"In The Wind/Are You Ready For This?/New Magic/What The World Needs Now Is Love" by JACKIE DeSHANNON – Albums from 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968 on Imperial Records in Stereo (with some tracks in Mono) (March 2015 Beat Goes On Reissue – 4LPs onto 2CDs – Andrew Thompson Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...Top Of That Hill..."

Beat Goes On of the UK (BGO) touched on Jackie DeShannon's fab Sixties output back in August 2005 when they combined her "Don't Turn Your Back On Me" album (1964 on Liberty Records) with her 3^rd LP "This Is Jackie DeShannon" (1965 on Imperial Records) plonking both onto 1 CD (Beat Goes On BGOCD 684).

This complimentary 2015 two-disc set gives us four STEREO albums on Imperial put onto 2CDs and all of it in their customary tasty reissue style (card wrap, extensive booklet, quality remasters of Stereo and Mono mixes). Here are the details and the love what the world needs right now…

UK released March 2015 – "In The Wind/Are You Ready For This?/New Magic/What The World Needs Now Is Love" by JACKIE DeSHANNON on Beat Goes On BGOCD 1176 (Barcode 5017261211767) offers 4LP Remastered onto 2CDs and breaks down as follows:

Disc 1 (62:03 minutes):

1. Blowin’ In The Wind

2. Walkin’ Down The Line

3. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

4. If I Had A Hammer

5. Jailer Bring Me Water

6. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

7. Needles And Pins [Side 2]

8. Little Yellow Roses

9. 500 Miles

10. Oh Sweet Chariot (Mono)

11. Puff (The Magic Dragon)

12. Don’t Turn Your Back On Me

Tracks 1 to 12 are her 4^th album "In The Wind" – released 1965 in the USA on Imperial LP-9296 (Mono) and LP-12296 (Stereo). The Stereo mix is used except for track 10 "Oh Sweet Chariot"

13. I Can Make It With You

14. Music And Memories

15. Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Mono)

16. Are You Ready For This

17. To Be Myself (Mono)

18. Love Is Leading Me

19. Windows And Doors (Mono) [Side 2]

20. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

21. So Long Johnny

22. To Wait For Love (Is To Waste Your Life Away)

23. Call Me

24. Find Me Love

Tracks 13 to 24 are her 5^th album "Are You Ready For This?" – released 1966 in the USA on Imperial LP-9328 (Mono) and LP-12328 (Stereo). The Stereo mix is used except for tracks 15, 17 and 19 - which are Mono.

Disc 2 (68:05 minutes):

1. Come On Down (From The Top Of That Hill)

2. The Carnival Is Closed Today

3. I'll Be Seeing You

4. A Sunday Kind Of Love

5. The Wishing Well (from the motion picture Hawaii) (Mono)

6. Night And Day

7. I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do

8. Time

9. A Proper Girl

10. Where Does The Sun Go?

11. That's The Name Of The Game

12. Poor Someone

Tracks 1 to 12 are her 6^th album "New Image" – released 1967 in the USA on Imperial LP-9344 (Mono) and LP-12344 (Stereo). The Stereo mix is used except for track 5 - which is Mono.

13. What The World Needs Now Is Love

14. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Lo Che Non Vivo)

15. It's All In The Game

16. So Long Johnny

17. Changin' My Mind

18. Windows And Doors (Mono)

19. A Lifetime Of Loneliness

20. Everything Under The Sun

21. To Wait For Love

22. Where Does The Sun Go?

23. Little Yellow Roses

24. Call Me

Tracks 13 to 24 are her 7^th album "What The World Needs Now Is Love" – released 1968 in the USA on Imperial LP-12404 (Stereo only) except for Track 18 – which is Mono.

The 16-page booklet has superb liner notes by noted writer and musicologist JOHN TOBLER as well as album credits, black and white publicity photos and original LP liner notes where available. Between it and the card wrap – you get a very classy feel to this reissue. But the real goodies come with the Stereo mixes of the albums which sound utterly brill thanks to quality remasters from BGO’s resident go-to Engineer ANDREW THOMPSON. I’ve sung this guy's praises before and he's done the business by these records. There are (as you can see from above) some instances where the Mono take is replaced by the Stereo version and the audio definitely takes a dip for the worse – but these Universal licenced tapes are clearly in great shape.

With the winds of change and social upheaval going through American society like a dose of salts – it’s clear that like so many others - the wallop of Bob Dylan's albums and his thought-provoking consciousness hit out Jackie hard. She opens "In The Wind" with no less than three Dylan covers in a row sounding like she means every word – then taps into Pete Seeger's "If I Had A Hammer" and Eric Von Schmidt's "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (another Dylan favorite complete with harmonica fills that ape BD's style). Even Bobby Darin's "Jailer Bring Me Water" is made to sound like a Folky anthem. I could probably live without her saccharine cover of Peter, Paul and Mary's "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and the Mono cut of the Traditional "Oh Sweet Chariot" doesn’t do much for me either. Better is her lone composition on the album "Don't Turn Your Back On Me" – an excellent and hooky Pop hit that would give Goffin and King a run for their Brill Building money. Vanguard Records folky Hedy West provides the lonesome and lovely "500 Miles" - another highlight on a very strong album.

Returning to the melodrama of Phil Spector strings and girls – the “Are You Ready For This?” LP opens strongly with the Dusty Springfield sounding “I Can Make It With You” (another winner penned by Chip Taylor). But the album sees DeShannon’s songwriting talent start to shine through big time. The title track “Are You Ready For This?” is the first of four self-penned songs to kick in (“To Be Myself”, “Love Is Leading Me” and “Find Me Love” are the other three) which combined with “Windows And Doors”, “So Long Johnny” and “To Wait For Love” by Bacharach and David – give the album a strong edge by virtue of such strong material. “To Be Myself” and “Love Is Leading Me” give a musical nod towards the girl group sound of Motown and are so catchy – she even gives it a brassy stab at Tony Hatch’s “Call Me” - a huge hit in the UK for Petula Clark.

Things take a more decidedly Pop turn with the “New Image” album – very upbeat and cheery in that Summer Of Love kind of a way – epitomised by the opener “Come On Down (From The Top Of That Hill)”. The audio quality on “The Carnival Is Closed Today” is truly fabulous. Things getting decidedly soppy with “A Sunday Kind Of Love” but “The Wishing Doll” is dreadful film dross (made worse by dreary Mono). Things pick up with her chipper version of Cole Porter’s “Night And Day”. Both “Time” and “Poor Someone” are great upbeat/mid-tempo Sixties Pop but even better are her own two contributions – “Where Does The Sun Go?” and “That’s The Name Of The Game”.

Probably her most famous and beloved song – Bacharach & Davids "What The World Needs Now Is Love" still has that eternally optimistic Sixties magic about it. Another B&D winner comes in the shape of "So Long Johnny" while her own "Where Does The Sun Go?" gets another version that is so Bobbie Gentry in its delivery. "Little Yellow Roses" (with surprisingly deep lyrics) and Hatch's "Call Me" end it in style.

It's not all genius of course but for lovers of Jackie DeShannon and her Sixties Sound this is yet another great reissue from BGO. Fans should dig in right away and enjoy – especially given the superb audio and presentation…