Track of the Week - 25 October 2020
New shoes, eh. You try them on in the shop and think 'these fit well, great find' and you walk up and down and look in the mirror and say 'yeah, these will do the job nicely' and you pay for them and get them home and go out for a walk and think 'well, maybe they need a bit of breaking in' so you wear them on a longer walk and you think 'this is a bit painful' and you get home and the back of your foot, you know the bit at the top of the the heel, is all cut up and you've bled into your sock and you have to wear a plaster for ages.
What's all that about? (I'm sure Michael McIntyre's writers could get a five minute sketch out of this but I'm moving onto music from here.)
The upside of a cut heel is that I can select Marc Almond's The Heel as this week's track. I was a Soft Cell and Marc and the Mambas fan and followed Marc's solo career until it got patchier and my disposable income got smaller.
This song was on a 1986 seven track 12" EP called A Woman's Story which reached number 41. All the songs are cover versions. (The Little White Cloud That Cried is another belter that I'll have to dig out next time it hacks down with rain all week and I have nothing else to write about.)
Originally recorded in French as L'Homme in 1954 by Léo Ferré, Albert Beach and Willard Robison then put an English lyric to it and it was recorded by Eartha Kitt with Henri René and His Orchestra a year later. (That's a cracking tune too.)
Kitt's version was banned by the BBC. A song considering the poisoning of an unfaithful partner clearly would have been too much for the delicate sensitivities of a nation that had come through a World War just 10 years before.
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