RARE 1959 UK No. 1 ADAM FAITH 78 " WHAT DO YOU WANT " PARLOPHONE R 4591 EX
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE 1959 NUMBER ONE HIT FROM ADAM FAITH ON AN ORIGINAL UK PARLOPHONE 78
ADAM FAITH - WHAT DO YOU WANT
Adam Faith. What Do You Want
ENTERED THE UK CHARTS - 25/11/19593 weeks at #1 - 19 weeks on chart
What do you want if you don't want money
What do you want if you don't want gold
Say what you want and I'll give it you darling
Wish you wanted my love baby
What do you want if you don't want ermine
What do you want if you don't want pearls
Say what you want and I'll give it you darling
Wish you wanted my love baby
Well I'm offering you this heart of mine
But all you do is play it cool
What do you want
Oh boy you're making a fool of me
One of these days when you need my kissing
One of these days when you want me too
Don't turn around coz I'll be missing
Then you'll wanta my love baby
Well I'm offering you a diamond ring
But all you do is turn me down
What do you want
Oh boy you're goin' to town on me
One of these days when you need my kissing
One of these days when you want me too
Don't turn around coz I'll be missing
Then you'll wanta my love baby
Well then you'll wanta my love baby B SIDE:- FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER
Faith became one of Britain's significant early pop stars. At the time, he was distinctive for his hiccupping glottal stops and exaggerated pronunciation. He did not write his own material, and much of his early success was through partnership with songwriter Les Vandyke and John Barry, whose arrangements were inspired by Don Costa's pizzicato arrangements for Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".
Faith began his musical career in 1957, while working as a film cutter in London in the hope of becoming an actor, singing with and managing a skiffle group, The Worried Men. The group played in Soho coffee bars after work, and became the resident band at The 2i's Coffee Bar, where they appeared on the BBC Television live music programme Six-Five Special. The producer, Jack Good, was impressed by the singer and arranged a solo recording contract with HMV under the name Adam Faith.
His debut record "(Got a) Heartsick Feeling" and "Brother Heartache and Sister Tears" in January 1958, failed to make the charts. Good gave him a part in the stage show of Six-Five Special, along with The John Barry Seven but the show folded after four performances. His second release later that year was a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "High School Confidential", backed with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David penned "Country Music Holiday", but this also failed.
Faith returned to work as a film cutter at National Studios at Elstree until March 1959, when Barry invited him to audition for a BBC TV rock and roll show, Drumbeat. The producer, Stewart Morris, gave him a contract for three shows, extended to the full 22-week run. His contract with HMV had ended, and he sang one track, "I Vibrate", on a six-track EP released by the Fontana record label. Barry's manager, Eve Taylor, got him a contract with Top Rank, but his only record there, "Ah, Poor Little Baby" / "Runk Bunk" produced by Tony Hatch, failed to chart due to a lack of publicity caused by a national printing strike.
Despite the failure, Faith was becoming popular through television appearances. He became an actor by taking drama and elocution lessons, and appeared in the film, Beat Girl. The script called for Faith to sing songs and as Barry was arranging Faith's recordings and live Drumbeat material, the film company asked him to write the score. This was the beginning of Barry's career in film music.
Faith's success on Drumbeat enabled another recording contract with Parlophone. His next record in 1959, "What Do You Want?", written by Les Vandyke and produced by Barry and John Burgess, received good reviews in the NME and other papers, as well as being voted a hit on Juke Box Jury. This became his first number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, and his pronunciation of the word 'baby' as 'bay-beh' became a catch phrase.
"What Do You Want?" was the first number one hit for Parlophone, Faith the only pop act on the label at the time.
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