Something To Shout About – LULU***

You Touch Me Baby/You’ll Never Leave Her/I’ll Come Running Over/Not In The Whole World/She Will Break Your Heart/Can I Get A Witness/Tell Me Like It Is/Shout/Try To Understand/Night Time Is The Right Time/ Chocolate Ice/So In Love/The Only One/Dream Lover/He’s Sure The Boy I Love/Leave A Little Love

Glaswegian Lulu was one of the best known British female vocalists during the 1960s, regularly appearing in the singles chart. Her debut LP Something To Shout About includes two UK hit singles, the No. 7 Shout and No. 8 Leave A Little Love.

“This was Lulu's first album. For someone so young she demonstrates a real maturity and shows off that terrific voice. I suppose you could call these tracks raw Lulu as she belts them out, but listen to Leave A Little Love as she shows her softer side and just wallow.”

“I love Lulu's early years with Decca, when she was just a teenager, and had so much boundless energy, her exuberance couldn't be contained. She just sang naturally, in that God-given voice. I especially love the rough and rowdy rock and R & B songs, including of course, her raunchy version of Shout."

“Lulu is unleashed and uncontained on these earliest recordings. And there are plenty of ballads on here too, with exquisite singing and that thunderous, lush orchestration that they did only in the 60s. Many, many timeless tracks are on here. It was just the beginning of her long career, and there's no doubt that she had immense talent right from the start.”

“I've always liked the more uptempo, rockin' side of Lulu best and there's plenty of that here. There are some good ballads and more pop-type material too. Just like chocolate ice it's all very nice.”

“In the UK Lulu first reached stardom as a gutsy belter of R & B tunes, delivered with a maturity and soulfulness that belied her teenage years. The Isley Brothers' classic Shout, is reinvented in a rasp of amazing power. Most intriguing of all is the original version of Here Comes The Night. Lulu performs it as an overwrought, pull-out-the-stops orchestral ballad.”