As I was slowly passing, an Orphans Home one day ...

Billy Fury
#BillyFury&TheTornados (EP 1963)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrnN...
Song originally cut by #HankSnow in 1949 but it then appeared in Lonnie Donegan's first LP in '56 which is probably where Fury heard it - #ObscureGOLD

Words and music are all that I need
I will follow wherever they lead ...

Tony Bennett (1968)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdO7...
Tribute to #GeorgieFame, co-written (with Scott Harris) and first recorded by Blossom Dearie in '67 - #ObscureGOLD

"Dawn Yawn"

Georgie Fame
#SoundVenture (1966)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9Y...
Album cut with the #HarrySouthBigBand with song written by Fame himself - I always imagine it features him leaving the #Flamingo club in Lower Soho Chinatown in the early hours after the #AllNighter - #ObscureGOLD

I'm sad and so lonely
Let me tell you why ...

(Mickey Jupp's) Legend
#Legend (1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIa1...
Southend boy Mickey attempts to conjure up a Brit answer to those American road songs like #Route66 and comes up with #DoncasterBy-Pass - #ObscureGOLD