[2019-11-29] Various Artists "She Came From Liverpool! Merseyside Girl-Pop 1962-1968" (Ace UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:08 am

Description
Over the last few years Ace has built up a series of prime British female pop releases, with individual collections drawn from four of the country’s leading record companies of the 1960s: Decca, Pye, EMI and, most recently, Philips. With this latest compilation, rather than spotlight a particular company, the focus is on a location: the music hotbed of Merseyside. While male beat groups ruled the Merseyside roost in the 60s, the area was also home to its fair share of female talent. To illustrate the point, here are 25 hand-picked girl-pop artefacts from thereabouts.

Liverpool’s pop queen Cilla Black is featured with her two most Merseybeat-oriented tracks, including a terrific version of ‘A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues’, the first song she ever recorded at Abbey Road. Guitar-toting cover girls the Liverbirds, who released no records in the UK but were stars in Germany – where their repertoire of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry numbers made them favourites at the Star-Club – also appear twice.

The Breakaways, the Vernons Girls and Beryl Marsden – three other acts intrinsically associated with Liverpool – are also featured. Along with a selection of proven fan favourites, the collection contains many lesser-known gems, among them new-to-CD tracks by the Three Bells, Nola York, Tiffany, Lyn Cornell, Cindy Cole and, not least, Samantha Jones, whose hitherto-unreleased-in-any-format ‘I Don’t Want To Lose Him’ was recorded with visiting American producer Teddy Randazzo.

Read all about these and the other featured artists in the accompanying picture-packed 28-page booklet, which contains a 7,000-word note by compiler Mick Patrick and genre expert Ian Chapman.

Tracklist
1. Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black
2. Long Tall Shorty - The Liverbirds
3. Everybody Loves A Lover - Beryl Marsden
4. I Want You - Jeannie & The Big Guys
5. Baby Don't Look Down - Tiffany with The Thoughts
6. Someone To Love - The Three Bells
7. What's She Got (That I Ain't Got) - Beryl Marsden
8. Only You Can Do It - The Vernons Girls
9. That Boy Of Mine - The Breakaways
10. Something I've Got To Tell You - Glenda Collins
11. I Don't Understand - Nola York
12. Just For Him - Samantha Jones
13. Am I Dreaming - Tiffany
14. Till He Tells Me - Jacki Martin
15. A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues - Cilla Black
16. Sticks And Stones - Jeannie & The Big Guys
17. Why Do You Hang Around Me - The Liverbirds
18. I Don't Want To Be The One - Samantha Jones
19. Sally Go Round The Roses - Lyn Cornell
20. Puppet On A String - The De Laine Sisters
21. Dumb Head - The Sharades
22. Lover Please - The Vernons Girls
23. Just Being Your Baby (Turns Me On) - Cindy Cole
24. Baby, You're So Right For Me - The Satin Bells
25. Come See Me - Sandy Edmonds

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z74G6M6/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z74G6M6/?tag=imwan-21

Seth · 12 Jul 2006

This should be good - I have The Liverbirds compilation and I really like it.

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Linda · **Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:23 pm

Both of the pre-order links for the new Liverpool compilation are now active:

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z74G6M6/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z74G6M6/?tag=imwan-21

[2019-11-29] Various Artists "She Came From Liverpool! Merseyside Girl-Pop 1962-1968" (Ace UK)

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