You're in the groove jackson

"You're in the "groove", Jackson" is an album released in 1990 by the British singer, violin, guitar and mandolin player, Bobby Valentino. It was issued by Big Life Records.

The album title comes from a phrase repeated by Bing Crosby in the film Road to Rio (1947). Valentino's voice has a noticeable similarity to Crosby's singing voice.

There is another musician also known in the USA by the name Bobby Valentino, but this album was recorded by the individual who was a member of Hank Wangford's band in the mid-1980s, and popped up again with Alabama 3 at the turn of the millennium, and has recorded various sessions as a violinist with other artists from the mid 1970s to the present day.

The album itself feature songwriting in an easy-listening, mid-20th century American style, musically light, showcasing Valentino's skills at his various instruments and a mellow bass crooning voice. On the album's cover photos he looks like a young Clark Gable. Q Magazine's complimentary and highly enthusiastic review described the songs as sounding like Classics you never knew you knew.

The songs themselves reward close listening, rich as they are with irony and subtle humour, with linguistic hooks such as "I made my excuses and stayed", (He's sure got) "a way with women" (he just got away with mine), and (I promised baby, I didn't) "Guaran-damn-tee". Several of the songs reappeared on the album Colt 45 (2005) by "Los Pistoleros", Valentino's and B. J. Cole's British honkytonk band.

There are 2 other albums available: "You're Telling Me" and "This is Murder" - 2 more quotes from the Hope and Crosby film "The Road to Rio". I am told he wanted to call one of the albums "Land of Hope and Crosby" but Sid Griffith had already used used it.

Bobby Valentino has a web site: www.bobbyvalentino.co.uk

Track listing

# The man who invented jazz
# No smoke without fire
# I made my excuses and stayed
# You'll be sorry
# Every now and then
# Break for the border
# Guaran-damn-tee
# Sweet temptation
# Just good friends
# A way with women
# Expected in Texas
# Morse code
# Fancy meeting you here