I was pleased to find that it originated with Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, examples of those powerhouse British songwriting teams of the late 60s whose songs were always on the charts, even if we'd never heard of them. My friend Ostin Allegro has a website devoted to these classic-to-pop cases.) Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley that reggaes up a melody by Camille Saint-Saëns. (I was thinking of the likes of If I Had Words a 1978 record by It sounded to me like one of those pop tunes that originated with a classical piece, but that isn't so. When I rediscovered it, I vaguely recalled that it had been previously released by someone else, but I had no details. I had become attached to the song over the two or three days that I was researching it, and I still have it playing in my head. The non-existent Farnham-Durbin version is still listed in my website's index pages, but all you'll find at my page on the song is a brief explanation with a link to here, under the heading THE RECORD THAT NEVER WAS! (Get the cultural reference?) It was a simple transcription or cut-and-paste error that took on a little life of its own. I finally found out that the Wikipedia article had used a source that had somehow substituted Farnham and Durbin for the name of The Congregation, the UK group that charted in Australia in 1972 with a version of the song. That gave the impression that this was a known record. The phantom version was mentioned in two Wikipedia articles (now corrected) that had been copied and pasted many times on various websites, so a Google search certainly threw up a lot of mentions. There's no such record, he said, must be a misprint somewhere, and he was right. He's long been a friend of the website, and he's often helped me out with his knowledge of 60s and 70s Australian pop, especially of female singers such as Allison Durbin. Softly Whispering I Love You wasn't on the album, nor did it appear as a single the following year. One track on the album, Baby Without You, had been a hit that I'd already written about at the website. True, they recorded an album of duets in 1971, Together. That single never existed, it turned out, and the song was never recorded by Farnham and Durbin. When I looked into the history of this song I thought I was tracing the original version of a 1972 Australian single by Johnny Farnham and Allison Durbin.
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