“That Lonely Feeling” (1965) – Dean Ford and the Gaylords * Written by John Carter and Ken Lewis * 45: “The Name Game” / “That Lonely Feeling” * Label: Columbia
This Scottish group became the Marmalade around 1966, right after which they recorded their “I See the Rain,” an alleged spark for Jimi Hendrix’s arrangement of “Hey Joe.” By 1968, they were a UK hit-making machine, with a cover of the Beatles’ “Ob-la-di Ob-la-da” reaching #1 in the UK and their elegiac “Reflections of My Life” (1970) reaching #10 in the US. As Dean Ford and the Gaylords, though, one of their standout tracks was a B-side called “That Lonely Feeling.” Although Scottish female duo the McKinleys had recorded it in 1963, this later version is a throwback slice of early Beatle balladry with a golden guitar solo.