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"Arms of Mary" is a 1976 hit single by the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver; group member Iain Sutherland wrote this mid-tempo ballad whose singer reminisces about the girl with whom he had his first intimate encounter. The song was introduced on the September 1975 album release ''Reach for the Sky'' which marked the debut of the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver on CBS Records. Iain Sutherland would comment: "The main reason we left (label ) Island () was because they wouldn't distribute singles from our albums in the United States." 〔The Sumter Daily Item May 19 1976 p.18〕 (In fact the group had reached #48 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1973 with the Island release "(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway". Subsequent to the unsuccessful lead single release from ''Reach for the Sky'': "Ain't Too Proud", "Arms of Mary" had a spring 1976 single release in both the UK and the US affording the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver their UK chart debut; a ''Top of the Pops'' performance broadcast 8 May 1976 helped boost the track ten notches to #6 on the UK chart dated 15 May 1976 with a #5 peak reached the next week. "Arms of Mary" was also an international success most notably in Ireland and the Netherlands - in which territories the track was #1 for respectively four and three weeks - with the track also reaching #1 on the Dutch charts for Belgium. However "Arms of Mary" did not afford the Sutherland Brothers the American hit in hopes of which they'd moved to CBS Records: the track did debut on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in April 1976 but failed to accrue enough interest to rise higher than #81. In 1978, Canadian band Chilliwack remade "Arms of Mary", the only instance of Chilliwack recording a non-original song. Released as the lead single from the album ''Lights from the Valley'' - whose title derives from the song's lyrics - "Arms of Mary" bested the original's Hot 100 peak but also failed to become a major hit rising no higher than #67. In Canada the track reached a chart peak of #49. "Arms of Mary" has also been recorded by Lady Flash (''Beauties in the Night'' 1976), the Everly Brothers (''Born Yesterday'' 1985), Keith Urban (''Keith Urban'' 1991), Piet Veerman (''In Between'' 1992, duet with Mell, 2014), Leo Kottke (''Peculiaroso'' 1994),1 Boyzone (''Said and Done'' 1995), Smokie (''Uncovered'' 2000), Dominic Kirwan (''Under Your Spell'' 2002), Kevin Kennedy (''Present Kennedy'' 2002), Jan Keizer (''Going Back in Time II'' 2004), Nicholis Louw (''My Hart Is Aan Die Brand'' 2004), Janne Önnerud & Co (''Kryddboden'' 1978) and Wisex (''Miss Decibel'' 1978). The New Pornographers included "Arms of Mary" on their 2007 EP ''Spirit of Giving'' placing the song in tandem with "Looking at a Baby" - recorded by Chilliwack in their earlier incarnation as the Collectors - and presenting the track as a Christmas song. In 2012 The Minus 5 recorded a version for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for radio station WFMU. Translated versions of the song include "Ich seh' dich mit meinen Augen" a 1976 single by German singer Rebekka, "Marys arme"2 on the 1977 album ''Din Sang'' by Bamse, "Naisen verran"3 on the 1977 album ''Enkelit on harvinasta riistaa'' by Seppo Närhi and "Laat me in je armen rusten"4 on the 2007 album ''Hommage III'' by Mama's Jasje. *1instrumental version *2Danish lyrics by Bamse *3Finnish lyrics by Irina Milan *4Dutch lyrics by Peter Van Laet ==Charting single versions== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arms of Mary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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