The October Cherries, a group that has existed since the mid sixties, were a highly successful band in their country Singapore. Unfortunately music piracy destroyed almost everything. "Far Away Now...
The October Cherries, a group that has existed since the mid sixties, were a highly successful band in their country Singapore. Unfortunately music piracy destroyed almost everything. "Far Away Now" is one of their hit songs that made it to No.1 in Malaysia.
They moved on to conquer Europe and they are still recording today.
Jay Shotam (Lead singer): "Far Away Now" was on the first October cherries LP entitled "Meet the Cherries", a copy of which was given to Dick James (President of Dick James Music, in the UK, a big name in the Music industry -Publisher, manager of Artists etc.). He liked the Band's song writing ability. In the early seventies when our Manager Bal Shotam visited him to try and get a publishing tie up. Dick James commented on another track on the LP called "Na na song" and said that it might be suitable for a new artist he had called Elton John. Nothing transpired. But Bal recalls another person who was with Dick and him, who heard the songs on the demo tapes. "Far Away now" was on that album, and if you (according to Bal) study the notation and structure of "Don't cry for me Argentina" you will see an uncanny resemblance to "Far Away Now".
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Keith, thanks for uploading this. Would you happen to have 'All Things Work Together For Good To Them'? I kind of miss this song and couldn't find it anywhere else.
vivienne82lo, I think it's high time I put up the OC's cover of Butterfly here on my channel. Everyone's asking for it. Better still, leave your e-mail add. in my Inbox. I'll send you the whole album.
Hi Keith can u kindly send me songs by OC? I'm a good friend with OC's drummer Richard Khan, it'll be nice to burn their songs on a cd and pass it to him, Thanks
kaycw, I sent you all the OC & The Strollers songs in MP3 format, including your fav Butterfly, but you didn't check mail. All the songs were jammed up in your Inbox. Try sending you a mail to inform you to empty your mailbox but was of no avail. Just too bad. No can do.
Thanks Keith for posting this video..I have not heard this song for 36 years..I really enjoy the song..it refreshed my memory...especially on ..sitting alone on the haystack..it is really beautiful..keep it up man.
Thanks for watching. Yes, I have OC's cover of Butterfly. A guy I met thru' my YouTube channel from US came to visit me & brought with him two CD albums of OC. If you want them, send your e-mail address to my Inbox. Cheers.
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