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VENUS AND MARS -
WINGS

Image: MPL Communications Inc / Parlophone / EMI Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 19 October 1987
(source: 45worlds)

Publisher: MPL Communications Inc /
Parlophone / EMI Records Ltd

Music by: Wings

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: CDP 7 46984 2

EAN: 077774698429

Design: George Hardie, NTA

Tracklisting

1. Venus and Mars
2. Rock Show
3. Love in Song
4. You Gave Me the Answer
5. Magneto and Titanium Man
6. Letting Go
7. Venus and Mars Reprise
8. Spirits of Ancient Egypt
9. Medicine Jar
10. Call Me Back Again
11. Listen to What the Man Said
12. Treat Her Gently—Lonely Old People
13. Crossroads

Bonus Tracks:
14. Zoo Gang
15. Lunch Box / Odd Sox
16. My Carnival

Notes

This CD reissue of Wings' 1975 album Venus and Mars offered listeners three additional tracks - and one of those was the theme to The Zoo Gang, which was credited to Paul McCartney and Wings on its original release.
The Venus and Mars album also includes the Paul McCartney and Wings version of Tony Hatch's Crossroads theme, first used in the popular but rickety Midlands soap opera on 26th June 1975. Crossroads was of course a production of ATV, parent company of ITC Entertainment.

NO NEED TO PANIC! -
G.B.H

VINYL

Image: Rough Justice Records Ltd

Released: 1989
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Rough Justice Records Ltd

Music by: G.B.H

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: JUST CD 7

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Side A:
A1. Transylvanian Perfume
A2. Hearing Screams (For the Last Time)
A3. To Understand
A4. Makin' Whips
A5. I Shot the Marshall
A6. Electricity Through Space

Side B:
B1. Hit the Deck
B2. Rumblin' Underground
B3. Desperate Times
B4. Gunning for the President
B5. Avenues and Alleyways
B6. Unanswered Prayers

Notes

Fourth album from English punk rock band G.B.H, which was originally formed as Charged GBH in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin 'Jock' Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy (replaced by Ross Lomas after two years)and drummer Andy 'Wilf' Williams.
No Need to Panic! was recorded in March 1987 at The Old Smithy Recording Studio in Kempsey, Worcestershire, England.
Their version of Tony Christie's Avenues & Alleyways (as Avenues and Alleyways) is energetic and infectious.
Rough Justice issued No Need to Panic! on vinyl record (JUST 7) in 1987 - two years prior to this UK CD release in 1989 (CD JUST 7).
Although this CD version came later than the American CD edition (Combat, 88561-8184-2, 1987) it did at least add four extra tracks from the Oh No It's G.B.H.! Again! 12" Single.
An expanded Japanese CD had been published in 1988 (VAP Inc, VAP 85043-28) which boasted three tracks from the Oh No It's G.B.H.! Again! 12" Single (omitting the track Company of Wolves) plus four from the Wot A Bargin' EP in addition to the 12 album tracks.

POWER THEMES NINETY:
12 TOP TV CULT CLASSIC REMIXES

Image: Telstar Records plc

Released: 5 November 1990
(source: Official Charts)

Publisher: Telstar Records plc

Music by: F.A.B

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 43:43

Catalogue No.: TCD 2430

EAN: 5014469524309

Design: Intro

Tracklisting

1. Thunderbirds - Thunderbirds Are Go
(The Pressure Mix) featuring M.C. Parker
Produced by 3 to the Power / Rod Anderson / Jason Mayo

2. Joe 90 (Main Man Mix)
Produced by 3 to the Power for the Brothers Organisation

3. UFO - The Arrival
Produced by Justin Sherry for Fine Balance

4. Captain Scarlet - The Mysterons Rap
Produced by Rod Anderson and Jason Mayo

5. Space: 1999 (The Alpha Mix)
Produced by Justin Sherry for Fine Balance

6. The Stingray Megamix
featuring Aqua Marina
Produced by Rod Anderson and Jason Mayo

7. The Prisoner (Free Man Mix)
featuring M.C. Number 6
Produced by 3 to the Power for the Brothers Organisation

8. The Saint (Heroes and Villains Mix)
Produced by Bruno Tilley

9. The Avengers - Peel the Reel
Produced by Rod Anderson and Jason Mayo

10. Danger Man (Drake Mix)
Produced by 3 to the Power for the Brothers Organisation

11. Department S - Dept. S/Jason King (Royal Mix)
Produced by Rod Anderson and Jason Mayo

12. The Persuaders (The Farewell Mix)
Produced by Justin Sherry for Fine Balance

Notes

Compact disc comprising dance remixes of classic ITC and ABPC series themes with overlaid dialogue excerpts.
This album was also available on audio cassette (STAC 2430) and vinyl (STAR 2430).
Promotional videos for Thunderbirds, The Prisoner, Stingray, UFO and Captain Scarlet were issued on VHS (TVE 1022).
3 to the Power were Nick Titchener, Colin Peter and Carl Ward.
This CD was reissued on Ronco Silver on 10 September 1993, with the title omitting the '90'.

