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Artist:	GILLESPIE, DANA
Title:	Foolish Seasons
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 141CD

"In 1964 she recorded her first single for Pye, with Donovan on guitar and became a regular on the folk circuit along with friends Donovan and David Bowie. In 1967, she made this album, Foolish Seasons, a psychpop/Swinging London/folkrock masterpiece. Featuring the rare Donovan song, 'You Just Gotta Know My Mind,' which should have been a smash mod hit, (and also includes the guitar of Jimmy Page!), and two fantastic Billy Nicholls covers from his much celebrated and legendary psych/softpop gem, Would You Believe. Arranged by the great Mike Vickers and produced by Wayne Bickerton (World of Oz, Jackie Lomax, Pete Best Four, The Rubettes), this is one of THE great missing links of 1960s pop. Dana was to make one more album for Decca, morphing seamlessly into a more blues based style, before becoming a star of London's West End theatre: the first run of Jesus Christ Superstar (playing Mary Magdalene), The Who's Tommy (playing the Acid Queen) and the rock Othello, Catch My Soul. She also appeared with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Kenneth Willams in the film The Hound Of The Baskervilles and starred in Ken Russell's Mahler. A number of roles in latter-day Hammer films and more experimental arthouse movies are also fondly remembered. As a singer she moved to RCA Records and made Weren't Born A Man and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, under the aegis of David Bowie, whose management, Mainman, also took care of her career. A period in the US was spectacularly ended when Bob Dylan invited her to appear on his 1997 UK tour...Dana continues recording successfully today, specialising in her first love, emotionally expressive blues music...this sumptuous reissue of her classic first album is LONG overdue."

Artist:	GILLESPIE, DANA
Title:	Box of Surprises
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 245CD

"In 1964 Dana Gillespie recorded her first single for Pye, with Donovan on guitar and became a regular on the folk circuit along with friends Donovan and David Bowie. She recalls: 'I was doing folk because I couldn't afford a band and I hadn't found my musical niche.' In those early years Dana got to know many of the top bands and people in the music business, appearing on Ready Steady Go and other cool TV shows of the era along with the legends of the British pop explosion. Following up our classic reissue of Dana's U.S.-only album, Foolish Seasons, here is the UK only counterpart, 1968's Box of Surprises! Again featuring the same cast of 1960s Brit-pop legends and morphing seamlessly from her baroque pop and freakbeat styles to sophisticated blues. A LONG overdue reissue! As a special bonus, all her insanely rare and crazily collectable Pye Records single sides are included! What more can you possibly want?"

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