24May
It comes to us all, no doubt. Not old age, not the inevitability of taxes, but the realisation that Simon Mayo's Records of the Week were all* damned good. Well, the vast majority of them were; we're still not convinced that every Hothouse Flowers track deserved the honour.
Speaking to us this week is one from around this time in 1992, Martyn Joseph's one and only very minor hit, Dolphins make me cry
. The Welsh singer-songwriter was briefly signed to Fony records, and released the album An Aching and a Longing
. The lead single was a typically maudlin affair, yet imbued with a certain positivity that chimed with the uncertainty of the time. Like Simon Mayo, Mr. Joseph is a regular at the Greenbelt festival, and Audioscrobbler reckons he matches closely with Lucy Kaplansky.
Regrettably, we don't have an MP3 copy of Martyn Joseph's original. We have the vinyl, but that's not really too easy to play. However, all the best songs receive a note-for-note cover by an Italian-German, so here's Nevio's version of Dolphins make me cry
.
