Would You Believe

by Billy Nicholls

Would You Believe cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1968
  • Label: Immediate
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 33:34
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pushed by Immediate Records as the British answer to 'Pet Sounds', Billy Nicholls' debut is an incredibly dense, heavily orchestrated pop masterpiece that was tragically shelved. 'Would You Believe' is remarkably lush and fiercely melodic, weaving beautifully uplifting, distinctly bittersweet vocal harmonies into wonderfully warm, slightly energetic psychedelic baroque pop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, orchestral, chamber, sophisticated, harmonious

Tracklist

  1. Would You Believe (2:40)
  2. Come Again (2:35)
  3. Life Is Short (3:08)
  4. Feeling Easy (3:13)
  5. Daytime Girl (2:45)
  6. Daytime Girl (Coda) (1:37)
  7. London Social Degree (2:24)
  8. Portobello Road (2:05)
  9. Question Mark (2:26)
  10. Being Happy (2:29)
  11. Girl from New York (3:18)
  12. It Brings Me Down (4:49)

Credits

  • Billy Nicholls - primary artist, written-by
  • Arthur Greenslade - arranged by, arranged by [strings]
  • John Paul Jones - arranged by
  • Small Faces - arranged by
  • Denny Gerrard - arranged by [strings]
  • Derek Burton - design
  • Anthony Stern - photography by
  • Ronnie Lane - producer
  • Steve Marriott - producer
  • Jeremy Paul - written-by

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