Danny Wilson – THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN

SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #66 : DANNY WILSON

From wiki:-

Danny Wilson were a Scottish pop group formed in Dundee, Scotland. The band are best known for their 1988 UK number 3 hit single Mary’s Prayer.

The band served as a launchpad for the career of Gary Clark, who also played in the 1990s bands King L and Transister before becoming a successful songwriter for other artists including Natalie Imbruglia, Liz Phair, Nick Carter, k.d. lang and former Spice Girls Melanie C and Emma Bunton. Other former members of the band have played in Simple Minds, Deacon Blue and Swiss Family Orbison.

The band released three albums between 1987 and 1991 but only enjoyed limited chart success with The Second Summer of Love being their only other hit single in 1989. I was tempted to throw up one or other of the two chart singles but was inspired instead, from comments left behind a few weeks ago (see I do read them!!), to seek out what I was informed (correctly) was a very fine cover:-

mp3 : Danny Wilson – Kooks

It was on the b-side of the 12″ remix version of the re-released Mary’s Prayer in 1988 – the one that went all the way to the Top 5.

JC

Copy Haho, Danny Wilson, David Byrne, Deacon Blue, Delgados

SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SINGLE (Parts 36-40)

Back on 8 October 2011, I started a series called ‘Saturday’s Scottish Single’. The aim was to feature one 45 or CD single by a Scottish singer or band with the proviso that the 45 or CD single was in the collection. I had got to Part 60-something and as far as Kid Canaveral when the rug was pulled out from under TVV.

I’ll catch up soon enough by featuring 5 or more at a time from the archives..

(36) Copy Haho – Bookshelf b/w Desert Belle : I Fly Spitfire Records 7″ (2006)

A four-piece outfit originally from the town of Stonehaven which is just a couple of train stops south of Aberdeen in the north-east of Scotland. I saw Copy Haho as a support act at King Tut’s a few years ago and was impressed enough to buy a bit of vinyl on the night. Turns out it was their debut 7″ limited run of 500 which came out in 2006. Since then I’ve picked up a further two singles that were released in 2008 and 2009 but not their debut LP which was released in 2011

(37) Danny Wilson – The Second Summer Of Love b/w Growing Emotional b/w I’ll Be Waiting : Virgin 12″ single (1989)

Read more about David Byrne here

(39) Deacon Blue – Real Gone Kid (extended version) b/w Little Lincoln b/w Real Gone Kid (7″ version) : CBS 12″ (1988)

It is very easy to forget just how massive Deacon Blue were in Glasgow at the tail end of the 80s. The city that had just. for the first time in a generation, re-gained a sense of pride in its very existence thanks to a series of arts and cultural events that had culminated in Glasgow, to the sheer disbelief of millions of folk who only associated it with crime and grime, having been declared European City of Culture 1990. Many of the city’s inhabitants now swaggered around awash in self-belief and confidence, feelings which Deacon Blue more than any other locally based band captured and ran with.

(40) The Delgados – No Danger (kids choir) b/w The Choices You’ve Made: Chemikal Underground 7″(2000)