Friday on my Mind 236: Smokey Blue’s Away
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 16 August 2024
A real forgotten track this.
The tune is of course based on a melody from the Largo section of Dvořák’s New World symphony, a theme also used for Goin’ Home.
I believe Smokey Blue’s Away got to something like no 38 in the UK charts in 1968.
1970s chart followers might recognise the singer’s voice though.
A New Generation were in fact an earlier incarnation of the Sutherland Brothers (later The Sutherland Brothers Band and then The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.)
A New Generation: Smokey Blue’s Away
I noticed from the last link above that Iain Sutherland died in 2019. I missed that at the time.
Iain George Sutherland: 17/11/1948 – 25/11/2019. So it goes.
