Name: Presenting: The Bachelors [Bonus Tracks]
Brand: RPM (UK)
SKU: 1382203
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Album: Presenting: The Bachelors [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Diane
2)	Whispering
3)	You'll Never Walk Alone
4)	Moments to Remember
5)	With These Hands
6)	Only You (And You Alone)
7)	Charmaine
8)	I Believe
9)	Dream
10)	If
11)	Whispering Grass
12)	Old Bill
13)	Faraway Places
14)	Is There a Chance
15)	No Light in the Window
16)	I Wouldn't Trade You for the World
17)	Beneath the Willow Tree
18)	Long Time Ago
19)	Angels and the Stranger, The

Album: Presenting: The Bachelors [Bonus Tracks]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Diane
2)	Whispering
3)	You'll Never Walk Alone
4)	Moments to Remember
5)	With These Hands
6)	Only You (And You Alone)
7)	Charmaine
8)	I Believe
9)	Dream
10)	If
11)	Whispering Grass
12)	Old Bill
13)	Faraway Places
14)	Is There a Chance
15)	No Light in the Window
16)	I Wouldn't Trade You for the World
17)	Beneath the Willow Tree
18)	Long Time Ago
19)	Angels and the Stranger, The

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Liner Note Author: Roger Dopson.
In an odd twist on the way these things usually work, this U.K. release is a CD reissue of the Bachelors' first American album, Presenting: The Bachelors, with the addition of seven tracks that appeared on non-LP singles in 1963 and 1964 in Britain. The format might be something of an excuse to round up and repackage the Bachelors' earliest recordings, but if that's what you want, this reissue does a good job of it. The Presenting: The Bachelors LP itself only differed a little from their first U.K. album, the big difference -- and one that helped the quality of the record -- being the addition of "Diane," a U.K. chart-topper that was by far their biggest hit in the U.S. (where it reached the Top Ten), and its follow-up single "I Believe." As heard on the original LP, the Bachelors were an anomaly in the first wave of the British Invasion (even disregarding the fact that they were actually Irish), as they had little to do with rock or even pop/rock. Instead, they were a close-harmony vocal group favoring adult-oriented pop and standards, with a heavy dash of corny country-folk thrown into the mix. ~ Richie Unterberger