Virtuosity’s curse
THIS ISSUE: New LP reissues from Sundazed Music/Modern Harmonic and Speakers Corner
Singer/actress Nancy Priddy’s sole commercial recording, a 1968 album titled —originally issued on Dot Records and now reissued by Sundazed Music/Modern Harmonic (Dot/Modern Harmonic MH-8044)—is a period piece. The arrangements, in which strings, flutes, Herb Alpert–esque trumpets, a harpsichord, a Vox Continental organ, and New Christy Minstrel–style backing singers all appear, are somewhat dated. (Indeed, the opening bars of the title song sound like the sort of cheesy electric pop use as incidental music, apparently to express their limitless stockpiles of irony.) And some of Priddy’s lyrics make the listener thankful for her poor enunciation.
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