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RPMBX 524CD
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"Comprehensive 3CD set featuring all of The Artwoods' A and B sides, plus four previously unissued early acetate recordings by the Art Wood Combo. Also includes several BBC radio sessions with unique tracks and a long-lost live recording from Denmark at tail-end of their career."
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"One of the movers and shakers of the music biz in the modern era has been Simon Napier Bell, and during 1968-1969 he put his talents into A&R-ing his own label. Fresh from managing The Yardbirds, Johns Children and co-authoring for Dusty Springfield, and with backing from CBS, SNB picked up on the hip pop world flowing through London at the time. It is an extraordinary assortment from which we have distilled the most potent exotic, baroque and pop psych elements. All have high production values with the likes of the talented Ian Green as arranger. As you would expect most of the singles are today very rare, and have not been reissued or released on CD. That said there is growing awareness of the music from numerous quarters, with pick up from internet radio stations to magazines, and the label has attained a cult standing. First time reissue, first time on CD. A unique 60s collection. Remastered from original CBS held SNB tapes, includes very rare singles. Essential for pop psych and similar collectors." Artists include: Jon Plum, Hubert Thomas Valverde & The HT'S, Mellow Candle, Andy Ellison, Clive Sands, Flamma Sherman, Sheila Scott Wilkinson, Sue Wilshaw, Rory Fellowes, David Blake, Nicola Davies, and Françoise Pascale.
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RETRO 838CD
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"Part two of the first time thematic overview of West Coast independent label Challenge Records. The label hit paydirt in early 1966 when it scored a coast-to-coast hit with The Knickerbockers outstandingly energetic rave up 'Lies.' This riff on The Beatles sound could actually have been The Beatles. Its inclusion on Lenny Kaye's Nuggets set 'Lies' in stone as a all-time classic. Allergic To Flowers: Garage Beat & Popsike celebrates this and the other nuggets that Challenge issued from 1965 to 1968. There's The Brogues paint-peeling punk rocker 'Don t Shoot Me Down' -- the band featured future members of San Francisco legends Quicksilver Messenger Service. Also heard are more irresistible, rockin' and melodic high-energy gems by The Knickerbockers, the absolutely incredible psychedelic punk of Florida band We The People, the tough-as-nails Lindy Blaskey and the Lavells and the superb psychedelic harmonies of Fenwyck's 'Mindrocker.' And then there's the folk rocking and punkish sides recorded by Gene Vincent with Glenn Campbell, as well as The Jefferson Handkerchief's hippy novelty 'I'm Allergic To Flowers.' Allergic To Flowers: Garage Beat & Popsike never lets up. Every cut is a top-drawer winner."
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RETRO 829CD
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"Green was a noted arranger of hit records during the '60s such as 'Where Do You Go To My Lovely' and 'Something In The Air,' and further worked with Cilla Black, Timi Yuro, Don McLean, Clodagh Rodgers as well as producing all of ex-Orlons vocalist Rosetta Hightower's solo recordings. Featuring the vocals of Rosetta Hightower and Madeline Bell, Ian Green's Revelation LP from 1969 on CBS is a tour de force. A blend of progressive pop funk (consider 'One Fine Love' an arrangement of a Bach melody by Kenny Young (as in Reperata and Clodagh producer) and Rosetta, and the choice reworking of three Lennon/McCartney songs as a medley. Some even go so far as to describe Ian Green as the UK David Axelrod. This is the first reissue for the LP, and as a bonus we have managed to also get the non LP CBS single -- all the tracks are on CD for the first time."
