"...Tomorrow's Calling..."
Now here's a tasty little peach and actually a little surprising it
hasn't been catalogued before.
Marianne Faithfull had four albums with England’s Decca Records
beginning with her self-titled "Marianne Faithfull" debut in May 1965
and finishing with "Loveinamist" in February 1967 (her LPs were on
London Records in the USA and often with different track lists and sleeves –
the "Go Away From My World" LP from December 1965 was exclusive to
that country).
In-between that extraordinary British LP output and US variants also
came the obligatory British 7" singles (10 of them) with non-album flips
and a 4-Track EP also with exclusive content. And that's where this very cool
Ace Records CD reissue comes in. Let's get to the little birds...
UK released Friday, 26 October 2018 (9 November 2018 in the USA) -
"Come And Stay With Me: The UK 45s 1964-1969" by MARIANNE FAITHFULL
on Ace Records CDTOP 1531 (Barcode 029667092029) is a 22-Track CD compilation
of Remasters that plays out as follows (64:39 minutes):
1. As Tears Go By
2. Greensleeves
(Tracks 1 & 2 are the A&B-sides of her debut UK 7" single
on Decca F 11923 released June 1964)
3. Blowin' In The Wind
4. House Of The Rising Sun
(Tracks 3 & 4 are the A&B-sides of her second UK 7" single
on Decca F 12007 released October 1964)
5. Come And Stay With Me
6. What Have I Done Wrong
(Tracks 5 & 6 are the A&B-sides of her third UK 7" single
on Decca F 12075 released February 1965)
7. This Little Bird
8. Morning Sun
(Tracks 7 & 8 are the A&B-sides of her fourth UK 7" single
on Decca F 12162 released April 1965)
9. Go Away From My World
10. The Most Of What Is Least
11. Et Maintenant (What Now My Love?)
12. The Sha La La Song
(Tracks 9 to 12 are the A&B-sides of the 4-Track UK EP "Go Away
From My World" on Decca DFE 8624 released May 1965)
13. Summer Nights
(Tracks 13 and 12 (of the EP) are the A&B-sides of her fifth UK
7" single on Decca 12193 released July 1965)
14. Yesterday
15. Oh Look Around You
(Tracks 14 and 15 are the A&B-sides of her sixth UK 7" single
on Decca F 12268 released October 1965)
16. Tomorrow's Calling
17. That's Right Baby
(Tracks 16 and 17 are the A&B-sides of her seventh UK 7" single
on Decca F 12408 release May 1966)
18. Counting
19. I'd Like To Dial Your Number
(Tracks 18 and 19 are the A&B-sides of her eight UK 7" single
on Decca F 12443 released July 1966)
20. Is This What I Get For Loving You?
(Tracks 20 and 16 are the A&B-sides of her ninth UK 7" single
on Decca F 22524 released February 1967)
21. Something Better
22. Sister Morphine
(Tracks 21 and 22 are the A&B-sides of her tenth UK 7" single
on Decca F 12889 released February 1969)
There's an advert inlay beneath the see-through CD tray called 'Birds Of
A Feather' that shows five other CD compilations on Ace Records for hip and
happening 60ts girlies and the 24-page booklet with new liner notes by KRIS
NEEDS offers up the usual plethora of period memorabilia, label repros for
those desirable Decca 45s and several full-page colour photos of the gorgeous
ingénue. Complete with mastering from NICK ROBBINS (all tracks are MONO) and
you're on a winner.
What gets you here is the quality of the releases - almost every couple
of months in the initial flurry - from the teenage heartache whimsy of her
Jagger/Richards-penned, Andrew Loog Oldham-produced debut "As Tears Go
By" to the heavy, heavy drug-taking misery of "Sister Morphine"
only a few years later (a co-write with Jagger and Richards and a tune The
Stones would return to in 1971 with devastating effect on Side 2 of
"Sticky Fingers"). The range of emotion is amazing and cool too to
hear those four EP songs together at last.
Exclusive non-album songs include "Greensleeves" (Track 2),
the A-side cover version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" (Track
3), "This Little Bird" and "Morning Sun" (Tracks 7 and 8),
three songs of the four (Tracks 9, 10 and 12) from the "Go Away From My
World" British EP - the other song "El Maintenant (What Now My
Love?)" is on the "Loveinamist" album from 1967. Also exclusive
is the British A-side "Summer Nights" (Track 13) that was only
available at the time on the December 1965 US LP compilation "Go Away From
My World" on London PS 452. The British A-side cover of the Beatles
classic "Yesterday" was also exclusive at the time to the American
"Go Away From My World" LP with its B-side "Oh Look Around
You" being non-album in both countries (Tracks 14 and 15). And so on…
An exemplary release from Ace - but then again we've come to expect
nothing less. Well done...
