Women And Drinkin'

[The Kurgan]

I recently received a nice vinyl copy of this 1977 US album by "The Persuasions" titled Chirpin'.
It was released some months BEFORE Roger's first ever solo single, and you might recognise this track....

[Frank]

Nice find. I never heard the original before. I can see why Roger liked it.

[WeeMann]

Nice find. I never heard the original before. I can see why Roger liked it.

This isn't the original. This is:

[WeeMann]

And it seems they re-worked it a couple of years later:

[The Kurgan]

I think it's pretty fair to say that Roger heavily based his track on the acapella re-working by The Persuasions rather than the original song.
He credited Taylor from The Parliaments on his own release, and their song title was also kept.
I consider the acepella version to be his real inspiration, and they rightly deserve some credit.
Roger did mention the acapella version back in the day, but I only discovered it recently through somebody else.
The fact it had a different song title resulted in it eluding me all these years.

[Frank]

Nice find. I never heard the original before. I can see why Roger liked it.

This isn't the original. This is:

Thanks!

[Old Man]

It's quite funny what we all know today about these things.
Back in 77/78 we didn't even know, that there was a solo single by Roger Taylor at all.
Imagine my surprise when I went to a small recordshop after school and suddenly discovering that single in a bargain bin for (today) 1 €....Luckily I bought it, but I did not really like it. Sounded to me then like "Fight from the inside", which I never warmed up to. But I liked Taylor's first two soloalbums.

[The Kurgan]

Perhaps I am a bit older than you, but I knew about the single and bought it on the day of release

[Old Man]

Perhaps I am a bit older than you, but I knew about the single and bought it on the day of release

If you live in England you may even have seen Taylor perform that song on the Marc Bolan show.....and you had weekly music magazines.
Where I live, there was no Marc Bolan show and nothing like Melody Maker at all....

[The Kurgan]

I think I may have been informed via a fan club magazine, not completely sure though.