Comments on: PERRY COMO - “Magic Moments”

By: rosie

rosie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:27:38 +0000

Ah, now Wichita, that’s interesting: Catch a falling star seems much more familiar to me from childhood than Magic Moments (not that the latter wasn’t familiar). I didn’t know it was a B-side.

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:10:06 +0000

B-side alert: Catch A Falling Star, another swaddling-cosy number. “Love may come and tap your shoulder” - ah, so THAT’S how it feels!

Bacharach and David didn’t even make the US Top 20 with Magic Moments or The Story Of My Life. Maybe they thought they owed us one when they gave Alfie to Cilla.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:54 +0000

*mega-sigh*

Yes…I’m about five years away from being asked by the nice man in the white coat if I know the name of the Prime Minister…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:12:33 +0000

And still in correction mode: “Tiger Feet”/”Devil Gate Drive”.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:18:40 +0000

If we’re in correction mode, I’ll also say “Bad To Me” not for.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:07:56 +0000

Whoops - my mistake; production only, in which case George Martin etc. would also count…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:53:50 +0000

Really! Wow - writing as well as production?

I used to have a big list (photocopied from an edition of the Good Book) of writing credits on #1s but it got lost in the house move.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:46:30 +0000

Chinn and Chapman, yes - “Tiger Feet” followed by “Can The Can.”

Also the late eighties writing and production team of whom you are doubtless thinking managed THREE in a row. And they managed another two in a row on top of that.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:26 +0000

Did Chinn/Chapman get two in a row at any point?

And Lennon/McCartney during the height of Merseybeat surely did! (goes to check - yes: “Bad For Me” and “She Loves You”)

But - bunny alert - a notorious late 80s writing and production team never did as far as I can tell.

By: rosie

rosie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:29:11 +0000

So, two in a row for the Bacharach/David team. How often has that been done by a writing team, I wonder?