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Lenny Welch did one of the most tender, saddest, gut wrenching love songs ever recorded "Since I fell for you"

I am sixty-seven years old and have been a fan for forty years of Lenny Welch. Since I fell for you is one of the most romantic songs I have ever heard. I had the album and gave it away,thinking I could pick up a cd.Much to my chagrin,I could not find it.My daughter told me about Amazon.com and low and behold, here it is.I would want two of them,I must share with my sister.She too, has been a Lenny Welch fan as long as I have. He has more feeling than any singer I have ever heard.THanks for this opportunity. Liz Giroir

I'm glad to have discovered this CD: excellent ballads by an excellent, elegant and gifted Pop performer.

As with the Roy Hamilton Anthology, the producers of this CD didn't quite finish the product. Every singer worth his or her salt back in the days of the true single ached for a hit record. Lenny Welch had exactly thirteen. So, in a 20-selection compilation labeled an "anthology", one might reasonably expect to see all of them.

This one did come closer than the Roy Hamilton CD in that both sides of his four hits while with Cadence are here: You Don't Know Me [# 28 R&B/# 45 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in 1960] b/w I Need Someone; the seminal Since I Fell For You [# 3 Adult Contemporary (AC)/# 4 Hot 100 in late 1963] b/w Are You Sincere?]; Edd Tide [# 6 AC/# 25 Hot 100 in spring 1964] b/w Congratulations Baby]; and If You See My Love [# 92 Hot 100 in July 1964] b/w Father Sebastien. Note that, from late 1963 and throughout all of 1964, Billboard had suspended the R&B charts, and only later did they arbitrarily assign the same chart position to those charts as that attained on the Pop charts "for historical purposes."

In the meantime, After Cadence folded their tent, Welch moved over to Kapp where, in 1965, he had a # 23 AC/# 72 Hot 100 with Darling Take Me Back. The flipside, Time After Time, has been omitted here. Later that summer his cover of the 1956 Don Rondo hit, Two Different Worlds, reached # 6 AC/# 61 Hot 100 b/w I Was There, and before the year was out he scored again with another minor charter, taking Run To My Loving Arms to # 96 Hot 100 in December. The B-side, Coronet Blue, is not included.

A five-year lean period followed before he was back on the charts for the Common.United label with Breaking Up Is Hard To Do which made it to # 8 AC/# 27 R&B/#34 Hot 100. Neither that solid hit, nor the flipside, Get Mommy To Come Back Home, is in this set. Also missing is A Sunday Kind Of Love which peaked at # 21 AC/# 96 Hot 100 in 1972 for the Atco label b/w I Wish You Could Know Me (Naomi) - also omitted - as well as his last two for Mainstream in 1973 and 1974: a cover of The Skyliner's 1959 hit, Since I Don't Have You [# 25 AC/# 92 R&B b/w Right In The Next Room] and Eyewitness News [# 71 R&B b/w I Need You More (Than Ever Now)].

A 20-song anthology for an Elvis Presley or a James Brown, who each had a multitude of hits, might be acceptable but, for an artist with a baker's dozen or less, the disc HAS to include at least all the hits and, if possible, their B-sides. Anything less is inexcusable.

Since I Fell for Your is fabulous. This CD is fabulous. Whether you like early 60's doowop or Sleepless in Seattle type renditions, you will love this CD. Just don't think about it, order it. The sooner more people buy this, the sooner they'll release more Lenny Welch music on CD!

Many people have sung Ebb Tide, including the Righteous Brothers, all of them learned how to sing the song from Lenny. An excellent cd.

I purchased my first record album in 1964 my then girlfriend and now wife of 42 years found this great artist's music to be our all time favorite. We played the album so much it started to get distorted. In 1984 I searched all record stores and could not find another to replace it until!!!. I found a radio station in Seattle, WA who had a near new album and would sell it to me for $75.00. I still have the album today, but some distortion again from playing it. Saw this ad on Amazon for a CD version and I had to have it as my wife and I still listen to his music even in our retired years and early 60's, this is a must have album very much as our Johnny Mathis collection.