Monday, January 30, 2012

When You Put This Song In Your Cassette...

This is another one of those weeks when there's too much on my plate to say much about the offering of the week, but like the U. S. Mail, I'm dedicated to delivering as promised. So here's the Queen of MSR, Bobbi Blake, with a song with an intriguing line in the middle of its lyric. "When you put this song in your cassette, you can bet I'll be gone". Was the writer of this lyric having her song commissioned primarily as a way of breaking up with her beau? It seems at least possible, given the lyric! Here's "Put On": 

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The most intriguing thing about the flip side of this record, "Say it With a Smile" (by the same song-poet, by the way), is that the billing is for "Bobbie Blake", rather than "Bobbi Blake". This occurred from time to time on MSR singles, but I don't think I've seen both spellings, one each on either side of a 45, other than on this record:

 

2 comments:

Stu Shea said...

I do enjoy her singing. "Put On" really ain't bad!

Bryan Harwell said...

"Put On" is actually good. It sounds like an unreleased Captain and Tennille record. Like, at the end of the session they decided to release "Muskrat Love" instead.