Drake's Progress


The background music reminds me of Nick Drake. And as I revised this post just now, the commercial ran again on TVLand.

Molly Drake and Nick Drake shopping on Oxford Street, 1956

In the case of Molly's Poor Boy flowed to River Man maturity, her Saturday Sun shone Bryter Layter in a Northern Sky itself on the Way to Blue before Day is Done, before the Pink Moon and before Sunday, the Fruit Tree didn't grow far from the seed: since her music was One of These Things First - among the Things Behind the Sun, he was Know ... Parasite out for a Free Ride , but instead a Black Eyed Dog of a Harvest Breed without a Fly on him.

Mother & Son: Molly & Nick Drake
Now a brand new album gives host/producer David Garland the opportunity to show that the songwriter who had the greatest influence on Nick Drake was his mother, Molly Drake.

The Songs Of Molly Drake, Mother Of Nick Drake
Never-before-heard songs recorded in the '50s at the Drake family home. Hear "How Wild The Wind Blows."

Requiem for a Pink Moon
In “Requiem for a Pink Moon” Frederiksen and his Ensemble Phoenix Munich intermix songs by 16th Century masters such as John Dowland and Thomas Campion, with songs by Nick Drake, the 20th Century British songwriter who died in 1974 at age 26.

Connie Converse Walking In the Dark
During the 1950s Connie Converse lived in New York City writing and singing thoughtful, emotional, smart, witty, personal songs.

Molly Drake in Rangoon, 1941

At the piano in Dallah, Burma, 1937

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