Cast Your Fate To The Wind: The Singles, B-Sides, & Rarities

The x2 LP compilation Cast Your Fate To The Wind groups together all the singles, B-sides and rarities released in the UK alongside four previously unreleased recordings. These include ‘A Strange World’, the pop track earmarked by her discoverer Andrew Loog Oldham as the follow up to ‘As Tears Go By’ but abandoned in favour of Marianne’s choice of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ (also included), a haunting acapella version of ‘She Moved Thru The Fair’, an outtake from the Loveinamist sessions that gives this set its title, and an alternative version of Donovan’s trippy ‘Good Guy’. The album also includes a couple of Marianne’s first compositions ‘Oh Look Around You’ and ‘I’d Like To Dial Your Number’ which appeared on the B-sides of her singles alongside more well-known tracks like her only UK EP Go Away From My World, and the singles ‘Summer Nights’ (which would become one of Marianne’s biggest hits of the 60s), ‘Tomorrow’s Calling’ and her superlative cover of The Ronettes’ ‘Is This What I Get For Loving You?’ The collection closes with her final Decca release ‘Something Better’ which signified the end of an era in more ways than one, even though it was the self-penned lyrics to the B-side, ‘Sister Morphine’, that became her defining artistic statement, and one that eventually led Marianne to her next musical quantum leap.