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28.06.13 Music Week 51
NEW REISSUES / CATALOGUE ALBUMS
PAUL YOUNG • Remixes And Rarities (Cherry Pop CRPOPD 128)
Emerging as a solo artist in 1982, former Q-Tips and
Streetband singer Paul Young hit the
ground running, and was enormously successful globally for the next decade or so. With 24 tracks and a playing time well in excess of 150 minutes, Remixes And Rarities includes all of the original extended versions of the hits, hard to find flips, and a plethora of tracks previously issued only on cassette. Young's distinctive vocal style, the equally unique fretless bass style of Pino Paladino and the tight production skills of Laurie Latham made the first two Young albums in particular into massive hits. The extended versions of the singles still sound superb too, with inventive expansions of the more compact album versions being particularly potent on Come Back & Stay, Everytime You Go Away and Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home).
SANDIE SHAW •
The Sandie Shaw Supplement (Salvo SALVOCD 065)/Reviewing The Situation (SALVOCD 066)/Hello Angel (SALVOCD 067)
The second triumvirate of Sandie Shaw reissues from Salvo follows the excellent
reception given to the first trio a couple of months ago. Newly remastered, housed in handsome digipacks, greatly expanded by the inclusion of contemporaneous bonus tracks, and packaged with 16-page booklets, they complete the restoration of Shaw’s catalogue. The Sandie Shaw Supplement is a fabulous period piece from 1968, sharing its title and much of its content with her BBC TV series of that year. As such, it features a funky and slightly freaky version of Route 66, regular writer Chris Andrews’
melodramatic Same Things and Right To Cry, a lovely lesser-known Carole King ballad. Reviewing The Situation, from 1969 was something of a coming of age for Shaw. She tackled some
unexpected material, including a breathy version of Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay, and did a great job of Your Time Is Gonna Come, one of the first Led Zeppelin covers. Bonus material is even better, with a pretty a cappella version of Paul McCartney’s Junk and a beautiful sunshine pop version of French singer Michel Delpech’s hippy, dippy IOW festival song, Wight Is Wight. Nineteen years on, Shaw had been rediscovered by an eager new generation, and returned in triumph with Hello Angel, which includes the intensely personal Nothing Less Than Brilliant, the hit cover of fan Morrissey’s Hand In Glove recorded with his assistance, and more first-rate contemporary songs, with crack producers Stephen Street, Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley and John Porter.
CHERRELLE • Fragile (Tabu TABU 1003)/High Priority (TABU 2007)/Affair (TABU 2011)
Companion releases to the Alexander O’Neal reissues reviewed here recently, Tabu now concentrates
its attentions on the label’s first lady of song, Cherrelle. Like O’Neal’s albums, they are produced and largely written by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - though they sound more like the duo’s hugely successful work with Janet Jackson - and are presented as sturdy, casebound expanded editions with extensive liner notes. Introductory (1984) album Fragile is a single disc edition with five bonus tracks but the others sprawl over two discs and include extended editions and single edits. All have great merit. Fragile includes the killer original version of I Didn't Mean To Turn You On that Robert Palmer borrowed, while Affair (1986) is an intriguing concept album which follows the blossoming of a relationship and its break-up. But High Priority (1985) is the most cohesive musically, and the one with the best tunes, including the magnificent Artificial Heart - which sounds great - and the major hit Saturday Love, a fabulous duet with Alexander O’Neal.
VARIOUS •
Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization - Up All Night -
The Greatest Hits (Rhino WMTV 200)
Hot on the heels of the admirable but admittedly specialist 4CD Chic Organization box set Savoir Faire, this new two-disc set is aimed at a wider audience, and will be advertised on TV. It is essentially a pared-down version of Savoir Faire, removing said set’s lesser-known titles, replacing its exclusive Dimitri Of Paris mixes with original hit versions, and otherwise tweaking the formula. The end result is a formidable collection heavy on hits in that distinctive Chic style - Spacer by Sheila B Devotion, I’m Coming Out by Diana Ross, Why by Carly Simon, and He’s The Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge among them. Naturally, Chic’s own hits are here in force, and two tracks which weren’t on Savoir Faire make an appearance - Diana Ross’ My Old Piano and, more unexpectedly, I Love My Lady, the exquisite, lush title track to an abandoned Johnny Mathis album. Although three other songs from the eight recorded for the album appeared on Savoir Faire, this is the first official release for I Love My Lady. Four down, four to go...
Contact Karma Bertelsen, 020 7226 7246,
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