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To: SamAdams76

Thanks for posting this. I like the song; have for some time.
As it happens, one of my top 5 songs from the early 70s is this one by the obscure “Christie”, “Yellow River”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu5zyUnVzE

I have never fully discerned his obscurity; but I can lay some of it to lax marketing, and the lack of a band of his own. The few hit records he made were done with backup music by some of the Tremeloes (a really skilled band from the late 60s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbAw6cbu2s


6 posted on 02/15/2021 9:32:15 AM PST by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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To: Migraine
You may be aware of this already but Jeff Christie actually wrote "Yellow River" with the intention of giving it to The Tremeloes to record.

However, The Tremeloes determined that the song was "too pop-oriented" for the direction they were headed in so Christie decided to record it for his own band and had much success with it.

Thanks for the video links by the way. The "Yellow River" video was nicely done.

10 posted on 02/15/2021 9:45:47 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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