Love Is A Now & Then Thing – ANTHONY NEWLEY***

Gone With The Wind/Some Other Spring/The Thrill Is Gone/What’s Good About Goodbye/Love Is A Now & Then Thing/When Your Lover Has Gone/It’s The Talk Of The Town/I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan/Speak Low/ This Time The Dreams On Me/Ask No Question/I Get Along Without You Very Well

The cockney actor, composer and singer Anthony Newley is perhaps best remembered for some of his quirky single releases in the early 1960s. A little too old to be fully accepted as a pop singer, Love Is A Now & Then Thing is an album of well known MOR standards aimed at broadening his appeal with the grown ups. (UK:19)

“If Anthony Newley’s singles success had made him something of a pin-up to the teenage market, Love Is A Now & Then Thing was a deliberate attempt to cultivate an older audience. As such there were no hit singles on the album, only material that the likes of Frank Sinatra had recorded. Accompanied by an orchestra, it proved he would not have to rely on the unpredictable teenage market for future success."

“This is a wonderful album of songs with a heartbreak theme, or songs for lovers and sung to perfection by Anthony Newley, with wonderful arrangements by British arranger Eric Rogers. All the twelve songs are well known standards by great writers and the album is very well recorded.”

“In 1960, Anthony Newley recorded an album of beautiful love songs, lending his unique voice to these classics.”

“So many classic songs by the great composers that you are spoilt for choice. The interpretation of a song was always something uniquely Newley, and this album demonstrate just how magically he could deliver a song.”

“This album of familiar and less familiar standards is magnificent. His interpretations are superb and a match for any singer.”

“What can I say - wish I'd discovered Anthony Newley before, really into him at the moment and this LP says it all. Wonderful, a must listen to album. Sit quietly with a glass of wine and just relax, the orchestration is fantastic and Anthony is truly at his best. Such a wonderful man with so much talent, buy this and you'll end up wanting more of the same.”