GLASS TIGER: My Town 7″ (featuring Rod Stewart). PROMO!!!! Check video.

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Glass Tiger – My Town / The Tragedy Of Love – 7″ PROMO Single Vinyl – Emi – Uk – 1991 – Em 212 Near Mint Vinyl Condition.


Released August 1991
Recorded 1990
Length 4:51
Label Capitol
Songwriters: Jim Cregan, Alan Frew, Alan Connelly, Wayne Parke
“My Town” is a song by Canadian band Glass Tiger. Released in August 1991 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Simple Mission, Rod Stewart appears as a featured vocalist. Composition inspired by Celtic music, “My Town” was written by Glass Tiger band mates Alan Frew, Alan Connelly and Wayne Parker, as well as Jim Cregan, who co-wrote two of Stewart’s other hits. The song’s lyrics are a tribute to Frew’s hometown, Coatbridge, Scotland, and Stewart was invited to record the song with Glass Tiger because of his Scottish nationality.

It became Glass Tiger’s sixth top-ten hit in Canada, climbing to number eight on the RPM Top Singles chart in November of the same year and ending the year as Canada’s 52nd-most-successful single. In the United Kingdom, due to Stewart’s appearance, the single became the band’s first song to chart since “Diamond Sun” in 1988, peaking at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. Elsewhere, “My Town” managed to chart in Germany, where it peaked at number 51.

Background
“My Town” was written about Glass Tiger member Alan Frew’s hometown of Coatbridge, Scotland. In an interview with Metal Express Radio, Frew said that he initially did not think to recruit Rod Stewart as a featured artist, despite spending time with him prior to the song’s conception.  The two men were having dinner one night when a person Stewart recognized asked Frew why he had not asked Stewart to sing on “My Town”. Frew explained, “Rod asked me why he’d not been asked to sing on it and I’d said that I didn’t want to play that card on him. He just said he wanted to sing on it, so he did and that`s how he ended up singing on it.”

Composition and lyrics
Celtic singing and instrumentation were the main influences on the composition on “My Town”. Despite Glass Tiger being a Canadian band, the “Scotia” in the song’s lyrics does not refer to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, but rather Scotland, which was called Scotia during the Middle Ages. One of the lyrics states that “Burlington Bertie”, a music hall song composed by Harry B. Norris in 1900, will be in Frew’s heart forever.

Music video
The music video for the song, filmed in black-and-white, features numerous references to Scotland. However, Rod Stewart does not appear in the video nor in the recording used for this video.

Track listings
7-inch single:

“My Town” – 4:48
“The Tragedy of Love” – 4:31


Glass Tiger is a Canadian rock band formed in 1983, in Newmarket, Ontario. The band produced several hit singles in Canada and placed two songs on Billboard magazines top 10: “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” and “Someday,” both of which came from their debut album, The Thin Red Line (1986), produced by Jim Vallance.
Glass Tiger won three Juno Awards in 1986 and two more in 1987. They were also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987. After their third album Simple Mission and a brief Canadian tour in early 1993, the band went on a lengthy hiatus then reformed.

Bring the wind to carry me over
Lead me home to my town
Tell me when the breeze is blowing
Taking me home, to my town
When I think of you Scotia
Theres a love that just bleeds in my heart
In my childhood days we went our
different ways
But you knew that we’d never part
Now I’m all alone and you’re calling me home
You knew our love could never die
And through my roving eyes always
Led me astray
Now I’m coming back home Scotia
Don’t walk away
so when I think of you Scotia
Theres a magic that fills the air
We’re the “Downtown boys” making all that noise
Oh! We lived like we just don’t care
So we drank our fill for king and country
Yeah! Till the last soldier fell!
Burlington Bertie you’re in my heart forever
I want to drown in the stories you tell
You made me all I can ever be
If I should fall you love will
Rescue me

Alan Frew with Bryan Adams 1985

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