Foolin’ Myself – Jimmy Chambers
I’ve found two versions of this song on my hard drive. I originally wrote and demo’d it around 1977. I can’t recall why I was running around making new demos of this song in 1980 but I must have had some action on it. My old mate Gus Dudgeon recommended one of his session singers, Jimmy Chambers so I got in touch and arranged a session in London. My memory is hazy but I think the studio was Southern Music Publishers in Denmark Street in London (Tin Pan Alley). I found an interesting article about Denmark Street yesterday. I had left Impulse/Neat but I borrowed the 2 inch 24 track master and took it to London, put Jimmy’s vocals on and mixed it there and then. You can hear the results in the attached video. The song disappeared into obscurity so I can’t recall what action was going on with it. It’s me on piano and bass but I can’t figure out who’s drumming. It’s the Caffrey Bros on backing vocals. I never met with Jimmy again but I did see him many times. Not long after this, I started to see him on TV a lot. First as a backup vocalist with Paul Young and then his own band London Beat. He went on to have a mega career. Maybe it’s my song that gave him a kickstart 😉