Neil Sedaka - Laughter & Tears '1999

Tracks list

Tracklist: 

01. Standing On The Inside
02. Love Will Keep Us Together
03. Solitaire (Live)
04. The Other Side Of Me
05. A Little Lovin
06. Lonely Night (Angel Face)
07. Brighton
08. (Im A Song) Sing Me
09. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Ballad Version)
10. Laughter In The Rain
11. Cardboard California
12. Bad Blood
13. The Queen Of 1964
14. The Hungry Years
15. Betty Grable
16. Beautiful You
17. Thats When The Music Takes Me (Live)
18. Our Last Song Together

As the original subtitle The Best of Neil Sedaka Today (today being 1976)
indicates, this compilation covers the period of Sedakas mid-70s comeback. In
1973, he signed to the PolyGram label, which released his records on its MGM and
Polydor imprints in the U.K., resulting in a series of hit singles and LPs over
the next few years; he then moved on to Elektra Records. The tracks here are
drawn from his British albums The Tra-La Days Are Over, Laughter in the Rain,
Show Goes On: Live at the Royal Festival Hall, and Overnight Success. (In the
U.S., where the material was issued on Elton Johns Rocket Records imprint, it
was compiled differently into such American LPs as Sedakas Back and The Hungry
Years.) The British hits Standing on the Inside, A Little Lovin, The Queen of
1964, and Our Last Song Together are included, while the earlier hits Beautiful
You and Thats When the Music Takes Me, originally recorded for RCA, are present
in the form of a new re-recording of the former and a live take of the latter.
Also included are Sedakas versions of his compositions that were hits for others
during the period, Solitaire (again, a live recording), Love Will Keep Us
Together, and Lonely Night (Angel Face) (the last two, of course, done by the
Captain & Tennille). Although this is not a U.S. hits set, the big American hits
Laughter in the Rain and Bad Blood, plus the slow reworking of Breaking Up Is
Hard to Do are here, too, though not lesser stateside Top 40 entries like The
Immigrant and Love in the Shadows. Thus, this is not the perfect compendium of
the Sedaka ‘70s comeback for both sides of the Atlantic, but it does
feature the highlights of his 1973-1976 resurgence. 

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