As I do whenever I feature either an Edith Hopkins composition and/or a record on her custom label (out of Emporia, Kansas), "Inner-Glo", I will again explain that Ms. Hopkins is my favorite song-poet, based on the high quality of her (large number of) best songs, and also that she was a bit of a curio in the song-poem world in that, although she used the song-poem factories, particularly Globe, it appears that she wrote all the words AND music to her songs, so she was not technically fully part of the song-poem world. Additionally, although it doesn't apply here, she also wrote and commissioned records of certain songs meant to be directed at the legitimate radio/record store/Billboard magazine world, most notably with (but not limited to), the incomparable "What's She Got (That I Ain't Got)", by Betty Jayne.
"I Don't Get Over You" is another solid piece of songwriting. And as I wrote about a previous Inner-Glo release by Kris Arden, the singer and the arranger had clearly been listening to some of the later recordings made by Patsy Cline. The flute doesn't really fit in with that description, and seems superfluous to me, but otherwise, this is countrypolitan, Cline style all the way around. The harmony vocal on the bridges is particularly nice.
Download: Kris Arden - I Don't Get Over You
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The flip side is "So You're Sorry Again", and pretty much everything I said about "I Don't Get Over You" applies here, although in this case, the unnecessary addition is a tenor sax player, whose honking is distracting and doesn't fit with the feel of the rest of the band. I don't think this is as solid a performance as the flip, but I do like a few moments of tight harmony, and it's worth a listen.
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3 comments:
Bob,
I echo your Patsy Cline sentiments. There's really no other stylistic influence at work here.
The songs are good, especially "I Don't Get Over You," a quality lyric with a nice sound.
It's kind of cool when the melodica comes in during the second verse of "So You're Sorry Again."
This is from 1966. Thank you so much for posting it.
Bob,
I echo your Patsy Cline sentiments. There's really no other stylistic influence at work here.
The songs are good, especially "I Don't Get Over You," a quality lyric with a nice sound.
It's kind of cool when the melodica comes in during the second verse of "So You're Sorry Again."
This is from 1966. Thank you so much for posting it.
My mistake! It's from 1967.
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