I've extolled about the talents of Susan Jacks (Pesklevits) and The Poppy Family here before, but I can't seem to get any agreements or even acknowledgements. Oh well. Now she's gone, but The Poppy Family's music - a couple of albums - still live on, but just barely. Most of the two album's tracks are available on a compilation CD, A GOOD THING LOST. Personally, I've been lucky enough to have both of their albums, US versions.
We all hear things differently, but I hear an awful lot of Karen Carpenter in Susan Jacks' vocals. Your mileage may vary. This is probably their biggest hit which was kept from Number One by the breakup of The Beatles and the sentimentality of "The Long And Winding Road". The song is also dismissed today because of confusion with another (awful) "Billy" song, "Billy Don't Be A Hero."
"Which Way You Goin', Billy?"
And finally, through a quirk of fate, THE POPPY FAMILY'S GREATEST HITS album of the late 80s, turned out to be on the A&M label (A&M Records Of Canada).
R.I.P. Susan Jacks
We all hear things differently, but I hear an awful lot of Karen Carpenter in Susan Jacks' vocals. Your mileage may vary. This is probably their biggest hit which was kept from Number One by the breakup of The Beatles and the sentimentality of "The Long And Winding Road". The song is also dismissed today because of confusion with another (awful) "Billy" song, "Billy Don't Be A Hero."
"Which Way You Goin', Billy?"
And finally, through a quirk of fate, THE POPPY FAMILY'S GREATEST HITS album of the late 80s, turned out to be on the A&M label (A&M Records Of Canada).
R.I.P. Susan Jacks