PETER AND GORDON -S/T- Original UK Mono LP on Columbia 60s Pop Beat Folk Pop

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PETER AND GORDON

Peter And Gordon

Original UK Mono LP released on Columbia Records in 1964. Front-laminated cover with flipbacks on rear. Polylined 'Emitex' innersleeve.

XAX 2641-1N   /   XAX 2642-1N

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In June 1964, Peter & Gordon became the first British Invasion act after the Beatles to take the number one spot on the American charts with "A World Without Love." That hit, and their subsequent successes, were due as much or more to their important connections as to their talent. Peter Asher was the older brother of Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the '60s. This no doubt gave Asher and Gordon Waller access to Lennon-McCartney compositions that were unrecorded by the Beatles, such as "A World Without Love" and three of their other biggest hits, "Nobody I Know," "I Don't Want to See You Again," and "Woman" (the last of which was written by McCartney under a pseudonym). But Peter & Gordon were significant talents in their own right, a sort of Everly Brothers-styled duo for the British Invasion that faintly prefigured the folk-rock of the mid-'60s. In fact, when Gene Clark first approached Jim McGuinn in 1964 about working together in a group that would eventually evolve into the Byrds, he suggested that they could form a Peter & Gordon-styled act.

Asher and Waller had been singing together since their school-days. "A World Without Love" was their biggest and best hit, one that sounded very much like the Beatles' more pop-oriented originals. Generally sounding like McCartney-dominated Beatles rejects (which, in fact, they were), the production employed a softer, more acoustic feel than the hits by the Beatles and other early British Invasion guitar bands. "I Don't Want to See You Again" used strings, as would several of the duo's subsequent hits.

Some scattered folky B-sides showed that Asher and Waller may have been capable of developing into decent songwriters, but like many of the British Invaders, their lack of songwriting acumen and ability to move with the times would eventually work against them. They did continue to hit the charts for a couple of years, with updates of "True Love Ways" (Buddy Holly) and "To Know You Is to Love You" (a variation of the Teddy Bears' "To Know Her Is to Love Her"). There was also a Top Ten cover of Del Shannon's "I Go to Pieces," and the brassy, McCartney-penned "Woman." The British novelty "Lady Godiva" became their last big hit in late 1966.

After Peter & Gordon broke up in 1968, Asher became an enormously successful producer, first as the director of A&R at the Beatles' Apple Records (where he worked on James Taylor's first album). Relocating to Los Angeles in the '70s, he was one of the principal architects of mellow California rock, producing Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Lucille
Five Hundred Miles
If I Were You
Pretty Mary
Trouble In Mind
A World Without Love

Side Two

Tell Me How
You Don't Have To Tell Me
Leave My Woman Alone
All My Trials
Last Night I Woke
Long Time Gone

Released on 'Columbia Records' in 1964

Catalogue No. 33SX 1630

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light wear / minor laminate creasing)

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