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  • 18-10-2008 11:45pm
    #1
    getting worse
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭


    Hi boards, don't know where else to turn, in fact don't even know where I should post this. I am looking for the name of a song and artists.
    (A particular song and artist)
    It is a well known song play on late night shows, a nice weepy song about a guy writing to his girl friend in England asking does she
    "still need television to send her fast asleep" and "how are your friends in England" and "oh by the way how is your broken heart" the song goes on and refers to "Robert Browning" and how he must have felt when he wrote a certain line.

    The singer is male american. I know I should know this one but I just cann't the title of the song or the singer.

    Anyone?


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I know the song OP it also has the words '' keats and william wordsworth '' and '' i miss you , i really do '' in it .Am i right ? ..bare with me :)

    It might be the late Dan Fogleberg .


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    #3
    getting worse
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭getting worse


    hi latchyco thats the right song alright.

    Note to modes I only now see that you have a special tread for this type of query. sorry for not using it can you transfer this to the right home.


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    delbertgrady
    Registered Users Posts: 4,737 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    It's called Home Thoughts from Abroad and it's by Clifford T. Ward, from his album Home Thoughts, released in 1973. Not an American, Ward was English - born in Worcestershire in 1944. He died from pneumonia in 2001 after a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis.
    Home Thoughts from Abroad (the song) is probably most readily available on a compilation CD, Gaye and Other Stories, although Home Thoughts (the original album) may still be available on CD.

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    #5
    getting worse
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    delbertgrady, thank you very much. Boards comes through again.


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    delbertgrady wrote: »
    It's called Home Thoughts from Abroad and it's by Clifford T. Ward, from his album Home Thoughts, released in 1973. Not an American, Ward was English - born in Worcestershire in 1944. He died from pneumonia in 2001 after a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis.
    Home Thoughts from Abroad (the song) is probably most readily available on a compilation CD, Gaye and Other Stories, although Home Thoughts (the original album) may still be available on CD.
    Actually cant believe i forgot that cos he came into my head after i logged out last night and he had that distingtive voice to .Remember he had a hit with ' Your a lady ' .Think his lyrics were more poetic than pop .


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    delbertgrady
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    I think you're thinking of You're a Lady by Peter Skellern, which is a similar vintage. Clifford's (other) best known song is probably Gaye, which was also on the original Home Thoughts album.

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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Ah yes of course .Funny how the two had similar styles and voices and 'your a lady ' charted around the same time as ' Gaye ' hence the confusion .Listening to the late american singer Dan Fogleberg reminds me of that type songwriting / singing and i know one of the other two also died a year or two ago


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