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1. Perfect 3:37 £0.89 2. Find My Love 3:45 £0.89 3. Fairground Attraction 2:17 £0.89 4. A Smile In A Whisper 3:29 £0.89 5. Clare 3:14 £0.89 6. Walkin' After Midnight 2:48 £0.89 7. Do You Want To Know A Secret? 2:32 £0.89 8. Allelujah 3:23 £0.89 9. The Moon Is Mine 2:39 £0.89 10. Watching The Party 3:30 £0.89 11. Winter Rose 3:29 £0.89 12. The Wind Knows My Name 4:10 £0.89 13. Jock O'Hazeldean 3:05 £0.89 14. Comedy Waltz 3:28 £0.89 15. You Send Me 4:42 £0.89 16. Ay Fond Kiss
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Mark Nevin (a songwriter and guitarist) and Eddi Reader (an excellent female singer) founded Fairground attraction, a four-piece Scottish group that recorded one official album (First of a million kisses) before disbanding, but there was enough material recorded to fill a second album. This compilation has most of the tracks from both those albums. Following the break-up, Eddi has recorded a series of solo albums while Mark Nevin has focused on songwriting. The brilliant Irish folk-pop singer Frances Black is just one of many who singers who have recorded some of his songs.
Although they didn't last long as a group, they had a British number one hit with Perfect, another major UK hit (Find my love) and two lesser hits (A smile and a whisper, Clare). I'm not sure how well they did in America, but Bailie and the boys recorded a country version of Perfect so their name certainly got around. All those hits were written by Mark, who also wrote many other fine songs for the group including The moon is mine and The wind knows my name.
Despite Mark's excellent songwriting skills, the group also recorded several covers including Walking after midnight (Patsy Cline), Do you want to know a secret (Beatles), You send me (Sam Cooke), Ay fond kiss (traditional, lyrics by the poet Robert Burns) and Jock O'Hazeldean (another traditional song). In her solo career, Eddi eventually recorded a whole album of songs with Burns lyrics.
To my ears, the eighties were not a great decade for British pop music and I was surprised that a group such as Fairground attraction could succeed. But they did and we can all be thankful for that. If you enjoy folk-pop music, you'll love this group.
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Though the Fairground Attarction had no American career to speak of-they seemed to prefer nonentities like the boring Johnny Hates Jazz and the crashingly boring Duran Duran or Boy George-the single Perfect was an unusual ones to top the charts in the U K as it was a total throwback to the 50s.It could have been a Rick Nelson single and they had at least 3 others.
The band never lasted beyond one album-plus a 2nd one of outtakes-but led to the solo career of Edie Reader which still goes on.
This was just before the 90s exploration of Roots Music
The sleeve though is terrible same as the one on their original album while the 2nd one showed a train!
Someone ought to have taken proper photos of Edie Reader especially the petticoated ones
The band never lasted beyond one album-plus a 2nd one of outtakes-but led to the solo career of Edie Reader which still goes on.
This was just before the 90s exploration of Roots Music
The sleeve though is terrible same as the one on their original album while the 2nd one showed a train!
Someone ought to have taken proper photos of Edie Reader especially the petticoated ones
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Eddi Reader has one of the purest most beautiful voices in popular folk music. From what is now the karaoke classic 'Perfect' to the works of Robert Burns she makes avery track a pleasure to listen to. Unlike many albums where 'if you've heard one, you've heard them all', every track on this CD varies in style so that you wont lose interest in it. Fairground Attraction were quite probably the best group in the eighties, and Eddi Reader has recently released a new album of pure Burns classics, another must-have for fans. If you want a CD to relax to or to drive to, this is it.
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