Singing the Songs of Paul Ryan 1968-69

Singing the Songs of Paul Ryan 1968-69 Artist: Barry Ryan
Label: Rev-Ola
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5013929441521
ASIN: B0009K9PBG


Release Date: 2005-08-11

Singing the Songs of Paul Ryan 1968-69


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Tracks:

  1. Theme to Eutopia
  2. Why Do You Cry My Love?
  3. Colour of My Love
  4. Crazy Days
  5. Eloise
  6. My Mama
  7. I Will Bring You Love
  8. Love Is on the Way
  9. What's That Sleeping in My Bed?
  10. You Don't Know What You're Doing
  11. Kristan Astra Bella
  12. Hunt
  13. Sunday Theme
  14. Swallow Fly Away
  15. Sunrise in the Morning
  16. Isn't That Wild?
  17. Man Alive
  18. Makin' Eyes
  19. No Living Without Her Love
  20. Sea of Tranquility
  21. I See You
  22. Feeling Unwell
  23. Where Have You Been?
  24. Look to the Right, Look to the Left [*]
  25. Oh for the Love of Me [*]

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful & Original.......2006-02-04

Buoyed by the success of their single 'Eloise', an international smash hit (though not in the USA), Paul & Barry set about to create a classic album to go with the single.
What they created was 'Barry Ryan Sings Paul Ryan' & it appeared in the shops in early 1969. A long luscious collection of songs done in a style that I think I can get away with calling 'Baroque Pop'. Lots of strings and warm melodies about love and girls with long hair. Barry had one of the most under-rated pop voices of '60's London, swinging from shrill and girlie for the choruses and confidently masculine fro the lead vocals and everything else in-between.
A lot of the songs don't really make a lot of sense. This is very post-Procul Harum Sgt.Pepper era music. All the songs fall into each other. The fact that they often don't make a lot of sense doesn't matter. It's the sound and the quality of the tunes that will take you swirling back to 1969.
In reference to this CD, the sound reproduction is as good as anything I've heard. So often '60's music, reproduced on CD, sounds so inferior to the original production. This is absolutely NOT the case here.
The second album Paul & Barry produced, simply entitled: 'Barry Ryan,' although very beautiful in terms of production and orchestration is, for some reason, inferior to the first. It seems to lack warmth because many of the themes sway away from romantic love. It seems to be more about style than anything else. Though it is indeed stylish.
Anyway, wonderful to have both albums on this one CD. I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone who likes late '60's British Pop, though to the modern ear, I should think this sound might sound very strange indeed, but, wonderfully so.

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