Tuesday November 9, 2021 “A Girl Like You” Edwyn Collins
Here’s our second song from the Empire Records soundtrack, “A Girl Like You”. And maybe, just like me you enjoy a ripping blues tune by a southern soul singer like Edwyn Collins...not to disappoint, Mr. Collins may be southern but if he is, it would be the south of Edinburgh, Scotland where he was born and grew up... and that just doesn't seem right given his vocal stylings.
Paraphrasing a famous cliche, ‘never judge a singer's region by his voice’.
Collins founded a popular UK band Orange Juice in 1980 but he wouldn’t have his breakthrough international hit with “A Girl Like You” until 1995. This song, written and produced by Collins, lifted, by his own admission, the drum track from the 1965 Len Barry hit “1,2,3” a song which was co-written by John Madara who also co-wrote “At the Hop” and the Leslie Gore 60s feminist anthem “You Don’t Own Me”.
Hope you were taking notes on that.
“A Girl Like You” is contained on Edwyn Collins’ third album Gorgeous George...yeah I have no idea either...the wrestler Gorgeous George?
Collins has also worked as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer.
Stay safe and well...and how often do you hear a rock song that ambitiously rhymes ‘metaphorically’ with ‘allegorically’ and then goes on to repeat ‘yeah, it’s all right’ twenty four times?