The October Cherries - 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".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pop
• alternative
• rock
• world
• music
• october
• cherries
• jay
• shotam
• surfers
• singapore

[robbink57]

wow...thanks guys for all these. Didn't realize OC was posted in You Tube. Seems I've been in the mountains...but that aside, it's really cool to get back to these songs of the 70s. We used to jam around with Mamy Blue; Far Away Now; etc. Thanks OC for being a part of our memories....

[keithyoong]

@robbink57 Still not too late to realise. Yes YouTube is the place for ppl of our age group. So, why not OC, The Strollers & the like ? Yeah, jamming, cycling to school, listening to records and the transistor radio ..... sounds familiar. Thanks for dropping in.

[fredandegg22]

hi Keith...i love OC + Quests songs....but i can't find them in shops...wonder if u can help me ?

[keithyoong]

OC yes. Sorry no Quests. Just drop me your e-mail add. in my Inbox. TQ.

[vivienne82lo]

who knows where to find October Cherries-Butterfly? u guys have the song and the lyric???

[keithyoong]

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.

[icelemonteaelf]

OMG . My friend's father is the singer , no joking .

[ramster1979]

Peter Diaz- now rocking at La Salsa over at Dempsey Hill

[dakkos]

loves the songs of our local groups of the 70's , used to go to their concerts then ...

[localguy8]

i am sitting in las vegas now .....an i am returning home like a time machine how about the the hunters terry thaddeus the malaysian jimmy hendrix

[clarantha]

..Loved them since 'The Surfers' days...& I was in 'Far Away' Sri Lanka.. Joseph C. Pereira has more details about me.

[cherrynjade]

where can i shop. m a great fan of OC

[cherrynjade]

Grateful if you do the same sending me all the OC, The Strogllers songs and western union band in MP3 format, including my fav Bad and the strollers mtdday sun.

[khandrum]

@Funkymojo hehe I'm usually called by my nick "bib" with the cherries but I've moved on now to the Gingerbread guys viz Moses and Gabriel Vadham performing nightly at the Filling Station a power trio