Track Listing

1. Oo Chang A Lang - Orchids (2)
2. Jenny Let Him Go - Antoinette
3. Only You Can Do It - Vernons Girls
4. Two Lovers - Cordet, Louise
5. Boy From Chelsea - Smith, Truly
6. You Just Gotta Know My Mind - Gillespie, Dana
7. Hey Boy - St. John, Barry
8. When Love Is True - Hampshire, Susan
9. Save The Last Dance For Me - Martin, Jean
10. When The Lovelight Starts Shining Thru' His Eyes - Marsden, Beryl
11. My Friend Bobby - Blue, Pamela
12. Sugar Baby - Jackie Frisco
13. I'll Give It Five - Nicholls, Janice
14. What A Guy - Miller, Bobby
15. Give Me Rhythm And Blues - Mysteries
16. Till You Say You'll Be Mine - Newton-John, Olivia
17. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Vashti
18. Is This What I Get For Loving You - Faithfull, Marianne
19. Nobody's Home To Go Home To - Davis, Billie (1)
20. Rain On My Face - Shape & Sizes
21. You - Child, Lorraine
22. And The Trouble With Me Is You - Flavell, Linda
23. Shang A Doo Lang - Poster, Adrienne
24. Try To Understand - Lulu
25. Soldier Boy - Exceptions (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3940 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A varied assortment of little-known 60s sounds
I bought this CD purely for one of the tracks on it - Antoinette's "Jenny Let Him Go". I found it compulsive back in 1967, and it's reassuring to find how good it still sounds today. Mind you, in 1967 I didn't know that Antoinette came from Southend and was just 13 when she recorded the song! I probably assumed she was American and in her 20s.

These 25 tracks are really good value, although there are a few that I don't really like so much. The CD starts with a bang, as The Orchids' Oo Chang A Lang is a real high-powered, catchy "wall of sound" tune. (Continuing the trend, The Orchids were three 15-year old schoolgirls from Coventry). Among my other favourites are Vashti's "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind" - partly for its good lyrics and haunting tune, but also largely because of Vashti's delightfully soft expressive voice - and Linda Flavell's "And The Trouble With Me Is You". Perhaps to disguise her Glaswegian background, Linda sings with an exaggerated Deep Southern twang, which some may find annoying but I just love. There are also good contributions from Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, and (surprisingly enough) movie star Susan Hampshire.

While a few of them may stick in your mind and go round and round for days, none of these songs are really great. But several are very good, and better still interestingly different. It's refreshing to realise that there was so much hidden talent in Britain - most of these girls were at best "one-hit wonders", although some of them could have become stars if the chips had fallen differently. The CD comes with a 9-page colour booklet giving details of the singers' lives and work, and quite a few phots and posters - a nice bonus.

60s GIRL POWER
I bought this CD for "something different". My CD collection comprises most of the girl singer hits of the 60s (plus before and after!), so I decided I would listen to some of the lesser hits and misses.

I was not disappointed in this compilation of Decca recordings from the 60s, all but one track in mono. Hardly knowing any of the song titles, I didn't really know what to expect but I needn't have worried.

All songs are catchy and most are upbeat, some with a "Spector-ish" feel.

The CD also includes an informative booklet with several pictures of girls from the 60s including early ones of Lulu and the Vernons Girls.

The transfer of recordings is very good.

So don't let the relatively unknown title list put you off...it's about time we were treated to some of the "vault" tunes...there must be thousands after all.

Compilations these days seem to be the same tracks shuffled.

More of these "forgotten" selections, please!

Nice addition to the Scene series
What this collection is about mainly is musical failure.Apart from the odd more obvious name few of these even made the lower end but that only proves that they were unfortunate.
Linda Flavell was like Lulu a Scots girl who covered a Bernadette Peters song which had even failed for her in the States but these songs would come from publishers demos.
Vashti Bunyan cut a version of a Stones song and a year later she disappered until very recently with 2 CDs in the shops now
There's great stuff on here ready to explore