Into My Music

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Into My Music
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Compilation album by
Lynsey de Paul
Released18 March 2013 (2013-03-18)
Recorded1975–79
Label RPM
Producer Lynsey de Paul, Rupert Holmes
Lynsey de Paul chronology
Sugar and Beyond
(2013)		Into My Music
(2013)		Ten Best
(2015)

Into My Music - Anthology 1975-1979 is a digitally remastered double album, featuring songs written and performed by Lynsey de Paul, that was released on 18 March 2013 on Cherry Red's RPM Retrodisc label. [1] [2] [3] [4] All recordings have been remastered by de Paul and Simon Murphy from original tape sources and co-produced by de Paul and Mark Stratford. The album is packaged with photographs and memorabilia from de Paul's personal archive and text by Michael Robson. [5]

Contents

History

Disc one featured tracks from de Paul's 1975 Jet Records album, Love Bomb including the title song (which was released together with "Sugar Shuffle" in the US, [6] and was covered by the US soul singer Cheryl Lynn on her album In Love [7] ), plus two non-album singles ("Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" backed with "Into My Music" and "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will") plus "You Made Me Write This Song", which was the B-side to the single (and the Love Bomb album track) and has never been released before on CD. Other notable tracks include the single "Hug and Squeeze Me" and the quirky but philosophical song "Season To Season", that de Paul often played on TV shows in the mid 1970s. [2]

The second disc contains tracks from the previously unreleased third LP for Jet Records recorded in 1976 [8] - outside of Japan, this was the first time that these songs had officially been released. [3] Also on the second CD is "Rock Bottom", de Paul's international Eurovision hit written and performed with Mike Moran, [9] as well as the B-side duet, "You Shouldn't Say That". [10] The follow-up 1977 non-album single, "You Give Me Those Feelings", is also included are some but not all of the songs from the Rupert Holmes produced Tigers and Fireflies album, including "Losin' the Blues For You" and "Melancholy Melon", two songs that were co-written with the US actor James Coburn and the jaunty "Without You", co-written with Mike Moran. [2] Despite releases on vinyl, this was the first time that these songs had been released on CD.

As was the case for the previous anthology double album, Sugar and Beyond , [1] the CD comes with a booklet containing stories about the songs and de Paul's career, as well as photos and items that de Paul personally chose from her own archive. Journalist Stephen Unwin reviewed the album and gave it 4/5, writing "...on the barometer between Deborah Harry and Farrah Fawcett was Lynsey de Paul, a pop star who did sexy without going above the knee. She was also a formidable songwriter, a talent sometimes forgotten". [11] Ian Sime writing in "The Press" gave the album a rating of 4 out of 4 stars in a review that also encompassed the Lily Allen album "Sheezus" and he stated "Vocally and arrangements wise, there are very close similarities to the works of Allen and De Paul. Those ethereal overdubbed harmonies are very distinctive, and copied by very few others". [12] The online music magazine "Popshifter" also gave the album a positive review, along with its companion release Sugar and Beyond and mentioned de Paul as the trailblazer for Kate Bush, but also as a pioneer in her own right, since she had critical success and being a woman performing her own songs in an era when this was not common. They state that "the tone of de Paul's music is unique and provides a feminine tone of detachment, sexual agency, wit, and sharp observation, which are things not often seen in mainstream modern cultural ideas of femininity" and concluded "While obviously recognized at the time both by fellow musicians and critics, history is never kind to female artists in male-dominated fields. She is one of the best musicians of her genre and of mainstream British music in general". [13]

Track listing

CD Disc 1
  1. "Sugar Shuffle" (de Paul, Barry Blue)
  2. "Shoobeedoo Wey Doobee How" (de Paul, Blue)
  3. "Love Bomb" (de Paul, Blue)
  4. "Dreams" (de Paul)
  5. "Crystal Ball" (de Paul, Blue)
  6. "Hug and Squeeze Me" (de Paul, Blue)
  7. "Hungry for Love" (de Paul, Blue)
  8. "You Are The Happiest Day of My Life" (de Paul, Blue)
  9. "Season to Season" (de Paul)
  10. "Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" (de Paul)
  11. "Into My Music" (de Paul)
  12. "You Made Me Write This Song" (de Paul)
  13. "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will" (de Paul)
CD Disc 2
  1. "Call Me" (de Paul)
  2. "They'd Rather Be Making Money" (de Paul)
  3. "Before You Go Tonight" (de Paul)
  4. "Take Your Time" (de Paul)
  5. "You Either Got It Or You Ain't" (de Paul, David Jordan)
  6. "Martian Man" (de Paul)
  7. "Do Unto Others" (de Paul)
  8. "Rock Bottom" (de Paul, Mike Moran)
  9. "You Shouldn't Say That" (de Paul, Moran)
  10. "You Give Me Those Feelings" (de Paul)
  11. "Beautiful" (de Paul)
  12. "Tigers and Fireflies" (de Paul)
  13. "Losin' The Blues for You" (de Paul, James Coburn)
  14. "Without You" (de Paul, Moran)
  15. "Forever and a Day" (de Paul)
  16. "Melancholy Melon" (de Paul, Coburn)

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"Love Bomb" is a song and title track from the album Love Bomb by Lynsey de Paul, written by de Paul and Barry Blue. It is listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries held by the Library of Congress 1976. The song's lyrics express "a call for love and peace".

