ALAN PRICE SET Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 2022 stereo

ALAN PRICE SET Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear 2022 stereo Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear is a song written by Randy Newman, about a sincere young man of modest means named Simon Smith who entertains affluent ( wellfed ) diners with his dancing bear. A recording by the Alan Price Set reached No 4 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1967. Newman later recorded the song himself. Randy Newman wrote the ragtimeinfluenced song in 1964. He considered it a major stepping point in his songwriting, telling Performing Songwriter I was writing a song, believe it or not, for Frank Sinatra Jr. And it was called something like Susie or Mary and I just all of a sudden couldnt do it. So I ended up somewhere with coat to wear and dancing then I was never the same. And I never wrote particularly conventional songs after Sinatra Jr. never recorded the finished song. S