Fairport Convention's 1971 album "Babbacombe" Lee tells the story of a murder near Torquay and the wrongly convicted man who survived 3 attempts to hang him.
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Fairport Convention's 1971 album "Babbacombe" Lee tells the story of a murder near Torquay and the wrongly convicted man who survived 3 attempts to hang him. |
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From the liner notes of "The Best of The Fireballs: The Original Norman Petty Masters": "By April '59 they'd written another song, 'Cry Baby', plus a latin-flavoured instrumental, 'Curious'. The latter was changed to 'Torquay' at the request of the head of Top Rank Records who had recently holidayed in England and thought the tune reminded him of his stay there!" Maybe it's the greatest tribute of all to Tuck to draw connections between this song and an Aussie surfing spot since he was a master at finding outlandish tangents that almost certainly had nothing to do with the songs he talked about! Ivan |
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The things I learn here. I play Torquay, but I never knew there was a place called Torquay. I had always thought it combined an homage to a specialty-wrench and some poor spelling. As far as the Australian location known as Torquay is concerned, that is one impressive looking stretch of beach. I’m not much for international travel, but I’d love to see Australia. —The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. |