Artist: VA
Title: Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962-1970
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Ace Records / CDCHD 1456
Genre: Pop, Rock, Soul, Beat
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Tracklist:
1. Billie Davis – I'm In Love With You (02:25)
2. Dana Gillespie – No! No! No! (02:47)
3. Marianne Faithfull – That's Right Baby (02:46)
4. Beverley – Where The Good Times Are (02:44)
5. Twinkle – Poor Old Johnny (02:43)
6. The Orchids – Love Hit Me (02:02)
7. The Satin Bells – I Stand Accused (Of Loving You) (02:38)
8. Truly Smith – I Wanna Go Back There Again (02:27)
9. Adrienne Poster – Something Beautiful (01:40)
10. Lulu – I'll Come Running Over (02:57)
11. Barry St. John – Hey Boy (02:44)
12. Goldie & The Gingerbreads – Little Boy (03:17)
13. The Exceptions – What More Do You Want (02:23)
14. Louise Cordet – So Hard To Be Good (03:10)
15. Sandra Barry & The Boys – Really Gonna Shake (01:56)
16. Elkie Brooks – The Way You Do The Things You Do (02:40)
17. Billie Davis – I Want You To Be My baby (02:38)
18. Jean Martin – Save The Last Dance Forme (02:45)
19. Beryl Marsden – Love Is Going To Happen To Me (01:56)
20. The Orchids – Don't Make Me Mad (01:44)
21. The Vernons Girls – Dat's Love (02:08)
22. Babbity Blue – Don't Make Me (Fall In Love With you) (02:28)
23. Twinkle – Golden Lights (02:30)
24. Marianne Faithfull – Hier Ou Demain (02:35)

AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Once the British pop boom took hold in the wake of the Beatles in 1962, Decca compensated for their Fab fumble by signing a lot of acts, including a bunch of female singers. Ace's 2016 compilation Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962-1970 chronicles a lot of these signings, including such stars as Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, and Twinkle (the latter's "Golden Lights," later covered by the Smiths, is featured here), but the fun of the collection is how it rounds up singers who didn't enter the history books even if they happened to have hits at the time. There are some sonic constants -- big beats, blasts of brass, swirls of strings, tambourines out of Tamla, fuzz guitars, a transatlantic dilution of the Wall of Sound that remains potent -- so this holds together, but what's fun is digging out particular favorites. Beverley's "Where the Good Times Are" contains an insistent blissed-out R&B rush, the Orchids bring the Ronettes to Britain for "Love Hit Me," the Vernons Girls' "Dat's Love" is a bizarre sendup, and Sandra Barry & the Boys' "Really Gonna Shake" is an absolute raver, a single that's worth the price of admission. Other songs provide a similar kind of buzz, and the reason why Love Hit Me! is worth a listen is how the whole package provides a vivid flashback anchored by enduring pop 45s.