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"Walk Away Renée" is a song recorded by the band The Left Banke in 1966 (single release: July 1966, Smash Records, title printed as "Walk Away Renee"), written by the group's then 16-year-old keyboard player Michael Brown (real name Michael Lookofsky), Tony Sansone and Bob Calilli. Steve Martin Caro is featured on lead vocals. The song was also a chart hit for the Motown group the Four Tops〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/four%20tops/ )〕 in 1968. The song features a flute solo played during the instrumental bridge of the middle portion of the song. Michael Brown got the idea for the flute solo from The Mamas & the Papas song "California Dreamin'" which had been recorded in November 1965 but wasn't a hit and in heavy rotation until early 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=California Dreamin', Present at the Creation )〕 The arrangement also includes a lush string orchestration, a memorable harpsichord part, and a descending chromatic bass melody which led critics to refer to the group's sound as Baroque pop,〔Roger Bourland (July 15, 2006). (The Left Banke: Walk Away Renee ). rogerbourland.com〕 "Bach-Rock" or Baroque n Roll.〔(I'VE GOT SOMETHING ON MY MIND: LEFT BANKE ). urbanhonking.com (June 6, 2004). Accessed may 6, 2008〕 The session was produced by Brown's father, jazz and classical violinist Harry Lookofsky, who also led the string players. ''Rolling Stone'' placed the song at number 220 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.〔(The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time : Rolling Stone ). Retrieved on 2013-01-16.〕 After its initial release, it spent 13 weeks on the charts with a top spot at #5.〔(Walk Away Renee ) Rolling Stone (December 9, 2004)〕 and reaching #3 in the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. It has been widely recorded by singers in a wide range of genres and styles, often with great success. For example, Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy recorded the song on their 2006 album ''Adieu False Heart''. The ''New York Times''' reviewer Jon Pareles stated of their version that: :
==The real Renée== The song is one of a number Brown wrote about Renée Fladen-Kamm, then-girlfriend of The Left Banke's bassist Tom Finn and object of Brown's affection. She was associated with the band for a few weeks, and described as a free-spirited and tall blonde. The song was written one month after Brown met her.〔(Walk Away Renee ) from leftbanke.nu〕 "Walk Away Renee" was one of a series of love songs the infatuated Brown wrote after meeting his newfound muse.〔Dave Simons ''Studio Stories: How The Great New York Records Were Made : From Miles To Madonna, Sinatra To The Ramones'' Page 168 Backbeat Books, 2004 ISBN 0-87930-817-6〕 Other songs written about her include the band's second hit "Pretty Ballerina" and "She May Call You Up Tonight". After decades of obscurity, she was identified in 2001 as a noted singer, vocal teacher and artist on the West Coast.〔(Renee’s Still Walking Away, 40 Years On ) by John Stodder Sunday, July 30, 2006 from the Blog ''From the Desert to the Sea…'' Accessed August 28, 2008〕〔Mary Devlin ''Medieval Music, Magical Minds'' 2001 Page 21 "Renée Fladen-Kamm, my longtime vocal coach and vocal director of the Sherwood Consort, is a highly trained and skilled light lyric soprano, who has performed not only early music but opera as well—most often Mozart, who was partial to the ..."〕 Brown says of his unrequited love for Renée: ::"I was just sort of mythologically in love, if you know what I mean, without having evidence in fact or in deed...But I was as close as anybody could be to the real thing"〔 Fladen-Kamm was looking on during the recording of the song, and her presence nearly prevented its completion. In an interview, Brown stated: ::"My hands were shaking when I tried to play, because she was right there in the control room," he says. "There was no way I could do it with her around, so I came back and did it later."〔(The Left Banke ) from ClassicBands.Com Biographies of your favourite classic rock bands. Accessed May 6, 2008〕 However, co-author Tony Sansone has given a different version of the origin of the song. Sansone has stated in interviews that he wrote the lyrics for the song, and that he randomly chose the name Renee because the Beatles used the name Michelle in their hit song of the same name, and so he did likewise, choosing the French name Renee as the female object for the song.〔(Tony Sansone ) from Youtube interview Published on September 23, 2012〕 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「Walk Away Renée」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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