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Artist: BAY CITY ROLLERS
Album: ONCE UPON A STAR REMASTERED (CD)
Release date:
1975/ 2004
Media type:
CD
- DIGITAL REMASTER + 5 BONUS TRACKS [!]
Цена:
€7.67
Cat. No.: WIZ00011138
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Disco/ Rock legends The Bay City Rollers present the remastered import edition of ONCE UPON A START featuring "When Will You Be Mine," "Keep On Dancing," and five bonus recordings.
On their second album, the Bay City Rollers attempted to break away from their image as pop puppets by taking on a greater portion of the behind-the-scenes chores. Eric Faulkner and Stuart "Woody" Wood wrote seven of the album's 12 songs (lead singer Les McKeown also contributed to two of them), and the band also performs the majority of the instrumental work themselves on the album's surprisingly complex arrangements, which include such instruments as a mandolin, a violin, and even an accordion. The result of these labors is a well-crafted album of lightweight but charming pop that covers an impressive range of musical styles: "La Belle Jeane" is a French-styled ballad, "My Teenage Heart" is a '50s-style pop tune reminiscent of the Everly Brothers, and "Once Upon a Star" is a surprisingly Beatlesque slice of orchestrated pop. The album's biggest hits were the cover songs "Bye Bye Baby" and "Keep on Dancing," but the group's self-penned tunes are well written and catchy in their own right and make excellent company for the hits. Good examples of the group's homegrown work include "Angel Baby," a tribute to the Phil Spector sound with a castanet-driven beat, and "Marlina," a lovely ballad about a daydreaming girl that highlights Faulkner's skill with the mandolin. While it may not win over listeners who dislike sugary pop music, Once Upon a Star shows that the Bay City Rollers stood out from the rest of the teen idol pack because of their skills as writers and instrumentalists.
The Bay City Rollers' second U.K. album was re-released with bonus tracks in 2004. Once Upon a Star was their piece de resistance, a 12-song set conceived in the first white-hot glare of superstardom, but unscarred, as yet, by the jealousies, resentments, and in-fighting that would ultimately bring the band down. Certainly it is difficult to find fault with any album that opens with that spellbinding remake of the oldie "Bye Bye Baby," closes with the one-two punch of "Rock and Roll Honeymoon" and "Hey Beautiful Dreamer," and even dares a remake of the group's very first single, 1971's "Keep on Dancing." Indeed, so strong was the overall album that there wasn't even room for one of the band's finest 45s ever -- "All of Me Loves All of You" is likewise relegated to the bonus tracks, alongside its thumping B-side original of "The Bump," the Bill Martin/Phil Coulter number that would, in Kenny's hands, ignite a whole new dance craze later in the year. A couple of other B-sides round out these extras, alongside another memorabilia-packed booklet, all adding up to another reminder that, in the history of purebred teeny bop bands, the Bay City Rollers were worth far more than their reputation insists.
TRACKLIST:
1. Bye Bye Baby
2. Disco Kid, The
3. Belle Jeane, La
4. When Will You Be Mine?
5. Angel Baby
6. Keep on Dreaming
7. Once Upon a Star
8. Let's Go
9. Marlina
10. My Teenage Heart
11. Rock and Roll Honeymoon
Bonus Tracks:
12. Hey! Beautiful Dreamer
13. All of Me Loves All of You
14. Blump, The
15. Keep on Dancing
16. Alright
17. It's for You
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