The Murmaids A Few Things We Love (CD)

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The Murmaids: A Few Things We Love (CD)

The Hollywood-based girl group’s complete 1960s recordings, several new to CD, including one with lead vocals by Jackie DeShannon.

Written by a pre-fame David Gates and produced by Kim Fowley at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, the Murmaids’ recording of ‘Popsicles And Icicles’ was one of the smash hits of 1963, girl group ground zero. Their follow-up, ‘Heartbreak Ahead’, was the nearest they came to another appearance on Billboard’s Hot 100, and the teenage trio disbanded after their next 45. Various other young women – including “three birds from north London”, according to one party involved – were heard on later singles issued in the group’s name, while an album, comprising tracks recorded circa 1964, was eventually released on Chattahoochee in 1980.

For the group’s full story – which, given the involvement of the eccentric Fowley, entails a fair amount of record biz skulduggery: ‘Popsicles And Icicles’, for example, was pressed with four different B-sides, only one of which featured the original trio – one really needs to read the comprehensive and very entertaining essay in the accompanying 16-page booklet, written by Sam Szczepanski and illustrated with an equally colourful array of period memorabilia.

Meanwhile, titled after a line in their famous hit, “A Few Of The Things We Love” features the Murmaids’ complete Chattahoochee recordings, several of which have not appeared on CD previously, including one with lead vocals by Jackie DeShannon, plus both sides of their final single, issued on Liberty in 1968. Highlights include ‘Wild And Wonderful’ (a song intended for Lesley Gore, and you can tell), ‘Bull Talk’ (an exercise in teen slang), ‘Don’t Forget’ (a Spector-ish LP track that would have made a good 45), ‘Go Away’ (a jangly folk rock morsel), a chiming revival of the evergreen ‘Little White Lies’ (recorded in the UK, apparently) and an unlikely cover of Traffic’s ‘Paper Sun’.

Mick Patrick

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Interpret: The Murmaids
Album titlle: A Few Things We Love (CD)
Genre Beat
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667074827
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Murmaids - A Few Things We Love (CD) CD 1
01	Popsicles and icicles	The Murmaids
02	Wild and wonderful	The Murmaids
03	Heartbreak ahead	The Murmaids
04	Bull talk	The Murmaids
05	He's good to me	The Murmaids
06	Don't forget	The Murmaids
07	Go away	The Murmaids
08	Paper sun	The Murmaids
09	Song through perception	The Murmaids
10	Little white lies	The Murmaids
11	Alone	The Murmaids
12	Stuffed animals	The Murmaids
13	Blue dress	The Murmaids
14	Three little words	The Murmaids
15	Mr Sandman	The Murmaids
16	Playmates	The Murmaids
17	So young	The Murmaids
18	You cheated	The Murmaids
19	Little boys	The Murmaids
20	Comedy and tragedy	The Murmaids
21	How you do it (The Lady-Bugs)	The Murmaids