Almost Grown/That’s Why I’m Crying/Floral Dance/What More Do You Want/Lulu’s Back In Town/We’re Having A Party/Don’t Worry Baby/Make Love/Don’t Think Twice Its Alright/Funny How Love Can Be/My Old Dutch/Dance To The Locomotion
This Is was the debut album from the British harmony pop group The Ivy League, who had a couple of highly melodic UK top ten hits in the mid sixties notable for their falsetto vocals.
“This obscure sixties group burst onto the scene in 1965, when it seemed that they might become major stars, but it was not to be. Their second release Funny How Love Can Be was a UK top ten hit.”
“With only two top ten UK hits and only one minor American hit, The Ivy League cannot be regarded as essential, but they were a brilliant harmony trio.”
“1960s harmony pop band fans will dig this. Like a lot of the Pye bands, the music isn't on the top tier, but most of their songs are at least B material. Lots of great vocals and haunting production. There are plenty of good tracks, with Funny How Love Can Be being grade A.”
“I fully agree about the high vocal quality of The Ivy League. They should have scored many more hit records and I can't understand why they didn't.”
“I only bought this for the totally forgotten, That's Why I'm Crying. Its still brilliant, completely un-commercial and a puzzle how it got chosen as a follow-up single. For the rest, well some are OK, some are MOR and some should have stayed in the can.”
“The band shows a surprisingly wide range of styles verging from jazz through to blues, boogie and rock & roll, to add to their ability to provide harmonious vocals.”
“Even though the group has been unfairly compared to various American groups because of their vocal harmony sound, many of these musical critics missed the fact that popular music for the young and rebellious during the late 1950s, and into the 1960s, was changing from solo lead singer into vocal harmony style for various bands during that period, both in the USA and in other parts of the world.”
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