On Monday I was in Henley-on-Thames for reasons that I won't bore you with. There was lots of activity as the folks down there were preparing for the annual rowing regatta which starts next week. As a tribute to them, and in the absence of any other ideas for a post, here are two songs with "row" in the title.
The first song ties in with Walter's post from yesterday in an attempt to turn this into The Congos Week on the world of blogs (please join in). I have also bunged in a wonderfully wonky Thai version of the second as a special treat for you all.
"Row Fisherman Row" - The Congos
"The Boat That I Row" - Lulu
"The Boat That I Row" - Sodsai Chaengkij
In my previous post I made the foolish mistake of offending Alyson by taking the mickey out of Lulu's ex and his brothers and her favourite ever love song. I have no wish to be on the wrong side of the Queen of the Blogging Scene, so to make amends here are the lads with what may be my two personal favourites from their catalogue. I hope you enjoy them more than the audience in the first clip.
The Sodsai Chaengkij version of TBTIR is now my second favourite. Toptastic!!
ReplyDeleteYou might also enjoy this Portuguese language version from Brazil:
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I hadn't realised until I looked it up at Second Hand Songs that it is a Neil Diamond song.
Oh thankyou Ernie - I love that first song by the Bee Gees too. It was the song Barry and Robin wrote together after healing their rift. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAs for being the Queen of Blogging, I think not. I would have to be far more prolific with my posts. Still enjoy the community though.
Just to balance things up, taking the mickey out of the Bee Gees is fine with me. Lulu's version of Boat That I Row is stellar.
ReplyDeleteI actually meant to say, I also love Lulu's version of The Boat That I Row. It was on the B-side of To Sir With Love in the US, the song that ended up the best-seller of 1967 over there. In the UK, for some reason, To Sir With Love was only a B-side so didn't bother our charts at all. Could be my favourite Lulu song of all and I rewatch the film every now and again just to hear it in context. Ironically Lulu looks older in it than she does now! The styles of the times.
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