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20 essential tracks, featuring a selection from her Immediate label recordings, including cuts from albums and singles. Now available in Digipak format. Includes the classic UK Top 20 hit single 'First Cut Is The Deepest'. Booklet with authoritative and extensive liner notes by respected author and journalist Chris Welch. Expertly remastered - superb sound. The best in the business.
They called her 'The First Lady Of Immediate' and she was hailed as the darling of the London music scene in the Swinging Sixties. Pat 'P.P.' Arnold first arrived in the UK with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1966 and the young American backing singer so enjoyed her visit that she decided to stay on and launch a solo career. She was signed to Andrew Oldham's Immediate Records and the result was a series of superb recordings, now presented on this Repertoire CD compilation.
P.P. Arnold is blessed with a powerful and soulful voice, well suited to interpreting dramatic songs. A great example is her treatment of 'The First Cut Is The Deepest' by Cat Stevens - among eight tracks culled from the A and B-sides of singles released during 1967. A further three items are taken from her debut album 'The First Lady Of Immediate'.
During this productive period, fellow Immediate artists the Small Faces and Twice As Much supplied much suitable material and Pat wrote some original songs as well as delving into the songbooks of the Beatles and the Beach Boys for 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'God Only Knows'. The remaining eight tracks are taken from her second album 'Kafunta', released in 1968.
Here is the sound of a much loved artist, who is still performing and singing with all the joyous enthusiasm first revealed on these classic recordings. The CD liner notes by Chris Welch tells the story of P.P.Arnold and her remarkable career.
Track listing:
1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright 2. The First Cut Is The Deepest 3. The Time Has Come 4. (If You Think You're) Groovy 5. Life Is But Nothing 6. Angel Of The Morning 7. Speak To Me 8. Though It Hurts Me Badly 9. Born To Be Together 10. Am I Still Dreaming? 11. Treat Me Like A Lady 12. Would You Believe 13. Letter To Bill 14. God Only Knows 15. Eleanor Rigby 16. Yesterday 17. It'll Never Happen Again 18. As Tears Go By 19. To Love Somebody 20. Welcome Home"
