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Best of the 70's

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There's some overlap here with the songs featured on "Greatest Hits" but if it's singles you want then this collection is well worth having. All of Lynsey's singles from her years on the MAM and Jet record labels are here. In addition, the B sides to her MAM singles and one album track from the Jet years (Season To Season) are included. The CD shows just how versatile Ms de Paul really is. All tracks are original recordings, but a word of warning - Sugar Me and Won't Somebody Dance With Me are not the single versions, the latter being a demo. Still waiting for the compilation of the Polydor/MCA years, though!

Lynsey always considered herself first and foremost a songwriter (in which capacity she had a UK top ten hit after the Fortunes recorded Storm in a teacup) although she has a good soprano voice.

As a singer, Lynsey had a top ten UK hit in 1972 with her first single, Sugar me, following it up with the top twenty hits Getting a drag (about the glam-rock music scene) and Won't somebody love me. She switched record labels from MAM to Warner, scoring a top thirty hit with Ooh I do. Another switch, this time to Jet, returned Lynsey to the top ten with No honestly, the theme to a TV series. A minor hit, My man and me, followed in March 1975. Love bomb, a single released later that year, received plenty of airplay but failed to chart. Lynsey teamed up with Mike Moran to represent Britain in the 1977 Eurovision song contest, in which they were runners-up with Rock bottom. It barely made the UK top twenty despite all the publicity - and it was on yet another different label (Polydor).

If you enjoy such British groups as Guys 'n' dolls, Brotherhood of man and the New Seekers, you will probably enjoy Lynsey's music too. This particular compilation (which omits Rock bottom) is now out of print, but most of the tracks here can be found on Greatest hits (on the Repertoire label), which includes Rock bottom but not Ooh I do.