Streets of London (song) 1974 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and a Silver disc for record sales. In 2017, Ralph McTell re-recorded the song with Annie Lennox and clients of UK national charity Crisis, a charity for single homeless people. This was to mark the 50th anniversary of both the song and the charity. The CD Single of this release was Number 1 in the Christmas 2017 Official Physical Singles Chart (for CD sales). Streets of London (song) "Streets of London" is a song by Ralph McTell, who first recorded it for his 1969 album "Spiral Staircase." It was not
Up in a Puff of Smoke Up in a Puff of Smoke "Up in a Puff of Smoke" is a song recorded by in 1974 by Polly Brown, released as a non-album single to become an international Top 40 hit in 1975. The songwriting/production team of Gerry Shury and Ron Roker had admired Brown's voice from her Pickettywitch recordings: Shury, who had arranged Brown's 1972 self-titled album release, described her as a cross "between Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick". In 1974 Shury and Roker had Brown record the neo-Motown number "Up in a Puff of Smoke": in the same session Brown, with Roker as co-vocalist, recorded