CD REVIEW: Will You Remember Me – A Tribute To Ted Mulry… Songwriter

Shane | 8 May 2015 | Reply

CD REVIEW: Will You Remember Me – A Tribute To Ted Mulry… Songwriter
Foghorn Media
20 March, 2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
6/10

Ted Mulry was always a lot more than the solo troubadour who first had a hit with the syrupy ballad Julia, or the ‘70s glam rockstar who led his Ted Mulry Group to national chart success with effervescent rockers The Darktown Strutters Ball and the perennial Jump In My Car (amongst others).

A songwriter first and foremost, the likes of John Farnham, Sherbert, Chris Spedding and even David Hasselhoff have recorded his songs, and producer Tony Romeril (one-time vocalist of Autumn) has chosen to pay tribute to this aspect of Mulry’s work, with most of the songs from his latterday work, written prior to his passing in 2001.

Eschewing big-name guests, Romeril takes the microphone himself for a few tracks, including Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone, You Can Come Back and that hit Julia, drafting in Peter Cupples of Stylus for What You Say, as well as some other friends of the late Mulry.

The songs themselves shine, and the performances are uniformly professional, but with production putting them firmly in the early-70s-pop bracket, they lack bite, and in ignoring anything from the TMG period Romeril has shown only one side of Mulry’s talent.

Accordingly, Will You Remember Me provides part of the story of a precocious talent, but far from the full shebang.