Description

Mel Carter When A Boy Falls In Love Limited Vinyl LP

Overview:

Mel Carter’s debut album originally released in 1963 on Sam Cooke’s SAR Records/Derby label is back in print on LP and CD formats. Produced by Sam Cooke and J.W. Alexander, the album includes songs written by Cooke and Alexander as well as some pop standards and “Why I Call Her Mine,” a Mel Carter original composition that would be issued as a single in 1963. Mel was considered one of the 10 Best Newcomer Male Vocalists of 1963 by Cash Box, he performed “When A Boy Falls In Love” on numerous TV shows including Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. The title track “When a Boy Falls in Love” spent 10 weeks on the pop chart and the album was originally awarded 4-stars by Billboard. R&B scholar Bill Dahl contributed liner notes after speaking with Carter, enhancing the otherwise faithfully restored original package. CD contains the single versions of “When a Boy Falls In Love” and “So Wonderful.”

Featured Tracks:

1 Time of Young Love
2 We’ll Bless Each Day With Our Love
3 So Wonderful
4 When I Fall in Love
5 Twelfth of Never
6 Why I Call Her Mine
7 When a Boy Falls in Love
8 Hold Me
9 For Your Love
10 Wonderful Love
11 After the Parting the Meeting Is Sweeter
12 You Can Count On Me