As I mentioned in my comments in the previous volumes, the Fortunes had unusual commercial, well, fortune. They had three big hits in 1965 and 1966, then pretty much disappeared from the charts for a bunch of years, only to return with more hits in 1971 and 1972. Then the disappeared again, and became an oldies act.
Specifically their later hits were "Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling Again" and "Freedom Come, Freedom Go" in 1971, and "Storm in a Teacup" in 1972. The first one almost made the Top Ten in the U.S., and the last two did make the Top Ten in Britain. The key to their revival was the use of professional songwriters, since the band never excelled writing hits on their own.
This album starts out with their commercial prospects declining, and getting worse. All the songs are from the pop hit focused BBC radio show "Top of the Pops." The first two songs are from 1967. That's a continuation from "Volume 2," when they had five more songs in 1967. Tracks 3 through 5 are from 1968. Then tracks 6 and 7 are from 1969. They had no tracks from 1970. So, as you can see, it looks like they were getting less attention from the BBC every year, until it seems they dropped off the radar altogether. But then they had that second burst of hits, so they got three more songs on the BBC in 1971 (tracks 8 through 10) and six more in 1972 (tracks 11 through 16).
As with the two previous volumes, everything here is from the official album "Live at the BBC." But many of these versions are different because I removed the BBC DJs talking over the music, using the UVR5 audio editing program. Those are the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles. As you can see, the last bunch of songs are free of that problem, since the DJs finally stopped this bad habit around 1972.
This album is 48 minutes long.
01 The Idol (Fortunes)
02 I Was Made to Love Her [Edit] (Fortunes)
03 Loving Cup [Edit] (Fortunes)
04 Do You Know the Way to San Jose [Edit] (Fortunes)
05 Time for Living [Edit] (Fortunes)
06 Ballad of the Alamo [Edit] (Fortunes)
07 Sad Sad Sad [Edit] (Fortunes)
08 Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling Again [Edit] (Fortunes)
09 Freedom Come, Freedom Go [Edit] (Fortunes)
10 People I've Gotta Dream (Fortunes)
11 Storm in a Teacup (Fortunes)
12 Baby by the Way (Fortunes)
13 Everything Is Out of Season (Fortunes)
14 Wait Until September (Fortunes)
15 Secret Love (Fortunes)
16 Just a Line to Let You Know (Fortunes)
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The cover photo shows the band in 1972. I used Krea AI to improve it a bit.
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