The Fortunes - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1966-1967

This is a second volume of the British band the Fortunes performing for the BBC. Like the first volume, it consists entirely of studio sessions.

As I mentioned in Volume 1, the Fortunes had a rather strange history of success, compared to other bands similar to them at the time. They had three hits in 1965 and 1966. But then, for many years, they had no hits at all, only to have some more hits in 1971 and 1972. Yet, despite that dry spell, the BBC kept putting them on their broadcasts. 

All the songs here are from the "Top of the Pops" radio show. That show is pretty much unique in how the vast majority of the broadcasts from this era survived in pristine condition, and that's the case with these.

During this time period, the band wasn't popular enough to put out albums, due to the lack of hits. In fact, they'd have no studio album between 1965 and 1970. For a lot of the songs here, no studio version was ever released on either singles or albums. That's especially the case for cover versions, like "Working in a Coalmine," "Opus 17," "I Couldn't Live without Your Love," "If I Were a Carpenter," "I Can't Help Myself," and "Waterloo Sunset."

All of the performances here have been officially released on the album "Live at the BBC." However, many of these versions are edited by me, to get rid of the BBC DJs talking over the beginnings or ends of songs. As usual, I used the UVR5 program to fix those, all ten songs with "[Edit]" in their titles.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Maria (Fortunes)
02 You Gave Me Somebody to Love (Fortunes)
03 Silent Street (Fortunes)
04 Opus 17 [Edit] (Fortunes)
05 Working in a Coalmine [Edit] (Fortunes)
06 Is It Really Worth Your While (Fortunes)
07 I Couldn't Live without Your Love [Edit] (Fortunes)
08 If I Were a Carpenter (Fortunes)
09 Sleeping Partner (Fortunes)
10 It's the Time of the Year [Edit] (Fortunes)
11 Just Give Me Something to Remind Me [Edit] (Fortunes)
12 I Know Just How You Feel (Fortunes)
13 Try a Little Harder (Fortunes)
14 Just One Smile [Edit] (Fortunes)
15 I Can't Help Myself [Sugar Pie Honey Bunch] [Edit] (Fortunes)
16 Waterloo Sunset [Edit] (Fortunes)
17 Just Another Dream [Edit] (Fortunes)
18 To Love Somebody [Edit] (Fortunes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3oEtHrqX

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/qiN8p2yHjZEgebP/file

I don't know anything about this cover photo of the band except that it's "circa 1967." I used Photoshop to extended it at both the top and bottom. The AI couldn't extend the flower pattern on one of the jackets, which is why that stops.