This time around we are going with a choice from Mick L aka  @Hooker1951

Rita & The Tiaras ‎– Gone With The Wind Is My Love

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Gloria Jones - Gone With The Wind Is My Love

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Betty Willis - Gone With The Wind (is my love)

 

Here's the clips, as always feel free to post your track related views, reasons, stories, history etc after you've voted your choice

Rita & The Tiaras ‎– Gone With The Wind Is My Love

 

Gloria Jones - Gone With The Wind Is My Love

 

Betty Willis - Gone With The Wind (is my love)

 

 

 

A bit of background posted on here originally by Steve Lane 

The Gloria Jones cut "Gone with the wind is my Love" was recorded prior to the Rita version..."Rita used the same tracks as on the Gloria version......the Tiaras did the backup vocals with Gloria.....Hence, The Gloria 8 track recording is the same track that Rita recorded on.....The time frame was the same.....same year, about a month apart.....we had to replace Gloria with Rita within a 4/ 6 week period....we were in the studio with Gloria Jones of "Tainted Love" for almost 3 hours until we got the sound out of her that we wanted, from line to line..........The sound we got out of Gloria was a new sound, a new Gloria Jones.....it did not sound like any of Gloria's other songs such as Tainted Love. The reason why the Gloria recording was never released was " due to disagreements with Gloria's management group."

(by Lou Barreto)

ok there you go, the latest version battle...
 as said comments/views/stories/background etc most welcome

It's so hard to choose between Rita and Gloria,I think that the short Rita's version is the most powerful,

I voted Rita,

I also like a lot the instrumental version from Dore strings 

Having met Rita Graham at Prestatyn, and been lucky enough to be in the studio when she was interviewed for the campsite radio station where she sang the long version acapella to about 6 of us, there is no way that I'd vote for anyone else.

Rita by a country mile, powerhouse northern soul and as good as it gets. Betty version I love, more soulful, but it is a totally different record and not the dancer that Rita is.

When i first Heard the Gloria Jones version i thought it was awesome.However on reflection Rita is the better cut,and as stated the instro is great

Rita   love hearing a real one . 

 Rita & the Tiaras. Classic.  no contest in my opinion 

Steve 

Rita,pure class.

Rita. So atmospheric it hurts 🎶🎶👌

Its like A premier league team getting drawn at home to minnows in the third round of the cup!!   Rita wins without breaking sweat.

Could this be the most one sided poll we've ever had on here. 

Steve 

17 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Could this be the most one sided poll we've ever had on here. 

Steve 

Its like asking whos best: your first love or the current wife

26 minutes ago, El Corol said:

Its like asking whos best: your first love or the current wife

I would never answer that even under threat of having to listen to pop music . 

Rita without a doubt. What about the alternative Rita take which has an verse in it?

 

P 

Yep..its Rita & The Tiaras version hands down for me also.

Absolutely pure class.

 

Rita but the instrumental is awesome.

 

Rita defo - the pained, yet resigned sound of her voice nails it.

Betty Willis sounds like a bad school band with the key to the tambourine cupboard - and I think the brass section is playing a different tune altogether.

Dx

Edited October 19, 20186 yr by DaveNPete

Guess I'll be in the minority, but I've Never liked it.

its 2 minutes of Dynamite,  fabulous record ! 

  Rita & the Tiara's ....   wonderful .

 

 Lou Barreto's little interview was an interesting read,  history in the making.    Gloria Jones made a fine job,    no question,   but when you're brought up on Rita Graham blasting out of the speakers,    its always gonna be her ....

3 hours ago, Citizen P said:

Guess I'll be in the minority, but I've Never liked it.

not a lover of the tune..by anyone 

is there another version ?..... oh yes i forgot about  the gloria ......err............ oh i remember vaguely gloria jones  i think.... she done a poor cover i think

So I assume Gloria Jones management company eventually settled their differences with the record producers etc and her version eventually got released?

Or was it slipped out on the quiet?

Rita has been on here a few times explaining she got sweet fa from the record profits at the time or ever since.

Big time record discovered around 77 / 78 ? Unless I caught it second time around?

Ed

Will have to go with Rita & Tiaras. Remember Richard Searling playing it covered as The Velvets ? That intro sounded great out and loud.

Great flipside on the Betty Willis 45 mind

Cheers Paul

Gotta be the Rita & the tiaras version...had it and sold it for £500 many years ago to put the money up for a car....at least I can say I owned a copy!! Thank you...Rob

Expected a landslide on this one, fantastic record!

Posted this incorrectly last time...................

Rita without a doubt. What about the alternative Rita take which has an additional verse in it?

Extended pleasure 😀

No contest, Rita's vocals are perfect for the song, and what a sound for the Northern Soul scene, would kill a man for a copy...

Never really cared about the song too much that is until I was holidaying down south , sat on the beach at Bournemouth on a scorching sunny day 1981 , surrounded by tories and tourists and a girl walked past with a ghetto blaster and the song came on , plenty of tut tuts about the volume lol , I almost shouted ‘ turn it up lass , “f#*k em”lol 

Edited October 27, 20186 yr by Colnago

last chance for a shout

Poll closes on 01/11/18 at 09:00

all over now

thanks to all who took part - voting and talking

here's the final results...

Rita & The Tiaras ‎86%
Gloria Jones 11%
Betty Willis 3%