Huh? What happened to doors 1 to 9?
I decided recently I
would attempt another Feel It Advent-ure this year - a post a day for
every day on the advent calendar. Crazy, considering I haven't even
been able to muster a post a month this year so far!
And it was indeed a
crazy idea. Inhabiting my newly retired world it is quite commonplace
for me to lose track of which day of the week it is, but I have now
taken it a stage further – it was the 3rd before I even realised it
was December! In all honesty I secretly breathed a sigh of relief –
24 days and 24 posts was a bit of a stretch for a blog that has
seemed itself to be flirting with retirement.
The Feel It mini Advent-ure start here!
But now here we are –
the 10th of December – a Tuesday I believe – and I am
feeling a bit guilty about how easily I slipped into the do nothing
approach here after a false start to the month. So today I present
the first day of the 2019 Feel It Mini Advent-ure. Surely I can
manage 15 days in a row?
I found this Chuck
Jackson single in a record shop £1 box recently. I was buying a
handful of other singles so in the end this one was essentially
thrown in for free. I didn't know its value but I knew there were
some desirable releases on the Red/Yellow Pye Intl label, so I had a
hunch it was a bargain. I think it was in the £1 box because the
intro sounded completely trashed, but a good clean has improved it no
end. Discogs has a median price of £21 on this, so it is indeed a
bargain.
Research tells me that
Chuck Jackson was the first to have a hit with this song, written in
1962 by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard, and possibly also the
first to record it. It has subsequently been recorded by many other
artists and I thought I remembered featuring Percy Sledge's version
here before, I checked, and sure enough I did back in 2008 – on
Christmas Eve. So it seems that “Any Day Now” has developed into
something of a Christmas song for me.
*originally released in
the UK on Stateside
3 comments:
I love this song and Chuck's version is near the top. I think on a par with Elvis' and just behind Scott Walker's.
Good to have you back Darcy
Meant to say my copy is on Wand, hadn't realised it had been released on Pye
Glad to be back Drew, we'll see how long the mojo lasts this time!
The original UK release on Stateside apparently has a version of The Prophet sung by Ed Bruce, not Chuck. A mess up in the mastering department no doubt.
Maybe that is why it got a re release on Pye, where it is clearly Chuck singing.
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