When I think of the Hoagy Carmichael-Johnny Mercer song Skylark it's an unlikely recording which first springs to mind.
No, not Peter Skellern; before becoming acquainted with either of his interpretations I had already heard various versions of the song on Benny Green's Sunday afternoon radio programme in the early 1980s, one of which was the record in question.
Memory had insisted that it was acapella, which turned out to be wrong when I sought it out recently. Either I hadn't known the group's identity or had forgotten it, maybe because they seemed part of the furniture on BBC Radio 2 at the time, popping up on Brian Matthew's Round Midnight programme and elsewhere, singing softly of the gentle rain and other things, not really forcing themselves upon you but not unpleasant as background noise.
So what prompted me to seek the record out around fifty years on?