Twice As Much - Own Up, deleted original LP
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Description
ORIGINAL COPY .
UK PRESSING.
Label : Immeadiate
Catalogue No: IMLP 007
Released 1965
Mono
Sleeve Condition : The flipback sleve has edge and corner rubs, and a light circular mark to the front, but is still in VERY GOOD condition. Colour front, B&W back
Vinyl Condition : EXCELLENT. Plays well with no major faults and very very light surface noise from dust
Label Condition : EXCELLENT. Very minor wear.
Andrew Loog-Oldham produced this orchestrated slice of Everly brothers style psych-pop, utilising top players such as Jimmy Page, Nicky Hopkins and John McLaughlin and playing Small Faces, Beatles and Stones covers. Engineered by Glyn Johns.
Briefly reissued on vinyl only by the band in 2001, the album is currently deleted and unavailable on either format.
Twice As Much's debut album was an odd exercise in twee pop-baroque production, very typical of producer Andrew Oldham's ornate, sometimes over-the-top grandiosity. The LP was evenly divided between group originals and covers of hits by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Small Faces. There was also the Spector-Goffin-King composition "Is This What I Get for Loving You Baby?" and "I Have a Love," both of which, coincidentally or not, were done in the mid-1960s by another one-time Oldham client, Marianne Faithfull. The originals, interestingly, were better, though hardly great. David Skinner and Andrew Rose were pleasant, though unexceptional, harmony singers, and played out their introverted, somewhat sad pop-rock ballads against orchestral production with heavy debts to the mid-1960s Beach Boys and California sunshine pop. "Life Is But Nothing" would be covered to good effect by Del Shannon on another Oldham production, and "Why Can't They All Go and Leave Me Alone?," in which the introversion slides into solipsism, is a notable obscure exercise in crashing, epic symphonic pop-rock. The covers do the originals no favors, emasculating classics like "Help" and "Sha La La La La Lee" into fey pop ballads suitable for upper-class parlors. Incidentally, there's a true all-star supporting cast on this record. The session musicians include guitarists Jimmy Page, John McLaughlin, Joe Moretti, and Big Jim Sullivan; drummer Andy White; keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Art Greenslade (the latter of whom did the arrangements); and engineer Glyn Johns. This is so dissimilar to the music Page, McLaughlin, Hopkins, and Johns made later, though, that you wouldn't suspect their presence if not for the credits.
TRACKLIST
- I have a love
- Help
- Is this what I get for loving you baby?
- Night time girl
- Life is but nothing
- The spinning Wheel
- Happy times
- Sha la la la lee
- We can work it out
- As tears go by
- The time is right
- The summer's ending
- Play with fire
- Why can't they all go and leave me alone?
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