Het; at the age of 58]
- 1975:
Heinz Rühmann [as Ich weiss; at the age of 73]
- 2005:
Lex Nelissen [idem; at the age of 56]
- 2012:
Annie Cordy [as Maintenant je sais; at the age of 84]
