To Sir With Love
Amazon.com "How can you thank someone who's taken you from crayons to perfume?" That resonant line introduced Lulu to America in 1967, and helped deliver one of the biggest hits of that year (five weeks atop the Billboard 100). For Americans at least, To Sir, With Love was the event that put Lulu on the map. She not only sang its title track, but starred in the film opposite Sidney Poitier. This overdue CD reissue contains three versions of her signature song, which might seem excessive if they weren't so individually interesting. There's an amazing 12-string guitar, minor-key rendition that--ever so slightly--shifts the song's emotional tone from wistful to resignation. Swinging London also-rans, and future 10cc members The Mindbenders--who here sound like the band Love minus the menace or melodic whimsy--offer two tracks, and a handful of underscore selections round out an album that charmingly evokes the flush of its time. --Matt Hanks
Mindbenders   Ron Grainer   Lulu   &                   0                  more   Format: Audio CD
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