Today, I thought I'd get another pair of previously unavailable Rodd Keith songs out there into the ether. In this case, he's heard in his guise as Rod Rogers with the Film City Orchestra. However, these tracks offer up the proof that even Rodd Keith had his fairly awful days. If you previously thought (assuming that you thought about it) that it wasn't possible to be lugubrious and unctuous at the same time, these two tracks should disabuse you of that notion.
I'd offer up thought that "well, what could he have done with these lyrics", except that he did so much better, so many times, with equally unpromising lyrics.
First up is "Never". The most interesting thing here, to me, is this: although the track is dominated, as Film City releases always were, by the Chamberlin, this particular track appears to also have a real live piano part on it, and not the "piano" as heard on the Chamberlin (which was, in today's parlance, a extremely canned "sample" of a piano). I don't remember hearing so much real piano on many Film City releases.
Download: Rod Rogers with the Film City Orchestra - Never
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The flip side is "Francesca", the less said about which, the better.
Download: Rod Rogers with the Film City Orchestra - Francesca
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Yeah, these are certainly not Rodd at his best. I was listening to some better records of his tonight and was wondering about something. I really enjoy the saxophone work on some of the Preview records. Do we have any confirmation as to who played saxophone on these? Is it Rodd himself? I know he did at least play the instrument to some degree.
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