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Lynsey de Paul - BBC Sessions (1972-1975)

by Mistah Wilson -
Here's another album of material that is not only unreleased but also unbootlegged, again thanks to the anonymous person sending me "Top of the Pops" BBC radio sessions. This one features British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul.

I'm enjoying putting these albums together because they're leading me to discover many musical acts I'd missed. Being an American, I'd never heard of de Paul. But she was quite a successful singer-songwriter in Britain in the 1970s. There's a quote from a music critic in her Wikipedia entry that sums her up well: "In the early 70s U.K. musical landscape, Lynsey de Paul was the only British woman to achieve major success with her own work. She wrote 14 hits over five years and performed seven of them herself. In 1974, she became the first woman to win a coveted Ivor Novello song writing award, going on to win another the following year. An accomplished pianist, producer and arranger, her distinctive multi-tracked falsetto vocals were later favored by the likes of Enya. Often seen as a precursor to Kate Bush." 

She had movie star type looks, and studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music as a teenager. But she started her career wanting to be a professional songwriter, not a performer. She had her first big success in early 1972 co-writing "Storm in a Teacup," a big hit for the Fortunes. She wrote some more hits for others that year. Later in 1972, her boyfriend at the time, movie star Dudley Moore, encouraged her to release the demo she made for one of her songs, "Sugar Me," as a single. She did, and it was a Top Ten hit in Britain, starting her career as a performer as well.  

More Top Twenty hits in her own name followed: "Getting a Drag" in 1972, "Won't Somebody Dance with Me" in 1973, "Ooh I Do" and "No, Honestly" in 1974, and "Rock Bottom" with Mike Moran in 1977. Yet she also managed to still write some more hits for other musical acts as well.

Her music career stalled in the late 1970s when she moved to California with her boyfriend at the time, movie star James Coburn, and stopped releasing singles in Britain. Instead, she diversified into other creative arts. Still writing songs for other musical acts, she also took up music production, acting in musicals and plays, interviewing and hosting for TV shows, drawing cartoons, writing numerous TV theme songs, composing ad jingles, arranging and producing classical music, writing children's songs, and hosting her own radio shows. As if that wasn't enough, she had been physically abused by her father as a child, which lead to her taking a strong interest in women's self-defense. She made a popular women's self-defense training video and a documentary on that subject. She also got involved with charity work, especially helping battered women. She died in 2014 of a brain hemmorage at the age of 66.

Here's her Wikipedia entry, which is quite long and interesting, since she had such a varied career:

Lynsey de Paul - Wikipedia

Most of the songs here are from the Top of the Pops radio show. That means there were a few instances of the BBC DJs talking over the music. But luckily that was tapering off in the early 1970s, so there are only three songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. Unfortunately, live performances for Top of the Pops also tapered off around 1973, so most everything here is from 1972 and 1973, with one Top of the Pops song ("Oo I Do") from 1974. But I was able to find two more songs she did for the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show in 1975. Those are the last two here. I also found a performance of "Storm in a Teacup" from a BBC TV show in 1972.

De Paul also did a short BBC concert in 1975 called "In Concert." I would like to post that here as well, but I can't find it. If anyone has it, please let me know.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Sugar Me [Edit] (Lynsey de Paul)
02 House of Cards (Lynsey de Paul)
03 Storm in a Teacup (Lynsey de Paul)
04 Sleeping Blue Nights (Lynsey de Paul)
05 Getting a Drag [Edit] (Lynsey de Paul)
06 Just Visiting (Lynsey de Paul)
07 All Night (Lynsey de Paul)
08 Water (Lynsey de Paul)
09 Ivory Tower (Lynsey de Paul)
10 Won't Somebody Dance with Me [Edit] (Lynsey de Paul)
11 Oo I Do (Lynsey de Paul)
12 Let's Boogie (Lynsey de Paul)
13 My Man and Me (Lynsey de Paul)

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The cover photo is from 1977. I don't know any other details.



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