INSTRUMENTAL GREATS OF THE 60's

Image: EMI Records Ltd / Compacts for Pleasure
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1990
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: EMI Records Ltd /
Compacts for Pleasure

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 67:20

Catalogue No.: CC 260

EAN: 0077779422623

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Walk Don't Run - The Ventures
2. The Breeze and I - The Fentones
3. The Cruel Sea - The Dakotas
4. Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
5. Bush Fire - The Cannons
6. Saturday Night at the Duckpond - The Cougars
7. Theme from A Summer Place - Norrie Paramor
8. Hawaii Five-O - The Ventures
9. Gypsy Beat - The Packabeats
10. McDonald's Cave - The Piltdown Men
11. Nut Rocker - B. Bumble and the Stingers
12. Hall of Mirrors - The Nu-Notes
13. Man of Mystery - The Shadows
14. Hit and Miss - The John Barry Seven
15. Perfidia - The Ventures
16. Oyeh - The Dakotas

17. African Waltz - John Dankworth
18. Boot Hill - The Federals
19. Scorpio - The Scorpions
20. Fury - The Nu-Notes
21. Danger Man - The Red Price Combo
22. Mad Goose - The Beachcombers
23. Bleakhouse - The Gladiators
24. The James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven
25. Swingin' Low - The Outlaws
26. Topaz - The Staccatos
27. Ambush - The Outlaws
28. Scotch on the Socks - The Shadows
29. Magic Carpet - The Dakotas
30. The Mexican - The Fentones
31. Big Man - The Packabeats
32. Tomorrow's Cancelled - The Shadows

Notes

The Danger Man theme included is the first of the two Edwin Astley compositions for the series, heard on the half-hour episodes.
Track 7, Norrie Paramor's Theme from A Summer Place was featured as the B-side to the 7" vinyl single release of Edwin Astley's Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) theme, where it was mistakenly noted as "Summer Palace". The tune was written by Paramor for the 1959 feature film A Summer Place.
The audio cassette version of this release omitted the last four tracks included here, namely Magic Carpet by The Dakotas, The Mexican by The Fentones, Big Man by The Packabeats and Tomorrow's Cancelled by The Shadows. Presumably this was to keep it down to an hour's running time, since the cassette was titled An Hour of Instrumental Greats of the 60's.

ALOHA SAYONARA -
HONOLULU MOUNTAIN DAFFODILS

Images: Mission Discs

Released: November 1992
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Mission Discs

Music by: Honolulu Mountain Daffodils

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 62:33

Catalogue No.: MISS CD 1991

EAN: 5014661772379

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Avenues and Alleyways
2. Hurricane Marilyn
3. Electronic Alcoholic
4. Drug Dog Girl
5. Rhine Women and Song
6. Fahrenheit 192˚
7. Grungeda
8. Stigmata Non-Starter

9. Psychic Hit-List Victim No. 8
10. Slaughterhouse Blues
11. Chien d'Enfer
12. Celestial Siren Song of the Wind Surgeons
13. Aloha Sayonara
14. Kramer Versus Williamson
15. Bathtime for Beelzebub
16. Free Men of Mauna Loa

Notes

Honolulu Mountain Daffodils were a British indie rock band formed in the late 1980s. They released three full-length albums, one EP and one single between 1987 and 1991, with Aloha Sayonara, perhaps appropriately being their final LP. Honolulu Mountain Daffodils were described by Andy Kellman / AllMusic as "a scatterbrained and perhaps drunken recording entity", one that consisted of pseudonymous members: guitarist Joachim Pimento (Adrian Borland, previously of English post-punk band The Sound), guitarist-keyboardist Zoe Zettner, guitarist-vocalist Lord Sulaco, guitarist-percussionist Daiquiri J. Wright, guitarist Franklin Silverheels and bassist Smoky Alvaro.
Their entry here is due to the fleeting introductory track, a racy version of Avenues & Alleyways that lasts no more the three-quarters of a minute - but leaves an impression.

I HELPED PATRICK McGOOHAN ESCAPE -
THE TIMES

Images: Rev-Ola / Creation Records Ltd

Released: November 1992
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Rev-Ola / Creation Records Ltd

Music by: The Times

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 54:00

Catalogue No.: CREV 006 CD

EAN: 5025006630063

Design: Immaculate Conception

Tracklisting

1. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
2. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Thanks for the Trip Dad)
3. Theme from Dangerman
4. David Jones (Is On His Way)
5. London Boys
6. The Polite Force

7. Song for Joe Orton
8. All System Are Go!
9. Power is for Ever
10. Tears on a Rainy Sunday
11. I'll See You in My Dreams
12. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - The Final Episode

Notes

This CD brought together a series of catchy songs from The Times, including three versions of the Prisoner-related I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape single along with their rendition of Edwin Astley's 'High Wire' Danger Man theme (stated here as 'Dangerman').
The final track of this compilation, namely I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - The Final Episode, is a 1990 version of this early Eighties song and runs for an astonishing 14 minutes 31 seconds.

