LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

DISC ONE When You're Young And In Love Moonlight And Music Till Then Our Day Will Come Every Day's A Holiday Think Lonely People Do Foolish Things My Summer Love Much Better Off Than I've Ever Been I Cry Alone Sweet Love And Sweet Forgiveness Remember Me Does He Really Care For Me No More Dream Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore Our Everlasting Love Hey There Lonely Boy By The Way Two Different Worlds Nobody But My Baby DISC TWO Baby Come Home /Day Dreaming Not A Moment Too Soon Young Wings Can Fly (Higher Than You Know) Moonglow We Can Make It Stranger On The Shore The End Of The World Till There Was You What A Difference A Day Makes We'll Love Again Imagination We'll Meet Again My Prayer Heartaches I'm Sorry (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over P. S. I Love You Chances Are Time After Time How Deep Is The Ocean “Very easy on the ear, and from an era when quality song writing was still valued.” Record Collector For lovers of American vocal groups 1963 was a vintage year and the last in which the home team had the field more or less to themselves. In those innocent months before the hairy hordes from across the pond would tear down the walls of Tin Pan Alley, US teens luxuriated in the chart-topping sounds of the Essex, the Chiffons, the 4 Seasons, the Angels, and the Tymes, with the Ronettes, Vandellas & Jaynetts all snapping at their heels. One of the tastier tidbits amidst this smorgasbord of goodies was Our Day Will Come, the sublime debut of Ruby & the Romantics, four guys and a gal from Akron, Ohio. With so many of their contemporaries feted today, Ruby & the Romantics are often overlooked in the ranks of the great vocal groups. But make no mistake, they were a fabulous act; the silky, intensely layered and often adventurous harmonies of the male quartet always supplying the perfect counterpoint to one of the greatest lead vocalists of the era, the immaculate Ruby Nash. RPM present the highlights of their career for the Kapp label, 1963-1966 on a comprehensive double CD collection. This includes the big No.1 and title track here, the original versions Hey There Lonely Girl (a hit for Eddie Holman in 1974 ), When You're Young And In Love ( a hit in 1967 for the Marvelettes and for the Flying Picketts in 1984), Hurtin Each Other (a 1972 hit for the Carpenters ), plus their other Pop and R&B chart picks. This is a first time reissue in the UK for most of the recordings, in a package that also contains an essay by noted 60's collectors Mick Patrick and Malcom Baumgart.