If You Loved Me - RCA Recordings From Around The World 1963-1969 Peggy March

£13.12

Genre:
Pop
Label:
Ace Records
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDTOP 1498

Highlights from her RCA tenure, including many overlooked gems and tracks recorded in Japan, Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

When her recording of ‘I Will Follow Him’ reached #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1963, 15 year-old Peggy March became the youngest-ever female to top the US pop charts. Over the following year Peggy scored four more hits but, like many other American acts, her chart career waned with the advent of Beatlemania. Nevertheless, she remained an RCA artist until 1969, releasing dozens of terrific records along the way. She also became very popular overseas, particularly inGermany, where she subsequently based her career.

‘I Will Follow Him’, which began life as the French song ‘Chariot’, is heard here sung half in Japanese and half in English. The opening track, ‘If You Loved Me’, is another number originally recorded in French, as ‘Ame Caline’ by its writer Michel Polnareff, and subsequently popularised as the instrumental ‘Soul Coaxing’. Elsewhere are a further 24 of the finest tracks from Peggy’s RCA tenure, including numbers by some of the greatest songwriters of the era. Among them are recordings of ‘Try To See It My Way’ from Burt Bacharach & Hal David’s TV musical On The Flip Side; ‘Leave Me Alone’, penned by the pre-fame Randy Newman; and a lovely version of Brian Wilson and Mike Love’s ‘Aren’t You Glad’ from the Beach Boys’ “Wild Honey” album.

Three songs are featured in both English and another language: ‘He Couldn’t Care Less’ in Japanese as ‘Itsuwari No Koi’, ‘This Heart Wasn’t Made To Kick Around’ in German as ‘Male Nicht Den Teufel An Die Wand’ (the German version came first, unusually), and ‘(I’m Watching) Every Little Move You Make’ in Italian as ‘Eh, Bravo’. The collection also includes a rare chance to hear Peggy singing in French on ‘Ne Joue Pas Les Enfants’ (which her fans might recognise as the English language ‘Let Her Go’) and both sides of an out-there single recorded in the Netherlands with Jan Akkerman’s early band the Hunters.

The package features an essay by girl-pop scholar Sheryl Farber, a track commentary in Peggy’s own words and a plethora of colourful illustrations.

MICK PATRICK

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Side 1

  • 01 Preview If You Loved Me (Soul Coaxing / Ame Caline)

  • 02 Preview This Heart Wasn't Made To Kick Around (Male Nicht Den Teufel An Die Wand)

  • 03 Preview He Couldn't Care Less (Itsuwari No Koi)

  • 04 Preview He's Back Again

  • 05 Preview Thinking Through My Tears

  • 06 Preview Fool Fool Fool (Look In The Mirror)

  • 07 Preview Losin' My Touch

  • 08 Preview Try To See It My Way

  • 09 Preview Aren't You Glad

  • 10 Preview Let Me Down Hard

  • 11 Preview Can't Stop Thinkin' About Him

  • 12 Preview Leave Me Alone

  • 13 Preview Only You Could Do That To My Heart

  • 14 Preview Watch What You Do With My Baby

  • 15 Preview Johnny Cool

  • 16 Preview Catchin' On Fast

  • 17 Preview (I'm Watching) Every Little Move You Make (Eh, Bravo)

  • 18 Preview Kilindini Docks (Madi-Madi Song)

  • 19 Preview Too Long Away

  • 20 Preview Passo Su Passo

  • 21 Preview Eh, Bravo ((I'm Watching) Every Little Move You Make)

  • 22 Preview Ne Joue Pas Les Enfants (Let Her Go)

  • 23 Preview Male Nicht Den Teufel An Die Wand (This Heart Wasn't Made To Kick Around)

  • 24 Preview Itsuwari No Koi (He Couldn't Care Less)

  • 25 Preview I Will Follow Him (Chariot - Japanese version)

  • 26 Preview Wasurenaiwa (I'll Never Forget You)

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