When I was a young boy I loved going to my Grandma’s house and playing her 78s however (as I mentioned before) she had only two 45rpm records of which ‘Delilah’ by Tom Jones (Song No. 20) was one and this was the other! I am sure she must have had more but that is how I remember it anyhow.
Tony Hatch who gave us, amongst other things the themes to ‘Crossroads’ and ‘Neighbours’, wrote this song and at the time I was listening to this had the ‘Simon Cowell’ role on ‘New Faces’ where he was on the panel with Mickey Most!
I recently read that the song was written following a visit to New York in the 1960s and so the references to the bright lights of ‘Downtown’ and the sidewalk finally begin to make some sense as this was huge hit in the 1960s, but I came to love and enjoy it in the 1970s when I heard it for the first time.
I have always loved the simplicity of this song and it remains a true classic to this very day. When I was alone and living with the local vicar when I arrived in Debden in 1989 to start my course at east 15 acting school, I had this on my stereo and remember playing it in the evenings after college. To be fair it was a disco version which they used to play when I used to go roller skating but hey it always makes me smile.
Enjoy the song….
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