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Covered: Tony Macaulay, Volume 2: 1970-1984

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I just posted Volume 1 of my "Covered" series albums for British songwriter Tony Macaulay. Here's the second and final volume already.

As I mentioned in Volume 1, Macaulay had a remarkable knack for writing catchy, poppy hits. His winning streak continued well into the 1970s. His biggest hits in this volume were "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me" by The New Seekers in 1973, "Don't Give Up on Us" by David Soul in 1976, and "Silver Lady," also by David Soul, in 1977. All three of those songs reached Number One in the British charts. He did have a lot of chart success in the U.S., for instance "Don't Give Up on Us" was a Number One there as well, but for some reason he had more success in Britain.

In 1970, he stopped working with his main songwriting partner in Volume 1, John Macleod, when they began working for different publishing companies. But he worked with other professional songwriters, especially Geoff Stephens, Barry Mason, and the team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. But he wrote some songs by himself. For instance, "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All," "Letter to Lucille," "Falling Apart at the Seams," "Don't Give Up on Us."

I'm pretty confident Macaulay could have kept writing hits in the 1980s and beyond. He did have one hits in the 1980s, "Alibis" by Sergio Mendes, that shows him successfully adapting to changing musical styles. But he increasingly lost interest in writing pop songs. Instead, starting in the early 1970s, he turned his attention to film scores and musical theater. He was successful in both, winning nine British Academy Awards. In the 1990s, he then shifted gears again, and turned to writing thriller novels. He was fairly successful at that as well. He's still alive (and eighty-one years old) as I write this in 2025. 

Pretty much all the songs here are the hit versions. For a couple, like "Gasoline Alley Bred" and "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again," I chose alternate versions since due to posting the other version on other Covered albums. "Bluebird" wasn't a hit, but I liked it so I included it. Normally with these Covered albums, I try to include at least all the big hits. But Macaulay wrote so many that I skipped some I wasn't that keen on, for instance "Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar" by Duane Eddy, "Down on the Beach Tonight," by the Drifters, and "Going in with My Eyes Open," by David Soul, all of which made the Top Ten in Britain.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Gasoline Alley Bred (Blue Mink)
02 Something Old, Something New (Fantastics)
03 [Last Night] I Didn't Get to Sleep at All (5th Dimension)
04 You Won't Find Another Fool like Me (New Seekers)
05 Bluebird (Carl Wayne)
06 Letter to Lucille (Tom Jones)
07 I Get a Little Sentimental Over You (New Seekers)
08 Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies (Drifters)
09 Falling Apart at the Seams (Marmalade)
10 Silver Lady (David Soul)
11 Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again (Connie Cato)
12 Don't Give Up on Us (David Soul)
13 You're More than a Number in My Little Red Book (Drifters)
14 Let's Have a Quiet Night In (David Soul)
15 Alibis (Sergio Mendes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7HbNAqA9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9NoE6XxPOKRpZha/file

I don't know what year the cover photo is from. But I'm guessing on little details that it was taken after the cover photo from Volume 1, which dates to 1972. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it using the Kolorize program. Then I used the Krea AI program on it to improve the detail.



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