Live at the Festival "The Golden Orpheus '72"
from Tony Christie
Date of issue:
01/06/1972
Genre:
Live
Published by:
Balkanton
Description:
Tony Christie (born Anthony Fitzgerald on 25 April 1943) is an English musician, singer and actor. Despite being long-overshadowed by the likes of Tom Jones, he had two Top Twenty hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1971 with "I Did What I Did For Maria", which reached #2 and "Is This the Way to Amarillo", which peaked at #18. He also had a minor hit with "Avenues And Alleyways" which reached #37, the theme to the television series The Protectors. "Is This the Way to Amarillo" sold over one million copies by September 1972, and was awarded a gold disc. His early songs were dramatic big-voiced numbers, many of which were written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callandar.
In June 1972 he was invited on the prestigious music festival "The Golden Orpheus" in Bulgaria, where he sang 10 songs:
1. Las Vegas (by P. Callendar)
2. Have You Ever Been to Georgia
3. Don't Go to Reno
4. I Did What I Did for Maria
5. Higher and Higher
6. My Way (F. Sinatra Cover)
7. Is This the Way to Amarillo
8. Gioulia (Julia) by legendary bulgarian singer Emil Dimitrov
9. Hey Jude (by Beatles)
10. So Deep Is the Night (by F. Chopin).
Silvernose.
