It's a small pop music world
I am by no means a "music historian", but recently I learned some things that struck me as interesting, regarding the tangled web of relationships in the pop music world.
The 1960's group The Cyrkle was managed by Brian Epstein (of Beatle's fame.) They were originally a college group called the Rondells . But a friend of Epstein heard them and pointed them out to him. Epstein changed the group's name.
The Cyrkle's most famous hit was Red Rubber Ball. It was co-written by Paul Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel, and Bruce Woodley, of the Seekers.
I have heard the Seekers' recording of that song, but I did not realize one of their members was one of the writers.
Simon and Woodley struck up a friendship, and Simon wrote another song expressly for the Seekers: "I wish You Could be Here."
At any rate, here is the Cyrkle singing Red Rubber Ball, which I will always consider one of the greatest "break up" songs of all time!
[media=https://youtu.be/rxRfbJvjsN8]
The 1960's group The Cyrkle was managed by Brian Epstein (of Beatle's fame.) They were originally a college group called the Rondells . But a friend of Epstein heard them and pointed them out to him. Epstein changed the group's name.
The Cyrkle's most famous hit was Red Rubber Ball. It was co-written by Paul Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel, and Bruce Woodley, of the Seekers.
I have heard the Seekers' recording of that song, but I did not realize one of their members was one of the writers.
Simon and Woodley struck up a friendship, and Simon wrote another song expressly for the Seekers: "I wish You Could be Here."
At any rate, here is the Cyrkle singing Red Rubber Ball, which I will always consider one of the greatest "break up" songs of all time!
[media=https://youtu.be/rxRfbJvjsN8]
