Brothers, Sisters .... 16

 

We are on the home straight now with the finishing post in sight just along the way.

I had Sister Sledge on my original list until I realised that they had already appeared on the first post in this series where the trounced the Allman Brothers. Therefore Shakespears Sister were summoned off the subs bench thus making it a closer contest that it otherwise would have been.

Shakespears Sister were Siobhan Fahey (of Bananarama fame) and Marcella Detroit who I thought had been a presenter on The Tube but apparently not. They appeared together between 1989 and 1993 prior to falling out. It seems that the fall out was not sufficiently bad to stop the obligatory reunions on the Retro scene. They released 4 albums and also somewhat impressively four compilation albums.

Today they are up against the folk rock/Americana act the Avett Brothers a band which includes the brothers Seth and Scott Avett.

Both acts have appeared here once before the Avetts in February 2022  as a Charity Shop purchase and the Shakespears in August 2023 as part of the short lived Same Title, Different Song series.

The Brothers probably have the edge given that I actually have one of their albums namely True Sadness and also because their style of music is much  more up my street.

Shakespears Sister - Stay

Shakespears Sister - Catwoman

Avett Brothers -Satan Pulls the Strings

Avett Brothers -Divorce Separation Blues 

Same Title, Different Song - Stay

 

A new series following a suggestion by  George on his Monday Race with the Devil post. He featured two songs by Gun and Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps. Both songs were called, not surprisingly, Race with the Devil but were two completely different songs.

He suggested that this might be an idea for a new series and I'm going to take him up on that and see how far we get. Any guest contribution  as always will be very welcomed.

I'm going to start with a one- worder namely Stay and I have come up with three.

Let's start with the song Stay that is the 15th and final track on Belly's 1993 debut album Star (note to self- must look up Star for this series)

Next up are Shakespears Sister who were/are a duet consisting of ex- Bananarama member and former partner of Bobby Bluebell, Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit who I have just discovered co-write Eric Clapton's Lay Down Sally .Stay is a track from Hormonally Yours  their second album from 1992.

There is no need to provide any biographical details for our final act as you will all be familiar with the late great David Bowie. This Stay is the oldest of the three as it is the second of the three side two tracks on 1976's Station to Station.

Which one would you go with?

Another Same Title, Different Song next week

Belly - Stay

Shakespears Sister - Stay

David Bowie - Stay