6. Charlie RichThe Many New Sides of Charlie Rich

‘Mohair Sam’ was one of the tracks on it – I recorded it on my first album because of hearing him do it. But I liked him before that – ‘Lonely Weekends’ was the first one I heard him sing. Heard it on the radio, on the BBC – some people had condemned the BBC because they didn’t play enough of this or enough of that but at least you would get a smidgen of things coming through. I’d be getting records then from Spillers in Cardiff, but there was a shop in Pontypridd which was more local, called Freddy Feys, and I would get a lot of stuff in there. On another album later on, I did the song that was on The Many New Sides… called ‘Field of Yellow Daisies’ that his wife wrote, which I learned later – when I met him, he said “Thanks for recording that."