From Crayons to Perfume: The Best of Lulu Album Pick

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Release Date

November 15, 1994

Duration

58:47

Genre

Styles

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Lulu

From Crayons to Perfume: The Best of Lulu

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By far the most wide-ranging retrospective of a singer who never found the consistently good material that her considerable talents deserved. Starting with her 1964 British hit cover of "Shout," From Crayons to Perfume also includes the number one single "To Sir with Love" and a few of her other British Top Ten hits from the '60s, including the nice 1965 soul ballad "Leave a Little Love" and the chirpy 1967 Neil Diamond tune "The Boat That I Row" (the flipside of "To Sir with Love," which wasn't a hit at all in the U.K.). Unfortunately, it gives short shift to the raunchy R&B she recorded in the mid-'60s, but it does include the sadly neglected, moody "Dreary Nights and Rows" (penned by "To Sir with Love" author Mark London) and the Top 40 orchestrated ballad "Best of Both Worlds," co-arranged by future Led Zep member John Paul Jones. You also get nifty covers of Tim Rose's "Morning Dew" and Harry Nilsson's "Without Him," along with a few songs she recorded with Atlantic (some with the Dixie Flyers) that gave her more sympathetic soul material than she was accustomed to, including the hit "Oh Me Oh My." There's also her semi-legendary 1974 single "Watch That Man"/"The Man Who Sold the World," a double-sided 45 of David Bowie covers produced by Bowie himself, and the theme song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. This 20-song compilation doesn't gather together all her fine material by any means, but it's the only one to cover most of her career.

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
1
O'Kelly Isley / Ronald Isley / Rudolph Isley
Lulu
feat: The Luvvers
2:57
2
Les Reed
Lulu
2:47
3
Don Black / Mark London
Lulu
2:46
4
Neil Diamond
Lulu
2:46
5
Mark London
Lulu
2:39
6
Don Black / Mark London
Lulu
3:02
7
Tony Hazzard
Lulu
2:26
8
Howard Blaikley / Geoff Stephens
Lulu
2:34
9
Mark London
Lulu
2:08
10
Bonnie Dobson / Tim Rose
Lulu
2:53
11
Harry Nilsson
Lulu
2:51
12
Jim Doris
Lulu
2:43
13
Richard Ross
Lulu
feat: The Dixie Flyers
2:43
14
George Soulé / Terry Woodford
Lulu
feat: The Dixie Flyers
2:53
15
Maurice Gibb / Billy Lawrie
Lulu
2:26
16
David Bowie
Lulu
5:06
17
David Bowie
Lulu
3:54
18
John Barry / Don Black
Lulu
2:36
19
Neil Harrison
Lulu
3:28
20
Neil Harrison
Lulu
3:09
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