You Gotta Believe It's... [Import]

you gotta believe it's... [import]

Track Listings
1. You've Gotta Believe It
2. Hold On
3. I Can't Get Over It
4. Our Day Will Come
5. Perhaps Not Forever
6. One Way Street
7. Hurry Hurry Choo Choo
8. Daughter of the Sun
9. Toe Hold
10. Love Is Not a Simple Plan
11. Look and Find
12. I Wanna Be Your Baby
13. Way She Looks at You
14. Hurtin' Me
15. For a Little While
16. Stay With Me
17. I've Found Love
18. Move a Little Closer
19. Gottra Get Enough Time
20. Border Town
See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2004 compilation for the bona fide 1960s legend. Blue-eyed soul, freakbeat, & state-of-the-art Brit-girl pop, she handled it all with consummate ease & one of the best voices of the time. The track-listing includes virtually all her singles from 1965-69, upon most of which Sharon was accompanied by psychedelic avatars Fleur De Lys. Seven tracks, including five previously unreleased, derive from Sharon's legendary 1966 session for Stax, where she was backed by Booker T & The MGs. 26 tracks. Big Beat.

You Gotta Believe It's...,Sharon Tandy,Big Beat/Ace,Blue-Eyed Soul,Freakbeat,Girl Group,Rock/Pop

You Gotta Believe It's... [Import]
Roger Quilter: Complete Folk-Song Arrangements; Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • Quilter deserves better...
 Roger Quilter: Complete Folk-Song Arrangements; Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Roger Quilter: O Mistress Mine; To Daisies; Julia's Hair; Go, Lovely Rose
  2. English Song Series 1

ASIN: B0007XHL0M
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

  1. Drink To Me Only - David Wilson-Johnson
  2. Over The Mountains
  3. My Lady Greensleeves
  4. Little Moth
  5. Love Calls Through The Summer Night
  6. If Love Should Pass Me By
  7. The Rose Of Tralee - Philip Langridge
  8. Believe me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - David Wilson-Johnson
  9. Oh! 'Tis Sweet To Think - David Wilson-Johnson
  10. Come Lady-Day
  11. The Starlings
  12. To A Harebell By A Graveside
  13. It Was A Lover And His Lass
  14. Ye Banks And Braes
  15. Charlie Is My Darling
  16. Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
  17. Where Go The Boats?
  18. Windy Nights
  19. Summer Sunset
  20. Le Pauvre Laboureur - David Wilson-Johnson
  21. L'Amour De Moi - David Wilson-Johnson
  22. Joli Mois De Mai - David Wilson-Johnson
  23. Daisies After The Rain (Solo Version)
  24. My Heart Adorn'd With Thee
  25. The Passing Bell
  26. Blossom-Time
  27. Daisies After The Rain (Duet Version)
  28. Weep You No More
  29. I Gotta Robe - David Wilson-Johnson
  30. 'Tis St. Valentine's Day
  31. What Will You Do My Love - Philip Langridge
  32. The Jolly Miller
  33. Barbara Allen
  34. Three Poor Mariners - David Wilson-Johnson
  35. Since First I Saw Your Face - David Wilson-Johnson
  36. The Ash Grove

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Quilter deserves better..........2005-11-10

Was this recording of Quilter songs (Complete Folk-Song Arrangements and Complete Part-Songs for Women's Voices) a vanity project for soprano Amanda Pitt? It is hard to explain in any other terms, for her voice is not pleasant to hear. It is a pinched, badly produced, squally sound - the sort of standard one would expect in a not very gifted singing student. Why Naxos permitted this travesty of a recording under their label is a mystery.

The majority of the songs on this CD are sung by the aforesaid Amanda Pitt (soprano). The other singers in this project are of a better standard - in the case of Philip Langridge, beautiful to listen to. This recording is not worthy of his excellent career and lovely tenor voice. The other two singers - mezzo Joanne Thomas and baritone David Wilson-Johnson - are not bad, either, although the mezzo doesn't get a single solo. The lack of a solo for Ms Thomas is glaringly evident when compared to the ten (10) solos which Ms Pitt sings. (10 out of 21 solos - definitely an unfair ratio. Of these ten solos, several could have been given to the mezzo to sing - they were certainly not beyond the average mezzo range.)

The rest of the album consists of duets - thirteen of them. Eleven of the thirteen duets are soprano/mezzo, and in spite of the mezzo's voice (from what one is permitted to hear of it) isn't bad, the duet performances are frankly awful, chiefly because of Ms Pitt. Even the superior quality of Philip Langridge's singing cannot save the two duets he sings with Amanda Pitt.

It's artistically an insulting and atrociously unbalanced distribution of material.

Look for the John Mark Ainsley/Lisa Milne recording of Quilter songs & arias. Admittedly, it doesn't include most of the duets on this CD, but oh, the sheer pleasure of hearing well-trained and lovely voices give Quilter a worthy treatment!
You Gotta Believe It's...
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Fulsome CD testament
  • You Gotta Believe It's A Good CD
  • Underrated Diva from the 60's
 You Gotta Believe It's...
Sharon Tandy
Manufacturer: Big Beat UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000189WUA
Release Date: 2004-02-01

Tracks:

  1. You've Gotta Believe It
  2. Hold On
  3. I Can't Get Over It
  4. Our Day Will Come
  5. Perhaps Not Forever
  6. One Way Street
  7. Hurry Hurry Choo Choo
  8. Daughter of the Sun
  9. Toe Hold
  10. Love Is Not a Simple Plan
  11. Look and Find
  12. I Wanna Be Your Baby
  13. Way She Looks at You
  14. Hurtin' Me
  15. For a Little While
  16. Stay With Me
  17. I've Found Love
  18. Move a Little Closer
  19. Gottra Get Enough Time
  20. Border Town
  21. Things Get Better
  22. World
  23. He'll Hurt Me
  24. Now That You've Gone
  25. Somebody Speaks Your Name
  26. Two Can Make It Together

