"DREAM BABES" Vol. 1 - Am I Dreaming

Achieving the impossible, this CD manages to collect and package a dream come true. 24 fantastic tracks from many little known Brit girls, there's no Lulus, Cillas and Sandies in this collection, instead you get the shrill tones of Patsy Ann Noble on the great "Sour Grapes", the sultry Cindy Williams berating the neighbours for spying on her with "They Talk About Us", the atomic Beryl Marsden (the only artist on here I had heard of before) with "Breakaway", the cheeky Susie Cope with "Biggity Big" (title!) and so many more. I especially like Samantha Jones singing the Phil Spectorish "I Deserve It" where she punishes herself for cheating on her beau…

...There's enough great campy songs here to keep drag shows in music for months. Am I Dreaming? follows on in the tradition of eighties compilations such as Dream Babies, Girls With Guitars and Stop, Look And Listen which also paid a debt to the lesser represented sixties gals. On top of everything else you get sleeve notes by Bob Stanley (St Etienne member and music fan), incredible packaging and heaps of fantastic songs. Am I dreaming? You'll have to pinch yourself to find out. (Amazon)

trax:
1. They Talk About Us - Cindy Williams 2. I Deserve It - Samantha Jones 3. The Town I Live In - Jackie Lee 4. You've Got That Hold On Me - Jane Hillery 5. I Can't Stop Thinking About You - Linda Kaye 6. Baby Let Me Be Your Baby - Deano 7. You'd Think He Didn't Know Me - Sandra Browne 8. Sour Grapes - Patsy Anne Noble 9. Am I Dreaming - Tiffany 10. Softly In The Night - Three Bells 11. Snakes And Snails - Alma Gogan 12. Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home - Beverly Jones 13. Breakaway - Beryl Marsden 14. You Don't Love Me No More - Madeline Bell 15. Don't Come Any Closer - Samantha Jones 16. Cry To Me - The Track 17. Be His Girl - Sami Sloan 18. Too Young To Go Steady - Andee Silver 19. You Kissed My Boy - Lesley Duncan 20. Biggity Big - Suzie Cope 21. Some People - Carole Deene 22. I Gotta Be With You - Emma Rede 23. Once More With Feeling - Alison Wonder 24. I Didn't Love Him Anyway - Peanut
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