Cilla Black's debut LP was an entertaining if uneven venture into pop-soul, along lines similar to what Dusty Springfield,Beryl Marsden, et al. were doing at the time, though -- not surprisingly -- her work isn't remotely in the same league with Springfield. Black has passion for the music, and evidently had learned the nuances necessary to make the attempt, but she sounds strained and mannered on a lot of this album, and simply lacks Springfield's range or her easy, naturalistic feel for the sounds she's reaching for. No one is going to complain of what they hear -- her performance of "Baby It's You" recalls the Beatles more than the Shirelles, but John Lennon did a credible job with the song, and she gives a respectable rendition of "Dancing in the Street"; she even throws herself with enough abandon into the one original by George Martin here to make it more than a space-filler, though not by too much.