Marianne Faithfull – Loveinamist – Vinyl LP

Loveinamist, Marianne’s second pop LP for Decca and last album of the 60’s has been remastered from the original tapes by the Grammy nominated Andrew Batt who also provides detailed sleevenotes which Marianne contributed to before her passing in January 2025. Released in March 1967, Loveinamist was a hybrid comprised of earlier hit singles ‘Yesterday’ and ‘This Little Bird’ alongside tracks released on her US only album Faithfull Forever 7 months earlier and new recordings in the folk-pop style that defined her signature sound. The album features a clutch of impressive interpretations from the songwriters that suited her best, including a string laden ‘Counting’ by Bob Lind, a stoic ‘Reason To Believe’ by Tim Hardin, gorgeous folk-pop ballad ‘With You In Mind’ by Jackie DeShannon, and the baroque psychedelia of Donovan’s ‘In The Night Time’. There was something in Donovan’s words music and ideas that seemed to sit particularly well with Marianne’s interpretive gifts and another of his compositions ‘Young Girl Blues’ is given a powerful treatment distinctly at odds with the rest of the album’s folky romanticism. Loveinamist also reflects Marianne’s penchant for French music with beautiful versions of ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ from the 1964 musical Les Parapluies De Cherbourg and ‘Coquillages’, Marianne’s own French translation of ‘Cockleshells’, which originally appeared on North Country Maid.

Although it would be almost a decade before she released another album, Loveinamist represented a new phase of creative accomplishment for Marianne, and includes some of her strongest pop performances of the 60s.

Side A
1 Yesterday
2 You Can’t Go Where The Roses Go
3 Our Love Has Gone
4 Don’t Make Promises
5 In The Night Time
6 This Little Bird
7 Ne Me Quitte Pas

Side B
1 Counting
2 Reason To Believe
3 Coquillage
4 With You In Mind
5 Young Girl Blues
6 Good Guy
7 I Have A Love