Good Rawkin' | Smokie

Abomb reminded me about this tune from last summer. We were partying with some former classmates and this played about twenty times throughout the extremely long and beer-soaked day, afternoon, evening, and night.

I wouldn't play this at work with the volume cranked to 11, but it's one to crank if you're out of delicate-ears earshot...

This is Smokie's 1976 classic version of "Living Next Door to Alice". (I say version because the original was co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, originally released as a vocal harmony by Australia's New World in 1972.)

So... here's a "clean" version from a performance in 1977:



And here's the version that really went stellar...