Sunday, 9 October 2022

VALERIE SAVAGE: IN THE MORNING (1972)


Click here to listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZSiVWIASU

Exhumed from the vaults. Valerie Savage is my cousin, from Oxfordshire, England. She won a songwriting competition in 1972 when she was 16, which involved a professional recording session with Pye Records. Pye pressed up and distributed this single. Clearly I'm biased, but to my ears, this has a kind of Joni Mitchell/ Carole King-ish vibe to it, and I can imagine either of those two artists singing this. Sadly Val never pursued a musical career after this, and it remains a solitary obscurity that hardly anyone will ever have heard. An original rare groove!

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