THE SINGERS AND THE SONG

WITH THE GEOFF LOVE SINGERS

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE

1.  CLOSE TO YOU

(Bacharach/ David)

2. LOVE STORY

(Sigman/ Lai)

3. I'M STONE IN LOVE WITH YOU

(Bell/ Creed/ Bell)

4. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE

(Manzanero/ Wayne)

5. MY EYES ADORED YOU

(Crewe/ Nolan)

6. SO DEEP IS THE NIGHT

(Based on a melody by Chopin, arr: Melfi, Lyric: Miller)

SIDE TWO

1. IF

(Gates)

2. KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG

(Gimbel/ Fox)

3. OUR DAY WILL COME

(Hilliard/ Garson)

4. PASSING STRANGERS

(Mitchell/ Mann)

5. SOMETHING

(Harrison)

6. WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

(Weiss/ Douglas)

Recording Engineer: John Iles

Assistant Producer: Gil King

Produced by Norman Newell

P1975  A Supertunes Production

With his usual unerring perception and expertise, Geoff Love has established an outstanding and highly popular series of albums under the generic title of "The Singers And The Song". The key to its success lies with two factors. One is the basic simplicity of his approach to the material he selects. Geoff believes in allowing good songs to speak for themselves without unnecessary frills and furbelows in the arrangements, thereby avoiding superfluous adornments which more often than not can complicate and confuse the net result. The other is his talent and experience allied to the talent and performing ability of the singers and musicians whom he directs, who are amongst the best there are in Britain. Geoff's experience includes working with and earring the unstinted admiration of some of the world’s most famous stars. Shirley Bassey, Paul Robeson, the late Judy Garland, and Howard Keel are just. four who have had the considerable advantage of his musical skill at their disposal at various times and the considerable pleasure of working with one of the sunniest and most affable personalities in British show business. Born in Todmorden, Yorkshire, Geoff has that invaluable gift of putting everyone at their ease, and by the same token, obtaining the very best from them, no matter how auspicious, daunting and nerve-racking the occasion may be.

This latest selection from Geoff Love and his Singers and Orchestra is as romantic and sentimental as its title song, Close To rou, suggests. This Burt Bacharach/Hal David gem makes an ideal opener for a programme which includes David Gates' If recently a huge hit for actor TeIly Savalas; It's Impossible, recorded by Perry Como What a Wonderful World, forever linked with the late and wonderful Louis Armstrong, and Passing Strangers, immortalised originally in the evergreen songbook by Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstein. Also present is the effectively unusual Charles Fox/Norman Gimbel ballad Killing Me Softly With His Song; George Harrison's Something; a tasteful look at the classical sphere in So Deep Is The Night, and I'm Stone In Love With You, which recently brought Johnny Mathis hack to the hit parade.

So once again it's our pleasure to bring you Geoff Love, his singers and the songs, and an album which we are sure you will want to keep close to you always.

NIGEL HUNTER