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Millie – Time will tell –
Released 15 March 2004
This album is built around the 1970 album Time will tell, issued
in it’s full format. This album
contains a couple of good tracks and a couple of interesting tracks, but the CD
package is enhanced by the 15 bonus tracks giving a better profile of Millie’s
career which, of course, started with a bang in 1962.
On the actual album the most popular tracks were My Love and I and
Mayfair. The former is pretty good
and typifies the era. There was
some smart comment on the album, which may have been just to be part of what
was happening – the awful White Boys and response provocative Enoch power. The title track is about the best.
The bonus tracks take us back through the years to earlier rhythms. We’ll meet, You’re the Only one, Marie
and Oh Merna with Roy Panton an American styled duet with Millie’s harsh girlie
voice tempered by the soothing tones of Roy and some great sax. Couple of uninspiring duets with Jackie
Edwards.
Moving onto Soul territory, actually recorded in New York, with
the ballad That’s how strong my love is, an ok version of a great song, to a
pure stomping Northern Soul outing My Street and the slightly mellower Mixed Up
Fickle Lonely Self Centred Spoiled kind of boy, and the Ikettes Peaches and
cream. Ooh Ooh is also a fine duet
with Jackie Edwards. Millie’s
voice tends to be a bit too shrill for me but this section on the album is for
me far and away the best.
At the later end of the 60’s there is also You better forget and
three nights a week, I’ve been around and Honey Hush before being picked up by Eddie
Wolfram for the main album.
Millie: Time Will
Tell (TJACD088) |
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Format: CD album
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Tracklisting |
Melting Pot - Listen |
My Love And I - Listen |
Mayfair - Listen |
Poor Little Willie - Listen |
Give Me - Listen |
White Boys - Listen |
Enoch Power - Listen |
Going To The Circus - Listen |
Come And Hold Me Tight - Listen |
Sunday Morning - Listen |
I Couldn't Take My Love Away From You - Listen |
No Good - Listen |
Time Will Tell - Listen |
BONUS TRACKS : - Listen |
We'll Meet - Millie & Roy Panton - Listen |
You're The Only One - Millie & Roy Panton - Listen |
Oh Merna - Millie & Roy Panton - Listen |
Marie - Millie & Roy Panton - Listen |
The Vow - Millie & Jackie Edwards - Listen |
My Desire - Millie & Jackie Edwards - Listen |
That's How Strong My Love Is - Listen |
My Street - Listen |
Mixed Up, Fickle, Lonely, Self-Centred, Spoiled Kind Of Boy - Listen |
Peaches & Cream - Listen |
Ooh Ooh - Millie & Jackie Edwards - Listen |
You Better Forget - Millie - Listen |
Three Nights A Week - Listen |
I've Been Around - Listen |
Honey Rush - Listen |
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