I Believe/Charmaine/You’ll Never Walk Alone/Diane/Whispering/Moonlight & Roses/I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time/If/With These Hands/Ramona/Put Your Arms Around Me Honey/Maybe/Melody Of Love/The Little White Cloud That Cried/I’ll See You In My Dreams/Jailer Bring Me Water
Irish easy listening trio The Bachelors debut album 16 Great Songs contains three UK top ten singles Charmaine, I Believe and Ramona together with the chart topping Diane, the latter reaching No. 10 in the US. The group's forte was performing old time songs in a more modern upbeat style. (UK:2)
"The Bachelors tackled a diverse range of material, always stamping their own identity on whatever they chose to record. In some ways, their music was a relic of a bygone age even while they were recording it, but they brought a freshness and a charm to the old songs that allowed them to appeal to all ages."
"With soaring harmony and sophisticated arrangements of mostly older songs and standards, these guys managed to appeal to both the adult and younger market."
"Part of what made their appeal more widespread, across the generation gap, was their ability to use harmony so effectively, but to also instil many of their recordings with passion, excitement and intensity."
"The Bachelors were an Irish vocal trio that skirted the mid 1960s British Invasion. They were of a 'Trad Fab' vocal, liked by mums and dads. They reached the US top 40 by covering pop classics like Charmaine and Diane, purely vocal, and retro-sounding."
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