Them Again
(US album)

Side A:

1. Could You Would You (3:05)
2. Something You Got (2:31)
3. Call My Name (2:20)
4. Turn On Your Love Light (2:20)
5. I Can Only Give You Everything (2:40)
6. My Lonely Sad Eyes (2:28)

1. Out of Sight (2:21)
2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (3:48)
3. Bad Or Good (2:07)
4. How Long Baby (3:38)
5. Don't You Know (2:24)
6. Bring 'Em On In (3:44)

Original liner notes:
This is another album by "THEM"

It's quality lies not only in the rendering of the numbers on these tracks - but in Them's efforts to break away from the popular image of long haired marraccas-shaking pop groups. On this album, Them have introduced vibes, sax and flute. They are not content to stand still musically and rest on the laurels of three big hit records, and are now moving towards a "sound" very close to the jazz idiom. This is an album to enjoy! To dance to! But is also an album for connoisseurs.

Van Morrison, the lead singer with Them sometime throws his advisors into a frenzy of hair tearing despair...moody, unpredictable, perverse, often downright wilful- but always, creative. On sessions when asked to alter the phrasing of a number or increase the tempo, he will say with quiet rebellion: "No! I always sing this way...the way I feel." and he is invariably right.

As we said before: "This is another album by "THEM". A stormy, tempest riven album for those looking for an 'experience'. And in every phrase, every note, a supremely great album! We hope you will agree! "COULD YOU, WOULD YOU" is an original number by Them's brilliant lead singer, Van Morrison. This song is reminiscent of Them's second major hit disc: "Here Comes The Night". It is a startling, dramatic opening number and sets the tone of the entire album.

"SOMETHING YOU GOT" was written by C. Kenner and recorded by the one and only Chuck Jackson. Van is an admirer of the famous American singer, and recorded this title in the form of an acknowledgment.

It is easy to sense the suppressed excitement in the backing to "CALL MY NAME". The boys were "balling around" during the recording of this number and by the time they arrived at the stomp chorus-things were really swinging! This number was written by talented young composer/producer Tommy Scott who, at the boys request, wrote a few of the numbers on this album.

"I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING" was composed one stormy midnight... this is an aggressive, stomping number written with Van's raw, savage voice in mind.

Composed by the usually tempestuous Van, "MY LONELY SAD EYES" is the most poetic of all the songs in the album. This track, perhaps more than any of the others, shows Van Morrison's great flair, versatility and inspirational genius.

"OUT OF SIGHT" is one of the numbers that Them always use on 'live' performances. For those who like their music pulsatingly wild, "Out of Sight" is the track for them!

"IT'S ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE" surely needs no real introduction; written by Bob Dylan, Van's own interpretation of this man's genius is one of the highlights of this album.

"BAD OR GOOD" another Van Morrison original which he renders in shouting, Gospel style.

If there is such a thing as "contemporary blues", "HOW LONG BABY" is it. This track beautifully illustrates Morrison's rapport between himself and the song.

"DON'T YOU KNOW" is a jazz-based number featuring the flute. For even a progressive group like Them, to introduce the flute is somewhat unusual.

"BRING 'EM ON HOME" is the final track on the album. On this fast moving track Van mentions districts and place names of London...Queensway in particular is very like New York's Greenwich Village. One could almost say that Van really "goes to town" on this track. Although Van and Them are Irish lads from Belfast and have a love for the "Ould Country" they are now based in London, "Where," says Van, "It all happens...!"

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