Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Cherry Cherry - Cherry Baby


Rexi (see earlier entry) recorded "Cherry Baby" in 1977 for his album "Puhtaat purjeet". It wasn't released as a single. The lyrics were done by a fanous lyricist (we have many of those in Finland) Raul Reiman. The original song with slightly different name "Cherry, Cherry" was performed by one and only Neil Diamond. About a dozen of his songs have been versioned in Finnish, but for some reason none of them was a hit - at least not a big one. But this original song was a great success gor Neil. It reached number 6 in US Charts in 1966. Worldwide sales are said to have reached over one million copies. The song was produced by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, and they also sang background vocals. But the song was written by Neil himself.

Here's the pair:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

congratulations for your blog,excellent music.please Can YOu to put in your page the song DUNCAN for Paul Simon-Original- and Bruno Lauzi-cover-,I wait for it and many thanks .
Massimo