Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	Shout (Single Version)
2	Forget Me Baby
3	Can't Hear You No More
4	I Am in Love
5	Here Comes the Night
6	That's Really Some Good
7	Heatwave
8	What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One
9	Nothing Left to Do But Cry
10	The Trouble with Boys
11	Choc Ice
12	The Only One
13	Satisfied
14	Surprise, Surprise
15	Just One Look
16	Leave a Little Love
17	He Don't Want Your Love Anymore
18	Try to Understand
19	Not in This Whole World
20	You Touch Me Baby
21	You'll Never Leave Her
22	I'll Come Running Over
23	She Will Break Your Heart
24	Can I Get a Witness
25	Tell Me Like It Is
26	Night Time Is the Right Time
27	So in Love
28	Dream Lover
29	He's Sure the Boy I Love
30	Stop Fooling Around
31	Call Me
32	After You
33	What a Wonderful Feeling
34	Tossin and Turnin
35	Tubborn Kinda Fellow
36	Take Me As I Am Lies
37	Bye Bye Heart
38	Don't Answer Me
39	When He Touches Me Enn Du Da Bist
40	So Fing Es An

Disc: 2

1	Wenn Du Da Bist
2	So Fing Es An

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2009 two CD collection from the British vocalist, the first-ever collection of Lulu's complete recordings for Decca from 1964 to 1967. Includes the Top 10 hits 'Shout!' and 'Leave a Little Love', plus 'Here Comes the Night', 'Try to Understand' and 'Surprise Surprise' (a song written for her by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards). The 42 tracks are taken from two albums, a scarce EP and a raft of singles including two rare German-language tracks. Several of the recordings include session work from the legendary Jimmy Page. RPM.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 4.88 x 0.51 inches; 4.02 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Retro
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2009
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ April 12, 2009
Label ‏ : ‎ Retro
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0025T7160
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Stuart Jefferson

LISTEN TO "SHOUT!". WHAT A VOICE.

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021

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Wow. The little girl with the big voice from the mid '60s on the Decca label. This is some distance from her more polished pop tunes later on. All her Decca recordings from her earliest albums, some 45 RPM singles, and an EP. The sound is good all through these tunes.

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sna4293

to Sur with Disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015

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I'm sorry to say that the contents of this album did not hold up to the recordings she had recorded when she was with EMI between 1966- 1968. no "To Sur with Love" here. what we get here is Lulu's early Decca recordings, and the only hit song here is "Shout!". I purchased this CD after listening to "The Collection", hoping that I would find some more great Lulu songs. Lulu is one of my favourites, and I'm sad to say, she let me down. most of the tracks are just below average and some even included sub par cover versions for example, her version of "Just One Look", which tries to copy Linda Ronstadt's version is just sub par to Linda's version. Sorry Lulu. if Mark Holden of Australian Idol heard you singing these songs, he would tell you to go away and that your singing was terrible.

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David Terralavoro

buy this

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2015

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lulu is the best! It is no surprise that some of the best have played on her records (she even married one of the Gibbs!) The music can either rock, become soothing and is especially timeless. I am thankful for Amazon for providing us with the convenience of locating/affording these gems!

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Radio Guy

It would be better to seek out the individual albums

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2015

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A disappointing release, as I am a big Lulu fan. The tracks in this collection are all in mono, and Lulu's vocals are clearly distorted on many tracks--especially disk 1, which includes one of my favourites, the obscure Bert Russell/Mike Stoller penned "You'll Never Leave Her". It would be better to seek out the individual albums, which at least are in stereo, plus the ones I have do not suffer from distorted audio, and that includes my favourite track just noted, which is clean, clear, and in stereo on the "Something to Shout About" CD.

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Lawrence Tuczynski

Lulu "Shout" CD

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2011

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I have been a big Lulu fan since the 1960's. This is a great sounding CD collecting her early works for the British Decca label. The tracks sound great and include some I hadn't encountered before. Highly recommended for Lulu fans or fans of early British pop and rock 'n' roll.

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donnie baskette

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015

Great products

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The beginnings of a high-profile career

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2009

It appears that Lulu doesn't care much for her early recordings on the Decca label, but I regard those Decca years as being among her best of Lulu`s illustrious career. While these recordings were not especially successful overall, the style of these recordings generally suited Lulu well. Nine singles were released in Britain (the booklet text says eight, but the accompanying discography lists nine), five of which completely missed the charts and two were only minor hits. The other two both made the top ten and one of them, though by no means Lulu's biggest hit chart-wise, remains the song for which she is best remembered.

This compilation lives up to its title, containing every song that Lulu recorded for Decca, even including both sides of a German single. The big hits (Shout, Leave a little love), the minor hits (Here comes the night, Try to understand), the misses (Can't hear you no more, Satisfied, Tell me like it is, Call me, What a wonderful feeling) and their B-sides are all here, along with four tracks from an EP and all, the tracks that appeared on two albums released in 1965 and 1967 respectively. Actually, those two albums included a fair number of tracks that also appeared as A or B sides of singles, but there is no duplication in this compilation.

It is a mystery as to why Lulu failed to achieve more consistent chart success with Decca. Perhaps the choice of A-sides wasn't always the best, but Here comes the night (which only just scraped into the UK charts) became a much bigger UK hit for Them, the group that propelled Van Morrison to stardom, a few months later. Another mystery is the complete failure of Call me, a cover of the Tony Hatch / Jackie Trent classic. Petula Clark recorded this song first, as she did with so many of Tony and Jackie's songs, but her version was not released as a single. In America, the song was a huge hit for Chris Montez, but nobody had a hit with the song in Britain, although it is now considered to be a classic song. Getting back to the choice of A-sides, the liner notes suggest several tracks that might have made great A-sides and could have been hits at the time, but hindsight is always easy. With hindsight, Decca's biggest mistake in the sixties had nothing to do with Lulu. It came a year or two before they signed Lulu, when they opted to sign Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead of the Beatles, though at the time most record labels would have made the same decision.

