Mitch Winehouse, the father of Amy Winehouse, has released his debut album at the age of 59.
Winehouse agrees that if it wasn’t for his famous daughter he would not have had a chance to release an album. "If Amy wasn't my daughter I wouldn't be given this opportunity. I'm not stupid, I know that,” he said in a statement. “But if I couldn't sing I wouldn't have been given the opportunity either."
Mitch has teamed with Tony Hiller, writer of ‘Save Your Kisses For Me’ for the album ‘Rush of Love’. "I had such a good time making this album. We tried 40 songs we loved and worked through them with a pianist. If it didn't work for us, we moved on, but just reliving them was enough," Mitch says.
The album features some not so well known old jazz songs as well as four new songs. Hiller wrote the new songs, ‘Tell Me’, ‘No More Broken Hearts’, ‘Nights’ and ‘Rush of Love To The Heart’.
Mitch pays homage to Frank Sinatra with ‘Close Your Eyes’, a rarely covered Sinatra song. "Stacey Kent does it, but I've never heard anyone else and it's just wonderful," he says.
There is also the 1931 Bing Crosby song ‘I Apologize’ and Crosby’s ‘Day By Day’ from 1948, also covered by Doris Day.
Tracklisting:
1.) Please Be Kind
2.) How Insensitive
3.) Rush Of Love To The Heart
4.) Tell Me
5.) Day By Day
6.) I Apologize
7.) Nights
8.) Close Your Eyes
9.) No More Broken Hearts
10.) You Got To My Head
11.) April In Paris
VIDEO: Gregory Page, watch Gregory perform three songs live for Undercover uSessions:
