[2025-10-24] Hazell Dean "The Decca Years" (SFE UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:29 am

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Description
• Kickstarting the celebrations of Hazell Dean’s 50th Anniversary as a recording artist.

• Contains every A + B side from her six Decca singles fully remastered.

Years before she became ‘The Queen Of Hi-NRG’ with her breakout hit single ‘Searchin’’ in 1984, Hazell Dean was recording a series of lush, orchestrated ballads; a deft succession of beautiful songs with sweeping strings and emotive lyrics for Decca Records, largely with the help of songwriter and producer Paul Curtis. Amid this hitherto lesser known repertoire is a studio recording of the glorious ballad, ‘I Couldn’t Live Without You For A Day’, a Paul Curtis song, which Hazell sang with a live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in 1976 for BBC TV’s ‘A Song For Europe’ – Hazell’s first ever television appearance.

‘Hazell Dean – The Decca Years’ compiles together, for the first time ever since their original release, all of Hazell’s very first singles recorded for the Decca record label between 1975 to 1978, all of which have never previously been released on CD.

The collection is further complemented by a selection of four carefully curated bonus tracks including a first time on CD appearance of the one-off 1981 single by Curtis and Dean ‘You Got Me Wrong’ and its B-side ‘O, That’s Nice’; Hazell’s second attempt at ‘A Song For Europe’, a 1984 track called ‘Stay In My Life’, co-written by her, which featured on a planned but cancelled 7” single, the rare B-side of which, ‘Too Young For Your Love’, was a song solely written by Hazell, and features on CD for the first time too!

The booklet features a specially written introduction by Hazell in which she states, “My time with Decca was magical, and I know that this will be a much loved addition to the collection of my fans all over the world.”

Tracklist
1. Our Day Will Come
2. I Couldn’t Live Without You For A Day
3. You Promised Me The Love
4. Got You Where I Want You
5. You Were There
6. Look What I Found At The End Of The Rainbow
7. Where Are We Going
8. No One’s Ever Gonna Love You (The Way That I Love You)
9. Just One More Time
10. Who Was That Lady (I Saw You With)
11. One Bad Mistake
12. Our Day Will Come (Instrumental) – The Hazell Dean Orchestra
Bonus Tracks:
13. You Got Me Wrong – Curtis & Dean
14. O, That’s Nice – Curtis & Dean
15. Stay In My Life
16. Too Young For Your Love

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Aug 10, 2025 12:43 am

The USA pre-order link in the first post is now active.

[2025-10-24] Hazell Dean "The Decca Years" (SFE UK)

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