I bought this 7" from a charity shop in Peckham in the early 90s. We ran a club for ten years in Brixton - soul/funk/jazz/hip-hop - this record was always the final tune of the evening and it always sounded amazing. Not just crazy strings and great singing but top flight mastering and press. RIP Kenny
2 minutes and 45 seconds of pure magic...which is what singles were all about fifty or more years ago. I loved the fantastic sound of this record when I first heard it as a 15 years old young man in 1962 and it still sounds just as good today. What a brilliant arrangement and backing and a great vocal by Kenny Lynch. One of the best! But amazing that it never got higher in the charts at the time.
POOF [source: sheet music] Last night I took you out to see a magic show, and then when we came home I turned the lights down low. Just when I held you tight I felt my poor heart sink because you jumped up and left me quick as a wink, was it a trick, was it a joke, your love went poof, right up in smoke. Your love went poof, poof, poof, my heart broke. Baby I held my breath it lost its shaking then, because when you were gone my arms were vanished in the air. I heard the front door slam and though I cried your name our love went up in smoke like you went down the drain, was it a trick, was it a joke, our love went poof, right up in smoke. Our love went poof, poof, poof, my heart broke. What made you act so strange was it that magic show? Why did you disappear where did you really go? Perhaps a crystal ball would help me understand was it witch craft, baby, or a slight of hand, was it a trick, was it a joke, your love went poof, right up in smoke. Your love went poof, poof, poof, my heart broke. Repeat last line.