Rating: ** (2 stars)
Title: Patterns
Company: Liberty
Catalog: LST-7613
Year: 1969
Grade (cover/record): VG/VG
Comments: "audition copy" stamp on back cover
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4138
Price: $25.00
Cost: $1.00
Can't say we're big Kiki Dee fans, but this 1969 set (her first US LP?), is mildly entertaining.
Produced by Jack Baverstock, 1969's "Patterns" finds Dee trying to find a commercial niche somewhere along the lines of Jackie DeShannon, or Lulu. Exemplified by material such as the title track, "Excuse Me" and "When We Get There" the album's full of heavily orchestrated, moody adult pop. Dee certainly has a nice voice, but at least to our ears, most of the material is simply to routine to make much of an impact. Among the isolated exceptions are a couple of "girl group" sounding numbers - "With a Kiss" and "How Can I Run Away From You".
"Patterns" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Excuse Me (Dick Addrisi - Don Addrisi)
2.) Sunshine (Ray Jessel) - 1:57
3.) Patterns (Barbara Cooper - Frank Catana) - 2:36
4.) With a Kiss (Tony Powers - George Fischoff) - 2:59
5.) When We Get There (Paul Anka) - 2:39
6.) How Can I Run Away From You (Bert Berns) - 2:37
(side 2)
1.) I (Gary Knight - L. Russell Brown) - 2:21
2.) We've Got Everything Going for Us (Philip Springer - Irwin Levine - 2:20
3.) I Dig You Baby (L. Ellison - Dennis Lambert - S. Bell) - 2:28
4.) Stop and Think (David Cumming - Peter Sterling) - 2:27
5.) Don't Destroy Me (Irwin Levine - Judy tree) - 2:22
6.) I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In) (Bob Crewe - Gary Knight) - 2:43
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