Peter & Gordon

Peter & Gordon 1966 - Columbia 1966

Tracks: 1 Let It Be Me / 2. I Know a Man / 3. Colour Blue / 4. A Young Girl / 5. Black, Brown and Gold / 6. Stranger With a Black Dove / 7. Woman / 8. There's No Living Without Your Loving / 9. Morning's Calling / 10. Wrong from the Start / 11. Lady Godiva / 12. A Boy With Nothing / 13. Baby, I'm Yours / 14. Homeward Bound

Comments:

On Peter & Gordon's fourth British album from 1966, the duo has moved further away from their initially very acoustic and folkish style. Of course, there are some songs on which their starting point shines through, but it is clearly the ballads with larger orchestral arrangements that characterize this album. There are, however, like on the predecessor, songs more simply arranged in a typical 1966 pop-rock style.

The duo continues to write some of the material themselves, and among these songs you will find some of the best songs on the album. It is e.g. "Mary's Calling" which is a really nice country / rock song in the best Byrds or Monkees (Mike Nesmith) style. Also "Start Trying Someone Else" is fine; here a bit of the original sound. The verse is really nice, while the chorus is not quite up there.

It is, however, Paul McCartney's "Woman" that the album especially will be remembered for. A great ballad on which the grand arrangemt works. Of course, this song became one of the duo's big hits. Van McCoy's "Baby, Yours," also deservedly did well on the charts around the world. "Lady Godiva" is a music hall-style number, which differs quite drastically from what the duo had previously dealt with. However, it also did well on the charts, but was in fact the last top twenty hit in the UK duo for the duo.

Although the old and fine Becaud / Curtis song "Let it Be Me" has already been recorded many times, Peter & Gordon manage to give the song new life with another great arrangement that, unlike other tracks on the album, works quite well. Jackie de Shannon's "Color Blue" is pretty good, but otherwise most of the other songs are mostly for oblivion.

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