Tracks: 1) Coloring Book; 2) What Do You Want With Me; 3) From A Window; 4) If You’ve Got A Heart; 5) No Other Baby; 6) Donna, Donna; 7) Girl From Ipanema; 8) Four Strong Winds; 9) Only Those In Love; 10) You Know What; 11) Sleep Little Boy; 12) My How The Time Goes By.
Randomly placed comment: It's been years since I've been on Facebook almost that long since I've checked in on your blog, George. So glad I found your work again through sheer happenstance. Looking forward to following your reviews again. Be well!
We know someone loves a time interval and its music when he/she tries to write positive review about quite dubious artists. I had never heard of C&J; why would I, they don't even have an entry in Dutch Wikipedia. So curious as I am I listened to What do you Want with me and No Other Baby. As almost always I dislike the syrupy (probably fake) violins and the cheesy brass. So I won't check the entire album out any time soon.
However I must admit that the guys have very pretty voices. But so have Simon and Garfunkel and those two recorded way, way better songs.
My mom used to sing "Sleep Little Boy" to me as a lullaby when I was a kid, so I've always had a soft spot for Chad & Jeremy as well as this album. You're spot on with this review; the ceiling for C&J is obviously quite low but they have a nice vibe.
One minor quibble: "No Other Baby" was not a Stuart/Clyde composition as far as I understand. I was pleasantly surprised when it showed up on Run Devil Run! I'm actually not a huge fan of Macca's rendition, but I'm glad it exists.
Pretty good choice for a lullaby... morale of the story is, if you can't get into kids' hearts all by yourself, do so through their mothers'! :)
Thanks for the correction. I checked again and the song is definitely credited to Stuart / Clyde on all the LP pressings, which must have been either an unintentional mistake or maybe they thought that since they were throwing out a large chunk of the lyrics and doing a more "rock" arrangement they could get away with stealing it.
Apparently, the original version is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMDhqeVGb24, and there is at least another cover from the same year by the Vipers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZ1sd0xn2g). Both Dick Bishop and the Vipers were British skiffle artists in the late 1950s, so it makes sense Paul wanted to pay tribute to an obscurity from his teenage years.
I've made an update to the review on the website with the new info.
Randomly placed comment: It's been years since I've been on Facebook almost that long since I've checked in on your blog, George. So glad I found your work again through sheer happenstance. Looking forward to following your reviews again. Be well!
We know someone loves a time interval and its music when he/she tries to write positive review about quite dubious artists. I had never heard of C&J; why would I, they don't even have an entry in Dutch Wikipedia. So curious as I am I listened to What do you Want with me and No Other Baby. As almost always I dislike the syrupy (probably fake) violins and the cheesy brass. So I won't check the entire album out any time soon.
However I must admit that the guys have very pretty voices. But so have Simon and Garfunkel and those two recorded way, way better songs.
My mom used to sing "Sleep Little Boy" to me as a lullaby when I was a kid, so I've always had a soft spot for Chad & Jeremy as well as this album. You're spot on with this review; the ceiling for C&J is obviously quite low but they have a nice vibe.
One minor quibble: "No Other Baby" was not a Stuart/Clyde composition as far as I understand. I was pleasantly surprised when it showed up on Run Devil Run! I'm actually not a huge fan of Macca's rendition, but I'm glad it exists.
Pretty good choice for a lullaby... morale of the story is, if you can't get into kids' hearts all by yourself, do so through their mothers'! :)
Thanks for the correction. I checked again and the song is definitely credited to Stuart / Clyde on all the LP pressings, which must have been either an unintentional mistake or maybe they thought that since they were throwing out a large chunk of the lyrics and doing a more "rock" arrangement they could get away with stealing it.
Apparently, the original version is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMDhqeVGb24, and there is at least another cover from the same year by the Vipers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZ1sd0xn2g). Both Dick Bishop and the Vipers were British skiffle artists in the late 1950s, so it makes sense Paul wanted to pay tribute to an obscurity from his teenage years.
I've made an update to the review on the website with the new info.