![]() It’s good for people getting married and good for scaley competitions and all kinds of things. That was a song called ‘A fter The Loving’, which is an unbelievable song. There is one that came 10 years after my first big hit. Has there been a stand out song you’ve released over the years which means more to you than the others? Signature songs are very important and I’m glad that I lived in the era where we had them. When I was coming up, and people like Tom Jones or myself, his signature is, ’It’s Not Unusual’ and mine is ‘Release Me’ and many other people have their signatures that they start the show with, when you hear your overture, it has that wonderful sound of the song that made your life, it doesn’t happen in today’s world. In today’s world, they don’t have signature songs that people are associated with. It has to be ‘Release Me’ because that’s the song. If they were to make a movie about your life, what would be the opening theme tune? That was a great arrangement, a great song and as a matter of fact, I still to this day, sing that song in my show. He’s done many songs for me like ‘Q uando, Q uando ‘, which is quite popular right now again in a series called The Umbrella Academy. It’s so long ago, it was done by a dear friend of mine Johnny Harris, who absolutely was a magnificent arranger. Can you remember when you recorded that what your expectations of it were at the time? I was going to ask you about ‘There G oes My Everything’ because I think that’s my favourite song of yours that you’ve done. All my early hits like ‘There Goes My Everything’ and they were all country music songs and I liked the country flavour, I’ve been successful with it so I decided to keep doing it. That’s one of the reasons why I’m talking to you today was because of that beautiful song and that was a country song. It was in 1967 that this magical moment happened in my life stopping the almighty Beatles from going to number one and putting me on the map. Well, I’ ll be honest with you, the reason I like country music is because my very first hit which was ‘Release Me’ which is in the Guinness Book of Records, and it stopped the Beatles from having their 30th number one with Penny Lane and Strawberry F ield s, which was a double sided single. I was wondering what country music meant to you? I just put my stamp on it and hopefully people will love what I’ve done. So I’m happy to be part of that successful life, so I decided to record it on this particular album. Then they recorded this song and became big stars themselves. ![]() As a matter of fact, when I first did Vegas many, many years ago, they were my opening act. I particularly like the song ‘You”ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine’ and ‘When Will I S ee You Again’, by The Three Degrees. After all these many years, it was back again.ĭo you have a favourite song on this record? Mine was a big hit, and then when it came out into the series, Moonlight, it went boom, right back to number one on Spotify. ‘And A Man Without Love’ is a song that Angelica Maria recorded when I recorded it 55 years ago. I think ‘ Besame Mucho ’ is one of the most famous love songs ever written in the world. I speak Spanish, I was able to cope with these two titles, I took lessons four years ago, but I still remember, my enunciation is pretty good so I’m told. These two are lovely, massive stars in Latin America, and we decided to do a couple of songs with the Spanish influence. There’s two collaborations on this record, one with Lupita Infante and one with Angelica Maria, how did they come about? It’s very convenient for me to be in Los Angeles, because it’s where I live and the studio that I use over here is one I’ve used many times before. That’s the great part about recording in today’s world, you can do so in one studio and finish it in another. The musicians recorded in Blackbird studio in Nashville and I recorded my v oice in Los Angeles. ![]() All the tracks are recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with some very good musicians over there.Ī lot of the record was recorded at Blackbird studio in Nashville, a fantastic place, can you tell me a little bit about the recording process? So therefore, I think familiarity is a very important issue, people have heard the song before but want to hear your stamp on it and that’s what I’ve done with this particular song. Finding new songs is very difficult today and songs that you could turn into standards of your own. My producer and I got together, he brought a whole bunch of songs. So firstly, I just wondered if you could talk me through how you decided on the songs for this record?
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