I was saddened to hear of Jackie Trent's passing on the radio today. Largely underrated as a singer, she at least had her moment in the sun with 'Where Are You Now', a record that was good enough to do battle with anything Burt Bacharach and Barbara Acklin could have come up with...
The Hatch/Trent songwriting partnership was one of the most successful of the sixties, both in Britain and around the world. Together they had a talent for composing pop songs that were as unpretentious as they were infectious and which, looking back, seem to encapsulate the popular optimism of those times much better than the more esoteric offerings of many of their contemporaries. This one always cheers me up...
The Hatch/Trent songwriting partnership was one of the most successful of the sixties, both in Britain and around the world. Together they had a talent for composing pop songs that were as unpretentious as they were infectious and which, looking back, seem to encapsulate the popular optimism of those times much better than the more esoteric offerings of many of their contemporaries. This one always cheers me up...
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