Sing for You

Chad & Jeremy's first British LP, Sing for You, was — confusingly — an entirely different release than the American LP bearing the same title, which was the second of the duo's U.S. long-players, and featured different tracks for the most part. The U.K. Sing for You was pretty similar to Chad & Jeremy's first American LP (Yesterday's Gone), with the exception of a different running order and a few different tracks. Three songs from the British Sing for You don't appear on Yesterday's Gone: "If I Loved You" (their third British single), the traditional folk song "Donna Donna," and the John Lennon-Paul McCartney composition "From a Window" (never done by the Beatles, but a hit for Billy J. Kramer). Conversely, three songs from Yesterday's Gone — "Now and Forever," "Too Soon My Love," and the instrumental "Only for the Young" — don't appear on the British version of Sing for You. It's a pain to keep straight, but luckily it doesn't really matter. Since everything from the British Sing for You (including the aforementioned three songs that don't appear on Yesterday's Gone) all found release in the United States, there's no reason to hunt down an original copy of the U.K. album; if you want to hear the songs in their original order, they're the first dozen tracks on the reissue compilation Sing for You/Second Album, which combines the first two albums and five additional tracks on a single-CD release. As for the music, it was pleasant fare that epitomized the lightest aspects of the early British Invasion, highlighted by their pop-folk hits "Yesterday's Gone," "A Summer Song," and "Willow Weep for Me." Elsewhere the song list is more varied and less rock-oriented than that of the usual British Invasion act, including a few originals, popular standards ("September in the Rain" and Rodgers-Hammerstein's "If I Loved You"), and folk music.