Album Description

2004 compilation for the bona fide 1960s legend. Blue-eyed soul, freakbeat, & state-of-the-art Brit-girl pop, she handled it all with consummate ease & one of the best voices of the time. The track-listing includes virtually all her singles from 1965-69, upon most of which Sharon was accompanied by psychedelic avatars Fleur De Lys. Seven tracks, including five previously unreleased, derive from Sharon's legendary 1966 session for Stax, where she was backed by Booker T & The MGs. 26 tracks. Big Beat.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fulsome CD testament.......2006-04-07

Sharon Tandy was on the legendary 1967 Hit The Road Stax UK tour and did a particularly blistering version of Hold On at Birmingham Town Hall, where she depped for Carla Thomas on her night off. Backed by Booker T and the MGs, recreating the magnificent recorded version on which she was backed by Les Fleur-de-Lys, down to the guitar break. She also performed a version of Eddie Floyd's Things Get Better. Her version, recorded with the MGs at Stax Studios in 1966, was unreleased until now.
Unavailable until 2001 when it was included on a Fleur-de-Lys compilation, Hold On is track 2 on this long-awaited CD. A mod classic now filed under "freakbeat" it was a much-loved B-side in our house when it came out, going on to become a hit in Europe and being re-released here the following year as an A-side. This meant unfortunately burying their other potential smash, the Julie Driscoll-ish Daughter Of The Sun as its flip, and to no avail as Hold On continued to uninspire the record-buying masses.
Although there are other recordings with the Fleur-de-Lys here, their reputed live onstage power and intensity is really only captured on those two tracks, though the original top side of Hold On, a version of Lorraine Ellison's smouldering Stay With Me (Baby) becomes her own through a distinctive arrangement and performance, stylistically unlike the original or its myriad covers, and actually "bubbled under" in the charts. There is also a sizzling version of Our Day Will Come, slowed down in true Vanilla Fudge style, but too often the band were subverted into creating "commercial" ballads.
When Sharon Tandy came over to England from her home town of Johannesburg, she was initially signed to Pye, who teamed her up with musical directors such as Charles Blackwell and pointed her towards the mainstream, the Brit girl pop department ruled at the time by Dusty, Sandie, Cilla and Lulu. Both sides of two singles from 1965 are included, and show her giving first class renditions of second class songs in the idiom of the time. One, Now That You've Gone, was a translation of a French power ballad written and originally recorded by Petula Clark.
In 1966 she became the first European to record at the Stax Studios, with producer Tom Dowd. She was signed to Stax in the States and spent 11 days in Memphis with Booker T and the MGs and the Memphis Horns, and with Isaac Hayes and Dave Porter on hand to write the songs. The results were sensational judging from the seven tracks included here, but only one British single resulted, a cover of Johnnie Taylor's Toe Hold, backed with a Steve Cropper song called I Can't Get Over It, although it did lead to her touring on the Stax-Volt tours.
This long overdue retrospective updates her career to 1969, after which she returned to South Africa, although sadly it omits her single of Beatle songs, A Fool On The Hill/For No One.
The tracks are presented non-chronological order which makes following the story a little difficult and adds to the confusion of the several styles she tackled throughout the sixties. I would suggest re-programming your CD player so that all the Stax material is heard together. Ultimately, it seems a story of bad luck and opportunities missed or not fully capitalised on, but at least we have this fulsome CD testament.

4 out of 5 stars You Gotta Believe It's A Good CD.......2005-07-28

To me Sharon Tandy is like Alex Chilton in the sense that they both connect the worlds of 60's soul, rock and pop. I was very impressed overall with this CD, especially since it did comprise several musical areas. The freakbeat songs were great, especially "Hold On", which had a pretty intense guitar part which was rather unusual for a "girl" singer. Leslie Gore it ain't, if you know what I mean. As for the Stax session songs, they were more examples of why Booker T. & the MG's are one of the greatest bands of all time and why Al Jackson, Jr. was one of the best drummers of all time (and is still missed along with Otis). "Things Get Better", which was done by Eddie Floyd, was a standout to me. The pop-slanted stuff was about on the level of the Dustys, Petulas & Sandies running around at the time. The song that really grabbed me on this CD was her version of "Stay With Me", which came a close second to Lorriane Ellison's original, dispensing with the bombast (which I did enjoy), while retaining the intensity. This CD, which is all in glorious mono, also sounds great, a fact which I noticed while listening to it at a friend's house while watching the Red Sox beat on the Yankees on TV with the sound down (a great experience, by the way). Anyway, I do recommend this CD for anyone who is into the weird, wonderful world of '60s music or for anyone who likes good music period.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Diva from the 60's.......2004-05-13

To say that Sharon Tandy is a cross between Dusty Springfield and Julie Driscoll, while fairly accurate, is also a gross oversimplification. Ms. Tandy handles Pop, Rock, and Soul numbers with equal skill. This CD contains a wide variety of song styles from funky soul to psychedelic rock to string laden pop. A few of these cuts were recorded with members of Booker T and the MG's at the Stax studios. Some of my favorite tracks are You've Got To Believe It (pop), Hurry Hurry Choo Choo(soul), and Daughter of the Sun(psych). The booklet contains detailed notes, and Sharon's story in her own words. Check it out- you won't be disappointed!
You Gotta Believe It's Sharon Tandy
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    Sharon Tandy
    Manufacturer: Big Beat/City Hall
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000OPO63S
    Release Date: 2007-01-26

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