Vanity Fare – ’I Live For The Sun’ / ’On The Other Side Of Life’ (Page One POF 075) June 1968
Ruthlessly plugged though I have been, I nevertheless give this group and this song a good chance of making it first time out. An obviously commercial arrangement, production and number, with a catchy little repetitive sun-sun-sun phrase which registers strongly.
They’re getting the radio and TV space and this is blatantly grow-on-you-instantly pop. Flip: A la-la-lah sort of thing with fair appeal. (Record Mirror, 29/06/68)
VANITY FAIR: “I Live For The Sun” (Page One) | Every now and then there are fantastic rumblings about the business prophesying the future of a certain record. The last one was “World Of Oz“, and where did that get? Rumblings don’t impress me particularly, but the record does.
Nice four Seasonsy type thing. Well produced and well put together. One of the best engineers in the country, Barry Ainsworth, was at the controls on this one to help make this fine noise.
Apparently he’s now moving on to warmer climes, for what I understand is a record salary, the highest ever paid to an engineer, so i don’t expect he minds if this is a hit or not.
have to be a bit guarded as to whether this will be a hit though, ‘cos the falsetto thing is a bit out at the moment. (Top Pops, 06/07/68)
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