Linda Lewis - Legends '2005

Tracks list

Disc 1 
1. All Comes Back to Love (03:42)
2. Bonfire (03:40)
3. Can't We Just Sit Down and Talk It Over (03:59)
4. Come Back and Finish What You Started (02:38)
5. Cordon Blues (03:48)
6. Dreamer of Dreams (04:04)
7. Flipped Over Your Love (02:56)
8. I Do My Best to Impress (03:33)
9. It's In His Kiss (03:19)
10. Light Years Away (04:03)
11. Love Love Love (03:39)
12. Love Where Are You Now (That I Need You) (03:25)
13. May You Never (04:02)

Disc 2 
1. Moon and I (03:59)
2. My Friend the Sun (04:40)
3. My Grandaddy Could Reggae (03:18)
4. My Love Is Here to Stay (03:42)
5. Never Been Done Before (03:58)
6. Number One Heartbreaker (03:56)
7. Not a Little Girl Anymore (04:11)
8. (Remember the Days of) The Old Schoolyard (03:10)
9. Rock and Roller Coaster (03:16)
10. Shining (03:55)
11. So Many Mysteries to Find (04:06)
12. The Other Side (04:03)
13. The Seaside Song (02:19)

Disc 3 
1. This Time I'll Be Sweeter (03:51)
2. Walk About (03:51)
3. Winter Wonderland (03:57)
4. I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You (03:05)
5. That's Love (04:32)
6. Rolling for a While (03:30)
7. Best Days of My Life (03:02)
8. 109 Jamaican Highway (04:02)
9. My Aphrodisiac Is You (03:50)
10. Beggars and Kings (03:33)
11. It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time (03:34)
12. Save the Last Dance for Me (03:38)
13. Sleeping Like a Baby Now (04:12)


 moreIn 1971, Lewis signed a solo deal with Warners/Reprise, having been
introduced to the label by her boyfriend (and now labelmate) Jim Cregan of
Family. She also launched a career as a session vocalist. Over the next few
years, her powerful (not to mention idiosyncratic) range could be heard on hit
albums by Al Kooper, Cat Stevens, and David Bowie (she appears on 1973's Aladdin
Sane LP), among others.

Lewis' own debut album, Say No More -- again produced by Samwell -- was released
in 1971, along with several singles, including "We Can Win" and "Old Smokey."
Two years later, she followed up with Lark, well-produced by Cregan, and
released on Reprise's newly launched Raft subsidiary. Lark proved to be an
early, shining moment, taking Lewis into the U.K. charts with
"Rock-a-Doodle-Doo" in June 1973, where the song peaked at number 15 and marked
Lewis' debut on the British chart show Top of the Pops. She also visited America
as part of Cat Stevens' massive tour that year. 1974 then brought Lewis' final
Reprise album, Fathoms Deep, followed by the compilation Heart Strings, an
excellent collection that remained unsurpassed until 2002 brought the CD
collection Reach for the Truth: The Best of the Reprise Years.

Moving to Bell, the punningly titled "Cordon Blues" single appeared in 1974,
before Lewis was transferred to the sibling Arista label in 1975, releasing her
triumphant Not a Little Girl Anymore LP, featuring contributions from Lowell
George, Allen Toussaint, and the Tower of Power horn section, among others. A
new single covering Betty Everett's 1964 U.S. R&B Top Ten hit "The Shoop Shoop
Song (It's in His Kiss)" appeared alongside; now retitled simply "It's in His
Kiss." Lewis took her version to number six on the U.K charts. The song made a
splash Stateside as well, giving the singer her only U.S. hit in July 1975.

Further singles "Baby I'm Yours" and "Winter Wonderland" followed in 1976. While
1977 brought the critically acclaimed Woman Overboard album, together with
further 45s "Man in the Moon," "Come Back and Finish What you Started," and
"Bonfire." Lewis also maintained a high profile on the session circuit,
appearing alongside Rick Wakeman, Chris Spedding, Steve Harley, and Rod Stewart
-- husband Cregan, of course, was then a member of the latter's band, and had
himself also worked alongside Harley.

As the '70s drew to a close, it may have appeared that Lewis' own career was
beginning to wind down. Rather than let things slip away, however, the singer
signed to Ariola and released a knockout of an album, the Mike Batt-produced
Hacienda View in 1979, as well as spinning out a string of singles, including
"109 Jamaica Highway" and "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You." 1983 then brought
the well received A Tear and a Smile, her debut for Epic.

With well over a decade of non stop touring, performing and recording behind
her, Lewis went to ground not long after, spending some time in Los Angeles --
another ten years would elapse before she returned, with December 1995's Second
Nature LP. A massive smash in Japan, the album rocketed to the top of that
country's charts and it's success sparked a string of sell out gigs that were
recorded and compiled on the 1996 live album On Stage: Live in Japan (released,
with one extra track, as Born Performer in Japan). An EP, What's All This About,
followed in 1996; 1998's Whatever and 1999's Kiss of Life consolidated her
comeback. © Amy Hanson



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