[bomp] Billy Stewart

[NankerPhlg@xxxxxxx]

<<< I've got a Billy Stewart greatest-hits  album on right now, and yes, it 
has its weak moments, but give him a powerful  piece of music like the three 
songs mentioned above...two of which he wrote...and he shone like Klondike gold, 
baby...>>>

I love the bass player's gaffe in 'I Do Love You.'  Almost the whole song's 
bassline is: 
GGG...AAA...BBB...AAA... over and over and over again. Very easy right?  Well 
at one point the bassist skips a bar and it takes him a few bars to realize 
that he's a little ahead of the others. Listen for it.

I only know a handful of his songs, but most of them I liked enough to go buy 
the 45. I remember the first time I heard "Sitting In The Park" on the radio 
when I was 17 (thinking it was 'Sitting In the BAR'), and liking it a lot, but 
I didn't catch who the artists was (though I did get the correct title. Now 
today of course we can just do an internet check and find out, or post in 
here...but this was 1987, and it was by chance I finally found out (I was at 
college at the time, and none of my other fellow 17 year olds knew the song when I 
asked "Anyone know a song that goes "Sitting...in the park...waiting for 
Yoooooooooooooooo"...that last word usually getting me strange looks)...I was 
reading a Boston freebie (I was living in Boston at the time) and read a review of 
someone's live show, and the reviewer mentioned that this guy had done a 
version of "Billy Stewart's chestnut "Sitting In The Park."...That was all I needed, 
and I think I was immediately on my way to the record store (which was the 
next block).

Yeah, remember the pre-internet days when if you wanted to find out who did a 
certain record, you really had to make a concentrated effort?

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