She Came From Liverpool: Merseyside Girl Pop 62-68 She Came From Liverpool: Merseyside Girl Pop 62-68 CD

UK collection. Over the last few years, Ace has built up a series of prime British female pop releases, with individual collections drawn from four of the country's leading record companies of the 1960s. With this compilation, rather than spotlight a particular company, the focus is on a location: the music hotbed of Merseyside. While male beat groups ruled the Merseyside roost in the '60s, the area was also home to it's fair share of female talent. To illustrate the point, here are 25 hand-picked girl-pop artefacts from thereabouts. Liverpool's pop queen Cilla Black is featured with her two most Merseybeat-oriented tracks, including a terrific version of 'A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues', the first song she ever recorded at Abbey Road. Guitar-toting cover girls the Liverbirds, who released no records in the UK but were stars in Germany - where their repertoire of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry numbers made them favorites at the Star-Club - also appear twice. The Breakaways, the Vernons Girls and Beryl Marsden - three other acts intrinsically associated with Liverpool - are also featured. Along with a selection of proven fan favorites, the collection contains many lesser-known gems, among them new-to-CD tracks by the Three Bells, Nola York, Tiffany, Lyn Cornell, Cindy Cole and, not least, Samantha Jones, whose hitherto-unreleased-in-any-format 'I Don't Want To Lose Him' was recorded with visiting American producer Teddy Randazzo. Read all about these and the other featured artists in the accompanying picture-packed 28-page booklet, which contains a 7,000-word note by compiler Mick Patrick and genre expert Ian Chapman.

1. Love of the Loved - Cilla Black 2. Long Tall Shorty - the Liverbirds 3. Everybody Loves a Lover - Beryl Marsden 4. I Want You - Jeannie ; the Big Guys 5. Baby Don't Look Down - Tiffany with the Thoughts 6. Someone to Love - the Three Bells 7. What's She Got (That I Ain't Got) - Beryl Marsden 8. Only You Can Do It - the Vernons Girls 9. That Boy of Mine - the Breakaways 10. Something I've Got to Tell You - Glenda Collins 11. I Don't Understand - Nola York 12. Just for Him - Samantha Jones 13. Am I Dreaming - Tiffany 14. Till He Tells Me - Jacki Martin 15. A Shot of Rhythm and Blues - Cilla Black 16. Sticks and Stones - Jeannie ; the Big Guys 17. Why Do You Hang Around Me - the Liverbirds 18. I Don't Want to Be the One - Samantha Jones 19. Sally Go Round the Roses - Lyn Cornell 20. Puppet on a String - the de Laine Sisters 21. Dumb Head - the Sharades 22. Lover Please - the Vernons Girls 23. Just Being Your Baby (Turns Me on) - Cindy Cole 24. Baby, You're So Right for Me - the Satin Bells 25. Come See Me - Sandy Edmonds