When I was living in Blackburn South in the early seventies and i couldn’t afford to buy singles (sometime’s my Mum would bring me home an album-the first album I got was Abbey Road..I came home from school and it was lying on my bed..but I digress) If I wanted to hear a single in 1970 I would have to wait for it to come on the radio. Luckily popular songs came on the radio every few hours. My other option was to borrow the single from a friend. Or make friends with kids that had the record.
I can’t remember what his name was. I remember he lived on Middlesborough Road Box Hill North. He had a concrete backyard where we played cricket. And he had a record player in his room on which he played Eloise by the Barry Ryan. I loved the whole drama of the song The orchestra. The slow parts and fast parts. Very filmic. Nice guy too! he let me borrow it for a week.
Later the song was covered by The Damned and that was a good version too. We used to get people dancing to that in the Eighties. A bit goth however.
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