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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The 1960 Song "A Taste of Honey"

This post follows up my previous post about The 1961 Movie A Taste of Honey.

That 1961 movie was based on a stage play that was performed during 1958-1959 in London and in 1960 on Broadway in New York City. For the Broadway play, an instrumental song, also called A Taste of Honey was composed and performed. (The 1961 movie played other songs.)

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The following two YouTube videos play the 1960 instrumental song as performed by the Vic Feldman Quartet ....


... and by Martin Denny ....


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The Beatles, before 1963, sometimes sang the song in clubs but never released their performance in a record.


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In 1963, another version of the song was introduced by Acker Bilk, and it became popular in the United Kingdom, where it reached #16 in the UK Singles Chart.


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Most people now know the song from the 1965 version performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

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