Rick Price - Love and Dreams - Instrumental Ballads from the 50's and 60's
1.In dreams
2.Crying in the rain
3.Sweet dreams
4.Love hurts
5.When I grow too old to dream
6.Beautiful dreamer
7.Dream on
8.All I have to do is dream
9.Dreamin'
10.True love
11.Sleepwalk
12.Love me tender
13.Love and dreams
14.Will you love me tomorrow
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Dianne Lee and Rick Price - Live
1.Wake up little Susie - Bye bye love
2.Chemistry
3. Flowers in the rain
4.Loving arms
5.Beautiful dreamer
6.Angel fingers
7.Welcome home
8.Emotional tangle
9.Rockin' round with Ollie Vee
10.Words of love
11.Singing the blues
12.Lonely street
13.Baby likes to rock it
14.Perfect love - Play off
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A Review By John Van der Kiste
RICK PRICE: Love and Dreams - Instrumental Ballads from the 50's and 60s
Love and Dreams is basically as you would expect from the sub-title. It's a set of tunes from a musician going back to his roots, a man who grew up in the early rock'n'roll years, listening to the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and others. These are all performed with immaculate respect, rather in the style of the last few Shadows albums of 'those you have loved'. Maybe it's appropriate that Hank Marvin comes to mind as, if you recall stories in the music press in early 1969, after the Shadows disbanded Hank was to be invited to join The Move after Trevor Burton's exit. (He didn't, so who did? Yes, a certain Mr Price).
As Rick points out, "it's not rock'n'roll any more, we've calmed down and thankfully most of you have mellowed too." Fair enough, it may not be rock'n'roll with the volume turned up to 10, and it may not be Introducing Eddy & the Falcons (which you've almost certainly got if you've reached this website). But it's still a mighty fine piece of work. It's nice to be able to say that the best tune of the lot is the title track, which he wrote himself. As for the best of the rest, in my opinion - In Dreams, All I Have To Do Is Dream, and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. (TPL 48.38)
DIANNE LEE & RICK PRICE: Live
Live is a real cracker too. In 1973 it was Peters and Lee, nearly 30 years later it's - well, Lee and Price. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, Rick plays most of the instruments - guitars, pedal steel guitar, plus all drum, bass and synth programming. Dianne plays guitar as well, and they are augmented by Roger Rhodes on fiddle. A brief majestic instrumental passage, interpolating the closing segment of our favourite Christmas song (OK you lot, take it - "When the snowman brings the snow"), segues into a medley of Wake Up Little Susie and Bye Bye Love. A few spoken links by Dianne, plus a few irreverent asides from Rick (notably on the Jim Davidson 'adult pantomime' connections, meeting HM The Queen and sharing a dressing room with Danny La Rue), give this in-concert set more character than a recording of songs and nothing else.
A glance at the track listing reveals that there are two songs written by 'our hero'. Dianne introduces one of them by telling us that maybe we had a poster of Mario Lanza or Frank Sinatra on our wall when we were young - or if we were less conventional, maybe it was The Move. Cue instant applause and Flowers In The Rain. Later in the set comes Angel Fingers which, considering it topped the charts, seems to get less airplay as an oldie these days than it deserves. Listening to Rick singing it, plus all those little melodic twists in the backing which do ample justice to the Wizzard version, reminds us what a great song it is.
There's a nod to Buddy Holly with Rockin' Around With Ollie Vee and Words Of Love, a salute to Guy Mitchell with Singin' The Blues, a lovely version of the much-recorded Loving Arms, and naturally Dianne couldn't leave out the song which started it all for her and the late Lenny Peters, Welcome Home. Interestingly, the latter song was one of six singles to top the chart in the summer of 1973 between See My Baby Jive and Angel Fingers. Hands up, those of us who seriously thought at the time that Wizzard's long-haired bassist dodging custard pies on 'Top Of The Pops' would eventually inherit Lenny's mantle. No, my hand isn't up either! (TPL 46.29)
Reviews © 2001 John Van der Kiste
(Author of The Roy Wood Story, 1986 ( now out of print ) and Beyond the Summertime: The Mungo Jerry story, 1990)
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