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TRACK LISTING
SIDE ONE
1. Medley:
(a) I Want To Be Happy (from "No, No, Nanette")
(Youmans)
(b) Tea For Two (from "No, No, Nanette")
(Youmans/Caesar)
2. Da-Dar, Da-Dar (Da-Dar, Da Dee)
(Evans/Damerell/Hargreaves)
3. Makin' Whoopee (from the film "I'll See You In My Dreams")
(Kahn/Donaldson)
4. Derie
(Hilliard/Mann)
5. Goodness Gracious Me
(Lee/Kretzmer)
6. When The Midnight Choo-choo Leaves For Alabam'
(Berlin) Solo:Geoff Love
7. Baby It's Cold Outside
(Loesser)
SIDE TWO
1. Smile, Smile, Smile
(Peretti/Creatore/Weiss)
2. I Remember It Well
(Lerner/Loewe)
3. A Hole In My Backet
(Trad. arr. G. Love)
4. Salome
(Turner) Solo: Mrs. Mills
5. When You Played The Organ And I Sang The Rosary
(Leslie/Gilbert)
6. Friendship
(Porter)
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios,
London
Recording Engineer: Peter Bown
Associate Producer: Gil King
Produced by: Norman Newell
(P)1975 A Tapetunes Production
It is hard to be under the weather when Mrs. Mills is around. Since her
generous hearted piano-playing was discovered at a golf-club social evening by
band-leader Paul Cave back in the Sixties, any sort of family singalong worth
its salt has become synonymous with the name Mrs. Mills - Happy-Maker
Extraordinary to millions on disc, radio and TV.
Director Geoff Love has been supervising the music for all the albums that Mrs.
Mills has made for Music For Pleasure - so what more natural, when you come to
think of it, than that two such lively personalities should get together so that
we could all benefit from their undivided attention !
Here's how it happened . . . Mrs. Mills ('Glad' to all of us from now on) was
doing a recording one day (under the direction of Geoff Love) in front of a
studio audience. When interval-time came Geoff thought it would be fun if Glad
did an impromptu 'spot' to amuse everyone. Glad said: "Good idea - if you'll do
it with me". So together they improvised a very zany duet -Da-dar, Da-dar (Da-Dar,
Da Dee). The audience was in fits. So were Geoff and Glad . . . and so were the
engineers who had quietly taped the number - mistakes and all - because everyone
was having such a great time.
When they heard it Geoff and Glad decided to string along together and do a
whole programme of vocal duets (including that one - just as it was).
Of course we knew you'd want to hear a couple of solos from this exuberant pair
as well, so there's Glad doing Salome and Geoff doing When the Midnight
Choo-choo Leaves For Alabam' (and no prizes for guessing who plays harmonium in
When You Played The Organ And I Sang The Rosary).
When you singalong with Glad, or listen to Geoff chatting for only a minute or
so, you immediately feel part of a warm and happy group. Both radiate an
irresistible ' 'come-on-and-join-us" atmosphere which gathers everyone up.
This is a bumper package of vocal favourites for all ages. A togetherness-maker
from start to finish for, as the title of the album suggests, when there's a bit
of Glad around there's a lot of Love too.
I Want to be Happy is the opening number on this album. . . Friendship the last.
So if these are your sentiments too - what are we waiting for!
CAROL SPERO