Poetry Man

Album: Phoebe Snow (1974)
Charted: 5
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Phoebe Snow
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 4

  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenAppropriate that she calls her lover a genie, because this is truly a magical song.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 20th 1975, Phoebe Snow performed "Poetry Man" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
    Six months earlier on December 29th, 1974 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #95; and on April 6th, 1975 it peaked at #5 (for 1 week) and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on February 23rd, 1975 it reached #1 (for 1 week) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    She had four other records make the Top 100; "Gone At Last" (#23 in 1975, a duet with Paul Simon), "Shakey Ground" (#70 in 1977), "Games" (#46 in 1981), and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (#52 in 1981)...
    R.I.P. Ms. Snow, born Phoebe Ann Laub, 1950 - 2011).
  • John from San Francisco, CaSadly, Phoebe Snow passed away in New York on Tuesday (4-26-11). She was 60 years old. PHOEBE SNOW RIP.
  • Esskayess from Dallas, TxWhat a unselfish woman. According to Wikipedia, her daughter died in 2007. It also says that Snow suffered a brain hemorrhage in January of 2010 and underwent "life-saving" surgery. Nothing else shown after that.
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