The Complete Mickie Most Recordings: To Sir With Love [Import]

Lulu | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B0006NCW9I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,740 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. To Sir With Love

2. Morning Dew

3. You And I (Album Version)

4. Rattler

5. Day Tripper

6. Love Loves To Love, Love

7. To Love Somebody

8. The Boat That I Row

9. Let's Pretend

10. Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me

11. Best Of Both Worlds

12. Dreary Days And Nights

13. You And I (Single Version)

14. Me The Peaceful Heart

15. Lookout

16. Boy

17. Sad Memories

18. I'm A Tiger

19. Without Him

20. Boom Bang A Bang

See all 39 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The complete Mickie Most recordings in one collection. Contains four previously unreleased tracks, 'Boom Bang A Bang' (French Version, Italian Version), 'This Time', & 'I Keep Forgettin'', plus the #1 hit 'To Sir With Love'. EMI. 2004.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some dodgy songs but still fascinating, March 11, 2005

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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: The Complete Mickie Most Recordings: To Sir With Love (Audio CD)

Lulu's early music (recorded on the Decca label) was strongly influenced by R+B but when she moved to Columbia, Mickey Most recorded her as a mainstream pop singer, not always giving her ideal material to record. The low point (for me) is Boom bang a bang, the song that Lulu took to second place in the Eurovision song contest of 1969. Not only is this song here in its standard version, its also here in French and Italian versions. Well, it made number two in the UK (where it was her biggest solo hit) and no doubt proved successful in other European countries, so a lot of people love that song.

This compilation includes all of Lulu's hits between 1967 and 1969. This includes an unusual type of international double-sided hit. In America, the A-side was To sir with love, which spent over a month at number one, while the B-side was The boat that I row. In Britain, the A-side was The boat that I row, which made the top ten, while To sir with love (which Mickey Most apparently didn't like) languished on the B-side. Both tracks were brilliant, unlike some of Lulu's other hits with Mickey Most.

Despite the phenomenal success of To sir with love, Lulu's other singles made only limited impact in America, but she had UK top ten hits with Me the peaceful heart and I'm a tiger, UK top twenty hits with Let's pretend and Boy and a minor UK hit with Love loves to love love.

This compilation includes all those hits as well as covers of Day tripper (Beatles), To love somebody, I started a joke (both Bee Gees), Mighty Quinn (written by Bob Dylan but a hit for Manfred Mann), Show me (Joe Tex), Gimmie some loving (Spencer Davis group) and Cry like a baby (Box tops) among others.

In many ways, this is a fine collection though it has some dodgy moments. While this period of Lulu's career was her most commercially successful, it doesn't represent her best music overall. It would be very easy to knock some stars off the rating but with thirty-nine tracks there is enough music here worth hearing to justify the price. Of course, if you actually enjoy the tracks I regard as dodgy, you'll get even greater pleasure from this collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HITS, B-SIDES, RARITIES!!!!, November 14, 2005

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ljncolour "Dan" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Mickie Most Recordings: To Sir With Love (Audio CD)

This is a great start if you have just been introduced to the music of Lulu. Her most famous track (which is in the title) starts the disk off allong with most of her hits recorded from 1967-1969. "This Time" is a great love song written by the same person who wrong "To Sir, With Love" (Donald Black), and was used in the 1968 film "Hot Millions". The song has not been released anywhere else except on this compilation.

Lulu's Eurovision Song Contest entry ("Boom Bang A Bang") also appears on this disc, in almost all the languages she recorded it in (with the exception of Spanish and German). The B-side to "Boom Bang A Bang" which is called "March!" is a campy little number that's just fun to listen to, and sounds like should belong in "Dad's Army" or "M*A*S*H".


Her cover of the Spencer Davis' Group "Gimme Some Lovin'" is also fabulously covered on this compilation, as well as "Best Of Both Worlds" which has also been sung by other 60's crooners, like Scott Walker.

Some of these songs were only released on LP in the late sixties and early seventies, and really shouldnt be missed this time around. This is one of those albums that you can share with the entire family, young or old. Its good music, without any suggestive content or swearing, which is quite uncommon nowadays in mainstream pop.

5.0 out of 5 stars A LULU OF A COLLECTION, January 2, 2008

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This review is from: The Complete Mickie Most Recordings: To Sir With Love (Audio CD)

I received my copy of this Lulu disc today and have enjoyed the familiar songs alongside all the great stuff I never heard before. The sound quality is exceptional and crisp....wow! I recommend this set for Lulu fans and lovers of mod 60's pop music. I also commend EMI for a job well done.