For group background I recommend Wikipedia. This is a personal note. After releasing their debute 1963 and two more albums the year after, this 1965 effort became their international breakthrough reaching #19 on Billboard, #5 in UK and top ten in various other countries. At the time I was twelve, just discovered the wonders of UK and US rock, pop and blues artists and was open to about everything in a youthfully undisciminating way. I immediately fell in love with the Tom Springfield penned title song and the intensity provided by Judith Durham's emotional vocals to the 100% positive background. You'd think that in the years that followed, when deep down in psych, garage and prog, I must have let it go as obsolete or at least old news, but no. The buoyant feeling is still there, making me happy when listening. The rest of this album doesn't do it for me in the same way. I like her vocals in songs like "Two Summers", "The Leaving Of Liverpool", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and "Allentown Jail", but apart from that it's very average sixties folk pop. And though the audio on this mono is superb - clear and dynamic - a true keeper of mine just because of "A World Of Our Own"...but that's good enough for me. Originally also released on vinyl in north and south America, Downunder and South Africa. US/Canadian first on Capitol in mono (T 2369) and fake stereo (DT 2369) as an eleven track, omitting "Whistling Rufus". Australian 1997 CD on EMI (4931272). Premiere UK in mono only had label as shown here and laminated flip-back cover. (FÄV*)
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