THEMES FROM THE 60s
VOL. 1

Image: Future Legend Records

Released: 1993
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Future Legend Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 38:15

Catalogue No.: F.LEG 1 CD

EAN: 5025273625731

Design: Nicola Hacillo, Helen Lattimore, Sally Mincher and Anne Bygrave

Tracklisting

1. The Avengers - The Grave
2. To Sir with Love - Studio 68
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - The Editors
4. The Prisoner - Kitch/Box Office Poison
5. Man in a Suitcase - Ministry of Defiance
6. Up the Junction - Eleanor Rigby
7. You Only Live Twice - Eleanor Rigby
8. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Grave
9. Mission Impossible - Box Office Poison /Ministry of Defiance
10. Captain Zeppo - A Beatboy
11. Stingray - C.B.U.
12. The Addams Family - Perestroika
13. Batman - Waterloo Sunset Allstars

Notes

All tracks produced by Russell Writer.
This title was previously released on vinyl only by Waterloo Sunset Records in 1988, with a subtly different tracklisting. Stingray and The Addams Family were added and Four by Four by The Reactions removed for this edition.
The first of a series of TV themes releases, this compilation and its sequels were bolder than many other such collections in that all tracks were cover versions performed by up-and-coming British indie bands.
Kitch/Box Office Poison's The Prisoner featured dialogue excerpts from the series title sequence.
This collection was also released on vinyl record (F.LEG 1 LP) and audio cassette (F.LEG 1T).

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THE VERY BEST OF TONY CHRISTIE -
TONY CHRISTIE

Image: Music Club / Music Collection International Ltd

Released: November 1994
(source: 45worlds)

Publisher: Music Club /
Music Collection International Ltd

Music by: Tony Christie

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 68:28

Catalogue No.: MCCD 185

EAN: 5014797291850

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. (Is This The Way to) Amarillo
2. Home Lovin' Man
3. Queen of the Mardi Gras
4. I Did What I Did for Maria
5. The Most Beautiful Girl
6. Happy Birthday Baby
7. Avenues & Alleyways
8. I'm Not in Love
9. Solitaire
10. Don't Go Down to Reno

11. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
12. Words (Are Impossible) (Vado Vida)
13. On This Night of a Thousand Stars
14. The Way We Were
15. Didn't We
16. Las Vegas
17. So Deep is the Night
18. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
19. First Love, Best Love
20. Drive Safely Darlin'

Notes

A collection of Tony Christie songs including his memorable theme from The Protectors - Avenues & Alleyways.
The Very Best of Tony Christie was issued simultaneously on compact disc (MCCD 185) and audio cassette (MCTC 185).
Music Club was a label launched in 1991 by Music Collection International Ltd. It is now a division of Demon Music Group Ltd.

THEMES FROM THE 60's
VOL. 2

Image: Future Legend Records

Released: 1994
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Future Legend Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 37:19

Catalogue No.: FLEGCD 2

EAN: 5025273625748

Design: Dieter Marsoner

Tracklisting

1. The Saint - Ministry of Ska
2. (I've Been a) Bad Bad Girl (Boy) (from Privilege) - Moonchild
3. Casino Royale - Adventures of Parsley
4. Joe 90 - Summer
5. Dr. Who - Future Legend Allstars
6. The Ipcress File - Box Office Poison
7. The Munsters - Summer
8. Dangerman - Ministry of Ska
9. Captain Scarlet - Adventures of Parsley
10. Barbarella - Earthling Scum
11. Thunderball - Jo Sharp
12. All Too Much (from Yellow Submarine) - Box Office Poison

Notes

The follow-up release to Future Legend's 1993 Themes from the 60's, Vol. 1 again showcased the talents of up-and-coming British indie bands.
All tracks produced by Russell Writer.
This collection was also released on audio cassette (FLEG C2).
The spelling of Danger Man in the tracklisting is as per the release.

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THE BEST OF TONY CHRISTIE -
TONY CHRISTIE

Image: MCA Records Ltd

Released: 1995
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: MCA Records Ltd

Music by: Tony Christie

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: MCBD 19529

EAN: 0008811952921

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. I Did What I Did for Maria
2. Drive Safely Darlin'
3. Didn't We
4. On This Night of a Thousand Stars
5. Happy Birthday Baby
6. Baby I'm a Want You
7. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
8. Las Vegas

9. Avenues & Alleyways
10. Drift Away
11. Feelings
12. A House is Not a Home
13. I'm Not in Love
14. Love Hurts
15. Solitaire
16. (Is This the Way to) Amarillo

Notes

A collection of Tony Christie songs including his memorable theme from The Protectors - Avenues & Alleyways.

THEMES FROM THE 60's
VOL. 3

Image: Future Legend Records

Released: 1995
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Future Legend Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 43:03

Catalogue No.: FLEG.5CD

EAN: 5025273627773

Design: Anne Bygrave and Russell Writer

Tracklisting

Side A:
A1. Department S - Box Office Poison
A2. From Russia With Love - Mouse
A3. The Pink Panther - Ron Rage
A4. The Happening - Chelsea Monday
A5. For a Few Dollars More - Box Office Poison
A6. Georgy Girl - Megiddo
A7. Thunderbirds - Surfin Dead

Side B:
B1. Star Trek - The Federation
B2. Windmills of Your Mind (from The Thomas Crown Affair) - Jo Sharp
B3. Randal and Hopkirk - Future Legend Allstars
B4. The Beverly Hillbillies - Surfin Dead
B5. Self-Preservation Society (from The Italian Job) - Earthling Scum
B6. Rawhide - Ministry of Ska

Notes

As with previous releases in this range, Themes from the 60's Volume Three showcased the talents of up-and-coming British indie bands.
All tracks produced by Russell Writer.
This collection was also released on vinyl (FLEG.5) and CD (FLEG.5CD). It appears that a cassette (FLEGC 5) was also issued, but aside from seeing a design proof version we have not been able to 100% confirm an retail release on the format.
The spelling of Randall and Hopkirk in the tracklisting is as per the cassette inlay.

