Not Friday on my Mind 56: There’s a Kind of Hush – RIP Les Reed
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 3 May 2019
Songwriter (well, tune writer: he collaborated with lyricists to complete his songs) Les Reed died last week.
Writing for the likes of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck, Reed was never the most credible with the rock crowd but he helped create a formidable catalogue of notable songs of the 1960s.
It’s Not Unusual, The Last Waltz, I’m Coming Home, Delilah and I Pretend all made No 1 or 2, not a bad achievement for anybody – even if these were mostly bought by Mums and Dads.
Then there’s this song from 1967 (lyric by Geoff Stephens,) and later recorded by The Carpenters.
Leslie David (Les) Reed: 24/7/1935 – 15/4/2019. So it goes.
Tags: Delilah, Friday On My Mind, Geoff Stephens, Herman's Hermits, I Pretend, I’m Coming Home, It’s Not Unusual, Les Reed, Not Friday On My Mind, The Carpenters, The Last Waltz, There’s a Kind of Hush
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[…] Many of his songs were written in collaboration with Les Reed whose Death I noted here. […]