Label: Deram Records (UK), 820 630-2
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: London, England (29 December 1946)
Time: 53:05
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 302 Mb
To the best of my own knowledge, the honor of releasing two different LPs on the exact same day - April 15, 1965, to be precise, and I do mean "different", as in "two thematically and stylistically different entities, rather than an artificially separated double album" - belongs to Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull, a.k.a. the Honorable Hereditary Baroness von Sacher-Masoch who so narrowly missed a chance at gentrifying Michael Philip Jagger (imagine all those Stones hits credited to "Sacher-Masoch / Richards"!). The story goes thus: after being signed to Decca in the fall of 1964 and releasing two singles, one of which became a pop hit (‘As Tears Go By’) and the other one a folk flop (‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, no less), the label naturally wanted Marianne to concentrate on her pop side and drop the folksinger act. Marianne refused, and the only way to get her to compromise was to allow her to record two non-intermingling LPs in two different styles - a "pure pop" record and a "pure folk" one, releasing both simultaneously. Ironically, both LPs charted, and the folk one (Come My Way) actually rose a bit higher than the self-titled pop one - though both would be Faithfull’s only charting LPs until her 1979 comeback with Broken English, and even then she would never ever break into the Top 20 again.
Although, technically, of the two twin records Come My Way was the first to show its little head (it is catalogued as LK 4688, whereas Marianne Faithfull got LK 4689), we shall still begin with the self-titled record - when all the arguments pro et contra are weighted, Marianne still emerges as more of a "pop" than "folk" artist, and it is this LP that bears her name, after all. In addition, it was the only one of the two to be simultaneously released in the States, where it also climbed up to a respectable #12 on the charts - a mile higher than anything she’d be able to achieve there in the future.
(full version: starlingdb.org/music/new/Marianne_Faithfull.htm)
01. Come And Stay With Me (02:27)
02. If I Never Get To Love You (02:18)
03. Time Takes Time (01:42)
04. He'll Come Back To Me (02:36)
05. Down Town (02:48)
06. Plaisir D'Amour (02:35)
07. Can't You Hear My Hearbeat (02:27)
08. As Tears Go By (02:40)
09. Paris Bells (02:49)
10. They Never Will Leave You (02:13)
11. What Have They Done To The Rain (02:56)
12. In My Time Of Sorrow (02:22)
13. What Have I Done Wrong (01:56)
14. I'm A Loser (02:17)
15. Morning Sun (03:09)
16. Greensleeves (02:48)
17. House Of The Rising Sun - Version 1 (04:17)
18. The Sha La La Song (02:32)
19. Oh Look Around You (03:06)
20. I'd Like To Dial Your Number (02:56)
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