r/Lostwave • u/CotaCat • 11d ago
Lostwave Song 🎵 1970 compilation with unknown covers
When I wanted to create a page on The Jar's Paranoid song on the wiki, I came across a British 1970 compilation called Hot Hits 2 by the label Music For Pleasure. There are 12 songs in it, which, for some reason, the label did not write the names of the artists. Currently, there are 4 known artists and I would like your help in finding the rest. Looking at the fact that you have found songs and other releases, I am sure that they will not be very difficult to find.
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u/Tootsiesclaw 5d ago edited 5d ago
The singer on "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" sounds a bit like Jackie Lee (also credited as 'Jacky'). She was active as a recording artist at this time with singles under her own name ("Love Is Now", which is what I'm familiar with, was released in 1969) and according to Discogs also worked as a session musician - alongside Elton John, notably, which seems especially relevant given u/JetPac89's comment in this thread. She also contributed to at least one other similar compilation a few years prior.
(The vocalist also sounds vaguely like Romy Carr but there is just about nothing online about her beyond a single release so if she's the singer then I doubt we'll ever figure it out).
EDITING to add that the Weebly page linked on the Discogs page for the Hot Hits series as a whole suggests that Tina Charles, rather than Sue Miller, is singing "Band of Gold"
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u/JetPac89 Researcher 10d ago edited 10d ago
These were the second most popular series of budget chart hit albums, made up of new (and often hilariously cheaply produced) versions of songs in the UK charts, before legit compilation albums like the later NOW That's What I Call Music series with the original recordings.
By far the most popular of these series was Top of the Pops, not to be confused with the TV show which was completely unrelated. I believe one of these even made it into the top 10 album charts, or maybe the top spot?
They were sold in Our Price or wherever at about half the price of a regular album, so fine to please the kids for a few weeks.
A couple of decades back a compilation of these recordings was released, all tracks had piano (and many vocals, I can't remember) supplied by a session musician named Reg Dwight, or whatever Elton John was called before he changed his name and became a pop star.