- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Import (Megaphon)
- ASIN: B000AGO6A4
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Sweet and Tender Romance - McKinleys | |||
| 2. Lying Awake - Dany Chandelle, , LadybiRdS | |||
| 3. Come Tomorrow - Peanut | |||
| 4. Way Out - Judi Johnson, | |||
| 5. Someone Cares for Me - McKinleys | |||
| 6. Gonna Get Burned - The Chantelles | |||
| 7. I'll Forget You Tonight - Cheryl St. Clair | |||
| 8. We Don't Belong | |||
| 9. You're Gonna Get Your Way - Glenda Collins | |||
| 10. Go Ahead - Samantha Jones | |||
| 11. Micky - Twinkle | |||
| 12. Two by Two - Perpetual Langley, | |||
| 13. How Many Times - Judi Johnson, | |||
| 14. Don't You Worry ('Bout Me) - Jacki Bond | |||
| 15. No One Needs My Love Today - Samantha Juste | |||
| 16. Lonely Room - Clodagh Rodgers, Cloda Rogers | |||
| 17. I've Heard It All Before - Jennifer Lewis, Angela Strange | |||
| 18. Give Him My Love - McKinleys | |||
| 19. I Know You Love Me Not - Julie Driscoll | |||
| 20. If Trees Could Talk - Samantha Juste | |||
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Product Description
RECORD COLLECTOR, MARCH, '02 271
A strong collection from delightful and talanted gals.
RECORD COLLECTOR, APRIL '02, 272
22 near-hits, long hidden on B-sides or as Northern soul collectables.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
These songs range from the beautiful to the bizarre, all of them catchier than the flu! There's something special about their obscurity as well - listening to this compilation is like hearing a radio broadcast from a long lost world.
Highlights include The Chantelle's fierce "Gonna Get Burned," Peanut's charming "Come Tomorrow," the McKinley's three blues/folk inspired pop gems (one of which written by Donovan), Samantha Jones go-go-tastic "Go Ahead," Sylvan's cinematic "We Don't Belong," and Cheryl St Clair's heartbreaking Bacharach-esque "I'll Forget You Tonight."
This compilation is a must have for fans of girl groups, classic pop, modern club pop like Pizzicato Five and Saint Etienne... and any fans of music. I've had it on non-stop play for months.
Format:Audio CD
This RPM series deliberately avoids the obvious so no Cilla Black or Sandie Shaw.Instead you get 22 songs which could easily have charted if there'd been enough radio play.
Only one name here had a previous hit-Twinkle whose first single I could well do without but what she came up with later was a vast improvement.
Many of these names had other lives later-the oddly named Peanut was to chart in the 70s under her real mname of Katie Kissoon.Cheryl St Clair became Alison Wonder then the wife of disgraced comic Michael Barrymore.She's now no longer here while Barrymore is still being investigated re the swimming pool death.
Cloda Rodgers was yet to have her first hit which was in 1969.Also waiting in the wings was Julie Driscoll.And Perpetual Langley was one of the Clannad family with a song not a long way from Its in his kiss
Influences from Phil Spector and Tamla Motown were the order of the day here in the later Brit girls of the 60s but it was really no different to how it was in the States
Only one name here had a previous hit-Twinkle whose first single I could well do without but what she came up with later was a vast improvement.
Many of these names had other lives later-the oddly named Peanut was to chart in the 70s under her real mname of Katie Kissoon.Cheryl St Clair became Alison Wonder then the wife of disgraced comic Michael Barrymore.She's now no longer here while Barrymore is still being investigated re the swimming pool death.
Cloda Rodgers was yet to have her first hit which was in 1969.Also waiting in the wings was Julie Driscoll.And Perpetual Langley was one of the Clannad family with a song not a long way from Its in his kiss
Influences from Phil Spector and Tamla Motown were the order of the day here in the later Brit girls of the 60s but it was really no different to how it was in the States
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Well-Rounded Collection of Rare Girl-Tune Gems
7 May 2004
Format:Audio CD
Sometimes the best collectible songs are those intended to be serious (and full of "teenage angst" as in this collection) but are done lyrically so over-the-top that they become laughably campy classics by accident! I don't criticize someone's actual pains if that's what the intention was, but with wording like "We'd learn a lot...if trees could talk...!" (The latter being the theme of the up-tempo Samantha Juste tune) this is really a stretch not to laugh, honestly! Like how funny Lesley Gore's "Partridge-Family-Singer-backed" sounding "Magic Colors" contrasts among a collection of her "Sock hop" hits! Others not as extreme, but similar on this collection: "Lonely Room", "No One Needs My Love Today", "Someone Cares For Me" and "How Many Times" (especially the Shoo-langa Shoo-langa, Shoop! Shoop! within a "tell you off" tune)! Along with these, though are also some really great energetic high-beat tunes like "A Way Out", "Two by Two", "Sweet and Tender Man", "Gonna Get Burned", "You're Gonna Get Your Way" (a Glenda Collins fave of mine!) and "Go Ahead". Also some really good "wall of sound" tunes - some of which I had already become familiar with via the Mark Wirtz "Teenage Opera" collection ("Lying Awake", "Someone's Gonna be Sorry" and "Yours Sincerely"). Among others: "I'll forget you Tonight", "We Don't Belong" and Give Him My Love". IMO this collection deserves high marks for obscurity and well-blended female vocalists.
IF YOU LIKE
16 Aug 2007
Format:Audio CD
IF YOU LIKE THE GIRL GROUP SOUND, AND DON'T WANT TO HEAR THE SAME OLD SONGS YOU ALWAYS HEAR ON THE OLDIES RADIO STATION, THEN YOU WILL ENJOY THIS CD. SOME INTERESTING SELECTIONS HERE, I NEVER HEARD ANY OF THEM BEFORE I BOUGHT THIS CD, BUT MOST OF THE SONGS ARE GREAT. A FEW OF THEM SEEM TO IMITATE THE PHIL SPECTOR "WALL OF SOUND" (INCLUDING THE SOUND OF CASTANETS CLICKING) , AND A COUPLE OF THE SONGS HAVE MELODIES AND VOCALS THAT YOU WOULD SWEAR WERE WRITTEN BY BRIAN WILSON (THEY WEREN'T). ADMITTEDLY, THESE SONGS AREN'T "DEEP" OR HAVE ANY SPECIAL MEANING, OTHER THAN SOME GIRL IS SINGING ABOUT A GUY SHE LOVES, BUT I'M NOT TOO CRAZY ABOUT ANY KIND OF MUSIC THAT TAKES ITSELF TOO SERIOUSLY ANYWAY. I DO NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OTHER CDS IN THIS SERIES BUT I WILL CHECK THEM OUT, BASED ON THIS ONE.
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