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Marlena Shaw - Sweet Beginnings
Back in about 1985, I remember a friend paid 35 quid for this album. It was quite sought after for Go Away Little Boy. That’s about £95 in today’s money (~A$200). That’s too much.
Today I learned that Go Away Little Boy is a Goffin/King tune, which started life as a 1962 hit for Bobby Vee called Go Away Little Girl, in which old Bob tells the ‘little girl’ to go away because he can’t resist her. There’s a lyric that hasn’t aged well.
Not that Yu-Ma/Go Away Little Boy and Look At Me, Look At You (We’re Flying) aren’t absolutely wonderful pieces of music. Unfortunately, the rest of the album veers between the mediocre (the pallid, disco’d-up version of The Controllers’ Pictures and Memories, for instance) and the so-very-middle-of-the-road-it’s-unlistenable.