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"Leaps and Bounds" / "Bradman" is a double A-sided single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released in January 1987. "Leaps and Bounds" is from their debut double album, ''Gossip'' (1986). "Bradman" did not appear on a studio album until the international version of ''Under the Sun'' (1988). The single reached top 100 in the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. Due to possible racist connotations the band changed its name, for international releases, to Paul Kelly and the Messengers. In 1997, Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, at the ceremony Crowded House paid tribute to Kelly and performed "Leaps and Bounds". In October 2003, Xanthe Littlemore covered "Leaps and Bounds" for the tribute album, ''Stories of Me – A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly''. In 2005, rock music writer, Toby Creswell described two of Kelly's songs: "Leaps and Bounds" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in his book, ''1001 Songs''. For the former, Creswell observed "The grand themes of () work are all there – Melbourne, football, transcendence and memory... () is a detail man – the temperature, the location , foliage". On 26 March 2006 Kelly performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Melbourne, singing "Leaps and Bounds" and "Rally Around the Drum". In February 2009 Patience Hodgson (of The Grates), Glenn Richards and Kelly performed "Leaps and Bounds" at the Myer Music Bowl for SBS-TV's concert RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl. On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed "How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the 2012 AFL Grand Final although most of the performance was not broadcast on Seven Network's pre-game segment. ==Background== After recording his solo album, ''Post'' in early 1985, Paul Kelly established a full-time band in Sydney. It included Michael Armiger (bass guitar, rhythm guitar), Michael Barclay (drums) and Steve Connolly (lead guitar). Bass guitarist Jon Schofield and keyboardist Peter Bull soon joined.〔 Through a joke based on Lou Reed's song "Walk on the Wild Side", the band became known as Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls.〔〔 Armiger left and the Coloured Girls line-up stabilised in late 1985 as Barclay, Bull, Connolly and Schofield.〔〔 By May 1986, the band entered Trafalgar Studios and released their debut 24-track double LP, ''Gossip'' in September.〔 It included remakes of four songs from ''Post''.〔 ''Gossip'' peaked at No. 15 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart.〔 First two singles from the album were "Before Too Long" which peaked at No. 15 on the related Singles Chart and "Darling It Hurts" which reached No. 25.〔〔 "Leaps and Bounds" was issued as one side of a double A-sided single in January 1987. A trimmed version of ''Gossip'', featuring 15 tracks on a single LP, was released in the United States by A&M Records in July that year.〔 Allmusic's Mike DeGagne noted that "() bursts at the seams with blustery, distinguished tunes captivating both the somberness and the intrigue thrown forward from this fine Australian storyteller".〔 Due to possible racist connotations the band changed its name for international releases to Paul Kelly and the Messengers.〔〔 They undertook a US tour, initially supporting Crowded House and then headlining, travelling across the US by bus.〔 "Darling It Hurts" peaked at No. 19 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart in 1987.〔 ''The New York Times'' rock critic Jon Pareles wrote "Mr. Kelly sang one smart, catchy three-minute song after another – dozens of them – as the band played with no-frills directness" following the band's performance at the Bottom Line Club in New York.〔 Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls' second album, ''Under the Sun'', was released in late 1987 in Australia and New Zealand; and early 1988 in North America and Europe (under the name Paul Kelly and the Messengers).〔 On the Kent Music Report Albums Chart it reached No. 19 with the lead single "To Her Door", peaking at No. 14 on the related singles chart.〔〔 The international version of ''Under the Sun'' included "Bradman". In 1992 "Bradman" also appeared on ''Hidden Things'' by Paul Kelly & the Messengers.〔 In 1989, Mushroom Records issued ''Leaps and Bounds – The Early Videos'', a VHS compilation album of seven music videos which included "Bradman" and "Leaps and Bounds". Both were included on a second video compilation, ''Paul Kelly & the Messengers 1986– 1992'' (1992).〔 In 1997, Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, at the ceremony Crowded House paid tribute to Kelly and performed "Leaps and Bounds".〔 In October 2003, Xanthe Littlemore covered "Leaps and Bounds" for the tribute album, ''Stories of Me – A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly''.〔 In 2005, rock music writer, Toby Creswell listed "Leaps and Bounds" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in his book, ''1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them''.〔 On 26 March 2006 Kelly performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Melbourne, singing "Leaps and Bounds" and "Rally Around the Drum".〔〔 In February 2009 Patience Hodgson (The Grates), Glenn Richards and Kelly performed it at the Myer Music Bowl for SBS-TV's concert RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl.〔 In November that year Kelly recorded a live version at the Triple J tribute concert, ''Before Too Long''.〔 On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed "How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the 2012 AFL Grand Final although most of the performance was not broadcast on Seven Network's pre-game segment. Nui Te Koha of ''Sunday Herald Sun'' declared "Kelly, an integral part of Melbourne folklore and its music scene, and a noted footy tragic, deserved his place on the Grand Final stage – which has been long overdue ... broadcaster Seven's refusal to show Kelly's performance, except the last verse of 'Leaps and Bounds', was no laughing matter".〔 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「Leaps and Bounds (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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