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THIS IS EASY

Image: Virgin Records Ltd

Released: 7 March 1996
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Virgin Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Total Playing Time: 140:27

Catalogue No.: VTCD 80

EAN: 724384153427

Design: Zip Design

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Wingding Party:
A1. Bond Street (from Casino Royale) - Burt Bacharach
A2. Theme from The Champions - The Tony Hatch Orchestra
A3. Superstars
A4. Spanish Flea - The Mexicans
A5. Sentimental Journey - Juan Garcia Esquivel
A6. A Swinging Safari - Bert Kaempfert
A7. Animal Magic
A8. The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini
A9. Young Scene (Theme from The Big Match) - Keith Mansfield
A10. Up, Up and Away - Fifth Dimension
A11. Strange Report - Geoff Love and his Orchestra
A12. The 'In' Crowd - Percy Faith and his Orchestra
A13. A Taste of Honey - The Mexicans
A14. The New Avengers - Laurie Johnson
A15. The Riviera Affair - Neil Richardson
A16. Asteroid (Pearl and Dean Theme) - Pete Moore
A17. Avenues & Alleyways (Theme from The Protectors) - Tony Christie
A18. Theme from Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
A19. Do You Know the Way to San José - Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra
A20. Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
A21. 1-2-3 - Percy Faith and his Orchestra
A22. Misirlou - Martin Denny
A23. Classical Gas - Mason Williams
A24. The New Adventures of Black Beauty - The South Bank Orchestra
A25. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
A26. Crossroads - The Tony Hatch Orchestra
A27. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro, his Orchestra and Chorus
A28. Girl in a Sportscar - Alan Hawkshaw

Disc 2 - Après-Ski:
B1. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
B2. The Windmills of Your Mind (from The Thomas Crown Affair) - Noel Harrison
B3. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) - B.J. Thomas
B4. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Burt Bacharach
B5. Summer Breeze - Ray Conniff and the Singers
B6. Un Homme et Une Femme - Francis Lai
B7. Get Carter - Roy Budd
B8. I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus
B9. Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
B10. (They Long to Be) Close to You - Matt Monro
B11. As Tears Go By - Nancy Sinatra
B12. This is Your Life
B13. Call Me - Chris Montez
B14. Chelsea Morning - Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66
B15. It Never Rains in Southern California - Ray Conniff and the Singers
B16. What the World Needs Now is Love - Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra
B17. Aujourd'hui C'est Toi - Francis Lai
B18. A House is Not a Home - Burt Bacharach
B19. Wives and Lovers - Jack Jones
B20. Theme from The Go-Between - Michel Legrand and the London Symphony Orchestra
B21. Theme from Midnight Cowboy - John Barry and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
B22. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
B23. My Unknown Love - Count Indigo
B24. The Look of Love - Isaac Hayes

Notes

This Is Easy was released simultaneously by Virgin Records on Compact Disc (VTCD 80) and audio cassette (VTDMC 80).
A very enjoyable easy listening collection brought together in a fun, well-designed package - it just needed more ITC!

THE DOUBLE SIX CLUB PRESENT
MUSIC TO PLAY GAMES BY

Image: MCA Records

Released: 15 July 1996
(source: eBay UK)

Publisher: MCA Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 54:06

Catalogue No.: MCD 60017

EAN: 600406001726

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Mongo Santamaria
3. A Taste of Honey - Tom Jones
4. From Russia With Love - Jack Jones
5. Secret Code - Lalo Schifrin
6. This Girl's in Love With You - Brenda Lee
7. I Say a Little Prayer - Peter Duchin
8. Game of Love - Xavier Cugat
9. Avenues and Alleyways (Theme from The Protectors) - Tony Christie
10. Machinations - Lalo Schifrin

11. The Spinning Wheel - Lenny Dee
12. The Letter - Brenda Lee
13. Welcome Home - Peters and Lee
14. Wives and Lovers - Burt Bacharach
15. The Joker - Xavier Cugat
16. On Broadway - Tony Christie
17. Day Tripper - Sérgio Mendes
18. Too Close for Comfort - Sammy Davis Jr.
19. How to Open at Will the Most Beautiful Window - Lalo Schifrin
20. Bring Me Sunshine - Brenda Lee

Notes

A mid-1990s easy listening collection that included Tony Christie's belting Avenues and Alleyways theme.
The Double Six Club was a boardgaming club established in January 1994 in London's Soho district by Steve Furst, 'Figs' Jackman and Mike Leigh. Overlooking Chinatown, the club was reportedly cramped but cosy, with a trendy decor of plants, elegant red velvet seating and small tables. The games available were presented on a menu in the style of a wine list, with titles on offer ranging from 'Classics' like Cluedo and Monopoly, to 'Back to Your Childhood' tests of nerve such as Kerplunk, Connect 4, Mousetrap and Operation. Electronic games and consoles were banned - everything at The Double Six Club was board-based. The atmosphere was said to be convivial and liquid refeshment was available from the bar.
This collection was produced with the cooperation of Hasbro Inc, parent company of boardgame manufacturers MB Games and Parker Brothers, and the bi-fold booklet featured many photographic examples of their wares.

