The Best of The Dooleys is the second UK album by pop group The Dooleys

The Dooleys

The Dooleys were a United Kingdom male–female pop group comprising eight members — six of them family members — at their peak. They achieved several UK chart hits between 1977 and 1981 including top-ten hits "Wanted", "Love of My Life" and "The Chosen Few"....

. It is their first compilation album.

Background

By mid 1979, The Dooleys had scored six hit singles in the UK. The latest single, "Wanted" was the biggest hit of their career and so GTO Records

GTO Records

GTO Records is a British Record label which released many hits during the 1970s. It ran from 1974 to 1981 and mainly concentrated on pop music and disco.-Background:...

 released a compilation containing all the singles so far. The album proved to be a success - the biggest of the group's career, peaking at No.6 in the album charts. The album contained eight tracks from their previous album

Dooleys (album)

Dooleys was the first UK album by British pop group The Dooleys. It was released in 1978.- Background :The Dooleys had been a recording act for four years by this point, but it wasn't until mid 1977 when they scored their first chart hit with "Think I'm Gonna Fall in Love With You", which reached...

 and four new songs - two of which were single releases. One of the new tracks, "Stand Up Like a Man" had originally been performed by The Shadows

The Shadows

The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...

 in the heats to the Eurovision Song Contest 1975

Eurovision Song Contest 1975

The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in Stockholm, Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö in southern Stockholm. ABBA's victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the...

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Singles included on the album are; "Hands Across the Sea", "Think I'm Gonna Fall in Love With You", "Love of My life", "Don't Take It Lyin' Down", "A Rose Has to Die", "Honey I'm Lost" and "Wanted". This was the first album by the group to feature youngest sister Helen Dooley who had joined the line-up early in the year, making the group an octet

Octet

-Music:* Octet , ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble* Octet , 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven* Octet , 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn...

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In October 2005, a compilation CD of the group was released, containing nine of this album's 12 tracks.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Wanted" (Findon / Myers / Puzey)
2. "Love of My Life" (Findon / Myers)
3. "A Rose Has to Die" (Findon)
4. "Hands Across the Sea" (Findon / Wilkins)
5. "Stand Up Like a Man" (Findon / Myers)
6. "Sad Old Spanish Guitar" (Findon / Puzey)

Side Two

1. "Think I'm Gonna Fall in Love With You" (Findon / Myers)
2. "Honey I'm Lost" (Findon / Myers)
3. "Don't Take It Lyin' Down" (Findon / Myers)
4. "What's Gonna Happen to Our Love" (Findon / Wilkins)
5. "Stone Walls" (Findon / Wilkins)
6. "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" (Findon / Myers)

Personnel

• Jim Dooley - vocals
• Anne Dooley - vocals
• Kathy Dooley - vocals
• John Dooley - Guitar and vocals
• Frank Dooley - Guitar and vocals
• Bob Walsh - Bass guitar
• Alan Bogan - Drums
• Helen Dooley - Keyboards and vocals (tracks 1, 5, 6 and 8)

• Ben Findon - Producer
• Mike Myers - Assistant producer
• Tom Parker - Orchestrations
• Recorded at Morgan Studios
  Morgan Studios
  Morgan Studios, also known as Morgan Sound Studios, were recording studios in Willesden, North London. The studios were notable for many recordings of the 1960s and 1970s by many British bands and artists such as Ten Years After, Yes, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Joan Armatrading, Cat...
  
  , London