Lewis Furey

Lewis Furey, born Lewis Greenblatt, 1949, is a Canadian musician and artist of stage, film and TV.

Born in Montreal, he trained as a classical violinist and at 11 he was already a soloist. He then went to Juilliard in NYC to study. In the 70s, back in Canada, he released 3 Pop albums. The main body of his work however, are numerous film scores. In some of these movies he also took part as an actor.

The day before yesterday, as we were examining Cabaret 79 by Tom Robinson, we mentioned an interesting cover version of a song included in Lewis' album of 1975, called Closing A Door. In the introduction, Tom mentions another song from the same album, called Hustler's Tango. It begins with this verse:

you say you want to rape
rape

 me baby

and well you know you've got

you've got to pay pay

the match is fixed, setup

setup all ready

you're going to wrestle with

with an angel

In yet the same album, there's also a song called Last Night. It begins like this:

i've always had the feeling

i'm a tourist in town

picking up boys

faking a love

and then just letting them down

ready to give

any pretty thing a whirl

sometimes i go to thinking

i was unnatural

a mean old churl

i made out in the scenes

that i wanted to make

but i was feeling unholy

on the take

what to do

And this is the video:

Certainly an unusual artist, especially for his era.