Blue Gene/Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland [Import]

Gene Pitney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sequel Records UK
• ASIN: B000000PTT
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,596 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa

2. Autumn Leaves

3. Half the Laughter, Twice the Tears

4. I'll Be Seeing You

5. Lonely Night Dreams (Of Faraway Arms)

6. Answer Me, My Love

7. Blue Gene

8. Yesterday's Hero

9. Maybe You'll Be There

10. Keep Tellin' Yourself

11. I Can't Run Away

12. House Without Windows

13. Take it Like a Man

14. Those Eyes of Liza Jane

15. Laurie

16. Brandy is My True Love's Name

17. My Suli-Ram

18. Little Nell

19. Melissa and Me

20. Oh, Annie, Oh

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two contrasting albums, April 4, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Gene/Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland (Audio CD)

The first album that makes up this twofer, Blue Gene, contains the kind of songs you expect to find on a Gene Pitney album. It opens with Twenty-four hours from Tulsa, a top 20 USA hit that was a much bigger hit in the UK. The title track was never released as a single in Britain or America - indeed, the only other single taken off the album in either country was Yesterday's hero, which became a minor hit in the USA but was not released in Britain as a single.

The remaining tracks on the Blue Gene include a mixture of contemporary songs and covers of older songs. Autumn leaves, a song of French origin, has been covered many times and is, of course, a classic. Answer me my love was a hit for several singers in the fifties including Frankie Laine. It was revived in the seventies by the much under-rated Scottish singer Barbara Dickson, who had a top ten hit with it.

The bonus track, That girl belongs to yesterday, was a top ten hit in the UK but only a minor hit in the USA. The single version here differs from the album version included on another CD in this series.

There is no other Gene Pitney album anything like the second album here - Gene Pitney meets the fair ladies of folk land. It comprises thirteen songs about various ladies, all recorded in a folk style. The album was released while Blue Gene was still selling well but no single was released and it seems that no serious effort was made to promote it. Because of my eclectic tastes, I enjoy it just as much as Gene's other music, but I can imagine that some of Gene's fans will not like this at all. It really depends whether you like folk music or not.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only Needed One song from CD BUT, January 25, 2004

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Gary Coleman (Nicholasville, Kentucky) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Gene/Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland (Audio CD)

I actually had all the other songs from Gene Pitney's many CD's that I consider Important to save for future listening pleasure ect. However I want to say that CDZONE is a company I will do business with again,,,you get what you want at unbeatable prices coupled with the excellent on time shipping. I'm very careful and critical or people I purchase from on line and I tell it like it is...This company is First Rate all the way.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue Gene/Folkland Review, August 15, 2001

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Pamela A Swinney (Martinsville, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Gene/Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland (Audio CD)

There is no doubt in my mind that Gene Pitney could have picked any area of music and made a career out of it! He sings these folk songs as well as any folk artist, but he does it with more feeling and passion as usual. I also loved the songs of the Blue Gene album. Again, I never tire of listening to him sing. This is a great CD.