“No Regrets” by Tom Rush

Tom Rush wrote "No Regrets" on his own and parked it at the very end of The Circle Game, his 1968 album, produced by Arthur Gorson with Paul Harris arranging and Brooks Arthur and Bruce Botnick at the controls. The folk and blues singer put it out as a single that year, in Britain in January and in America in April, and it scraped onto the UK Breakers list at 57.

That modest start hid a long life. The song has settled in as a standard, recorded by a long line of other singers, and Rush himself came back to it in 1974 for Ladies Love Outlaws, dressing it up as lush, orchestrated pop for Columbia, with Carly Simon singing backup and an electric guitar tearing loose on the solo.

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