''M'Lady'' is the second studio album by Australian recording artist
Colleen Hewett
Colleen Hewett (born 16 April 1950) is an Australian singer and actress.
Hewett's top 40 singles on the Kent Music Report include " Super Star", " Day by Day" (both 1971), " Carry That Weight" (1972), "Dreaming My Dreams with You" (1980 ...
. The album was released in June 1974 by
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...
Background
After having released her debut
self titled album in October 1972 on the
Festival Records
Festival Records, later known as Festival Mushroom Records, was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1952 and operated until 2005.
Festival was a subsidiary of News Limited from 1961 to 2005. The com ...
label and winning Australia's
Queen of Pop in 1972 and 1973, Hewett signed with
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...
in January 1974 to record and release her second studio album. The album included the finale of ''
Pippin'' which Hewett starred in throughout 1974.
Track listing
Vinyl/ Cassette (SD 60000)
Side A
# "
I Believe When I Fall In Love" (
Stevie Wonder
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,
Yvonne Wright
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)
# "
If You Could Read My Mind
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" (
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, ...
)
# "
I'll Be Gone" (
Mike Rudd)
# "
Here, There and Everywhere
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Lennon–McCartney
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)
# "Seldom Seen Sam" (
Terry Smith, J.W. Hopkinson)
# "Pippin"
(finale) (
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as ''Godspell'' (1971), ''Pippin (musical), Pippin'' (1972), and ...
)
Side B
# "
For The Good Times" (
Kristoffer Kristofferson)
# "I Can't Fly" (Colleen Hewett)
# "
Keep The Customer Satisfied" (
Paul Simon
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)
# "Haven't We Met Before" (Danny Beckerman)
# "
Butter Egg Man" (Percy Venable)
# "
Pinball Wizard
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Pete Townshend
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)
Charts
References
1974 albums
Colleen Hewett albums
Atlantic Records albums
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