MUSIC FACTORY MASTERMIX -
ISSUE 119

Image: Music Factory
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: July 1996
(source: RemixServices.com)

Publisher: Music Factory

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: MFMM CD 119

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Smooth Groovin' '96:
Give Me a Little More Time - Gabrielle
Ocean Drive - The Lighthouse Family
They Don't Care About Us - Michael Jackson
California Love - 2Pac Featuring Dr. Dre
I Wish I Was - Skee-Lo
Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison
Search for a Hero - M People
Desire - Nu Colours

2. Klubhopping:
Can't Help It - Happy Clappers
Don't Stop Moving - Livin' Joy
Vicious Circles - Poltergeist
Indica - Movin' Melodies
Groovy Beat - D.O.P.

3. Fun in the Sun:
Holiday - Madonna
Hot Hot Hot - Pat and Mick
Mexican Hat Dance - Arriba Brothers

4. Love This Megamix:
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You - Jon Otis
Denis Denis - Serena
Let's Dance - E-Male
Sky High - Newton
Sleeping in My Car - Mobius Loop Featuring J.

5. Mission Impossible (The Lie Mix):
Theme from Mission: Impossible - Lalo Schifrin

6. Teen Dreams Part 2:
Love Me for a Reason - Boyzone
Change Your Mind - Upside Down
Coming Home Now - Boyzone
Do U Still - East 17

7. Kickin' the 80's:
Cars - Gary Numan
Blind Vision - Blancmange
Blue Monday - New Order
Quiet Life - Japan
Planet Earth - Duran Duran

8. Nice 'n' Easy (Lovely Songs):
Born Free - Matt Monro
Close to You - Matt Monro
Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - B.J. Thomas
Release Me - Mike Flowers Pops
It Never Rains in Southern California - Ray Conniff and the Singers
Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops
Spaceman - The Nice 'n' Easy Experience

9. Easy Swinger (Foot Tapping Favourites):
Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
Theme from The Big Match - Keith Mansfield
Spanish Flea! - The Mexicans
A Taste of Honey - The Mexicans
Theme from Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
Pearl & Dean Theme - Pete Moore

10. DJ Toolkit, Part 71:
Traffic and Travel Update - No Artist
Mr Icicles - No Artist
The Fairy Godmother - No Artist
Specs-R-Us - No Artist

Notes

A single CD compilation comprising partially remixed megamixes for DJ use. Somehow the Man in a Suitcase theme snuck in there. This was no doubt as a consequence of Ron Grainer's theme being revived as the theme for the Channel 4 entertainment show TFI Friday that launched to great success in February 1996.

CULT DANCE MANIA -
TRANS GLOBAL ZONE

Image: Prism Leisure Corporation
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1996
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Prism Leisure Corporation

Music by: Various Artists

Performed by: Trans Global Zone

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 53:41

Catalogue No.: PLATCD 3956 / PLATCD 412

EAN: 5014293395625 /
5014293641227

Design: Shoot That Tiger! (as STT!)

Tracklisting

1. Mission: Impossible
2. The X-Files
3. Doctor Who
4. The Avengers
5. Charlie's Angels
6. Star Trek
7. The Champions

8. Cagney & Lacey
9. The Persuaders!
10. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
11. Hart to Hart
12. M*A*S*H
13. Thunderbirds

Notes

This was seemingly the one and only album produced by Trans Global Zone. None of the musicians are credited on the release, suggesting that they were probably session musicians brought together for this project.
The arrangements of the themes are definitely leaning towards House / Trance music, and harkens back to the much-loved Power Themes 90 (Telstar, TCD 2430) in their fusion of TV themes and pop sounds. This, however, didn't penetrate the market in the way that its 1990 forebear did.
Two UK versions of this title were released with minor variations: the catalogue numbers (PLATCD 3956 / PLATCD 412), EAN numbers (5014293395625 / 5014293641227), disc artwork (yellow background / silver) and the place of replication (UK / Israel).
The Champions was erroneously credited to 'Davis / Threefold Music Ltd' rather than 'Tony Hatch / ATV Music Ltd'. This suggests that whoever cleared the rights at Prism Leisure Corporation confused Hatch's theme with that of Champions, a 1984 British feature film based on the true story of jockey Bob Champion, who won the Grand National while recovering from cancer. The music for the film was composed by Carl Davis.
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'s credit was subject to a typo, with the music publisher noted as 'ATM Music Ltd' rather than 'ATV Music Ltd'. These errors were not limited to ITC shows, as Doctor Who's credit was printed as 'Grainer / Erie Music', rather than the correct 'Grainer / Erle Music'.
The highlighting of Mission: Impossible on the cover was due to the 1996 release and box office success of the first feature film in what became a long-running series of Mission: Impossible films starring Tom Cruise.

