🎵 AotW Sandpipers: Foursider (A&M Records SP-3525)

The Sandpipers: Foursider

A&M Records SP-3525
Released 1973


A1: A Gift Of Song 3:10
A2: And I Love Her 2:19
A3: The Windmills Of Your Mind 2:50
A4: Free To Carry On 2:45
A5: Chotto Matte Kudasai (Never Say Goodbye) 3:19
B1: An Old Fashioned Love Song 2:49
B2: Misty Roses 3:27
B3: The Long And Winding Road 3:48
B4: A Song Of Joy (Himno A La Alegria) 4:22
C1: Guantanamera 3:10
C2: Louie, Louie 2:45
C3: Kum-Ba-Ya 2:41
C4: Cuando Sali' De Cuba 2:39
C5: La Mer (Beyond The Sea) 2:43
D1: Come Saturday Morning 3:00
D2: Inch Worm 2:35
D3: Yesterday 2:21
D4: Cast Your Fate To The Wind 1:47
D5: Softly As I Leave You 3:00
D6: Never Can Say Goodbye 2:48

https://www.discogs.com/master/1108118-The-Sandpipers-Foursider

 

[Bobberman]

This Album was available until the mid 80s with the subsequent reissue number of A&M SP 6015 ( on the jacket) with the number 6014 on the labels quite an interesting situation and this along with the BMB foursider were not issued on CD however one can create their own digital Foursider version by sourcing either the various CD reissues or Digital download versions the Sandpipers albums.

 

[Harry]

one can create their own digital Foursider version by sourcing either the various CD reissues

And I did just that. Here's my CD artwork:

 

[Bobberman]

And I did just that. Here's my CD artwork:

Excellent job just like your homemade BMB foursider may I please copy these for my own project as well as personal collection?

 

[Harry]

Of course. Enjoy.

 

[Bobberman]

I decided to bite the bullet and purchase physical CDs of the missing Sandpipers albums that weren't released on CD domestically they are" Softly." " "The Spanish album" " Come Saturday Morning" and "A Gift of Song" I have Overdue Digitally and the two Collectors choice CDs with "Guantanamera" The Sandpipers self titled second album. And" Misty Roses"and "Wonder of you" albums respectively I waited a little long but I was finally able to afford to finish the physical library it's one of those rare but Golden occasions For me

 

[rockdoctor]

I used to have the lp of this and I would have added one more song in and that is Let Go. That was the first Sandpipers song that I remember ever hearing on the radio.

 

[Michael Hagerty]

I used to have the lp of this and I would have added one more song in and that is Let Go. That was the first Sandpipers song that I remember ever hearing on the radio.

Yeah, when that one failed to be a hit, it just sort of sunk without a trace.

Somewhere in the last 20 years on this forum, I said "Let Go" would have made a better Brasil '66 record. Who knows if it would have done any better chartwise, though?

 

[rockdoctor]

Yeah, when that one failed to be a hit, it just sort of sunk without a trace.

Somewhere in the last 20 years on this forum, I said "Let Go" would have made a better Brasil '66 record. Who knows if it would have done any better chartwise, though?

Maybe if it was part of The Look of Love/ Fool on The Hill/ Scarborough Fair run.

 

[Rudy]

Somewhere in the last 20 years on this forum, I said "Let Go" would have made a better Brasil '66 record. Who knows if it would have done any better chartwise, though?

If B66 kept those gloppy Dave Gruesome strings off of it...perhaps. 😁 If it's the song I'm thinking of, it's actually "Canto do Ossanha."

 

[Harry]

I hadn't listened much to The Sandpipers on the several vinyl albums I had, but when this forum was in its early days, there was word of a couple of Japanese CD releases called DIGITALLY REMASTERED BEST. At the time, I ordered both The Sandpipers and the Baja Marimba Band, both of which gave me some nice clean digital versions of most of the best songs in these catalogs.

I remember listening to The Sandpipers disc and was immediately taken with "Let Go". It sounded vaguely familiar and I wondered where I'd heard it before. It's from their album THE WONDER OF YOU, of which I had a ratty LP from the radio station and probably never played, so that wasn't where I'd heard it. I still don't remember where I first heard that song, but it's a great one.

The song was one of my earlier YouTube entries. Several of the comments have indicated that they always thought the song WAS from Brasil '66.

 

[Michael Hagerty]

Maybe if it was part of The Look of Love/ Fool on The Hill/ Scarborough Fair run.

The timing would have been right---"Let Go" was released in November of 1968, as "Fool on the Hill" was on its way down the chart. Given that there were only nine tracks on the "Fool" album, it might have gone there.

Held for release, it might have been a stronger first single from Crystal Illusions than "Pretty World" turned out to be.

When I listen to the backing track for this, I think you could probably have just laid Brasil '66 vocals over it, had Sergio re-record the piano and released it.

 

[Michael Hagerty]

Remarkably, Johnny Mathis was performing it live as recently as 2006:

 

[Harry]

Brasil '66's alter ego group, Bossa Rio, performed "Canto de Ossanha" at the Expo '70 concert. The LIVE IN JAPAN album, produced by Sergio Mendes, was released in Japan by Blue Thumb Records. It's a bit hard to find, and this song wasn't available on YouTube until I just put it there.

 

[Stevenj]

Brasil '66's alter ego group, Bossa Rio, performed "Canto de Ossanha" at the Expo '70 concert. The LIVE IN JAPAN album, produced by Sergio Mendes, was released in Japan by Blue Thumb Records. It's a bit hard to find, and this song wasn't available on YouTube until I just put it there.

Wow, great version!