a rose growing in the ruins the rivingtons

[honest man]

Hello at a soul do at Southport heard this song for first time, Love it, anyway the question is i was told it was written by Ashford and Simpson,was there no end to these brilliant writers, does anyone know for certain if they wrote this brilliant song, cheers.

[jsmith]

"ROSE GROWING IN THE RUINS" BMI Work #1269869
Songwriter/Composer ASHFORD NICKOLAS / SIMPSON VALERIE R
Publishers RENLEIGH MUSIC INC .. UNIVERSAL MUSIC CAREERS .. WARNER-TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORP -- all BMI

[robb_k]

That is BY FAR my favourite Rivingtons' song-showing they were great singers. They just need better material, overall. When they finally got great music to sing, they did very well.

[honest man]

thank you lads,ROBB do you know other songs the rivingtons sang in this style .i always asscociate them with the bird etc yes great stuff, J SMITH any names for preststyn yet cheers fellas.

[robb_k]

I can only remember "Cherry" [[Liberty) and "A Rose Growing in the Ruins" as "sweet songs" by them. They did a few Soulful songs on A.R.E. American, but those were fast tempo, and not really sweet, and more similar to their Liberty style, than to "A Rose Growing in the Ruins".

[roger]

Well then.

Can't say that I'd ever heard of this track before .. but I did a bit of googling and found this link where you can listen to a quite lengthy sample of the song.

http://www.rarenorthernsoul.com/Rare...ruins/#product

Roger