MUSIC FACTORY MASTERMIX -
ISSUE 128

Image: Music Factory
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: April 1997
(source: RemixServices.com)

Publisher: Music Factory

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: MFMM CD 128

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. DJ Friendly 3 (Guy Garrett):
You Got the Love - The Source featuring Candi Staton
Fresh - Gina G
Ready or Not - The Course
Get Horny - Mark Morrison
D.I.S.C.O. - N-Trance
Where Do You Go - No Mercy
Just Playin' - J T Playaz
On a Ragga Tip '97 - SL2

2. In A Party Mood Part 1 (James Davies):
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Dancing Queen - ABBA
I'm in the Mood for Dancing - The Nolans
Oh What a Night - Clock
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Dizzy - Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff

3. Cover Up '97 Part 1 (Mark 'Hitman' Smith):
Party People (Live Your Life Be Free) - Pianoman
Just Can't Get Enough - Sam Walker
Live to Tell - Blonde Ambition
L B Trondheim - 190 vs OMD
Show Me Heaven - Chimera

4. Motown Emotions (Andy Pickles):
I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
My Girl - The Temptations

5. Mobile Floor Fillers (Jimmy Corkhill):
Into the Groove - Madonna
Fresh - Kool and the Gang
Working My Way Back to You - The Detroit Spinners
Jump to the Beat - Stacy Lattisaw
Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
Loco in Acapulco - The Four Tops
Step Back in Time - Kylie Minogue
Give It Up - KC and the Sunshine Band

6. Club Selection (Dave Hall):
Professional Widow - Tori Amos
Up to No Good - Porn Kings
Party People (Live Your Life Be Free) - Pianoman
Just Playin' - J T Playaz

7. Euro Pop (Pick 'n' Mix):
Take Me Away - Culture Beat
Santa Maria - Tatjana
Sweet Dreams - La Bouche
Love Me the Right Way - Kym Mazelle and Rapination
Hey Mr DJ - Open Arms

8. Hooked on Crap 2 - The TV Years (Ray Stork):
Meet the Gang - It Ain't Half Hot Mum Cast
Joe 90 Theme - The Barry Gray Orchestra
Terry and June Theme - John Shakespeare
Grange Hill Theme - Alan Hawkshaw
Call My Bluff Theme - Norrie Paramour
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr. Hitler? (Theme from Dad's Army) - Bud Flanagan
Ski Sunday Theme - Sam Fonteyn
Please Sir Theme - Sam Fonteyn
Postman Pat - Bryan Daly
Test Card Music - Unknown Artist

Notes

A single CD compilation comprising megamixes for DJ use. The Joe 90 theme featured as part of a megamix entitled Hooked on Crap 2, implying that the remixer considered Barry Gray's work was cheesy, which it most certainly wasn't.

TOTAL GUITAR:
VOL 38 - DEC 1997

Image: Future Publishing
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: December 1997
(source: magazine)

Publisher: Future Publishing

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

CD Type: Promotional

Catalogue No.: TG 38 12 97

EAN: 9771355504031
(Total Guitar magazine Vol 38, December 1997)

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Album Tracks
1. She Sells Sanctuary
2. Michael Picasso (Live)
3. Ray Payola (Curly Wurly Mix)
4. Do You Want Me

Reviews
5-9. Guitar Reviews
10-13. Budget 4-Track Round-Up

Features
14.Riff of the Month: Love Me and Leave Me
15-16. Q&A Special (Pentatonic Scales)
17. Mansum
18-19. Green Day
20-25. Mick Ronson
26.33. The Rolling Stones

Technique
34. Tuning Guide
35. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (Backing Track)
36-41. Novice - Oasis Rhythm Riffs
42-43. Acoustic Master: Nuages - Django Reinhardt
44-51. Rock - Slash Solos
52-53. Blues - Albert King
54. TV Theme - The Prisoner
55. Acoustic: Lucky - Gordon Giltrap

Demo Track
56. World of Sound

Notes

This was a CD cover disc given away with Issue 38 of Future Publishing's Total Guitar magazine, dated December 1997). As a cover disc it did not carry an EAN of its own.

Image: Future Publishing
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

The Prisoner was the only TV theme included on the disc. As was normal for this title, the CD comprised a selection of music tracks, demos, guitar and equipment reviews, features and techniques for learning and playing guitar.

"BAD MOUSTACHE!" -
THE JOHNNY SEVEN

Image: The Johnny Seven
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: November 1998
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: The Johnny Seven
(Self-released)

Music by: Various Artists

Performed by: The Johnny Seven

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 49:28

Catalogue No.: None

EAN: None

Design: Adam Piggot

Tracklisting

1. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
2. Thunderball
3. The Gallery
4. Summer Samba
5. This Guy
6. Goldfinger
7. White Horses

8. Up, Up and Away
9. Misty
10. Besame Mucho
11. The Girl from Ipanema
12. Dept S
13. Alright
14. Guantanamera

Notes

Recorded by the Scottish lounge, bossa nova and Latin electro-acoustic beat combo The Johnny Seven at Apollo Studios, Glasgow, in 1997, this was a self-published CD printed in limited numbers.
The group credits were somewhat tongue-in-cheek, comprising 'Dicky Molenz' (a spoonerism of The Monkees' Mickey Dolenz), 'Rik Flick' (surely a nod to James Bond guitarist Vic Flick) and 'Jason Famous' (which must be a nod to Jason King) each playing bass, guitar and organ, with 'Pat MaBongo' patting the bongos.
Dept S was of course Department S, in which audiences first encountered Jason ~~Famous~~ King.

