We Can Make It (Peters and Lee album)

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We Can Make It
Studio album by
Released1973 (1973)
Producer John Franz
Peters and Lee chronology
We Can Make It
(1973)
By Your Side
(1973)

We Can Make It was the only number one album in the UK for British vocal duo Peters and Lee. It spent two weeks at the top of the chart in 1973. It is one of the very few number one albums not available on CD in the UK. [1]

After a 7 week winning streak on opp. knocks in feb 1973, and the biggest winners ever at that point on the show, Lennie and Di signed with Phillips and The album was produced by John Franz and the conductor was Peter Knight, Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield's old Philips team. "All change places", "I'm Confessin'" and "Let it be me" were just some of the winning songs from Opportunity Knocks in February 1973 promoted on the album. Their producer wrote "Turn to me" as a new song, and the title track "We Can Make It" was a new Brotherhood of Man B side of "Happy Ever After" submitted by Tony Hiller. Peters and lee became the first act to have a no 1 LP and single at the same time since the Beatles with the single "welcome home" as the sole single from the LP. Songs used to promote the LP were "I'm confessin'" on the Mike and bernie winters show and "Rolf Harris" show, "Let it be me" on many shows and "welcome home" on "top of the pops" many times in the summer of 1973. The album went gold.

Track listing

  1. "All Change Places" (John Garfield, David Gold)
  2. "I'm Confessin'" (Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds)
  3. "Take To The Mountains" (Tony Hazzard)
  4. "Turn To Me" (Bryan Blackburn, John Franz)
  5. "There They Go" (Harold Dorman)
  6. "We Can Make It" (Ivor Raymonde, Tony Hiller)
  7. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis)
  8. "Cryin' in the Rain" (Carole King, Howard Greenfield)
  9. "Good Morning Freedom" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Albert Hammond, Michael Hazlewood)
  10. "Cryin' Time" (Buck Owens)
  11. "Never My Love" (Dick Addrisi, Don Addrisi)
  12. "Welcome Home" (Bryan Blackburn, Jean Dupré, Stanislas Beldone)

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References

  1. Virgin Book of Hit Albums