[Bob Walsh]

I’d been aware of The Beatles’ original recording of “Here, There and Everywhere” since the mid-Sixties, but it was Emmylou Harris’s mid-’70s version that really woke me up to the beauty of the melody. It is very high-pitched (*) for a tenor singer, and perhaps for this reason it lends itself better to a female lead. I have to say that the MLT version tends to confirm this hypothesis.

(*) How high? Well, the top note is just beyond the compass of the alto saxophone … which makes the song an absolutely gorgeous choice as a soprano sax solo!