"Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do"  MP3   

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Don Read explains:-

Most of my professional life has been spent in the music business. I was managing John Dankworth's big band at the age of 22.and sharing a house, just round the corner from the famous Abbey Rd studios, with Cleo Laine. We used that famous zebra crossing which the Beatles made a cultural icon nine years before they did, so there !

In 1974 I dabbled in a little song writing. Des O'Connor had used a song of mine in a TV Spectacular  two years earlier from the London Palladium and two years later a London based group, Love Together, recorded my song, "Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do" for Philips records. Members of the group came up to Radio Nottingham and we met for the first time during an interview with John Holmes. 

The record did quite well but after the first flush of hype I got on with my life and forgot all about the song until February  2009 when rummaging through a filing cabinet I can across three dusty copies of the record.I played one through and realised just how much the group sounded like the American hit makers, The Stylistics with a lead falsetto voice. I played the record to family and friends and all agreed that it was the Stylistics.

I am now re-promoting the song. Soon it will appear on Spotify (the strangely named Swedish website with thousands of  free tracks to listen to). There it will join my song, "Drifting, Dreaming" recorded by Cleo Laine and James Galway on their album, "Sometimes When We Touch" in 1980. It is also likely to turn up on YouTube soon,thirty three years after it was recorded. I hope the members of Love Together see it and make contact even though they maybe in their fifties by now.