Song Of The Day: The Left Banke, “Walk Away Renee”

New York-based baroque pop band The Left Banke seemingly came and went rather quickly, but their small catalog has been largely influential on the generations that follow. It’s not hard to imagine bands such as Belle And Sebastian, The Essex Green, and many more bands growing up listening to such hits as”Walk Away Renée” and “Pretty Ballerina,” which were notable for their very gentle, lush arrangements and gorgeous harmonies. Sadly, we learned that founding member and drummer George Cameron lost his battle with cancer on Sunday afternoon. He was 70.

Tagged as: , , , , ,

Categorised in: Farewell, Song Of The Day

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: