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.

This was The Sutherland Brothers before they took up with Quiver. Only the second Scots group I could remember making the UK charts (after Marmalade) The Pie was their first – relatively minor – hit.

The Sutherland Brothers: The Pie

The Brothers version of Sailing which they wrote and Rod Stewart later took to number one can be found here.