CHILDHOOD FAVOURITES:
SONGS & MUSIC FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1998
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD2171-3

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Children's Favourites of the Charts:
A1. The Land of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz
A2. Brown Girl in the Ring - Boney M.
A3. Superman - Black Lace
A4. Do the Bartman - The Simpsons
A5. Power Rangers - The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
A6. Them Girls Them Girls - Zig and Zag
A7. Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
A8. The Funky Gibbon - The Goodies
A9. Rupert - Jackie Lee
A10. Dick-A-Dum-Dum (King's Road) - Des O'Connor
A11. Gin Gan Goolie - Scaffold
A12. A Windmill in Old Amsterdam - Ronnie Hilton
A13. Robin Hood - Gary Miller
A14. The Ugly Duckling - Mike Reid
A15. The Wombling Song - The Wombles
A16. There's No One Quite Like Grandma - St. Winifred's School Choir
A17. Grandad - Clive Dunn
A18. My Mum is One in a Million - The Children of Tansley School
A19. Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel

Disc 2 - Children's Favourites of the Screen:
B1. Theme from The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini and his Orchestra
B2. I Wanna Be Like You - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
B3. Dr Doolittle - Jimmy Tarbuck
B4. Inigo Pipkin - Jackie Lee
B5. Thunderbirds - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B6. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - The New Christy Minstrels
B7. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - David Seville and the Chipmunks
B8. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat - Mel Blanc
B9. The Song of the Diddymen - Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
B10. Consider Yourself - The National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by John Owen Edwards
B11. Me Ol' Bam-Boo - The New Christy Minstrels
B12. Baby Elephant Walk (from Hatari) - Henry Mancini and his Orchestra
B13. Stingray - Gary Miller and the Barry Gray Orchestra
B14. When I See an Elephant Fly - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
B15. Paddington Bear - Bernard Cribbins
B16. Do Re Mi - Doreen Hume
B17. Pinocchio - St. Winifred's School Choir
B18. Whistle While You Work - James Walker Chorus and Orchestra
B19. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? - Pinky and Perky
B20. Mickey Mouse - The Goodies
B21. Nookie's Song - Roger de Courcey
B22. Captain Scarlet Theme - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B23. Theme from Star Wars - The London Cinema Orchestra

Disc 3 - Children's Favourites of the Century:
C1. The Laughing Policeman - Charles Penrose
C2. The Teddy Bears' Picnic - Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
C3. Nellie the Elephant - Mandy Miller
C4. The Hippopotamus Song - Ian Wallace
C5. I Know an Old Lady - Burl Ives
C6. Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Three Stooges
C7. Puff the Magic Dragon - The Fireside Folksingers
C8. Solomon's Centipede - Valerie Singleton
C9. The Runaway Train - Michael Holliday
C10. The Court of King Caractacus - Rolf Harris
C11. My Brother - Terry Scott
C12. Anything You Can Do - Caroline O'Connor and Mark Adams
C13. Thumbelina - Joe Fagin
C14. The King's New Clothes - Bernard Cribbins
C15. We're Going to Spain - The Wombles
C16. Let's All Go to the Fun Fair - Toni Arthur
C17. Roller Coaster by the Sea - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
C18. Banana Boat Song (Day-O) - Stan Freberg
C19. Kenny the Kangaroo - Michael Barrymore
C20. The Ferret Song (from At Last the 1948 Show)- John Cleese and the 1948 Show Choir

Notes

This 3-CD release was available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.

SHOW AND TELL:
A STORMY REMEMBRANCE OF TV THEME SONGS

Image: Nil by Mouth Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1998
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Nil By Mouth Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: NBM1CD

EAN: 5037901000124

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Mission: Impossible - The Meatmen
2. Cops - H2O
3. Laverne and Shirley - No Use for a Name
4. Mary Tyler Moore - Clowns for Progress
5. Cheers - Felix Frump
6. Hawaii Five-O - Fu
7. Stingray - Hi-Fives
8. Out of Limits - Laika and the Cosmonauts
9. Friends - The Pink Lincolns
10. Diff'rent Strokes - Todd Bridges and the Whatchu Talking 'Bout Willis Experience
11. The Monkees - Furious George
12. Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? - Tilt
13. The Munsters - No Use for a Name
14. Welcome Back, Kotter - Squirtgun
15. It's Gary Shandling's Show - Thirsty
16. Saved by the Bell - The Cretins
17. Commercial Break - Joyride
18. Commercial Break - Brutal Juice

19. Get Smart - Agent Orange
20. Secret Agent Man - The Dickies
21. Baretta - Trick Babys
22. Green Acres - The Meatmen
23. Zoom - Murphy's Law
24. Roadrunner - Boris the Sprinkler
25. Dukes of Hazzard - Hot Water
26. WKRP in Cincinnatti - Weston
27. Bewitched - Brutal Juice
28. The Partridge Family - Horace Pinker
29. All in the Family - The Grabbers
30. Gilligan's Island - Manic Hispanic
31. The Jeffersons - Latex Generation
32. Hee-Haw - Jesus Christ Super Fly
33. Beverly Hillbillies - Butt Trumpet
34. Good Times - The Bollweevils
35. Charles in Charge - Corn Mo

