Poppy Family - The World of the Poppy Family

Tracks

		Track Name	Length
	1	Seasons In the Sun
	2	I`m Gonna Love You Too
	3	Today I Started Loving You Again
	4	Remember the Rain
	5	The Love Game
	6	Shadows On My Wall
	7	Sail Away
	8	Where Evil Grows
	9	If You Go Away
	10	Rock 'n Roll
	11	Of Cities And Escapes
	12	Someone Must Have Jumped
	13	I`m So Lonely Here Today
	14	A Good Thing Lost
	15	Concrete Sea

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Susan Jacks' voice became highly recognizable when "Which Way You Goin' Billy" climbed the charts in 1970, and her husband hit number one in 1974 after they divorced with a remake of a song once performed by the Kingston Trio, "Seasons in the Sun." The meticulous songwriting, production, and arranging skills of guitarist/mastermind Terry Jacks (who later had a huge solo hit with the classic pop single "Seasons in the Sun") lift these recordings above the work of many of the group's better-known contemporaries. Singer Susan Jacks has a beautiful voice that sometimes sounds like (but predates) Karen Carpenter, but is eminently more soulful. Although characterized in the liner notes as a "soft pop" band, the Poppy Family was also capable of a somewhat tougher sound that sometimes recalled Surrealistic Pillow-era Jefferson Airplane and folkier material in the Kenny Rogers & the First Edition/Roger McGuinn vein. Throughout, Jacks frames the songs with creative, if often dated, arrangements that compare favorably to his obvious influences, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Phil Spector.

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