COCK ROBIN - THE PROMISE YOU MADE

THE PROMISE YOU MADE

COCK ROBIN

SONGWRITER: PETER KINGSBERY

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: COCK ROBIN

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1985

Cock Robin é o álbum de estréia da banda de mesmo nome, lançado em 1985.

"The Promise You Made" is a song by Peter Kingsbery. Originally written for Kingsbery's band Cock Robin, the song was recorded in 1984 for the group's self-titled debut album. It was released as a single in 1986 and became a big hit in Europe.

The video opens with an old woman stroking her dog; she then comes upon some passers-by and Peter Kingsbery enters the recording studio. As Kingsbery starts singing, people mill around the entrance to the studio and other members of the band also arrive inside and set up the instruments, with Anna LaCazio joining Kingsbery singing. As a fruit stand is knocked over outside, the last band member goes into the studio. In no time all the instruments are in place. Most of the video is made up of fade-outs, alternating the scenes inside the studio showing the band with images of the members of the public outside the studio entrance. The clip ends with pictures of Kingsbery and Anna LaCazio leaving the studio together.

Peter Kingsbery is an American singer songwriter who cofounded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s. He grew up in Austin (Texas) where he studied classical music. He moved to Nashville (Tennessee) where he began his career as a musician (he accompanied Brenda Lee on piano on a few tours) and then to Los Angeles at the end of the '70s where he began a career as a singer/songwriter. He composed a few songs for Smokey Robinson, and one of his compositions, Pilot Error, sung by Stephanie Mills, got some success in the dance charts in 1983. At the beginning of the '80s, he founded the group Cock Robin with Anna LaCazio, Clive Wright and Lou Molino III which enjoyed great success in Western Europe mainly. Failing to break their native country with a first self-titled album in 1985, the quartet became a duo of Kingsbery and LaCazio when they released their second album in 1987. After the band split up in the early 1990s after a third album, Peter Kingsbery enjoyed a fairly successful solo career, releasing four albums over a decade, and scoring a major hit in France with the song "Only the Very Best." With his fourth album he tried his luck singing in French, the language of his adopted country (living there since some years back).

He has since reformed Cock Robin with Anna LaCazio and on/off former member Clive Wright in 2006 and has released one studio álbum I Don't Want to Save the World the same year and a Live album in 2009. A new studio álbum Songs From A Bell Tower was released in October 2010.

If I laid down my love

To come to your defense

Would you worry for me

With a pain in your chest?

Could I rely on your faith to be strong

To pick me back up and to push me along?

Tell me

You'll be there in my hour of need

You won't turn me away

Help me out of the life I lead

Remember the promise you made

Remember the promise you made

If I gave you my soul

For a piece of your mind

Would you carry me with you

To the far edge of time?

Could you understand if you found me untrue

Would we become one, or divided in two

Please tell me

You'll be there in my hour of need

You won't turn me away

Help me out of the life I lead

Remember the promise you made

Remember the promise you made

Could I rely on your faith to be strong

To pick me back up and to push me along?

Please tell me

You'll be there in my hour of need

You won't turn me away

Help me out of the life I lead

Remember the promise you made

Remember the promise you made

Remember the promise you made

Remember the promise you made.