Kiki’s currently on tour in the U.K. with her longtime musical collaborator Carmelo Luggeri.
Today at The Wild Reed I celebrate Kiki and her music by sharing a track from her 1970s’ heyday, “How Glad I Am,” a remake of the Nancy Wilson hit, “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am.”
Notes Wikipedia:
Kiki Dee recorded “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am” in 1964 with an arrangement – by Les Reed – based on the Nancy Wilson recording: Dee then remade the song as “How Glad I Am” in 1975, with an uptempo bluesy arrangement, and this version – produced by Gus Dudgeon and credited to the Kiki Dee Band – was issued that spring as the follow-up to “I’ve Got the Music in Me,” reaching No. 33 in the UK and No. 74 in the US. The Kiki Dee Band version also charted in the Netherlands (No. 16) and Flemish Belgium (No. 30).
For more of Kiki Dee at The Wild Reed, see:
• Music Legend Kiki Dee: “I’m a Down-to-Earth Person”
• Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri
• “A Classy Duo”
• Celebrating the Proverbial “Soulman”
• Elton and Kiki: Together Again
• Deeper Understandings
• The End Is Not the End
• Amoureuse
• Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light
• The Light of This New Year’s Day
Related Off-site Link:
Kiki Dee’s Forward Motion – The Strange Brew (August 2023).
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