Nearly three years ago, I shared my choice for Sammy Marshall's Greatest Hits, each of which are is one one side of the same 45. That post is here, and one of the songs is called "I'd Do It For You", and it lists all of the wonderful things that Sammy would do for his beloved, including obtaining "the B'loon, with a gold star in it".
Today, we have the very similarly named "I'd Do It All For You", but in this case, Sammy is, for some reason, under the impression that his beloved wants him to do such things as jumping into mud, being swallowed by a whale, and even drowning and being blown up in a exploding rocket. And these are, literally, the only things he is choosing from. What the hell?
The song is bouncy enough to be one of of Sammy's better releases - I love his rocking (and near rocking) numbers. But who wants to have their lover kill himself? And who wants to be the lover who kills himself?
Incidentally, this label - Land Mark (not Landmark) seems to have been one of the most vanity-esque of vanity labels created by the Globe song-poem factory. I can find no trace of this label, and given that this is release 1001, it's possible that it's the only release on this particular Land Mark label. The fact that the same person wrote both songs also suggests this label having been a personal creation.
Download: Sammy Marshall - I'd Do It All For You
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On the flip side is "Your World of Pictures". Musically, this is pretty much a meh, but lyrically, it seems like it's meant to be an epic putdown of a well regarded stage and film actor, who the writer/singer apparently has nothing but contempt for. At least, that's what I get from it - the wording of the lyrics, particularly the use of the title phrase, comes across to me as downright weird. Maybe someone out there has a better take on this.
Download: Sammy Marshall - Your World of Pictures
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