“So it’s about people travelling around Europe. “That part comes from me being at college and at the time people were going away on gap years, backpacking around the world,” he says. Male was shocked Matthews kept that finale in her version. Male had actually written the song in the late ‘80s during his university days in Manchester, first playing it live with his indie rock band Metro Trinity before recording it with Soul Family Sensation. Soul Family Sensation - Johnny Male, Guy Batson, Pete Z and singer Jhelisa - scored a minor hit with the song I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Babyand recorded The Day You Went Away on their 1991 album New Wave - it was released as a single in the UK in 1992 but did not chart. She shared a publisher, Mushroom’s Jackie Dennis, with the UK act. Matthews soon scored a solo deal and her 1990 debut Emigre was home to the hits Token Angels and Let’s Kiss (Like Angels Do).įor the follow-up album, Lily, Matthews was sent a song called The Day You Went Away which had been recorded by British electronic act Soul Family Sensation. By 1988 her soundtrack album with Kate Ceberano, You’ve Always Got the Blues, was a Top 5 hit and the next year sang I Don’t Wanna Be With Nobody But You with Absent Friends. She stayed in Sydney and sang with Jimmy Barnes, Models, Tim Finn and Richard Clapton. Pic: suppliedīorn in Canada, Wendy Matthews found herself in Australia in 1982 working as a backing vocalist for Glenn Shorrock. Wendy Matthews initially heard a jungle remix of the original version of The Day You Went Away.
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