Chris Farlowe - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1966-1969

A couple of months ago, I posted "Volume 1" of Chris Farlowe's BBC sessions. Then I promptly forgot to post "Volume 2." Luckily, I stumbled across him in my music collection today and remembered. This is more of the same, all BBC studio sessions from the 1960s.

Farlowe was one of those rare 1960s British singers who had some of the soulfulness in his voice of Black American soul singers. This made him very popular around 1965 and 1966, when Britain had kind of a soul music boom. But styles drastically changed in 1967 with the rise of psychedelic music. Farlowe did have one Top Forty hit in 1967 with "Handbags and Gladrags." (Rod Stewart would later have success with that song too.) But after that, the hits dried up.

However, while the careers of other British singers like him petered out entirely, Farlowe would manage to reinvent himself. He would join the band Colosseum in 1970. Its mix of jazz, rock, and blues suited his style. But they would break up in 1971. He then would join the band Atomic Rooster for a couple of years. This BBC collection only concerns itself with his solo music. But I plan on posting a "Volume 3" for when he solo career resumed in the mid-1970s.

Just like with "Volume 1," all the songs here are officially released on the album "Live at the BBC." The one exception is "Knock On Wood" done with Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity, which is taken from a TV show. However, once again I've made changes, to focus on the music. I removed the many short interview tracks from that album. I also removed all the instances of BBC DJs talking over the music, of which there were many. Those are all the songs with "[Edit]" in their titles.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 North, South, East and West (Chris Farlowe)
02 I Can't Get You Out of My Mind [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
03 My Way of Giving (Chris Farlowe)
04 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
05 Paint It, Black (Chris Farlowe)
06 Yesterday's Papers (Chris Farlowe)
07 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
08 Summertime [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
09 Moanin' (Chris Farlowe)
10 Reason to Believe [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
11 Do What You Gotta Do [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
12 Knock on Wood (Chris Farlowe & Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity)
13 Gemini [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
14 Dawn [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)
15 That's Why [Edit] (Chris Farlowe)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/M2oswYyK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/lmQW1I4j648wq7V/file

The cover photo was taken in November 1966. I don't know anything more than that.