1964
VAYA CON DIOS * THE DRIFTERS * LONDON ATLANTIC 9848 * UK
Written by Larry Russell, Inez James, and Buddy Pepper in 1953 the song was a number one hit that same year for Les Paul and Mary Ford, and even reached number seven on the UK charts. On this cut Rudy Lewis takes lead for The Drifters and apart from the other Drifters their is the four regular ladies singing back-up vocals: Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, Cissy Houston and Doris Troy, it was produced by Bert Berns and recorded in December 1963 along with One Way Love. The term Vaya Con Dios is the same as good-bye in English, only we are further down the road to removing the tyranny of Christianity from our language, as, in the sixteenth centaury, good-bye was spoken as: God be wy you (wy = with). There was never a worse place or time to be religious than Europe in the 16th Century. These were cruel times. There was the death penalty for all but the most petty offences, and hangings were a popular spectator sport. Indeed, hanging was a lenient punishment: flaying, impaling, breaking on the wheel, and being hung upside down and sawn through from groin to scalp were alternatives. Lesser crimes such as begging were punished with flogging, branding or mutilation. Torture was widespread and trials, if held at all, often a travesty of justice.
See also:
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| I Gotta Get Myself A Woman | I Don't Want To Go On Without You | Up In The Streets Of Harlem | Somebody New Dancin’ With You | White Christmas |
