Recordings

August, 1968

Usually, when an actor takes it into his head that he can sing, the results range from indifferent to catastrophic. Not so with Richard Harris. On A Tramp Shining (Dunhill), as he did in Camelot, he displays a voice that is sensitive, individualistic and on key. Harris also had the good sense to have Jim Webb, the bright new light in the music world, supply the songs and the arrangements. Webb's music is fresh, inventive and filled with the sadness of love gone awry. Didn't We, Name of My Sorrow...