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Track 1: Groovin' 2:22 Track 2: We'll Be Together Again 3:00 Track 3: I Can Hear The Music 2:24 Track 4: Once Was A Time I Thought 1:51 Track 5: I Stayed Too Long At The Fair 3:39 Track 6: Yesterday 2:33 Track 7: Open For Business As Usual 2:20 Track 8: Love Me Tender 3:07 Track 9: Holiday For Strings 2:36 Track 10: Where's The Love 2:54 Track 11: Georgy Girl 2:47
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Liner Note
Some of us older fans (well, not that old) remember how we used to marvel at the prodigious talent of a pretty teenaged singer named Sue Raney. We still do. But now Sue Raney is a woman grown. And as this new album will attest, that marvelous talent has grown, too,
She's always had all the natural equipment necessary for a singer: that warmth in her voice, clarity of diction — intelligence and feeling for interpretation of words — a genuine musicality about her. That was all there in that young talent we first admired.
Of course there have been child prodigies before — amazing talent implanted in a mind and body too young to really know what to do with it. More often than not a child prodigy is like a comet that glows brilliantly for a passing moment, then burns itself out before reaching maturity. A comet is not a star. A performer is not an artist. Talent is God-given. Stardom is won. Artistry is achieved.
In between natural talent and the emergence of an artist is diligence, dedication, devotion. It takes time and hard work — often disappointment. For a singer it means a thousand-and-onenighters. A million rehearsals. (It wasn't right? Let's go back and do it again. Just once more.) It's a lifetime of learning, improving, progressing. That progression is hard to describe, even harder to accomplish. And it's magnificent to observe. But when there are so many small talents around that, through luck or exploitation or whatever, can sell a million records or make a million bucks, is all that effort worth it? Ask Sue Raney. Or listen to this album. For now when this young woman addresses a song, we recognize the maturity, the authority, the great depth of understanding and meaning. When Sue Raney sings we know that's how it is. We know what she means. What's more, we know that she knows. We sense the presence of an artist.
Jim Gosa
No personnel list on this LP
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