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<i>Before You Go Tonight</i> 1990 studio album by Lynsey de Paul

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"Beautiful" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul. It first appeared as the B-side to her 1977 single "You Give Me Those Feelings" on the Polydor record label and reflected her real life philosophy that all forms of life are beautiful, including household flies. This recording was co-produced by de Paul and Jon Kelly. An extended and reworked version of the song with snatches of songs from de Paul's 1979 Tigers and Fireflies album as a reprise that was produced by Rupert Holmes, was featured as the last track on this album. The latter version of the song was finally released on CD on Lynsey's 2013 double CD anthology Into My Music, whereas the original version has yet to be released on CD.

"Hollywood Romance" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and David Jordan. It was released as a single on Polydor Records on 20 October 1978 in a picture sleeve, almost six years to the day after the release of their last hit collaboration "Getting a Drag", and it was play-listed on BBC Radio 1. The record label for this single was unusual in that it was printed in silver instead of the usual Polydor red label. The release was announced in a full page advert "Hollywood Romance - a new single from a very special lady" published in Music Week. In Japan, it was released in February 1979 in the same picture sleeve cover with the title in Japanese added, plus the lyrics were included on the back cover. It was listed as a major release in Hong Kong. It was also released as a track on the 1978 BBC transcription album Servicio Latinoamericano de la BBC vol. 44 together with "Don't Take Love for Granted" by Lulu and "Got to Get You into My Life" by Earth, Wind and Fire.

"House of Cards" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue and is one of their most covered songs. It was first released as a single by Chris Kelly on the CBS label on 7 April 1972, credited as being written by Rubin and Green (Blue). The song was a radio hit in Italy, receiving multiple plays on national radio stations.

"So Good to You" is a song that was written by Lynsey de Paul, and first released by Zakatek as the B-side to his 1973 single, "I Gotcha Now", which also penned by de Paul. The single was released on 2 March 1973 and both songs were produced and arranged by de Paul. Her own version appeared in October 1973 as the B-side to her award-winning single "Won't Somebody Dance with Me", which was arranged by Christopher Gunning and produced by de Paul. In Japan and some South American countries, however, "So Good to You" was released as the A-side of the single release with "Won't Somebody Dance with Me" being relegated to the B-side on its release in 1974. AllMusic lists "So Good to You" as one of De Paul's song highlights. It was also a radio hit in Italy and ranks as one of de Paul's biggest songs there according to Radiocorriere magazine. It is still played on radio stations around the world.

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<i>Just a Little Time</i> 1994 studio album by Lynsey de Paul

Just a Little Time is an album by Lynsey de Paul. It was originally released on 30 September 1994 on the Music Deluxe label but has since been released on the Tring International PLC label and on Arc Records/The Magic Collection. All of the songs on the album are written or co-written by de Paul.

"Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby" is a song that was written and produced by Lynsey de Paul, and released in July 1975 as her third single on the newly designed yellow Jet Record label in the UK, as a follow-up to the hit single "My Man and Me". It was released on Polydor in Belgium, France and Germany ; backed with another de Paul composition "Into My Music". The release of the single was also announced in the American music industry magazine Cashbox. The song as well as the lyrics and credits are listed on the Italian music resource "Rockol".

"All Night" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Ron Roker. De Paul released her version of the song on 27 April 1973 as her third single released on MAM Records, with arrangements by Martyn Ford and John Bell and produced by de Paul. The song is listed in the U.S. Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries and in the "The Directory of American 45 R.p.m. Records" It features an uncredited male vocal. A slinky, sexy song, it compares a love relationship to that of the spider and a fly. The single is backed by the more socially aware song "Blind Leading the Blind", composed and produced by de Paul. The song was an unusual release since neither the A-side or the B-side featured as tracks on her debut album. Surprise had been released a little more than a month earlier - presumably it was not included since "All Night" has a very different style than the tracks on Surprise.

<i>Sugar and Beyond</i> 2013 double compilation album by Lynsey de Paul

Sugar and Beyond is a double compilation album by the British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul released on 18 March 2013, together with a second double album, Into My Music. De Paul personally oversaw the project and was involved in the digital remastering of the tracks from the original tapes. The CD includes all her hits as well as the two LPs released in the period between 1972 and 1974.

"Sugar Shuffle" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue. It first appeared as the lead-in track on de Paul's album Love Bomb as an ethereal, chilled and dreamy song about nightlife and dating. AllMusic rated "Sugar Shuffle" as one of de Paul's song highlights. Musician and music critic Bob Stanley wrote in The Guardian, "Sugar Shuffle is an especially gorgeous, woozy mid-70s confection, fit to sit at the table with Liverpool Express’s You Are My Love".

"Taking It On" is a song written by Lynsey de Paul and Ron Roker, and originally published by ATV Music. Although de Paul recorded her own demo version of the song in 1972, her version of the song was not released until 2013 on her Anthology CD album Sugar and Beyond. De Paul also arranged and produced this recording.

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