Saturday, 2 August 2014

Song of the Day 16 : This Masquerade : Leon Russell

Like most people I first heard This Masquerade as recorded by George Benson in 1976.  It is now recognised as a classic song - up there with the best of the American Songbook.   It has of course now been covered by The Carpenters, Ella, Willie Nelson and others. It was years later I heard a shortened version of the original version on a Leon Russell's Greatest Hits collection.  It was not until I tracked down Russell's interesting Carney album that I heard the full original with the full instrumental introduction

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