Yet again, I've been plucking pearls from the chest containing my badly kept 45 single collection. This time, it's a not very nautical-looking Bette Bright, from 1979, singing "The Captain Of Your Ship". A striking picture sleeve probably helped sales of this cover version of what was a UK hit for Reparata and the Delrons in 1968.
It's actually pretty good, as was Bette's first single - "My Boyfriend's Back", another 60's cover.
Bette Bright was the singer for Deaf School until they split in 1978, when she formed Bette Bright and the Illuminations, with Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids), Rusty Egan (Visage, Rich Kids), and Henry Priestman (The Yachts, The Christians), and in 1982, got married to Suggs from Madness.
♫ The Captain Of Your Ship - Bette Bright and the Illuminations
♫ Those Greedy Eyes - Bette Bright and the Illuminations
more Bette Bright on myspace
But of course, we can't leave without the original...
It's actually pretty good, as was Bette's first single - "My Boyfriend's Back", another 60's cover.
Bette Bright was the singer for Deaf School until they split in 1978, when she formed Bette Bright and the Illuminations, with Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids), Rusty Egan (Visage, Rich Kids), and Henry Priestman (The Yachts, The Christians), and in 1982, got married to Suggs from Madness.
♫ The Captain Of Your Ship - Bette Bright and the Illuminations
♫ Those Greedy Eyes - Bette Bright and the Illuminations
more Bette Bright on myspace
But of course, we can't leave without the original...
There was a band called 'Deaf School'? Really? Were they Deaf musicians? You are pulling my leg, right?
ReplyDeleteyes indeed (though they weren't deaf), and no leg-pulling at all, I remember seeing their name in a record shop catalogue while searching for something they couldn't be bothered to look up for the young kid customer (me), aged I dunno, 12?. At the time, I thought they must be literally, a deaf school, who'd made a record; as occasionally, school kids did then.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard their music, and had quite forgotten the name until looking up Bette Bright, but mentioned it to a pal & he's burnt a cd for me.
Names-wise, it gets worse... there was a local band round here in the 80's called " Deaf Boy Hug and the Hearing Aids ", fronted by Nick Hug.
Ha ha ha ha! Too funny, you.
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