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On Fridays He's Fred Astaire

[Clive Gregson]

Clive Gregson sang his own song Fred Astaire in 1999 on his Fellside album Happy Hour.

Norma Waterson covered this song as On Fridays He's Fred Astaire in the same year on her second solo album, The Very Thought of You. She was accompanied by Pat Donaldson, bass guitar, John McColgan, drums, Martin Carthy, acoustic guitar and mandolin, Richard Thompson, electric guitar, and Eliza Carthy, violin, and she noted in her liner notes:

With two exceptions the songs are in pairs, and each has a story attached. Those stories range from childhood memories evoked by Fred Astaire of twice a week visits to the cinema with what seems like my entire family set alongside the fantasies indulged by an ordinary man to mask the drudgery of his daily life, to the regret of Al Bowlly's in Heaven for his premature death in an air raid contrasting to the pain of returning from war to the disappointment of peace.

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