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- Date Released: January 1, 1972
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Vocal Pop
- Label: DRG Records
Flower child actress gives singing a try.
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We Say...
Given the dippy flower child persona Goldie Hawn was still getting mileage out of in 1972 when she made this album, the full-bodied quality of her voice is kind of surprising; she doesn't sound so much like a blonde Betty Boop than a Joan Baez sans perfect pitch. The song selection skews to the country side of things, although "Butterfly" has a French chorus, which Hawn handles creditably. Too bad Serge Gainsbourg never looked her up. Alas, her covers of Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and Van Morrison's "I Wanna Roo You" aren't as convincingly seductive as those of us who still cherish the memory of Goldie's micro-bikinied Laugh In tenure might have hoped.
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They Say...
It's a tragedy of pop culture in the new millennium that starlets don't rush willy-nilly into the recording studio anywhere near as much as they used to. Goldie Hawn's sole foray into pop music -- originally released in 1972 on Warner Bros. after Laugh-In but before Steven Spielberg's Sugarland Express revealed her dramatic range as an actress -- isn't Golden Throats-level bad, surely to the disappointment of hipsters everywhere. Although Hawn's helium-pitched voice is a trifle thin and limited, the selection of material wisely plays to her strengths, with Dolly Parton's "My Blue Tears" and -- believe it or not -- Joni Mitchell's "Carey" both well-suited to her soprano vocals. In fact, the only really egregious errors aren't really her fault: the Frenchified "Butterfly," with its absurdly cheesy choral backing, wouldn't have sounded good sung by anybody, and the countrified take on Van Morrison's "I Wanna Roo You" has a botched arrangement that slaps on a vaguely oompah-style waltz-time arrangement that suits neither singer nor song. Other than that, though, Goldie is a sweetly endearing country-tinged middle of the road pop record of a style that just isn't being made anymore.
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My Blue Tears |
2:14 |
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| 02. | |
Wynken, Blynken and Nood |
2:33 |
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| 03. | |
Butterfly |
3:22 |
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| 04. | |
Uncle Pen |
2:43 |
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| 05. | |
The House Song |
4:06 |
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| 06. | |
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight |
3:03 |
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| 07. | |
Carey |
2:50 |
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| 08. | |
Cloudy Summer Afternoon |
2:50 |
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| 09. | |
Ring Bell |
3:01 |
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| 10. | |
I Wanna Roo You |
2:31 |
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| 11. | |
Pasadena |
2:57 |
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11 Total Tracks, 32:10 Total Length
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Credits
- Buck Owens - Arranger // Buck Owens - Arranger // Dolly Parton - Arranger // Dolly Parton - Arranger // Chuck Britz - Engineer // Nick DeCaro - Arranger // Nick DeCaro - Vocal Director // Alan Silverman - Mastering // Charlie Tallent - Engineer // Porter Wagoner - Arranger // Porter Wagoner - Arranger // Lenny Waronker - Producer // Andrew Wickham - Producer // The Buckaroos - Performer // Ed Thrasher - Art Direction // Lucas Deaver - Art Direction // Dan O'Leary - Producer // Jimmy Joyce Singers & Orchestra - Performer
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