Would You Believe

Would You Believe is an album by the English singer Billy Nicholls, released in April 1968. Billy Nicholls was originally hired by Andrew Loog Oldham as a staff writer for Oldham's Immediate Records. Oldham was so entranced by the Beach Boys' 1966 album, Pet Sounds that he enlisted songwriter Billy Nicholls to record a British response. The Small Faces' Steve Marriott can be heard very prominently on "Would You Believe?," despite Oldham's attempts to drown him out with heavy orchestration. Oldham wanted this to be the British Pet Sounds but financial difficulties with the label caused it to be shelved before it ever hit the streets. In 1998, Nicholls re-released it on his own label Southwest Records. It was made more widely available on Sequel Castle Communications records in 1999. Several Sequel/Castle editions have been released since, including a version containing demos from the 60s, also originally first released as Snapshot on Southwest Records in 2000. Other artists recorded versions of Billy Nicholls' songs from Would You Believe. Like Nicholls, Andrew Loog Oldham also produced the 1967 Del Shannon LP Home and Away. This LP was also unissued at the time. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Would_Y...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)