VARIOUS – Hearts for Sale! Girl Group Sounds USA 1961 – 1967 – LP – Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl.Comes with a fully-illustrated inner bag featuring a 2,500-word track commentary by compilerMick Patrick.

Hearts For Sale is the fifth and latest in Ace‘s series of 12-inch vinyl albums spotlighting the US girl group sound of the 1960s. The collection opens with Street Dance by Bonnie Jean, a little-known must-have for collectors of the genre, with Darlene Love and the Blossoms clearly audible on background vocals. Issued on Lew Bedells Dor label, this exciting faux- live deck in the style of Shirley Ellis The Nitty Gritty was written by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner, a hip team known for supplying songs for the soundtracks of B movies such as Muscle Beach Party and Thunder Alley.

The Hollywood-based Dor imprint is also the source of You Really Never Know Till Its Over by the Vel-Vetts (which shares a backing track with the Superbs I Was Born When You Kissed Me), One Way Street by the Swans, a soulful update of the Teddy Bears To Know Him Is To Love Him by the Darlings and featuring lead vocals by Sheilah Page, a former member of groups such as the Bermudas, Becky and the Lollipops, the Majorettes, Joanne & the Triangles and Beverly and the Motor Scooters Hes Groovy by the Front Page & Her.

Other highlights include the Sweethearts Supremes- influenced No More Tears, the sophisticated slowie Lonely Girl by the Lovettes (thats them on the front sleeve), My Heart Tells Me So by the Del-Phis (an early incarnation of Martha and the Vandellas) and the Fran- Cettes terrific recording of Heart For Sale. As with the earlier volumes in the series, the album comes with a fully-illustrated inner bag featuring a 2,500-word track commentary by compiler Mick Patrick.

Tracklist:

Side One
1. Street Dance Bonnie Jean
2. That’s No Way To Spend My Time – The Pen Etts
3. Boy Trouble – The Rev-lons
4. I Can Tell (I’m Losing Your Love) Lena Calhoun & The Emotions
5. You Really Never Know Till It’s Over The Vel-vetts
6. Heart For Sale – The Fran-cettes
7. One Way Street – The Swans

Side Two
1. No More Tears – The Sweethearts
2. To Know Him Is To Love Him – The Darlings
3. Boy You Move Me – Joan Moody
4. Lonely Girl – The Lovettes
5. My Heart Tells Me So (Aka I Know It’s You) The Del-phis
6. Surfers Memories – The Fashions
7. He’s Groovy – The Front Page & Her