2-Speed Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1. Accepts a neighbourly invitation – after an operation? (5,5)
7. Director gets me in tune (5)
8. Dresses at first then grows weary (7) 10. Half-moon? (3,5)
11. An overhead light (4)
13. Not the sort of water-pipe seen in most houses (6)
15. Mark made by a skater, perhaps (6)
17. Not the country I go out to win (4)
18. Have a touch of colour and be miserable (4,4)
21. Constant and determined (7)
22. Single unfronted fireplace (5)
23. Such people look well in print (10)
Down
1. Such opera may not be taken seriously (5)
2. Sort of seat possibly alarming to a candidate! (8)
3. Was the wrong bandage (6)
4. A preposition or two (4)
5. Go over a story and point to erroneous errata (7)
6. They should let you down lightly (10) 9. He likes people looking in at his window (10)
12. Stable charge for a horse (8)
14. Looking out for a situation for the hands (2,5)
16. Ship’s mascot for the ancient mariner? (6) 19. It stands to reason (5)
20. Even you could live in one! (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1. Is restored to consciousness (5,5) 7. Director (5)
8. Dresses (7) 10. Illumination source (3,5)
11. Ring of light (4)
13. Pipe (6)
15. Stripe (6)
17. Urban area (4) 18. Be unhappy (4,4) 21. Arranged (7) 22. Fireplace (5) 23. Attractive in snapshots (10)
Down
1. Funny (5)
2. Close to a limit (8)
3. Envelop (6)
4. Upon (4)
5. Relate (7)
6. Canopies (10)
9. Retailer (10)
12. Male horse (8) 14. Looking out (2,5) 16. Fogbow (6) 19. Reasoning (5) 20. Apartment (4)
THIS top ten from 50 years ago is remarkable because of the input of prolific session singer Tony Burrows.
Not only was he lead vocalist on huge hit ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’, he also featured as a session singer on White Plains’ ‘My Baby Loves Lovin’ and also sang lead vocals on ‘United We Stand’ as part of the original pre-Eurovision Brotherhood of Man line-up.
Burrows, from Devon and now aged 78, also contributed lead vocals to one-hit wonder The Pipkins’ novelty song ‘Gimme Dat Ding’, a No. 6 hit in the UK in May 1970, and he popped up again in 1974 fronting the First Class hit ‘Beach Baby’.
‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ was first recorded but not released by Birmingham’s Geoffrey Turton, performing under the name Jefferson.
Tony Burrows - possibly the most prolific session singer of all time - came on board when a studio group was put together to record the song. Edison Lighthouse did not exist when this version was released in early 1970 and started a rapid rise up the charts .
When Edison Lighthouse were invited to appear on Top Of The Pops, soft rock band Greenfield Hammer (with Burrows on vocals) stepped into the role and a week later appeared on TOTP as Edison Lighthouse to mime to the fastest climbing No. 1 hit in history.
Burrows mimed ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ on Top Of The Pops for four separate weeks and on each show also appeared singing lead for either The Brotherhood of Man (‘United We Stand’) or White Plains (‘My Baby Loves Lovin’), who also had hits during that same month-long stretch.
Tony Macaulay, Barry Mason and Sylvan Whittingham share songwriting credits on ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’. In a two year court case, Whittingham (Mason’s ex-wife), the daughter of Bond film Thunderball screenwriter, Jack Whittingham, claimed she had written half the lyrics of the number one hit and several other songs. The case was settled out of court on June 4, 1985.
Though she has never been registered as the third writer of the song by the publishers, she is legally entitled to claim a writing credit. This has never been disputed by either Mason or Macaulay.