So Lulu's Decca singles, with two exceptions, were unsuccessful, while her EP's and LP's also failed to chart in Britain. Her German single flopped in Germany. Yet there is plenty to like about this compilation, which shows Lulu's love of American R+B music and her ability to record it. Apart from Shout (a cover of a very early Isley Brothers song), Lulu also covered Heat wave (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas), What's easy for two is so hard for one (Mary Wells), Just one look (Doris Troy - this became a UK hit for the Hollies), She will break your heart (Impressions), Stubborn kinda fellow and Can I get a witness (both Marvin Gaye) among others. An excellent song written by the Rolling Stones, Surprise surprise, was released as a B-side. There are also great covers of Dream lover, He's sure the boy I love and Tossing and turning, all given Lulu`s distinctive R+B treatment..

Although plenty of these tracks have been released on earlier compilations of Lulu's Decca music, this definitive set is long overdue. With only two big UK hits among them (and no big American hits), a lot of people may wonder why bother. But charts have never told the whole story. What really matters is the quality of the music. Here, what you get is fantastic sixties pop music with a heavy dose of R+B.

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Peter Durward Harris

The beginnings of a high-profile career

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2009

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It appears that Lulu doesn't care much for her early recordings on the Decca label, but I regard those Decca years as being among her best of Lulu`s illustrious career. While these recordings were not especially successful overall, the style of these recordings generally suited Lulu well. Nine singles were released in Britain (the booklet text says eight, but the accompanying discography lists nine), five of which completely missed the charts and two were only minor hits. The other two both made the top ten and one of them, though by no means Lulu's biggest hit chart-wise, remains the song for which she is best remembered.

This compilation lives up to its title, containing every song that Lulu recorded for Decca, even including both sides of a German single. The big hits (Shout, Leave a little love), the minor hits (Here comes the night, Try to understand), the misses (Can't hear you no more, Satisfied, Tell me like it is, Call me, What a wonderful feeling) and their B-sides are all here, along with four tracks from an EP and all, the tracks that appeared on two albums released in 1965 and 1967 respectively. Actually, those two albums included a fair number of tracks that also appeared as A or B sides of singles, but there is no duplication in this compilation.

It is a mystery as to why Lulu failed to achieve more consistent chart success with Decca. Perhaps the choice of A-sides wasn't always the best, but Here comes the night (which only just scraped into the UK charts) became a much bigger UK hit for Them, the group that propelled Van Morrison to stardom, a few months later. Another mystery is the complete failure of Call me, a cover of the Tony Hatch / Jackie Trent classic. Petula Clark recorded this song first, as she did with so many of Tony and Jackie's songs, but her version was not released as a single. In America, the song was a huge hit for Chris Montez, but nobody had a hit with the song in Britain, although it is now considered to be a classic song. Getting back to the choice of A-sides, the liner notes suggest several tracks that might have made great A-sides and could have been hits at the time, but hindsight is always easy. With hindsight, Decca's biggest mistake in the sixties had nothing to do with Lulu. It came a year or two before they signed Lulu, when they opted to sign Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead of the Beatles, though at the time most record labels would have made the same decision.

So Lulu's Decca singles, with two exceptions, were unsuccessful, while her EP's and LP's also failed to chart in Britain. Her German single flopped in Germany. Yet there is plenty to like about this compilation, which shows Lulu's love of American R+B music and her ability to record it. Apart from Shout (a cover of a very early Isley Brothers song), Lulu also covered Heat wave (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas), What's easy for two is so hard for one (Mary Wells), Just one look (Doris Troy - this became a UK hit for the Hollies), She will break your heart (Impressions), Stubborn kinda fellow and Can I get a witness (both Marvin Gaye) among others. An excellent song written by the Rolling Stones, Surprise surprise, was released as a B-side. There are also great covers of Dream lover, He's sure the boy I love and Tossing and turning, all given Lulu`s distinctive R+B treatment..

Although plenty of these tracks have been released on earlier compilations of Lulu's Decca music, this definitive set is long overdue. With only two big UK hits among them (and no big American hits), a lot of people may wonder why bother. But charts have never told the whole story. What really matters is the quality of the music. Here, what you get is fantastic sixties pop music with a heavy dose of R+B.

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Dee Tee

Teenage Rampage

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2009

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These first recordings in Lulu's long career were made on Decca Records. All the tracks on this double CD were made while she was still a teenager and there are some remarkable vocal performances from someone so young. Her 2 years with Decca produced 4 hits, the biggest being 'Shout' and her northern soul gem 'Leave A Little Love' which showcases a powerhouse vocal for someone not yet 16. For every bright, lively track on this collection - including a song written for her by The Rolling Stones - there's a big ballad that she also performs effortlessly. A standout track is 'Stop Fooling Around' which years later was sampled by Fatboy Slim and Ker Phunk. There are also some recordings done for the German market and a duet with Alan Price in amongst other rareties all making this CD an ideal way to hear how it all started for pop's most enduring princess.

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The other Jones

Lulu at her 60's finest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2014

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Though I am told Lulu herself is not overly fond of some of these recordings, I must say they do display a young talented lady who deserved more hits with perhaps some better material, but on listening to alot here I get the impression the record company were trying to play safe and/or maybe didn't know quite what to do with Lulu. Highly rated singer.

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Nicola Romano

it' always Lulù strong and sweet, the rarities and the b side are ok

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2015

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I missed ten songs that are in this compilation, it' always Lulù strong and sweet, the rarities and the b side are ok.

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stella

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2015

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