LPA Classic Golden Years

OTIS REDDING Sings Soul (Special Edition)

Original released on LP Volt 412

(US 1965, September 15)

The Soul Ballads Of OTIS REDDING

Original released on LP Volt 441 (mono)

(US, March 1965)

Look At LONG JOHN BALDRY

Original released on LP United Artists UAS 9013

(UK, 1966)

SOFTROCK NUGGETS (4 CD Collection)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: "Live at BBC"

Original released on CD Decca 5307959

(UK 2008, July 14)

ADAMO: EP "Mes Mains Sur Tes Hanches"

Original released on EP La Voix de Son Maitre EGF 827

(FRANCE, April 1965)

ON THE ROAD AGAIN - VOLUME 45

MARIE LAFORÊT: "L'Intégrale Festival 2"

O 1º EP dos SHEIKS

Edição original em EP Parlophone LMEP 1200

(PORTUGAL, Julho 1965)

No disco de estreia, torna-se impossível ficar indiferente à enérgica versão de "Summertime" (Gershwin), ao melhor estilo mersey beat, numa antológica interpretação vocal de Carlos Mendes. Na segunda faixa, "Copo", original de Paulo de Carvalho cantado em «português do Brasil», os Sheiks enveredam por sonoridades do movimento Jovem Guarda liderado por Roberto e Erasmo Carlos. Virando o vinil, dois originais do parceiro Luís Miguel de Oliveira, "Gloo Gloo" e "Zalui". Um tributo, em inglês, às harmonias vocais doo wop, e uma balada, em francês, na toada dos marcantes Les Chats Sauvages. Um EP promissor. Segundo a Biografia do Ié-Ié, foi o terceiro disco mais vendido do ano, atrás de "Help!", dos Beatles, e de "O Fado Mora em Lisboa", de Mariema. E recebeu excelentes críticas. Na revista Flama, Judith Lupi Freire definiu: «Os Sheiks, quatro rapazes portugueses organizados em grupo artístico para a exploração da música moderna de dança, ao som de guitarras eléctricas, demonstram qualidades não inferiores às dos conjuntos estrangeiros do mesmo género.» (Pedro de Freitas Branco in "Sobreviventes: o Rock em Portugal na Era do Vinil")

ON THE ROAD AGAIN - VOLUME 44

JUDY COLLINS: "Fifth Album"

Original released on LP Elektra EKL 300

(US, November 1965)

Judy Collins' last straight, folk-based album of the 1960s, "Fifth Album" marks her transition from a "maid of constant sorrow" to a bona fide artist. With its covers ranging from Lennon and McCartney to adaptations from The Threepenny Opera, 1966's "In My Life" would readily attest to this. But "Fifth Album", cut in late 1964, may very well be her definitive folk statement. A trio of Bob Dylan songs act as the album's centerpiece, clearly showing Collins' growth into more progressive songs. In addition to these, Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" is given its classic reading, with Collins' voice echoing the song's melancholy and eerie but mellifluent precision and emotion. Aside from these recordings - which would have been the highlights on any other record - the album opens with perhaps its finest moment, Richard Farina's "Pack Up Your Sorrows." Led by Farina's sprightly dulcimer runs, Collins renders the song her own, with a unifying, karmic message and a vocal performance that is irresistible. The musical politics of the day, particularly concerning the entire West Coast/Byrds/folk-rock phenomenon, must have tempted Collins to approach this from a neo-folk-rock standpoint, and it fits the vibe and milieu perfectly. In the end, while not her farewell to folk music, this album is a graceful wave and a smile from Collins as she was about to conquer a new, more baroque direction in a matter of months. (Matthew Greenwald in AllMusic)