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Artist: Bob Bishop
Author: Bobby Sykes/Wayne Walker
Label: ABC
Year: 1968
Real name: Bishop Sykes. There's a Mount Rose (ski resort) near Reno. There's a Czech song from 1960, Vcera nedèle byla by Pavlina Filipovska (on Supraphon), melodically similar but not enough for the authors of Roses To Reno to get worried about.
Covers:
Jimmy Frey [n°1 VL as Rozen Voor Sandra; lyrics by Nelly Byl; he also cut a French and a Spanish version]
Ronnie Tober [idem]
Jacques Herb [melodically similar to Een Man Mag Niet Huilen]
André van Duin [as Rozen Voor Sandra]
In the year of Jimmy Frey's hit, a year Bruges became Belgian soccer champion, supporters of F.C. Brugge sang this song as Breng Die Rozen Naar Standard. Jimmy's Spanish version was n°1 in Spain and his French version hit the French top 10.
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)