Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:26 pm
Humble Pie's "I'll Find You" - really "To Ramona"!?
Recently I was surprised to hear Steve Marriott (of Small Faces/Humble Pie fame) singing "To Ramona". Apparently it's track 17 on the Humble Pie album "The Scrubbers Sessions" where it's entitled "I'll Find You". I say "apparently" as I don't own the album, and the source where I heard it is not always reliable. 
So I did some digging around and found . . . nothing. So I started a thread asking about it on a forum where I'm a regular. I learned that All Music Guide lists the composers of "I'll Find You" as Hinkley, Marriott, Ridley
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfoxqthldje
Also, Amazon, AMG as well as other reputable sites list "I'll Find You" as track 17 with a length of 3:27 - which is about the right length for the version of "To Ramona" I heard. There's a sound clip at:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Humble-Pie-The-Scrubbers-Sessions-MP3-Download/11168982.html
I also signed up to Yahoo's Humble Pie mailing group and asked about "I'll Find You" and Marriott singing Dylan there, having discovered he'd also done "The Times They Are A-Changin'". Here's part of a reply I got:
And that's about all I know so far. It seems that Marriott/Pie covered the song, and it's track 17 on "The Scrubbers Sessions", but for some reason it's called "I'll Find You". It seems quite likely that it got accidentally mis-labelled somewhere along the line.
So: does anyone here know anything about it?
Steve Marriott had a great voice and "To Ramona" is a beautiful song, so it's worth checking out anyway.
So I did some digging around and found . . . nothing. So I started a thread asking about it on a forum where I'm a regular. I learned that All Music Guide lists the composers of "I'll Find You" as Hinkley, Marriott, Ridley
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfoxqthldje
Also, Amazon, AMG as well as other reputable sites list "I'll Find You" as track 17 with a length of 3:27 - which is about the right length for the version of "To Ramona" I heard. There's a sound clip at:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Humble-Pie-The-Scrubbers-Sessions-MP3-Download/11168982.html
I also signed up to Yahoo's Humble Pie mailing group and asked about "I'll Find You" and Marriott singing Dylan there, having discovered he'd also done "The Times They Are A-Changin'". Here's part of a reply I got:
Great question – I was just going to mention the Times they are a Changin’ – but I see you cover it at the end of your e-mail………that one is a corker !! a classic!
I don’t know much about “ill Find You”
Here’s what I do know…..yes it is Dylan’s Ramona / To Ramona that they cover on Scrubbers…..it was recorded for his intended solo album “lend us a Quid”
I have a bunch of Steve’s old notepads from around this time with hand written lyrics, running order for Lend us a Quid etc and there’s not much mention
He does though have a self penned lovely little song called “I’ll Find Loretta in the end”……..conjecture by me – but that may well be “I’ll Find You”
And that's about all I know so far. It seems that Marriott/Pie covered the song, and it's track 17 on "The Scrubbers Sessions", but for some reason it's called "I'll Find You". It seems quite likely that it got accidentally mis-labelled somewhere along the line.
So: does anyone here know anything about it?
Steve Marriott had a great voice and "To Ramona" is a beautiful song, so it's worth checking out anyway.
