Evans,Paul Sitting In The Back Seat: Complete Masters 1957-62 CD

? Hit songwriter for others and hit maker in his own right, American music legend Paul Evans' active career spanned over six decades and brought him hits in the 50s and the 60s before he turned his attentions to the lucrative world of advertising and 'jingle' songwriting. One of the better and more creative talents of the post-rock 'n' roll/pre-Beatlemania era, Paul tended not to record the songs he wrote for others - which include the Kalin Twins' UK chart topper 'When', Bobby Vinton's US chart topper 'Roses Are Red (My Love)' and several songs for Elvis Presley, including 'I Gotta Know' and 'The Next Step Is Love'. But he recorded plenty of memorable hits of his own, including the self-written 'Happy Go Lucky Me', 'Midnight Special' and the immortal 'Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat' - which can all be heard here. This new Jasmine 2CD collection brings together every commercially issued recording that Paul made between 1956 and 1962 - the A and B sides of every 78 and 45, plus the contents of two full albums and a handful of tracks that only originally appeared on a 'Best Of' collection. There have been previous CD anthologies on Paul, but this is the first to contain his entire vinyl output for that period, including many tracks that are making their CD debut here. The frequently maligned era of the 'Bobby's' did actually witness the flourishing of some important and enduring talents whose work has held up well as years have gone by. Paul Evans is unquestionably one such talent and Jasmine is delighted to bring you this definitive collection of his work - mastered, as always, from the finest available sources!

1. What Do You Know 2. Dorothy 3. Looking for a Sweetie 4. Any Little Thing 5. Caught 6. Poor Broken Heart 7. Oh No 8. I Think About You All the Time 9. At My Party 10. Beat Generation 11. Mickey My Love 12. Long Gone 13. Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat - Paul Evans and the Curls 14. Worshipping An Idol - Paul Evans and the Curls 15. Midnight Special 16. Since I Met You Baby 17. Happy-Go-Lucky Me 18. Fish in the Ocean (Bubbly Bum Bum) 19. Twins 20. The Brigade of Broken Hearts 21. Hushabye Little Guitar 22. Blind Boy 23. Show Folk 24. I Love to Make Love to You 25. After the Hurricane 26. Not Me 27. This Pullover 28. Just Because I Love You 29. Over the Mountain, Across the Sea 30. Sisal Twine 31. A Picture of You 32. Feelin' No Pain 33. D-Darling 34. Gonna Build a Mountain 35. The Bell That Couldn't Jingle 36. Gilding the Lily 37. I'm in Love Again 38. Hambone 39. Tutti Frutti 40. Butterfly 41. Slippin' and Slidin' 42. Honey Love 43. I'm Walkin' 44. Sixty Minute Man 45. The Fool 46. Why 47. Long Live Love 48. Fire in My Soul 49. The King of Broken Hearts 50. Passing Through 51. Wee Cooper of Fife 52. Buckeye Jim 53. Kevin Barry 54. Tzena Tzena Tzena 55. Los Quatro Generales 56. Mister Hangman 57. The British Grenadiers 58. Wayfaring Stranger 59. The Wearing of the Green 60. Colorado Trail 61. Samuel Hall 62. The Golden Vanity 63. The Pig and the Inebriate 64. The Bomb 65. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord 66. Poor Boy