bob lind, cheryls going home

[CaptainJimKirk]

I prefer the The Rokes version: Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi (1966).

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[SteevAtomic]

prefer the John Otway version



[SEVFEST]

Sonny Bono did a very nice cover of this song... it's on his solo CD titled Inner Views. It was originally scheduled as a single ATCO 45-6446 but they canceled it's single release and placed it on the Sonny & Cher' LP "In Case You're In Love". but since it was actually a solo Sonny tune it was later included on the Inner Views CD as a bonus cut.

[upsguy2002]

What a great songwriter Bob Lind is. Listening to this song is like watching a video in your mind. He describes the situation in such detail that you can picture everything he's singing about. Great song, as are all of his songs.

[RoyFive]

First time I've heard this version. This is great. I had previously just heard The Blues Project's take on it (Steve Katz on vocals), from Projections.

[steveinbelgium]

what group made this a hit in the US? besides the Cascades.

[spacepatrolman]

@steveinbelgium the blues project

[MrRcurrent]

There was a band named " The Rokes" who sang this song (and "Remember the rain") in italian. It was in the sixties: they were all english, but lived in Italy e sang all this in italian....very funny. I swear it' s all true!!!!

[mikethea]

@MrRcurrent

Yeah I was the drummer in that band - 700.000 copies sold. The Italians still play it.

Mike Shepstone

[MrRcurrent]

@mikethea

@mikethea

Oh, Mike! What a good surprise meeting you on YT!!! I remember myself at the age of ten listening to the Rokes on Tv (Cantagiro, Sanremo...) and radio. My cousin and I really love you guys. I was learning to play drums and kept an eye on your job. Then I discovered The Cream, Eric Clapton and the guitar(.....Sorry.....). But you were a great drummer. And always smiling! Thanks.

[JeniDiver]

There's no understanding why some songs embed themselves in the mind and others never get there. This one did. Thanks for posting it so I could take a trip down Memory Lane.

[rockphiles]

Living in the UK, I flipped Elusive Butterfly. I loved the B side just as much.

[capitolemiproducer]

In the U.S. this was the "a" side and it was going home. But a deejay back east flipped the record over and boom "Elusive Butterfly" was born

[zuttorizzo]

Even though Elusive Butterfly was the hit, I loved this one!! Thanks for posting the original.

[oxinabox]

Nowhere near as good as Otway!

[MrRichf]

My fave memory from "Projections"/Blues Project--such a time of internal changes; freshman year in Ann Arbor (pass that Boone's Farm, man!) GO BLUE!!

[captainsoul1953]

Great tune....loved since my big sister bought the 45 in 1966...got all his music now

thanks Jim