True, it is by far the inferior version, but such is the enormity of this song, it still sends the shivers down my spine. Now I apologise to our non-uk friends as they may not be familiar with this, but when I was at primary school we used to sing a couple >of songs in assembly that would make me cry. One of them was "Leaving on a jet-plane" (Don't laugh you bastards!!), don't ask me who wrote this 'cos I'm hopeless at anything pre >'77. The other was a song which I can't remember the name of, but went..... "How can you tell me, you're lonely, and say to me that the sun don't shine. Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the >streets of London, I'll show you something, that'll make you change your mind".
Assuming Adrian, your school assemblies didn't involve you lot howling out the Anti-Nowhere League's version of this song, then "Streets of London" is Ralph McTell's 1974 hit. Ralph McTell was a singer on the late sixties/early seventies folk circuit and knew Nick Drake and John Martyn and suchlike - he probably knew Sally Oldfield too pop pickers :-) "Streets of London" was his only hit, and in the early 80's he lent his deadpan drawl, and habit of wandering around with his hands in his pockets, to co-present a kids program. As mentioned before, second generation daft punksters the Anti-Nowhere League did a curaazzeee cover of "Street's of London" in 1982. It was crap... and it certainly wasn't funny. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------