This evening I've been rummaging through some of the records I found a few years ago on my trip to Barcelona. I figured this zippy little ditty would make a nice posting for the last day of the first month of what seems already to be a troubling year.
The group Kincade has a funny story...since there wasn't actually any such thing when this song was written and recorded by John Carter and his wife in England in 1972. The song flopped in England, evidently, but was a hit in Germany! Carter didn't feel like touring to support the single, so some guy named John Knowles changed his name to John Kincade and he went to Germany to promote the song instead. Eventually, Carter recorded an entire "Kincade" album using session musicians, but then a real band had to be fabricated for TV appearances in Spain. The newly assembled band also made several appearances in Germany before the hit singles finally dried up and everyone was able to stop pretending to be Kincade and go back to their regular lives. You can read all of this for yourselves on Wikipedia here. I wonder who that guy is on the cover of my Spanish single!
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