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Helen Shapiro - 25th Anniversary Album (EMI/MFP 1986) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

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Helen Shapiro - 25th Anniversary Album (EMI/MFP 1986) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

Helen Shapiro - 25th Anniversary Album (1986)
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Helen Shapiro - 25th Anniversary Album (EMI/MFP 1986) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

From 1961 until 1963 Helen Shapiro was the UK’s teenage pop music queen, at one point selling 40,000 copies daily of her biggest single, "Walkin’ Back to Happiness," during a 19-week chart run. A deceptively young 14 when she was discovered, Shapiro had a rich, expressive voice properly sounding like the property of someone twice as old, and she matured into a seasoned professional very quickly.

She grew up in London's East End and was performing with a ukulele at age nine as part of a school group – supposedly called Susie & the Hula Hoops, whose members included a young Mark Feld (aka Marc Bolan) – that used to sing their own versions of Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly songs. She subsequently sang with her brother Ron Shapiro's trad jazz turned skiffle outfit at local clubs before enrolling in classes at Maurice Burman's music school in London. Burman was so taken with Helen Shapiro's voice that he waived the tuition fees to keep her as a student. He later brought her to the attention of Norrie Paramor, then one of EMI's top pop producers (responsible for signing Cliff Richard & the Shadows). Shapiro's voice was so mature that Paramor refused to believe from the evidence on a tape that it belonged to a 14-year-old, until she came to his office and belted out "St. Louis Blues." She cut her first single, "Please Don't Treat Me Like a Child," a few weeks later and broke onto the British charts in 1961.

That record was an extraordinary effort for a 14-year-old. Shapiro's voice showed the maturity and sensibilities of someone far beyond their teen years; her depth of emotion, coupled with the richness of her singing, made her an extraordinary new phenomenon on the British pop scene. She surprised everyone once again with her second single, a slow ballad called "You Don't Know," which managed to appeal to listeners across several age groups and hit number one in England. This was followed by the greatest recording of her career, "Walkin’ Back to Happiness," which scaled the top of the charts with far greater total sales. Ironically, she'd never wanted to cut it; she felt it sounded hopelessly corny and old-fashioned, but her singing invested the song with such depth that it transcended any limitations in the writing. This was to be the last time Shapiro would top the charts. Her next record, "Tell Me What He Said" (written by Jeff Barry) was held out of the top spot by the Shadows' "Wonderful Land."

Listening to Shapiro's records nearly 50 years later, it's amazing to think that her hit-making career lasted only two years. She was equally at home belting out "The Birth of the Blues," imparting a surprisingly blues-influenced feeling to "A Teenager in Love," or oozing pre-feminist defiance in "Walkin’ Back to Happiness," and by rights should have been able to find a niche on the charts well into the middle and late '60s. The incongruity of a 15-year-old who might usually be spending her time in high school doing a song like "Walkin’ Back to Happiness" was lost in the more innocent era in which she worked.

After appearing in her second movie, Play It Cool, which starred Billy Fury, Shapiro faded from the charts, although she didn't disappear from the British musical consciousness. She still headlined tours in the United Kingdom and in early 1963, she made the acquaintance of a support act that had been newly signed to EMI: the Beatles. She headlined the Beatles' first national tour of England and Shapiro and the group enjoyed each other's company. At 16, she was much more the seasoned professional than the older Liverpool quartet, who loved her voice and her unassuming manner. She sang with them on the bus, advised them to make "From Me to You" their next record after "Please Please Me," and they, in turn, wrote "Misery" for her. Astonishingly, EMI – not yet sensing the golden touch that the Beatles (who had yet to cut their first LP) would soon reveal – declined to give Shapiro the chance to record a Lennon-McCartney tune, costing her the chance to become the first artist to cover a Lennon-McCartney song just at the point when the Beatles were about to sweep all before them in the pop charts. Bruce Eder, allmusic.

Track listing:

01. Walkin' Back To Happiness* (1961)
02. Keep Away From Other Girls* (1962)
03. Basin Street Blues* (1963)
04. Don’t Treat Me Like a Child (1961)
05. It’s My Party (1963)
06. Little Miss Lonely* (1961)
07. She Needs Company (1967)
08. Stop and You Will Become Aware (1967)
09. Something Wonderful (1965)
10. Tell Me What He Said* (1962)
11. Fever (1964)
12. You Don’t Know (1961)
13. Look Who It Is (1963)
14. Saint Louis Blues* (1962)
15. In My Calendar (1966)
16. Let’s Talk About Love (1962)
17. Woe Is Me (1963)
18. Queen For Tonight (1963)
19. Here In Your Arms (1965)
20. The Birth of The Blues* (1961)
21. Kiss 'n' Run (1961) (Bonus track: b-side of ‘Walkin’ Back to Happiness', Columbia DB 4715)

All tracks mono except * stereo.

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