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The duo Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of prominent friends with whom they played, and they enjoyed some modest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, mostly for work with Eric Clapton. This is a song co-written with Clapton, which they recorded live with Clapton, but also in this studio version, which I prefer:
Feel free to add your favorite Delaney & Bonnie links in the comments. I always enjoy seeing what readers come up with. (Submit your comment only once, it may take awhile to appear.)
'Never Ending Song of Love' made a big impression on me when I was a kid. It was as if some hillbilly hippies had wandered into Valhalla and recorded it on a cheap tape deck in a back room. It always seemed to me to drag a bit, but I've experimented with it at other tempos and the original somehow works the best:
Same here. I probably have the 7" I bought somewhere around here. Rumor has it the guy celebrating in the background is David Crosby. I have no reason to believe the rumor.
The Carpenters' classic "Superstar" was written by Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell (w/a credit also to Delaney), reportedly from an idea suggested by Rita Coolidge, and was first released by Delaney and Bonnie as the B-side to your selection "Comin' Home" with the title "Groupie (Superstar)". Always interesting to compare the original version. The Carpenters changed the lyric "And I can hardly wait to sleep with you again" to "..be with you again".
Rita Coolidge famously sang "Superstar" on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen, pretty much a must-have encapsulation of the decade of love. I have to say I am not fond of her performance on that record, and am now not at all embarrassed to proclaim my admiration for The Carpenters' version.
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