The Harris Seal Permutation

[jazzy_dave]

I popped over to Faversham this afternoon to do an Iceland visit. The snow has virtually melted away from the main roads and I needed to get to my bank anyway,plus peruse the charity shops. I picked up a copy of “The Screwtape Letters” by C S Lewis for fifty pence, as I had sold a book from Play trade and a couple of Ebay items.

My brother  coming42 got back to Brighton okay but he had to wait up to forty minutes at Sittingbourne station on the Sunday, as train following train got delayed or cancelled. Then we had a mad SMS moment where he was picking my brains on a certain soul track that has recently been covered by Seal on his “Soul 2” album. It was the Major Harris single which I uploaded here earlier, “Love Won't Let Me Wait”, which I bought way back in 1975. Written by Bobby Eli and Vinnie Barrett, it originally was a track on his “My Way” LP (Atlantic 1974).

Vinnie Barrett is an award winning songwriter who has (co-)composed hit songs such as "Just Don't Wanna Be Lonely"and "Sideshow".for Blue Magic. Bobby Eli is a guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and producer.

Luther Vandross did a version of the song on his LP “Any Love” (Epic 1980) , some six years after the original and now it is back up to date with the gorgeous Seal version. Yet fr me, the sublime original is the one that grabs my heart strings.

I will probably load up the Blue Magic track here a bit later. Oh ,and it nice to see coming42  on LJ again, a rare treat indeed!

Comments

[coming42.livejournal.com]

Nicely penned, full of interesting stuff. I shall check out a few more of your recommendations, especially Main Ingredient.