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Kevin B.
This Angel Soars
Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 20. Juni 2006
Kevin B.
Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 20. Juni 2006
This pop classic from 1968 is finally available for digital download and every track on this album is a gem. Merrilee had an innocence, and a toughness in her vocal interpretation of these songs. She plays the victim on tracks like That Kind Of Woman (an affair with a married man) and Working Girl (sexual harassment in the work place.) There are songs about being the proverbial doormat in Handy and It's Worth It All. Of course one has to include tracks about being a jilted lover and there are three very good ones here. They are Sandcastles and Billy Sunshine in which it is not made clear whether Billy was just afraid of commitment or he was an activist and /or 60s radical and was forced underground. Also the excellent screw you garage style rocker in Reap What You Sow (b-side to Angel) which was for some unknown reason left of the original album but is rightfully included in this reissue. Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame penned two songs, the dream like Observation From Flight 285 (in ¾ time) and Do Unto Others. Both tracks were also featured on Raiders albums previously and Merrilee does a fine job covering them on this album. Also included is a cover of the Joe South / Deep Purple classic Hush and a country/pop treasure titled Sunshine and Roses, about a girl fighting to keep her man from the clutches of another woman. Then there is the unforgettable, million selling, international hit Angel Of The Morning. This album was recorded at the famed American Recording Studio in Memphis and was produced by the legendary Chips Moman and the late Tommy Cogbill. The session players on this album were the very same musicians who played on Elvis Presley's legendary Memphis recordings.
Besides Mark Lindsay and Joe South, the album features songs written by Mark James (who wrote Willie Nelson's Always On My Mind, Hooked On A Feeling for BJ Thomas and Suspicious Minds for Elvis), Chips Moman, Donna Weiss (who co-wrote Bette Davis Eyes for Kim Carnes), and Chip Taylor (who wrote Merrilee's Angel Of The Morning and Wild Thing for the Troggs). There is also a very sweet version of the John Phillips' flower power anthem from the summer of love, San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair). Angel Of The Morning was featured in the hit films Jerry Maguire and Girl Interrupted as well as the cult classic Fingers starring Harvey Keitel. The songs on this CD are pure sunshine with a little country-pop flavor from the fabulous 1960's. Merrilee released several non-LP singles and B-sides after the release of this album including a very cool psychedelic version of The Four Tops' Reach Out (think Vanilla Fudge), as well as a cover of Jackie DeShannon's What The World Needs Now from the soundtrack album to the film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice produced by Quincy Jones. All nine of Merrilee's non-LP singles and b-sides are included in this CD reissue If you are a fan of the Memphis sound and albums recorded there by Dusty Springfield, The Box Tops, Petula Clark, Elvis, BJ Thomas, The Raiders and others then you will enjoy this CD.
Some fans have expressed a desire for the inclusion of the track Save Me and have been disappointed in it's exclusion from this Merrilee Rush reissue. This collection focused on Merrilee's Bell Records years. Save Me was released in 1976 on UA. Another Merrilee Rush project is being shopped to reissue labels as of this writing. The plan is for the Merrilee Rush self titled album from 1977 (which included Save Me) on the United Artists label to be reissued with a bunch of buried treasure bonus tracks. So stay tuned!
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Gregor von Kallahann
Merrilee Rolls Along
Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 31. Oktober 2010Jeff, Young Old-Timer
Still Like Her
Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 30. April 2008Steven W. House
Excellent product very satisfactory!
Kundenrezension aus den USA 🇺🇸 am 11. Juni 2013