A Son of the Rock

I remember Barclay James Harvest – one of the long gone Stuart Henry‘s favourites – from Early Morning, their first single, onwards.

It wasn’t till I finally bought the album Everyone Is Everybody Else that I realised that the jingle which Henry used to play on his Saturday morning Radio 1 show,
“So goodbye, pleased to know you,
We had some laughs along the way,
But I have to be leaving,
And there’s nothing you can do to make me stay,”
came from the track Poor Boy Blues.

I’m Over You is from 1972, around the time when their record deal with EMI’s Harvest label (which was said to be named after them – though that may be an urban myth) was running down.

It gained some airplay (Johnnie Walker’s record of the week I think) but sank almost without trace.

It’s one of those songs where the lyric seems to be saying the opposite of its apparent meaning.

I haven’t been able to find a video for this but I did find a site where you can play the track. The link leads to it.

Barclay James Harvest – I’m Over You