Billy Fury was amazingly varied as a recording artist, and his singles went from bubbling pop to brooding rockers to string-laden ballads, all with the same sharp, clear professionalism. That professionalism is why collections like this, which feature re-recorded versions of Fury's original Decca hits done for first K-Tel in 1978, and then for Polydor (which by this time owned Decca Records, and thus owned the original masters anyway -- go figure!) in the early '80s, are still worth hearing. Songs like "Wondrous Place," ...
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Billy Fury was amazingly varied as a recording artist, and his singles went from bubbling pop to brooding rockers to string-laden ballads, all with the same sharp, clear professionalism. That professionalism is why collections like this, which feature re-recorded versions of Fury's original Decca hits done for first K-Tel in 1978, and then for Polydor (which by this time owned Decca Records, and thus owned the original masters anyway -- go figure!) in the early '80s, are still worth hearing. Songs like "Wondrous Place," "Colette," and "I'll Never Find Another You" come off well in these newer versions, but they lack just a little bit of the spark that drove the original versions. It's a matter of degree, really, since these new versions are enjoyable, and none of these songs suffer for the redoing. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi
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