Pat Coyne has a gentle, lilting, flexible tenor voice, which exactly suits the material he has chosen for his CD. The song , "Supermarket Wine," written by Mickey MacConnell, is one of those songs of losing love, where the pain is intensified by the commonplace references. It tells of the singer's travels in Ireland with his girl, in a battered Morris minor car, and the laughter and hard times they shared. Its lyric is like an up-to-date version of Thanks for the Memory (1938) in which Bob Hope and Shirley Ross reminisce in a similar way, their memories of "tinkling temple bells, alma mater yells, And cuban rum and towels from the very best hotels," replaced by memories of the Galway Races, and a man in harris tweed who had a great tip for a race, and put their money on a horse they'd "swear is running still." The spareness of the lyric is perfect.
4 окт 2024
