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“Danny Wilson was the first gig I ever went to during my first month of A Levels at the University of East Anglia who, I discovered a couple of months ago, have an excellent archive of all the gigs they’ve ever held. I can therefore tell you with absolute certainty that it was on 8th October 1989 and cost me a whole six pounds. That concert was in support of their second album and their hit at the time, The Second Summer Of Love, but I’d been a fan since this one, their debut from 1987. . Danny Wilson (named after a Frank Sinatra film) were part of a Scottish renaissance of bands in the late 80s – Deacon Blue, Hue and Cry, Fairground Attraction (part-Scots). They were musically and lyrically literate, and this is a well-crafted album exhibiting a wide variety of styles yet nestling comfortably in that chamber-pop kind of genre. They eventually (after the third attempt) had a big big hit with Mary’s Prayer. It’s a great song, a classy catchy story-song back when we still had ‘proper’ songs in the UK Top 40 before Madchester and house music took over...” . FOR FULL REVIEW & PLAYLIST CLICK LINK IN PROFILE: https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/355-danny-wilson-meet-danny-wilson/ . #dannywilson #meetdannywilson #marysprayer #fivefriendlyaliens #agirliusedtoknow #scottishpop #chamberpop #80smusic #firstevergig @ueagighistory #ueagigs #cdreview #nowplaying #nowlistening #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/BxRpYw_gyl3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qt3zbi5u862f

If people remember Eighties trio Meet Danny Wilson at all, it’s for their lone U.S. hit, “Mary’s Prayer,” which was a lovely piece of pop. This forgotten single that I picked up today was the unjustly ignored follow-up, “A Girl I Used to Know”—a track I’ve loved since back in the day. A fast skiffle-beat number, it has wildly melodramatic chords and sad, wistful lyrics that all harken back to the songwriting of the 40s and 50s - “The precious times we had / Will never be forgotten / But every girl has to grow / up to be a woman / It’s just that for a second / I recognized the girl I used to know.” Once upon a time, it reminded me of old girlfriends; now as a parent, those lyrics resonate in a different way as I watch my kid grow up into a teenager. A fast song that’s sad is rare, but this is the beautiful exception to the rule.