Mark Lindsay will always be remembered as the lead vocalist of Paul Revere And The Raiders, who produced some of the better American pop singles of the 1960\u2019s. Hit songs such as \u201cJust Like Me,\u201d \u201cKicks,\u201d \u201cGood Thing,\u201d and \u201cHim Or Me, What\u2019s It Gonna Be\u201d were perfect vehicles for Top 40 radio play at the time as they were catchy and stayed in your mind for days. The band sold tens of millions of those old 45 RPM records. Lindsay became the recognizable centerpiece of the band, which changed its name in 1966 to Paul Revere And The Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay. Their catalog of hits has been re-released dozens of times through the years.<\/p>\n
After leaving the band, Lindsay embarked upon a solo career. While it produced several commercially successful singles, it was not as successful as his Paul Revere days, despite his producing some of the smoothest and catchiest pop of the era. His career might have taken a different turn if he had released, as planned, the old John D. Loudermilk song, \u201cIndian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian),\u201d as a solo release. Instead he issued it under The Raiders name and it became the only number one hit of his, or the band\u2019s, career. Most of his solo material has been out of print for decades and much of it has never been released on CD.<\/p>\n
Real Gone Music has now gone a long way in resurrecting his solo legacy. The Complete Columbia Singles<\/i> gathers all of his singles for the Columbia label (plus one unreleased track that was originally scheduled as a B-side, Tim Hardin\u2019s \u201cReason To Believe\u201d) and presents them in chronological order. The sound is clear and the liner notes about each of the 24 tracks are complete. The first five tracks only exist in mono but the rest of the album is stereo.<\/p>\n
His most well-known songs, \u201cArizona\u201d and \u201cSilverbird,\u201d are fine examples of early 1970s pop. They may not be as rock \u2018n\u2019 roll as his Paul Revere material but are fine vehicles for his smooth vocal approach. His cover of the Neil Diamond composition, \u201cAnd The Grass Won\u2019t Pay No Mind,\u201d remains the best rendition of this old musical chestnut.<\/p>\n
Non-album singles such as \u201cProblem Child,\u201d \u201cCalifornia,\u201d and \u201cPhotograph\u201d make their album debuts nearly 40 years after their original release. Add in such lost gems as \u201cMiss America,\u201d and \u201cBeen On the Road Too Long\u201d and you have an album of note.<\/p>\n
The Complete Columbia Singles<\/i> fills a big hole in the music catalog of Mark Lindsay and 1970s pop. It is an album filled with shining pop creations that have been unavailable for too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8848],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42636","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mark-lindsay","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42636"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}