Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was a musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The former "anti-star" was born on 27 January 1944 in Derby, UK, and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg, Germany, on 2 December 2004.
Coyne is notable for his unorthodox style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the intense quality of his vocal delivery, and his bold treatment of injustice to the mentally ill in his lyrics. Many influential musicians have described themselves as Coyne fans, among them Sting and John Lydon. In the mid-1970s, prior to the formation of The Police, Coyne's band included guitarist Andy Summers. Prominent BBC disc jockey and world music authority Andy Kershaw has described Coyne as "a national treasure who keeps getting better" and as one of the great British blues voices.
Over many years Coyne produced the distinctive art work for many of his own album covers but his move to Germany, in the 1980s, saw his work on full-size paintings blossom in its own right.
"My Little Angel" is a popular song, published in 1956.
The recording by The Four Lads (made February 29, 1956) was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40674. It first reached the Billboard charts on April 28, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #24; on the Best Seller chart, at #22; and on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #30.
"My Little Angel" was the flip side to "Standing on the Corner".
"My Little Angel" is a song written by ex-Easybeats members Harry Vanda and George Young in 1974 and was recorded by Johnny Cabe, aka stage act William Shakespeare. It was Shakespeare's second big hit in Australia and his first number one, making the number-one spot in Australia for three weeks in early 1975.
After this hit, Shakespeare faded from the Australian charts. The single had a "jingle bell" style backing track, perhaps hoping to capture the Christmas 1974 market, as the single was first released in November of that year.
Coyne
Must be Sunday morning sunrise, yes it's creeping down on me
Glaring through the windows, shining all over me
Chorus: And my children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake
Must be Sunday morning once again.
Must be Sunday morning sunrise, yes love me, I love you
Put your arm across my chest my dear
All your loving, let it show, let is show right through
Chorus - Solo - Chorus
Love me, love me darling
Love me, love me cause I love you
All these years we spent together
There's nobody else will do, it has to be you
And our children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake
Must be Sunday morning once again
And our children are asleep and I hope that they don't wake