We're featuring Gene Marshall and his lovely voice today. The song has the promising title "Patient and His Nurse". Perhaps Song-Poet Harry Fineburg was writing from personal experience, perhaps he'd been watching a few soap operas, or perhaps he was just letting his imagination run wild. I say this because, to me at least, these lyrics seem to indicate the patient - who is heard in first person in the lyrics - is quite enamored of, and seems to be at least passively hitting on, his favorite nurse.
Perhaps there is another explanation. Feel free to chime in.
Download: Gene Marshall - Patient and His Nurse
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"All That Remains" on the flip side, is a wisp of a song and lyric. Both sides of this record are padded out to an acceptable length (for a 45) by having the chirpy background singers go on at length (as well as short periods of instrumental vamping by the band), and then having Gene sing a verse he'd already sung. This is egregious even in "Patient and His Nurse", in which we have heard all of the available lyrics at the 70 second mark. In "All That Remains", we've heard every written lyric by the 49 second point, and even WITH the padding, the record is STILL only 110 seconds long.
Download: Gene Marshall - All That Remains
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You're right--these are wisps of songs. Side A has a great vocal, while side B starts out fun and just kind of peters out. Gene Marshall was so great. Thank you!!
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