JOHNNY TILLOTSON – “Poetry In Motion”
With the help of a sax as cheeky as himself, Tillotson gives a trifling song the big sell, and I buy it. How does it work? The teasy intro and chipper tune; Tillotson’s piping voice and the way he sings “mo-shun!”; the way he balances a little lust with a lot of real fondness and an aw-shucks glee at the female form.
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This makes me think of ‘Back To The Future’, as it’s the kind of thing that would be performed by the loser band before Marty turns up and invents Chuck Berry. Awful.
A “tease” in 1961… a ho-hum today….good for a nostalgic moral benchmark.
In reference to the version of the song on youTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPM5khluZWE – I like the sax and I also feel that the piano keys in the background (don’t know what that kind of piano work in the background is called) which I think does a lot for the song.
It reminds me of Robert Herrick!
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free
O how that glittering taketh me!
Light Entertainment watch: Just one UK TV performance listed for Johnny, and it doesn’t survive;
THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS: with Brian Matthew, Johnny Tillotson, Freddy Cannon, The Karl Denver Trio, The Eric Delaney Band, The Mudlarks, Don Charles, Julie Grant, Keith Fordyce (1962)