Normie rowe biography of barack

Pride and Joy (N Whitfield/Gaye/W Stevenson) and Breaking Point (B Bacharach/H David) – Normie Rowe and the Playboys and Ooh La La (M Keene/R Shaw) and It’s Not Easy (B Mann/C Weil) – Normie Rowe 1966

1966 was to be just as momentous as the previous year for Normie when he kicked off proceedings with two songs lifted off his third album, A Wonderful Feeling, and the first was Breaking Point, a Hal David/Burt Bacharach composition which had previously been recorded in the US by former Del-Vikings lead singer Chuck Jackson in 1961.The record was a solid up- tempo number and rocked a lot more than most Bacharach/David compositions.

Rowe’s vocals were a little overwrought, but the song resonated with the public and hit #5 in February and was quickly followed up by Pride and Joy in May.

This was a former hit by Marvin Gaye and came straight from the Motown Hitsville USA heartland, written by Gaye who had his first top ten hit with this song in 1963, and tw