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RPM 325CD
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"As the infamous Tea Chest tapes continue to remain an enigma, we open up our own box of masters to discover some hitherto unissued Meek-produced recordings, plus other recordings long since unavailable. With the release timed to coincide with the general notice being given to the 40th anniversary of Meek's death (February 1967), this collection will suit those looking for something new to extend their Meek collection. The collection brings with it great examples of the Meek production sound. From Glenda Collins, Meek's best known female artist, is an unreleased version of her apocalyptic single recorded in stereo. Two of the Ray Dexter tracks are also in stereo, a rare format in the early 60s when these were made. Ray Dexter, a singer-songwriter who was busy right through the 60s with singles released on many labels, is included with four of his songs released for the first time. Backing is by the Tornados, and include his demo of 'You Took My Love For Granted,' a song he wrote and Meek recorded with John Leyton as the B-side of the international hit 'Wild Wind.' We also have the four John Carter and Ken Lewis recordings Meek produced which have been unavailable for a long time, plus real rarities from Joy and Dave, the Moontrekkers and complete unknowns Johnny Garfield, The Ramblers and Dauphine Street Six. As it says on the tin, extremely rare and collectable Joe Meek recordings."
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RPM 316CD
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Originally released on Imperial in 1967. "By the time she came to record her two 1967 albums New Image and For You, Jackie DeShannon was firmly established as a singer and songwriter of distinction, with a range of music extending from folk and country to teen pop and ballads. These two albums, however, were a marked departure from what Jackie has been recording up to that point. With a mixture of standard tunes, film songs and contemporary pop, they signified a shift of emphasis toward a more adult-orientated market. This CD combines the entire For You album with similarly themed tracks from New Image -- issued several months earlier -- as bonus selections. Blending well together, both albums were produced under the guidance of Calvin Carter, previously A&R Director for Vee-Jay Records."
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"Those Plucking Strings was recorded 45 years ago, but has waited until now for a release. It's a unique album, produced by Joe Meek during the period when he beginning to assert his independence. In 1960 he had set up the Triumph label as a vehicle for his productions and compositions. Although no albums were released by the short-lived imprint, two lost long players were completed: Those Plucking Strings and the legendary I Hear A New World (RPM 502). Those Plucking Stings isn't as weird as I Hear A New World, but it was a striking collaboration between Joe and his 20-year-old arranger Charles Blackwell. Blackwell was a major talent who would go on to write classic songs like Madeline Bell's 'You Don't Love Me No More' and work with Mike Sarne, PJ Proby and Francoise Hardy. Those Plucking Strings marks the earliest flowering of his flair as an arranger. Indeed, the idea of orchestrating skiffle music ran counter to the do-it-yourself tea-chest and broom-handle aesthetic that the movement was all about. Thought lost forever, a test-pressing of Those Plucking Strings surfaced in April 1997 at a north London record shop. For 30 years it had been in the hands of the daughter of Joe's ill-fated landlady Violet Shenton. This major discovery has allowed Those Plucking Strings to finally be granted the release it deserves."
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RPM 300CD
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"Volume 9 in our ongoing Mood Mosaic series, exploring music auteurs' work from outside the pop mainstream, presents a fascinating collection of '60s Electronica. Max Crook and Scott Ludwig are geniuses of the homegrown electronic keyboard and sound boards, today simply labelled synths. They came to prominence backing Del Shannon in the early 1960s when Max Crook and Del Shannon together wrote the singer's first demos, including 'Runaway.' A prominent feature in the backing on the recording is Crook's Musitron, an embryonic synth of his invention, and it featured again in the follow ups to Shannon's worldwide no.1 hit. Following this Crook (who also released singles under his own steam as Maximillian) and Ludwig, drummer and player of another invention the Sonicon, intermittently recorded their own material and even took it on the road. An incongruous sight, two very square looking guys appearing in supper clubs and High School auditoriums, dressed in sparkling silver jackets, surrounded by the Musitron, Sonicon and later one of the first Moogs. We present the best of their late '60s own studio recordings, the length of an LP as it might have been, plus as a special bonus an excerpt of a live show from 1968 when the pair take the audience through an explanation of their instruments' capabilities. This is Outsider Music at its most intriguing, the writer of a no.1 in 1961 single turns to Electronica to further develop their career."
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