Once dismissed as the 'poor relation' of 'proper' records, the vast catalogue of Woolworth's Embassy label has undergone serious and deserved reappraisal in recent years, among collectors of British 50s and 60s Pop. Jasmine has been doing it's bit to assist with this reappraisal in recent times, with both multi-artist sets and individual collections that have extensively featured the work of two Embassy mainstays in Maureen Evans and 'Hal Munro' (Neville Taylor). We have several more in the pipeline, too - and this month sees the release of a CD devoted entirely to the work of one of the label's longest-serving and most versatile artists. Jean Campbell recorded for Embassy from 1959 through to the label's demise in 1965. Like many of the label's singers, Jean had been a band singer for several years and was thus able to handle anything Embassy's A&R department handed to her to record, from hits by singers half her age to show tunes. This Jasmine collection pulls together everything Jean cut for Embassy under her own name (plus a couple of tracks where she was billed as 'Jean Scott') between 1959 and 1962. She was the label's main 'go-to' girl after Maureen Evans moved to the main Oriole label in 1960 and stopped recording covers for Embassy, and thus it was that she 'sung' everyone from Connie Francis to Helen Shapiro to Gracie Fields in the period that this collection embraces. Jean's career spanned more than 30 years and four decades in total, and she was popular on radio, TV and - thanks mostly to Embassy - on records, where her covers of the hits of the day frequently outsold the originals thanks to the vast network of Woolworth shops across the UK. It's a pleasure to pay tribute to a 'great unknown' via the first ever anthology - of ANY kind - of her great Embassy sides.

Track List

1. My Happiness - Jean Scott
2. As I Love You (More and More) - Jean Scott
3. The Big Hurt - Jean Campbell
4. I Can't Begin to Tell You - Jean Campbell
5. Sweet Nuthin's - Jean Campbell
6. Robot Man - Jean Campbell
7. Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Jean Campbell
8. I'm Sorry - Jean Campbell
9. Paper Roses - Jean Campbell
10. The Train of Love - Jean Campbell
11. My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own - Jean Campbell
12. I Want to Be Wanted - Jean Campbell
13. Many Tears Ago - Jean Campbell
14. Sailor - Jean Campbell
15. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - Jean Campbell
16. Where the Boys Are - Jean Campbell
17. Don't Treat Me Like a Child - Jean Campbell
18. Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart - Jean Campbell
19. Romeo - Jean Campbell
20. You Don't Know - Jean Campbell
21. Reach for the Stars - Jean Campbell
22. Together - Jean Campbell
23. Walkin' Back to Happiness - Jean Campbell
24. You'll Answer to Me - Jean Campbell
25. Far Away - Jean Campbell
26. The Day After Tomorrow - Jean Campbell
27. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Jean Campbell
28. Bill - Jean Campbell
29. I Enjoy Being a Girl - Jean Campbell
30. Chop Suey - Jean Campbell
31. Grant Avenue - Jean Campbell