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i like her version of "The First Cut Is The Deepest". what else should I know about her?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

much better known, in the u.k. than in the u.s., she was an ikette and then recorded for immediate. i love her version of "angel of the morning."

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

she was an ikette? wow

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah. cool, eh?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all fantastic! Just get her Imediate Records comp. & you won't be disappointed.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pretty sad that the only thing i know by her is that track she did with the Beatmasters ('Burn It Up')

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i like evapor8 best, her single with altern8

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeh

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I love you all. I have trouble convincing friends of her greatness. Her Angel of the Morning is a joy.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I love "(If You Think You're) Groovy" the most. I'm so used to the other versions of "First Cut Is the Deepest:" and "Angel of the Morning", but she owns this one. Well, her and the Small Faces. It was so kind of them to give the song away, it's really one of their best and that's saying a lot. They're the band and Steve Marriot's backup vocal raveup is typically out of control. It also has this haughty hippie chick kiss-off chorus that's just killer--"If you think you're groovy/You don't even move me!"

I like her version of "Would You Believe" better than her labelmate Billy Nichol's. Her cover of "To Love Somebody" is outstanding, too. I've never heard a bad version of that song, come to think of it. And it's nice to hear an unrestrained, wailing vocal on "As Tears Go By", it's usually done so forlornly. And her first single, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" is one of those great bouncy 60s Brit Girl Group-type songs with lots of "hey hey HEY!'s".

Oh, heck , Jez was right, just get the Immediate comp, Fritz.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Big ol' interview with her by Alexis Petridis

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/02/the-unlikely-return-of-pp-arnold-i-put-myself-in-gods-hands

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 November 2017 18:02 (eight years ago)

Painfully underrated - wonderful voice.

― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 2 November 2017 18:11 (eight years ago)

The First Lady of Immediate is a brilliant album and one of my favourite albums of the 60s. The follow up was a bit disappointing though.

In the late 90s she released a cover of Different Drum as a single, but it was kinda weird how it faded out after 2 1/2 minutes as she hadn't even finished singing the verses by then

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 2 November 2017 18:36 (eight years ago)

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