Funny How Love Can Be - The Ivy League Vinyl

[vendicatoresolitari0]

Tradotta e riproposta dall'Equipe 84 col titolo " piegami come mai". Deliziosa

[philipm06]

Get some speakers.

[dooksnob]

beautiful. Great harmonies. Fond memories

[rubberdildos]

great track .

[1SEG1]

Excellent

[Yorkshiredrummer]

Perry Ford was my brother in law and Mark Ford his son (Fordster777) is correct..Perry died a few yeas ago in Lincoln. My Sister and Perry's daughter still live in America. Mark and his family visit my family at Xmas time. Xmas 2009 and 2008. John Carter (real name Shakespeare and related to the playwrite wrote Puppet on a string and many other hits.

[tremsfan]

A local group from Philly called The Kit Kats recorded this in the mid-60's= it is a very good version. They also did another very good song called 'Let's Get Lost on a Country Road"

. These are worth your checking out.

[spacepatrolman]

@tremsfan chad and jeremy did it too on an album of folk rock songs

[fordster777]

He used to help other artists out without asking for credit for it. He helped the Stones out on one of there songs that later became a big hit, he never told me which one.

[fordster777]

Yes he plays the piano on the kinks 'You Really Got Me' and backup vocals on the Who's 'Can't Explain' amongst others. He was friends with Shel Talmy who was the Who and Kinks producer. He also in the band Carter-Lewis and the Southerners with Jimmy Page

[HORACECOPE2]

Cheers for the info, correct me if im wrong but i think the others included Tom Jones [ its not unusual ] and Adam Faith [ poor me ,piano ] a song i think he also wrote.

[pjmooreuk]

@HORACECOPE2 I know he wrote for Adam Faith as he used to get royalties as he told me, but cannot remember the the name of the song, I used to listen to him every day on the little white grand piano at Phillips of lincoln where he played to the customers at lunch times. We still talk about him even after all this time, a great musician

[HORACECOPE2]

Hey, its great to hear from someone with a real connection to the ivey league. I met the so- called ivey league in a night club in around 1990, i asked them which of them were original members and two of them pointed to the drummer, of course i now know it wasn't strictly true, and ive since read up on the real ivey league and the flowerpot men. I also read somewhere that Perry played on some kinks recordings.

[NcicHit]

Where did you get that green wax?

[kamaladance]

the original by danny hutton was much better

[gibson3524]

You are wrong: this IS the ORIGINAL version. The song was written by Ken Lewis and John Carter, who were members of The Ivy League. So Danny Hutton's version is a COVER VERSION.

[HORACECOPE2]

your right this is the original and my favourite version, but would you know who's in the ivey league now as they havent had any original members since the late sixties.

[gibson3524]

Jon Brennan (bass guitar/vocals), Dave Buckley (drums, vocals) and Mike Brice (guitar, vocals). They have no connection whatsoever to the original band and are not endorsed by founder member John Carter. The only Ivy League hit they play in concert is "Tossing and Turning". Actually the last original member to leave the Ivy League was Perry Ford in 1975.

[HORACECOPE2]

cheers for the info, but i read somewhere that this lineup formed with Perry Fords blessing.

[fordster777]

My father is Perry Ford, we all moved to America back in '71. I can't remember when the Ivy League disolved I think around when Tony Burroughs replaced John. My dad starting producing after the Ivy League broke up but that must have been around 1970

[SLUMBERS2]

awesome post 5***** & then some

[tongmuyao]

terrible

[jonny7england]

This is really a great song..but surely somebody out there has got a recording where I do not have to turn my PC volume up full to hear the music..great though..thanks

[timjregan]

Great harmony!!

[Ignoto1962]

On iTunes I see a version of this song by Ivy League thats about 2:10 and another that's 2:45 or so. Is the shorter one the original version? What's behind having a second longer version of the same song?

[novapup2001]

Tony Burrows has made some of the coolest unsung pop music of all-time!

[gibson3524]

Tony Burrows is not on this record. Tony replaced John Carter in The Ivy League early 1966. This record is from early 1965 and the lead vocal is by John Carter.

[novapup2001]

Thanks for clarifying. Ivy League is still a great unsung band.

[regentv980]

good farter was John Carter

[radiohippy]

brilliant,are they still around?

[vinylrecordboy]

Yeah they still play in small bars and clubs

[dinastein44]

Great, I love Tony Burrows! What a strange-coloured record, never seen one of those before...

[73gnikxela]

their version is the best by far!