🎵 AotW Classics Alan Copeland Singers / IF LOVE COMES WITH IT SP-4173

[Harry]

THE ALAN COPELAND SINGERS
If Love Comes With It
A&M SP-4173


Released on CD in Japan as UCCU 3003

Tracks:
Side One
1) Classical Gas/ Scarborough Fair (Mason Williams; Simon-Garfunkel) 2:32
2) This Guy's In Love With You (Bacharach-David) 2:37
3) You're More Fun (C.Copeland-A.Copeland) 2:14
4) Yellow Ribbons (C.Copeland-A.Copeland) 2:38
5) Friday Ferris Wheel (C.Copeland-A.Copeland) 2:28
6) Tiella Lee (Huffstetter-C.Copeland) 3:09

Side 2:
1) If Love Comes With It (B.Hilliard-A.Ross) 2:29
2) Wichita Lineman (Jim Webb) 3:05
3) Funny Girl (Styne-Merrill) 3:07
4) Baroque A Nova (Mason Williams) 2:21
5) Morgan Sebastian (C.Copeland-A.Copeland) 1:58

Producer: ADAM ROSS
With Special Thanks to:
Tenor Saxophone Solos, JOHN NEWSOME / Woodwinds, AL LASKY - JOHN SETAR - ETHMER ROTEN / Trumpets, LARRY McGUIRE - STEVE HUFFSTETTER - BUDDY CHILDERS - RAY TRISCARI - BOB O'DONNELL / Trombones, JIM SAWYER - PAUL KEEN - BOB ENEVOLDSON - RANDY ALDCROFT / Drums, COLIN BAILEY / Bass & Fender, MONTY BUDWIG / Guitar, JOE PASS - LARRY CARLTON / Piano, ROBERT SMALE / Electric Piano, TOMMY GUMINA / Percussionist, VICTOR FELDMAN / Art Director: TOM WILKES / Photography: GUY WEBSTER

 

[Harry]

It's interesting that this album credits the musicians who played, but as the album is credited to singers, those people are not credited. To my ears, this bunch sounds a lot like the infamous "Ron Hicklin Singers" who performed on all sorts of TV commercials, movie and TV theme songs, jingles, etc.

I never sought out nor purchased the LP, but grabbed the Japanese CD a few years ago - and I like the album. It pairs nicely with another A&M album from the era, HAPPY HEART by Nick De Caro.

Harry

 

[Dave]

I did once have this album & along w/ the Roger Nichols/Small Circle Of Friends & Chris Montez Foolin' Around LP's I'd bought in the same time-period, shortly after joining The 'Corner, found this outing to be a forerunner of the later Ray Conniff, Percy Faith et. al. material-wise, arrangement-wise, and sporting the vocals of Ron Hicklin, Tom & John Bahler, etc. whom the singers here greatly resemble...

Very accessible outing, fairly decent arrangements of a few good tunes (though mainly obscure ones--exclusively to Copeland this bunch) and if anything, could really stand at least a couple more songs to fill this out...

-- Dave