Vabosity's Third Anniversary Review Of The Thread - Post #19.
I’ve been looking through the thread and I’ve noticed a number of excellent tracks by singer-songwriters, so I’ve chosen five of them for this post.
Neil Diamond - Cherry Cherry (1967)
First submitted to the thread in June 2010.
Neil Diamond didn’t achieve any commercial success in the UK until the seventies, but I tend to prefer his sixties output. My all time favourite Neil Diamond track is the 1966 classic,
Solitary Man, a track that Rob also likes a great deal, so much so, in fact, that it’s featured in his original post to the thread. I’ve decided, however, not to include
Solitary Man in this post, and have instead chosen the almost as wonderful
Cherry Cherry (also first submitted to the thread by Rob), because in a post that also features Leonard Cohen, I think we need at least one up tempo song.
Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On to a Dream? (1966)
First submitted to the thread in June 2010.
The late Tim Hardin’s most famous composition was
If I Were A Carpenter, a song which reached the UK top ten twice, initially for Bobby Darin in 1966, and then for the Four Tops in 1968. Tim Hardin’s own version of the song has been submitted to the thread, but I’ve chosen another of his songs for this post, and when you listen to this utterly exquisite track you’ll know why.
Laura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues (1966)
First submitted to the thread in July 2010.
Laura Nyro is perhaps the least well known of the five singer-songwriters mentioned in this post, but she wrote some brilliant songs and I like her music immensely. Deciding which of my two favourite Laura Nyro tracks,
Wedding Bell Blues (successfully covered by the Fifth Dimension in 1969) or
Stoney End (successfully covered by Barbra Streisand in 1971) I should include in this post, was a difficult task, but I eventually chose the former, although I haven’t ruled out featuring the latter in a future
Third Anniversary Review post.
Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning (1969)
First submitted to the thread in August 2010.
One of her earliest songs, written when she was living in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City.
Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am (1969)
First submitted to the thread in April 2012.
Let’s follow one great Canadian singer-songwriter with another. My all time favourite Leonard Cohen track is one entitled
The Partisan, which was originally released on his acclaimed 1969 album,
Songs From A Room, and which you’ll find in Post #540 on Page 22 of the thread. As
The Partisan is not a Leonard Cohen composition I thought it would be inappropriate to include it in this post. Instead I’ve chosen another fine song from the same album, one that Leonard Cohen did actually write.