Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 3 July 2015
The reason I was googling The Left Banke last week was because I finally stumbled across an embeddable file of the version of Walk Away Renee that I actually bought. The one by The Truth.
The B-side, Fly Away Bird, is fairly stripped down.
The Truth: Fly Away Bird
Just for completeness here’s the A-side. There’s much more production on this.
The Truth: Walk Away Renee
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 26 June 2015
I’ve just been googling The Left Banke again and discovered that their bassist Michael Brown passed away on 19th March this year.)
He was a co-writer of Walk Away Renee (which I featured here) but this song, Pretty Ballerina, was all his.
The Left Banke : Pretty Ballerina
Michael Brown (Michael David Lookofsky): 25/4/1949 – 19/3/2015. So it goes.
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 19:02 on 30 April 2010
Walk Away Renee is another underestimated 1960s gem.
I bought The Truth’s cover version of this song before I learned it was a cover. (I knew there were other versions around at the time but it wasn’t until years later that I discovered it had first been done by The Left Banke.) I’m featuring the original, as The Truth’s recording isn’t on You Tube.
Walk Away Renee was of course a biggish hit later for the Four Tops but they overplayed it. Levi Stubbs was just too shouty for a delicate flower like this.
Anyway here is The Left Banke: Walk Away Renee
