TS: Climax Blues Band vs. Little River Band

Perfect too

Perfect too

Original singer Colin Cooper passed away 10 years ago. I had no idea they’re still touring from time to time, they have Graham Dee on vocals nowadays... man that guy has aged rather gracefully and still has a good voice:

https://youtu.be/-NF7rAfohAw

One of my favorite things about this song is, during the final chorus repeats, when the cool minor-key melody from the verses and the sax/guitar solo start playing over that progression. IIRC the chorus is the relative major of the verse (C and Am) but it just sounds so great.

Never made that Squeeze connection but it's right on! Very close to something like "Take Me I'm Yours."

"Couldn't Get It Right" sounds like something the Arctic Monkeys would have recorded had they decided to re-orient their sound totally around AM's "Snap Out Of It" (a scenario I'd totally be into, at least for a record or two)

Love the story of how that song came about:

The band at the time had released eight albums and although that had translated into fame, they did not have a great impact on the charts.[8] Copeland suggested a cover version of an Elvis Presley song; this suggestion was ignored, and instead the band came up with an original composition[9] "from absolutely nowhere". It was simply a case of sitting in the studio, conjuring up a rhythm, appending the traditional dual vocals for which Climax Blues Band were known for, and coming up with a couple of hooks. The sudden emergence of the song irritated the producer, as he thought the band had been withholding a hit from him.[4]

Also, their oldest member (keyboardist Arthur Wood) was twenty-two years older than their youngest member (singer-guitarist Pete Haycock).