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Five CD set. Throughout her career, Lulu has worked with some of the best in the business. In the space of ten exciting years, straddling the 60s and 70s, her recordings were produced by the stellar list of Mickie Most, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Tom Down, Giorgio Moroder, Wes Farrell and David Bowie, with arrangements by the likes of John Paul Jones, Johnny Harris and Peter Knight. The songs included early gems by the Bee Gees, Harry Nilsson, Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Elton John and Bernie Taupin and classics from David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Lennon and McCartney and many more. The hits featured include "To Sir With love" (a U.S. number one), "The Boat I Row", "Love Loves To Love Love", "I'm A Tiger" (written by Ronnie Scott and Marty Wilde), "Boom Bang-A-Bang", "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)", The Man With The Golden Gun" (John Barry's theme for the Bond film), "The Man Who Sold The World", "Watch That Man" and "Take Your Mother For A Ride" Review: Lulu Box Set - 6 Complete Albums + Many Singles & Rarities - The amazingly talented Lulu finally gets a CD box set of much of her catalog. It contains most of her 1967-1976 released recordings. I've always loved her since seeing her in the film To Sir With Love. There's many highlights of her career on this box set retrospective. Her many hits, which were in the US, UK and other countries show what a great vocalist Lulu is, whether belting out a rock or soul song, or singing a ballad. There are 6 complete albums , and a nearly equal amount of singles and rarities here. The box is like a book, measuring approximately 5 x 8 inches in size, with liner notes, photos & picture sleeve reproductions. The 5 CD's are in slots on a page each. I have used a cloth to get them out as they are kind of tight in each page slot. Sound quality is very good, and I only detect a vinyl transfer on one of the Boom Bang-A-Bang foreign versions [ Spanish }. This set is great to have, though it does arrive after almost everything in this set has previously been released on CD several times throughout the past couple of decades. It covers her EPIC, ATCO, RCA and CHELSEA albums. I had almost every song on here from previous Lulu CD reissues . One of the big draws for me is better sound quality for the 1969 Eurovision contest songs that Lulu recorded. There are 4 German language tracks , which are very rare, and did not have on CD before. Unfortunately, there are not any English language versions of these songs. There are also 4 foreign versions of that winning Eurovision song, Boom Bang-A-Bang , which was a big hit many countries, but never released in the US. Lulu has stated she doesn't even like the song. What is NOT on this CD are : her 1964-1966 Decca label recordings, which are available on other releases. Two big omissions from 1967 are 2 songs that Lulu sang in TO SIR WITH LOVE. The long version of that song with an extra verse that is not on the #1 single, and the rockin' STEALING MY LOVE FROM ME are not included. This is really a bad point, as the only CD to contain these songs is the now out of print soundtrack CD , that goes for quite a price now. Also, as the title says, this set stops at 1976. Ironically, as the bulk of this box set has been issued on CD several times already, it is some of Lulu's late 70's through 80's and beyond that has not been released on CD. These include 3 full albums that have never seen CD release. They are 1978's DON' TAKE LOVE FOR GRANTED, an excellent album on Elton John's Rocket Records label, and 2 albums that she recorded for the Alfa label: her 1981 hit album LULU [ that contains her US hit I COULD NEVER MISS YOU [ MORE THAN I DO ], and also the Grammy nominated WHO'S FOOLIN' WHO ] and the UK release TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART AGAIN. There are also various singles and guest appearance tracks from this time frame as well. I do hope that Edsel , who released this box set, will follow up with another box set featuring these much wanted albums on CD. But I do highly recommend this LULU DECADE 1967-1976 box set. It's an amazing set to have all of this material in one box. Also, the copy that I ordered from desertcart itself came with an autographed photo by Lulu herself. Nice incentive there.
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Lulu Box Set - 6 Complete Albums + Many Singles & Rarities
The amazingly talented Lulu finally gets a CD box set of much of her catalog. It contains most of her 1967-1976 released recordings. I've always loved her since seeing her in the film To Sir With Love. There's many highlights of her career on this box set retrospective. Her many hits, which were in the US, UK and other countries show what a great vocalist Lulu is, whether belting out a rock or soul song, or singing a ballad. There are 6 complete albums , and a nearly equal amount of singles and rarities here. The box is like a book, measuring approximately 5 x 8 inches in size, with liner notes, photos & picture sleeve reproductions. The 5 CD's are in slots on a page each. I have used a cloth to get them out as they are kind of tight in each page slot. Sound quality is very good, and I only detect a vinyl transfer on one of the Boom Bang-A-Bang foreign versions [ Spanish }. This set is great to have, though it does arrive after almost everything in this set has previously been released on CD several times throughout the past couple of decades. It covers her EPIC, ATCO, RCA and CHELSEA albums. I had almost every song on here from previous Lulu CD reissues . One of the big draws for me is better sound quality for the 1969 Eurovision contest songs that Lulu recorded. There are 4 German language tracks , which are very rare, and did not have on CD before. Unfortunately, there are not any English language versions of these songs. There are also 4 foreign versions of that winning Eurovision song, Boom Bang-A-Bang , which was a big hit many countries, but never released in the US. Lulu has stated she doesn't even like the song. What is NOT on this CD are : her 1964-1966 Decca label recordings, which are available on other releases. Two big omissions from 1967 are 2 songs that Lulu sang in TO SIR WITH LOVE. The long version of that song with an extra verse that is not on the #1 single, and the rockin' STEALING MY LOVE FROM ME are not included. This is really a bad point, as the only CD to contain these songs is the now out of print soundtrack CD , that goes for quite a price now. Also, as the title says, this set stops at 1976. Ironically, as the bulk of this box set has been issued on CD several times already, it is some of Lulu's late 70's through 80's and beyond that has not been released on CD. These include 3 full albums that have never seen CD release. They are 1978's DON' TAKE LOVE FOR GRANTED, an excellent album on Elton John's Rocket Records label, and 2 albums that she recorded for the Alfa label: her 1981 hit album LULU [ that contains her US hit I COULD NEVER MISS YOU [ MORE THAN I DO ], and also the Grammy nominated WHO'S FOOLIN' WHO ] and the UK release TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART AGAIN. There are also various singles and guest appearance tracks from this time frame as well. I do hope that Edsel , who released this box set, will follow up with another box set featuring these much wanted albums on CD. But I do highly recommend this LULU DECADE 1967-1976 box set. It's an amazing set to have all of this material in one box. Also, the copy that I ordered from amazon itself came with an autographed photo by Lulu herself. Nice incentive there.
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