07 Apr
Peter Skellern: You’re A Lady
This is the kind of song that either really touches you, or does nothing for you at all. For me, it’s the former. The rhymes are a bit cheap here and there, and the production values sound somewhat akin to a high school band or a Salvation Army band rather than that of a pop hit. But there’s something very human about the vulnerability of the lyrics and the vocals. From 1972, here’s a reasonably good lip-sync performance from Top of the Pops by Peter Skellern. His biggest hit ever, the song made it to #50 on the pop charts in the US, but I searched for it for years thereafter…i.e., it’s been on my iPod since long before there was such a thing.