Wow! Something of a major discovery here we thinks. Californian actress/model/singer Kathe Green cut this hugely sought after but rare-as-hell long player for Deram in 1969 after having appeared in’the Party with Peter Sellers. Finding herself in London as guest and bosom buddy of Richard Harris, himself enjoying a spin-off career as a hugely successful pop star at the time, Kathe found herself singing Mark Lester s vocal parts on Where Is Love? for the soon-to-be-massive Oliver soundtrack. She was snapped up by Deram where she was teamed up with in-house whiz-kid producer Wayne Bickerton, arranger supreme John Cameron and the cream of London session players. Kathe wrote 10 of the album s 13 tracks, which recall all manner of contemporary female vocalists of the time, from Marianne Faithfull to Sandie Shaw to Dana Gillespie (with whom Kathe shared Bickerton s production savvy, not to mention a couple of his tunes). She also turns in a lump-to-the-throat reading of Cameron s perennial If I Thought You d Ever Change Your Mind. Housed in a striking sleeve which featured gushing notes by the likes of Peter Sellers, Rex Harrison and Simon Dee and named after a line of poetry bestowed on her by Richard Harris himself, Run the Length Of Your Wildness disappeared as quickly as it had come, only being picked up on through internet exposure over the last year or so. Produced in conjunction with Kathe herself, Rev-Ola is proud, nay humbled, to present the first ever reissue of this lost late 60s femme pop classic!
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