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"Lonely Avenue" is a popular song written by Doc Pomus that became a rhythm and blues hit for Ray Charles in 1956. [1] Formerly less than successful as a songwriter, this song drew the attention of the music business to Doc Pomus.[2]
[edit] Covers
Van Morrison covered this song on his 1993 album Too Long in Exile, and was later incuded in the double live album A Night in San Francisco as the first song in a medley that lasted just under fifteen minutes. Biographer John Collis says "The 15-minute sequence billed as "Lonely Avenue/4 O'Clock in the Morning (Try for Sleep)", does indeed begin with the Pomus song and includes the Morrison blues in the title, but also wheels on Jimmy Witherspoon for his own medley and also throws in passing quotes from "Be Bop a Lula", Sly Stewart's "Family Affair" (with Jonn Savannah contributing a fine falsetto) and even Roy Orbison's "Down the Line" among other references."[3]
- ^ Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. www.history-of-rock. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ Heart of the Matter - Doc Pomus Blues. The Phoenix. Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
- ^ Collis, (1996) p182
[edit] References
- Collis, John (1996). Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, Little Brown and Company, ISBN 0-306-80811-0
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