EDDIE FISHER – 'I'm Walking Behind You'

I don’t know the DS version but the lyric makes more sense from a female perspective. From a male perspective there is a definite creepy stalking quality. It is though a more relaxed performance from Eddie and better for it.

This is absolutely one of the creepiest things I’ve ever heard.

So schmaltzy, it probably had every ingredient required for a smash-hit in 1953. Enjoyable, solid ’50s pop – and I certainly prefer it to Dorothy’s original (I think he was on her lengthy hit-list because it outsold hers!).

I think we have a winner! Always thought Kay Starr was our oldest living Popularista. For some reason, presumably down to her name, I imagine Sally Sweetland as younger than Eddie. In fact I picture her as (the much younger) Dead Of Night actress Sally Ann Howes, who I’m happy to see is also still with us, aged 85.

So it’s a belated RIP to Sally Sweetland who, according to IMDB, left us on Feb 8th last year, aged 103. No obit anywhere as far as I can tell, but scroll down here for a rather lovely portrait of her when she was 100, or even 101!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346747/A-century-wisdom-etched-faces-Poignant-portraits-Americans-lived-100-years-old.html

For those with a sufficient aversion to the Daily Heil that you don’t want to give them any clicks (like me), here’s an archived version that also goes direct to the picture of Sally Sweetland at 100:

Creepy… I find I have a pretty high tolerance for pre-rock tunes, more than I ever thought I would, but Eddie Fisher just doesn’t translate much beyond 1956. Sally Sweetland is the interesting story, not only because she lived to a grand old age, but because her vocals here sound like they were recorded from the other end of an aircraft hanger. 2/10.