Where Are You Now - Jackie Trent (UK # 1 - May 1965) SHQ Sound & Vision (NEW!) Widescreen
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- "Where Are You Now" is a 1965 song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent. A ballad, it was commissioned for use in the Granada Television police drama It's Dark Outside. A recording by Trent, released in response to demand from viewers of the series, became her only top 30 hit when it reached the top of the UK Singles Chart for one week in May 1965. She was the first female artist in the United Kingdom to be a credited writer on her own number one single.
A performer since childhood, Jackie Trent recorded her first singles, for Oriole Records, in 1962. A 1963 move to Pye Records united Trent with producer Tony Hatch, but her early recordings for the label were unsuccessful. In late 1964, Hatch was approached by Granada Television to compose a song to be featured in the police drama It's Dark Outside, starring William Mervyn as Chief Inspector Charles Rose. Hatch composed the music and enlisted Trent, who had won a national poetry competition as a teenager, to contribute the lyrics. The ballad, titled "Where Are You Now", was the pair's first songwriting collaboration. Hatch felt Trent's words "expressed the thoughts of a woman looking for a man she really wants." Writer and Saint Etienne musician Bob Stanley has described the song as "an Anglo-Bacharach playlet, with Jackie playing the schoolteacher stood up in the rain, walking back to her West Hampstead bedsit."
Trent recorded "Where Are You Now" shortly before travelling to South Africa for a three-month tour. Speaking in 1965, the singer said she was "so used to having near-misses" that she had already started looking for a follow-up to the song after recording it. The second series of It's Dark Outside was transmitted during Trent's absence from the UK, with "Where Are You Now" used diegetically in several episodes, played incessantly by the doomed female lead Claire (played by Veronica Strong). Many viewers contacted shops and publications to inquire about the song, prompting Pye to issue Trent's recording as a single backed with a version of "On the Other Side of the Tracks", written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh for the 1962 Neil Simon musical Little Me. Trent performed the song on the 29 April 1965 edition of BBC1's Top of the Pops. For one week in May 1965, the single made number one on the Record Retailer, Disc, NME and Melody Maker charts in the UK, knocking the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" off the top spot on the latter two charts. Trent was informed of the record making number one ahead of her performance at the London Palladium. The song was later included on Trent's debut album The Magic of Jackie Trent (1965).
Trent achieved two further hits on the UK Singles Chart, both collaborations with Hatch - "When the Summertime is Over", which charted at number 39 in July 1965, and "I'll Be There", which made number 38 in April 1969. Hatch and Trent married in 1967.
Yvonne Ann Gregory (born Yvonne Ann Burgess; 6 September 1940 - 21 March 2015), better known by her stage name Jackie Trent, was an English singer-songwriter and actress. She was best known for co-writing (with Tony Hatch) several hits for Petula Clark in the 1960s and the theme tune to the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1985.
Re-recorded and enhanced by Eddy's Vinyl Break EVB and presented here for you by Square Disc is the wonderfully colorized video for "Where Are You Now by Jackie Trent in SHQ sound and vision.
Enjoy.
Popped in for another listen to this fabulous song. Just a classic and it grows on you. Love it ❤
Jackie Trent’s best song ever, fabulous 😊🫶
This is great, many thanks. First time I've seen a colourised version of this, very impressed.
Such a great song, and such great times. I always thought Ann Lynn was a lovely looking woman, great to see her in colour.
Thank you 😊🙏
Takes me back to a different world.
Mick Jagger famously voted this the worst record of 1965 in an end-of-year poll in one of the music papers, very harsh indeed as it's a very good song. I bet he wouldn't say that today. The video, though it's not Jackie Trent, fits the song so well too. I've seen it before but not in colour. Excellent!
Yes, it was the actors from the program it was written for, given it a little colour and brightness. Great song, very melodic, and Jackie’s voice….. wow! 😊👏
Footage from the film Four in the Morning (1963) featuring the stunning Anne Lynn.
Another iconic 60's song, they just knew how to produce a timeless song back then!
Oh yes Peter, this is up there with the best 😊👏👏
Great tune and video,what a beautiful voice,Great job.🎶👌
Good to see you David, thanks matey 👏🙏
@@thesquarediscGood to see you back EVB,doing what you love and are awesome at,loving the music 🎶
That’s a very nice compliment David, happy Easter to you and your family 😊 🥚
Jackie trent is just a fabulous voice 👌🌷
Jackie Trent was so talented, brilliant lyricist too 👏👏😊
Although i wasn't ever thought of until many yrs later, i have always thought that if theres a song that has the power to transport you back to 1965, then this song with its haunting vibe by tony hatch & jackie trent certainly does just that.
For the 1970's it has to be year of decision by the three degrees. Or im not in love by 10cc.
I don't know why, but these songs make me feel very, very nostalgic.😊
Thank you Todd, it’s a very special song for me, always loved the melody and of course Jackie’s vocals are beautiful. Pleased it brought back the past for you too. Square Disc is all about the past 😊
What a classic ❤
Lovely song, I remembered it tho I was only @ 7 yrs old when it was released ...Can't believe it was so long ago... Loved it ❤
My mother loved this song, I can still hear her singing along to it so many years ago, thanks Jackie 😊🙏
I love this ❤
It’s a super song, thanks Viv 😊👏👏🙏
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This song stays in your head. Great video ⚘
I love listening to this one Viv, Jackie Trent had such a good voice, spent most of her time writing rather than singing. Thanks for giving it another view, it might even make the top 40 most viewed too 😊👏👏🫶
These songs grow on you. ❤
This must be a colorized version. Was the movie in color ? or black and white ?
It was originally B/W, the movie has been colorized. Thanks
That guy was later arrested by the river Police for recklessly piloting a boat.
😊🤣 certainly wouldn’t get away with that today 😊
Had other things on his mind 😂
@@viv3544 He was cheating on his wife.
I'd be guilty of that to if I was kissing Ann Lynn!