Susan Christie Paint a Lady Gatefold LP Remastered Album 2006 Finders Keepers
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Susan Christie is an American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known for a minor hit folk song “I Love Onions” (1966) and for her critically acclaimed solo psychedelic-folk album Paint A Lady (2006).
Following the success of “I Love Onions”, Susan Christie and John Hill attempted to market two more pop-novelty singles through Columbia Records: “Tonight You Belong To Me” with b-side “Toy Balloon” released April 24, 1967 and “All I Have To Do Is Dream” paired with b-side “Anywhere You Are”, released October 17, 1967.[4] Unfortunately, neither single made the charts, and Christie was also growing tired of the breathy pop style with which she was becoming associated.[2] Bootlegs and vinyl rips of these songs circulated the internet for years before they finally received an official re-release as part of the Columbia Singles album on March 16, 2018.
Their success started to turn around however, when the pair were offered an album deal through ABC-Paramount. “This wonderful opportunity came for us to do things the way we would like to do them,” Christie would later say.[2] They carefully selected a mixture of country, folk, and psychedelic songs and created unique, original renditions of each for an album to be released under the title Paint a Lady. But after the first few tracks were completed, ABC-Paramount pulled the deal, declaring the album to be un-commercial.[10] Only three privately-pressed vanity copies were produced (circa 1970 - 1971)[10][11] which the disappointed couple saved along with the master tapes.
Following the failure to complete Paint A Lady, Christie abandoned her dreams of recording as an independent artist, working instead as a jingle singer and focusing on personal and family life. “I had decided against being a normal singer because jingle work was easier to fit around the children. I sang about bladder control, detergents, Diet Pepsi and Maxwell House coffee,” she said during a 2008 interview.[11]
Paint A Lady languished in all but forgotten obscurity in Christie's basement until, in the early 2000s, she was approached by a record company executive named Keith D’Arcy who specialized in rare and unusual recordings. She gave him one of the three copies, which he then shared with English DJ Andy Votel, owner and founder of Finders Keepers Records.[11]
The album was released commercially for the first time in 2006 to great acclaim. The title track “Paint A Lady” was also released as a single for the Finders Keepers Records Compacta Series, including “Ghost Riders In The Sky” (which Susan Christie considered her finest recorded track)[2] as a b-side. Finders Keepers Records described the album as a “psychedelic take on country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude backed by a break heavy folk funk rhythm section”.[10] Spin Magazine described it as filled with “brilliantly original songs" and Christie's voice as a "dark, strange songbird”.[12] Christie herself summed the album up simply: “I’d always been proud of it - it was a new sound, sort of ‘funky-folk’.”[11]
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