Love Affair - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1970-1973

Here is the second and last BBC album from the British band Love Affair. 

In 1968 and 1969, the time period dealt with in Volume 1, Love Affair had a handful of hits in Britain, with the biggest being the Number One hit "Everlasting Love." 

The band had an excellent lead vocalist in Steve Ellis. However, he grew dissatisfied with the direction the band was taking. They had tried to move away from their pop style to more of a rocking style, but their next single bombed. So he left for a solo career right at the start of 1970. He was replaced by August Eadon. I assume that's Eagon singing on the cover art and singing on most of these songs.

Unfortunately, after the change of singers, none of the band's singles made the charts in Britain. The only partial exception was "Lincoln County." While it didn't chart in Britain, at least it nearly reached the Top Ten in New Zealand. 

Still, the band was so popular from before that they kept getting sessions on the "Top of the Pops" radio show. Virtually everything here comes from that show, with the exception of "Gypsy," which is from an appearance on the "Disco 2" BBC TV show. (That was an early version of "The Old Grey Whistle Test.") The bonus track is from that show as well.

Also, most everything here is unreleased. The only exceptions are the songs "Bad Girl" and "She's Not There." Those appeared on the obscure various artists compilation album "British Beat Collection, Volume Four: Rare British Broadcasts The Beat Era, 1966-1970." As for the rest, that's all due once again to my awesome secret source, a musical friend who keeps sending me Top of the Pops material.

As with most Top of the Pops broadcasts from this time, the BBC DJs had a habit of talking over the music. So I did my usual thing, using the UVR5 audio editing program to keep the music but get rid of the DJ chatter. Those are all the songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. 

Note that not everything here is technically from Love Affair. As I mentioned above, the band's former lead vocalist Steve Ellis left for a solo career at the start of 1970. Although he released music in 1970 and 1971, it seems he wasn't invited to the Top of the Pops radio show those years. But he did a session for it in 1972 and another in 1973. So I've included those here as well, chronologically interspersed with more Love Affair sessions.

The bonus track "Bad Girl" is a bonus track mainly because this album already includes a different version of that same song. And that one has slightly better sound quality.

This album is 55 minutes long, not including the bonus track. 

01 Lincoln County [Edit] (Love Affair)
02 Bad Girl [Edit] (Love Affair)
03 She's Not There [Edit] (Love Affair)
04 Long Way Home [Edit] (Love Affair)
05 That's My Home [Edit] (Love Affair)
06 Gypsy [Edit] (Love Affair)
07 I Put a Spell on You (Love Affair)
08 Fool on the Hill [Edit] (Love Affair)
09 Help [Get Me Some Help] [Edit] (Love Affair)
10 Morning Paper (Ellis)
11 El Doomo (Ellis)
12 Good to Be Alive (Ellis)
13 Let Me Dance (Love Affair)
14 Liar (Love Affair)
15 Goodbye Boredom (Ellis)
16 Open Road (Ellis)

Bad Girl [Edit] (Love Affair) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BfZ35J1m

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/c3ZFe0I8cwu2EDm/file

The cover photo was taken at the Revolution Club in London at some point in 1970.