Sunday, August 9, 2015

Song(s) of the Day # 567 Delaney & Bonnie


Friends of the stars. Clapton, Duane Allman and George Harrison were in the band at various points. They also toured with Blind Faith and The Plastic Ono Band. Very much mired in a particular time and place, but these choices still sound just fine to me. I think theirs was the original version of the song The Carpenters made big with Superstar, here rather less romantically entitled Groupie. I prefer this version. A yearning, painful song.


Here's a third selection. I think you can hear the germs of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours sound here. The track's got pretty much everything. A thing of beauty. Sadly, it was not meant to last and the band split when the pair's relationship ended in the early seventies.




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