missed opportunity: What A Man My Man Is

Saw this little item about a song recorded by Lynn Anderson that was originally written for The Lennon Sisters. Too bad they didn't get to do it - it's a fun song.

STORY BEHIND THE SONG

A lot of hit songs have been written for a certain artist but wound up being recorded by someone else.

According to Glenn Sutton, Lynn Anderson’s “What A Man My Man Is” was one of those tunes!

Glenn commented, “I wrote that song for The Lennon Sisters. They were signed to record for Alantic Records and Rick Sanjek was the head of A& R for them and he asked me to do an album on them. So I had that song just about finished

And I flew to Las Vegas where The Lennon Sisters were opening for Andy Williams. I had never met them and I went backstage and talked to them and gave them four or five songs. They loved the songs but they never did record them. They got into some kind of contract dispute with Atlantic and never recorded it. And later, Lynn recorded it.”

“What A Man My Man Is” entered the country music charts October 28th, 1974 and made it to number one. It was Lynn’s 33rd charted song and was on the charts for 13 weeks.

Source

Tanya Falan 45 Singles

After the The Lennon Sisters, Tanya Falan is my next favorite Lawrence Welk show performer. She has a remarkably expressive, sultry voice. Of all the singers on the show, she was the most contempary sounding. She could take a Beatles song, or some torch ballad and just enthrall the viewer. I really love her voice, which is why I'm temporarily veering away from Lennon Sisters songs, and spotlighting Tanya here.

The only record I have by her is an old MGM 45 - I don't even know what year it's from. I bought it at a garage sale years ago, and have always liked it, especially the A-side , Telling Me Lies. It's a beautiful, haunting song.




*Reuploaded songs to MediaFire*
Download it and the B-side, I Feel It here.

Now this might sound odd, but you know what current artist is reminding me of Tanya? Amy Winehouse. I'm serious! Not the tatooed, drunkeness part, but the great voice, mainly on Amy's title track Back To Black. When she belts the chorus,
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to....black

I totally hear a similarity to Tanya.

And no I'm not crazy.

Listen to it on Amy's My Space, and then this Tanya clip on You Tube.