A New Song For Young Love - The Lettermen

 

Michelle

A New Song For Young Love

The Lettermen

Produced by Steve Douglas

Cover Photo: Capitol Photo Studios - Ken Veeder

Capitol Records ST 2496

1966

From the back cover: It's always a temptation to say of each new Lettermen album, "This is their very best."

When Jim Pike, Tony Butala, and Bob Engemann issued their first longplay recording for Capitol just four years ago (see "A Song for Young Love," at right), their warm and easy style already sounded about as fine as it's humanly possible to achieve. Yet the Lettermen do seem to get better and better and the warm velvet texture of their vocal blend to become more caressingly easy to enjoy. Listeners are apt to note with ever increasing satisfaction the fellows' really fantastic ability to make any kind of song pleasing to the widest possible audience.

They sing the new Big Beat songs like "Listen People" and "You'll Be Needin' Me" with a special finesse that makes them easy listening for everybody.

They bring a fresh, youthful sound of today to such great oldtimers as "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "If I Loved You" that makes them hits all over again.

They turn the velvet side out on modern favorites like "Moon River" and "Try to Remember" with consummate styling that enhances both melody and lyric.

And, needless to say, with a "Graduation Girl," the romantic, campus-oriented kind of song that has always been a Lettermen specialty, both they and their audiences are home free!

All those songs, as well as the Beatles' delightful "Michelle," the beautiful "Love Letters," and others equally fine, are in this album, as superb a collection of hits as the Lettermen ever have gathered together. Arrangements for the orchestral backgrounds are by the eminently gifted Jimmie Haskell, and each is especially and romantically appropriate for an album entitled "A New Song for Young Love."

With all these superb elements contributing to make this album outstanding, there's an even greater temptation than usual to call it the Lettermen's finest. But taking into consideration the wonderful Lettermen albums yet to come, as well as the many wonderful ones they've issued already, we'll simply say, "Here is still another of the Lettermen's very best!"

I Only Have Eyes For You

If I Love You

Listen People

Graduation Girl

Love Letters

Moon River

You'll Be Needin' Me

Try To Remember

Since I'm Alone

What Now My Love