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Walk Away Renee: The Four Tops
Posted by Sheev on 4 July 2009 - 9:53pm.
And when I see the sign,
that points one way
The light we used to pass by,
every day
(Chorus):
Just walk away Renee,
You won't see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block
are not the same
You're not to blame
From deep inside the tears,
I'm forced to cry
From deep inside the pain,
I chose to hide
(Chorus)
Now let the rain beat down
upon my weary eyes
For me and mine
Your name and mine inside
a heart on a wall
Still finds a way to haunt me,
though they're so small
(Chorus)
Now let the rain beat down upon my weary eyes
For me and mine
(Chorus)
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Barely decipherable lyric...
...but heartstoppingly brilliant. And that oboe... almost enough to make you think there might be a God. Motown 65/66 - untouchable!
Oboe?
I think it's the Motown brass section.
On the original (posted lower down) it's a flute.
yes
it's like they recorded it with all meters in red throughout.
The fact that you can only make the occasional word or phrase makes it oddly more perfect
Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face - and into the acetate
Hate to be a Party Pooper
but my favourite version was by a British band called 'The Truth' on Decca in the 60's, with a blistering solo that sounds like it starts on a mandolin and finishes on a fuzz guitar - I would love to know who played that.
don't know that one
but apart from the Tops - my favourite version is by Rickie Lee Jones from "Girl at her Volcano". No find Spotify/Youtube though
Walk Away Renee by The Truth
I have just received this email :-
"Just a quick mail to say that 'Walk Away Renee', the 'Left Banke' song, as covered by 'The Truth', (March 1967) has a superb solo on it, executed by way of 'ascending hammer-ons and pull-offs', and is really effective and clever. I think it was Big Jim Sullivan who played the solo on this, and, indeed, all the other guitar parts too."
Has anybody got this track ?
I've never heard it.
Decca, mid-60s means...
it was either Big Jim Sullivan or Little Jimmy Page.
Deja Vu
I posted above, asking the same question and had the same 2 guitarists in mind. It's odd that you got the email?
I saw this group on Top of The Pops and bought the single.
The solo starts out sounding like a mandolin and morphs into a distorted guitar sound.
I love it, but no longer have any vinyl.
The Truth were vocalists Steve Gold and Frank Aiello.
It's available on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-TRUTH---WALK-AWAY-RENEE--7%22-45_W0QQitemZ1303...
and also here: -
http://www.intoxica.co.uk/rbeatps3.htm
Mail?
I only suggested Big Jim or Little Jimmy as they were the default choice for guitar sessions in London during the mid-60s.
Think
Badlands is referring to the post preceding yours from Wenlynn
£14 on Ebay? Think I'll take your word on how good it is!
My Favourite Renee
was Shaw. We were both 15, in a summer soundtracked by Harboro' Horace and Makin' Time. She left me for Mr Potatohead who had a PK50. Billy Bragg then wrote a song about us.
I still have the Four Tops 7" with S.L.Y.C. scrawled over the sleeve in marker pen.
She cut her hair and I stopped loving her
I'm afraid Sir, that Billy wrote that about my life.
Terry Reid
gives us a very fine rendition on "Rogue Waves" (if my increasingly ragged memory serves).
Are you sure it isn't
'On me it cries'
rather than
'For me and mine' ?
Renee
The Four Tops version is the best but Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy do a brilliant version on Adieu False Heart.
The original version:
Bliss
I adore this song as done by the Four Tops- one of my Elysian
Fields Disks.
Left Banke
is my favourite version. Baroque pop.
The Left Banke keyboard player...
...wrote the lyric about the singer's girlfriend. That must have been an interesting rehearsal...