Love Bomb (Lynsey de Paul album)
| Love Bomb | ||||
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| Studio album by Lynsey de Paul | ||||
| Released | 1975 | |||
| Label | Jet | |||
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Love Bomb is the fourth album released in 1975 by the British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul, and her second album released on Jet Records in the UK and Germany. In the US, it was released in January 1976 on Mercury Records. The album was produced by de Paul and arranged by Tony Hymas, with Terry Cox playing drums, John Dean percussion, Chris Rae guitar and Frank McDonald bass. The sleeve cover photo was taken by Brian Aris.
The album has been critically acclaimed including by de Paul's peers, such as musician, journalist, author Bob Stanley and was a notable album. The album was featured as one of Billboard 's recommended LPs in the 27 December 1975 issue of Billboard magazine, and also received a positive reviews in the 27 December 1975 issue of Cashbox, "High Fidelity" and "Stereo Review". It is held by the US Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 United States. As well as containing the hit single, "No, Honestly" (which was also the theme for the TV comedy series of the same name), the album included the soul/disco infused UK singles "Love Bomb" and the ballad "Hug and Squeeze Me", which was also released as a single in November 1975 (backed by the non-album song "You Made Me Write This Song"). The song highlights of the album according to AllMusic are "Dreams" and "No Honestly".
"Sugar Shuffle" was released as a single in the USA and Japan, with the UK single A-side "Love Bomb" relegated to the B-side. "Sugar Shuffle" received positive reviews in the US in industry trade magazines such as Record World, with Cashbox writing "Lynsey is a very hot writer in Great Britain at this point in time, and so she's earned a shot at the United States "Sugar Shuffle” is well worth that shot. Cool little teasing vocal gets straight to the point, "Get some honey/forget the money/do the sugar shuffle.” The lady works with words very well and has a memorable voice". Although not released as a single in the UK, "Sugar Shuffle" was popular on a number of mainstream UK radio stations, including BBC Radio 1.
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