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My Baby Loves Lovin

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White Plains evolved from an earlier group, the Flower Pot Men. That group originally achieved success with Let's go to San Francisco (in 1967, of course) but a succession of line-up changes took their toll. Meanwhile, a group name that seemed ideal for 1967 really didn't seem relevant as the seventies approached. So the Flower Pot Men, with a very different line-up from the original 1967 group, became White Plains.

This compilation ignores the material recorded as the Flower Pot Men (available elsewhere) and focuses exclusively on the seventies music recorded using the White Plains moniker. Under that name, they released two albums in Britain as well as several singles. The first album, simply titled White Plains, contained twelve tracks and is reproduced here in its entirety, occupying the first twelve tracks of this compilation. That album was released in America, but given the title My baby loves lovin' (after the hit single, which made the top ten in Britain and number thirteen in America) and reduced to ten tracks. American album buyers were deprived of To love you and Young birds fly, though the latter track was released as the B-side of an American single that failed to chart. (The A-side, In a moment of madness, was taken from the album and is also included here.) In Britain, a different album track (I've got you on my mind) was released as the follow-up single and this made the top twenty.

The remainder of this compilation comprises twelve further A-sides, one of them only released in America, five only released in Britain and the other six in Both countries. Only three of these singles (Julie do ya love me, When you are a king, Step into a dream) charted in Britain and none charted in America. Unsurprisingly in these circumstances, the second album wasn't released in America.

The music here reflects the time in which it was recorded and is an excellent collection of its type. White Plains may never be more than a fgootnote in the annals of pop history, but if you enjoy light pop music of the early seventies, this five-member all-male group are definitely worth a listen.

This album is worthy to acquire due a striking reason. It contains one of the extraordinary ballads ever made in the history of the pop music "When you're a king" , but the rest of the CD is absolutely rewarding.

Don't miss this one.

I was looking for quite some time after their songs on CD! Love It! Thanks Amazon:-)

The White plains is a little-known British group (Robin Box,Robin Shaw, Pete Nelson, Ricky Wolff and Roger Hills) that created andperformed music in 1969-1974.

This CD's best track, and the one I got the CD for is definitely "When You Are a King" (track 16). This masterpiece was released in May 1971, and was given a cold reception at the time (reaching only the 13th place in the U.K. charts, and never entering the U.S. charts). Only now is this song getting the attention it deserved, including even a cover version just released here in Israel by a popular singer.

The rest of songs on the CD (and this is a very long CD: over 71 minutes of music) are nice, in the best tradition of the end of the sixties, but not more than that; "Dad You Saved the World" was quite exciting to hear for the first time, but the other songs were not. None of the other songs on this CD are popular today (at least to my knowledge).

I could give this CD 5 stars for the one great masterpiece "When You Are a King", ... the CD was made in Germany, and imported from there.

I M VERY HAPPY FOR THE CD THAT I RECEIVED VERY QUICKLY AND IN EXCELLENT SHAPE

this group did not realy exist but started as the flowerpot men two of there songs where credited to both in a moment of madness and young birds fly both excellant songs produced and mostley written by the very underated roger cook greenaway. the best song is by far is i/ve got you on my mind this song reminds me of a 1970 holiday to pontins near southport lancishire england of course the best part is the very underated tony burrows lead singer with many other songs at the same time a golden era of pop music vocal harmony like the beach boys all i can say is buy it!