Noel Harrison was many things, actor, singer, director, composer, carpenter, Son of Rex and star of the Girl From Uncle opposite the delectable Stefanie Powers (purrr ). He sang the Oscar-winning the Windmills Of Your Mind, the theme tune to the 1967 smash movie The Thomas Crown Affair, and released a string of albums in the 1960s and 70s before landing his own TV show, Take Time. What is probably less known is that his self-titled 1966 sophomore long-player is virtually a tribute to Bob Dylan. so enamoured was Harrison of the him, that he cut no less than four Dylan tunes and casually interspersed them with the obligatory-forthe- day Beatles. His take on It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue actually fared quite well when lifted as a single. So here is the album. A snapshot of an innocent time when be-suited pop stars acted and polo neck-clad TV stars recorded Dylan songs in an almost outmoded school big band style.
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