In My Lonely Room

4 previously unreleased tracks on either 10" or cd from one of Britain's finest Mod bands. The excellent book on the Action In The Lap Of The Mods, published in 2012, shed light on a previously rarely documented aspect of the Action's recording career, specifically their audition for the Decca record company in May 1965. Indeed some copies of the book included a limited edition vinyl 45 extracted from an acetate recently discovered from that audition, which was a supreme version of the Temptations 'Why You Wanna Make Me Blue'. That recording, taped six months before their EMI debut, makes a welcome re-appearance here and also emerges on CD for the first time. Unbelievably since the book came out another acetate from that Decca session has surfaced, one side of which features a wonderful interpretation of one of many people's favourite Action tracks 'In My Lonely Room', which incredibly surpasses the later recording for Parlophone and has a real 'live' feel to it. Coupled with 'In My Lonely Room' was a fine rendition of the Impressions' 'You'll Want Me back', which finds the Action in a more mellow blue eyed soul groove and showcases perhaps the most Reggie King's leap in vocal prowess in the comparative short space of time since the band's recordings for Pye as the Boys barely six months previous.