Artist: Left Banke
Author: Michael Brown/Bob Calilli/Tony Sansone
Label: Smash
Year: 1966
Young New York band (age average: 18) with Michael Lookofski (alias: Michael Brown), representing the American answer on the softer side of Beatles & Stones; the cello & harpsichord-side, more Michelle and Lady Jane than Helter Skelter and Sympathy For The Devil.
Covers:
Sylvie Vartan [as Quand un amour renait]
Truth [first cover in English]
Four Tops [n°3 UK, top 20 US]
Arrows [released in '06]
Björgvin Halldórsson [hit in Iceland as Pó Lidi Ar Og Öld]
Billy Bragg [with Johnny Marr on guitar; in fact it's he who follows the melody; (spoken) lyrics are Billy's own]
About Renée Fladen-Kamm, Left Banke bassist Tom Finn's girlfriend at the time, also adored by keyboard player and coauthor Michael Brown. The real Renée attended the original recording session.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)