Sealed LP: Paul Nicholas: Paul Nicholas

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Paul Nicholas: Paul Nicholas

FACTORY SEALED LP

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Songs

• Heaven on the 7th Floor
• Reggae Like It Used to Be
• If You Were the Only Girl in the World
• Sunday
• Earthquake Landslide Hurricane
• Sway
• Do You Want My Love
• Dancin' With the Captain
• Black Daddy
• Grandma's Party

Credits

Paul Nicholas: Vocals, Main Performer

Album Review

Review by Vince Ripol, All Music Guide

Some one-hit wonders are too ridiculous to understand. In 1977, "Heaven on the 7th Floor" lifted Paul Nicholas into the Top Ten with its improbable elevator romance set to a disco-bubblegum hybrid that proved more satisfying in songs like Dan Hartman's "Instant Replay." Nicholas wisely replaced the clichéd plot device with "On the Strip"'s more credible celebration of teenage cruising, but that follow-up stalled at number 67, and he never recaptured his American audience. The rest of his album failed to get off the ground floor, although the unremarkable "Dancing With the Captain" and "Grandma's Party" became Top Ten hits in England. Any good taste demonstrated by the British chart failure of "Heaven on the 7th Floor" was negated by the Top 20 success of "Reggae Like It Used to be," in which Nicholas cemented his dilettante status with the absurd claim that "you can reggae Beethoven." Perhaps "Heaven on the 7th Floor" belongs on some sort of twisted Nuggets album, surrounded by other ludicrous '70s oddities like "Playground in My Mind" and "Oh Babe What Would You Say?" Until such a compilation surfaces, there's little reason to endure the majority of Paul Nicholas.

Biography

Paul Nicholas biography by Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Few vocalists have gone through as many permutations in their career in popular music in the manner of Paul Nicholas. Best known as a singer, Nicholas began his career in professional music at the keyboard at age 19, playing piano with Screaming Lord Sutch and his backing band, the Savages, in 1964. He didn't remain with the band too long, however, choosing to give up playing full-time in favor of studying drama and developing his acting skills. Nicholas continued to record occasionally, but despite his access to early compositions by Pete Townshend ("Join My Gang") and David Bowie ("Over the Wall We Go"), he failed to chart a single with any of his work.

In 1968, Nicholas joined the British cast of the musical +Hair, which was brought to London in 1968 by Robert Stigwood in the lead role of Claude. The two years he spent in the part marked Nicholas's first time crossing paths professionally with the producer, and he was later cast in Stigwood's productions of +Jesus Christ, Superstar and +Grease. Nicholas also appeared in the rock-related movies Tommy, Lisztomania, and Stardust. Nicholas's extensive credits in Stigwood's productions and his resulting popularity inevitably led to his recording several singles for the producer's RSO Records, mostly in a disco-pop vein, but his success was largely confined to the stage, where he continued to earn leading roles in major productions, including +Barnum, +the Pirates of Penzance, +Jesus Christ, Superstar's 20th anniversary concert tour, and the 1995 production of +Singin' in the Rain. He also began working behind the scenes in theater during the 1990s, producing the 1993 West End revival of +Grease on behalf of the Stigwood organization.

• This record came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua.
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