Notes

Originally released in 1997 in the USA by Which? Records (WHICH? CD 0666), this UK edition was licensed from that company and released simultaneously on CD (NBM1CD) and vinyl record (NBM1LP).
The themes on this collection were all cover versions by garage/punk bands.
The track ordering of the UK editions was vastly different to the US original. However, there were no omissions or additions.
The cover design for the UK editions of Show and Tell was a play on the British TV series The Royle Family, which of course was not one of the themes included on the release. So... why??? The US cover at least attempted to make some link to the content:

Image: Which? Records
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

SUNSET OVER LONDON -
JOOLS HOLLAND & HIS RHYTHM & BLUES ORCHESTRA

Image: Warner.esp
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 11 January 1999
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Warner.esp

Music by: Various Artists

Performed by: Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: 8573 801 342

EAN: 685738013425

Design: Limehouse Screen Print Ltd

Tracklisting

1. The Seventh Sacrament
2. Let the Good Times Roll
3. Grey to Blue
4. Reconsider Baby
5. Hocus Pocum
6. I Dig Rhythm & Blues
7. Havana Evening
8. As the Sun Sets Over London
9. Dangerman ('High Wire')

10. Robbie Coltrane Introduces Avenue C
11. Travelling Blues
12. Well You Needn't
13. Lady Madonna
14. Introduction To
15. Love You and Leave You
16. Momentary Loss of Point (from the feature film Milk)
17. Foolish I Know

Notes

We have a lot of time and respect for Jools Holland here at Randall and Hopkirk (Declassified). Were it just for his television presenting and music journalism on The Tube, The Happening and Later... he'd have our respect, but Jools is also an accomplished musician in his own right, is a fan of The Prisoner and Portmeirion! His The Laughing Prisoner spoof made for The Tube is fondly remembered and his love for Portmeirion even extended to his building a mini-Portmeirion of his own at his Westcombe Park studios in south east London - Helicon Mountain, parts of which can be seen from the adjacent Westcombe Park railway station. Respect!
As with many other cover versions of the 'High Wire' Danger Man theme, the track is given as "Dangerman". It's a notably fine rendition, too.

TWENTY UPPER CUTS -
THE SEQUEL SAMPLER

Image: Sequel Records
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 29 March 1999
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Sequel Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: SEQSAM 01

EAN: 5023224041920

Design: Hugh Gilmour

Tracklisting

1. A Man in a Suitcase (TFI Friday Theme) - Ron Grainer
2. Pump Me Up - Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five
3. 8th Wonder - The Sugarhill Gang
4. Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
5. Finder's Keepers - Chairmen of the Board
6. Listen to Me - Baby Huey
7. Cheba - 8th Day
8. Love the Feeling - Leroy Hutson
9. And the Beat Goes On - The Whispers
10. A Night to Remember - Shalamar

11. Can You Feel the Force - The Real Thing
12. Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside
13. I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me - Jimmy James
14. Run Back - Carl Douglas
15. Michael (The Lover) - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
16. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw
17. He's in Town - The Rockin' Berries
18. Setting Fire to the Tail of a Fox - Long John Baldry
19. Maria Elena (I'm Going to War) - Gene Pitney
20. It's All Over Now (Live) - Bobby Womack

MUSIC OF THE YEAR:
1974

Image: Spectrum Music / Universal Music Operations Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: December 1999
(source: billyfury.com)

Publisher: Spectrum Music /
Universal Music Operations Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: 544 156-2

EAN: 731454415620

Design: The Whole Hog

Tracklisting

1. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
2. Down Down - Status Quo
3. There's a Ghost in My House - R. Dean Taylor
4. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
5. Avenues and Alleyways - Tony Christie
6. Let's Put It All Together - The Stylistics
7. Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor
8. Machine Gun - The Commodores
9. A Walkin' Miracle - Limmie and the Family Cookin'
10. Don't Stay Away Too Long - Peters and Lee

11. I Get a Little Sentimental Over You - The New Seekers
12. It's All Up to You - Jim Capaldi
13. It's Better to Have (and Don't Need) - Don Covay
14. All of My Life - Diana Ross
15. Spiders and Snakes - Jim Stafford
16. You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
17. You're the First, the Last, My Everything - Barry White
18. Break the Rules - Status Quo
19. Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes
20. This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - Sparks

Notes

Music of the Year: 1974 was part of a 35-CD series issued by Spectrum Music in 1999 (1955-1979 volumes) and 2001 (1980-1989 volumes).
This collection was later reissued as FriendsReunited.co.uk: The Class of... 1974 on 19 April 2004. However, only 18 of the 20 tracks on Music of the Year: 1974 were featured on the reissue, with tracks by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross (You Are Everything) and Smokey Robinson (Just My Soul Responding) replacing Tony Christie (Avenues and Alleyways, the sole ITC representative) and Limmie and the Family Cookin' (A Walkin' Miracle).

100 SHAGADELIC SIXTIES CLASSICS

Image: Pulse / Castle Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1999
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Pulse /
Castle Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 4

Total Playing Time: 254:50

Catalogue No.: PBX CD 436

EAN: 5029575643622

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Sweets for My Sweet - The Searchers
A2. That's What Love Will Do - Joe Brown
A3. Ya Ya Twist - Petula Clark
A4. Sucu Sucu (Theme from Top Secret) - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
A5. Be Mine - Lance Fortune
A6. Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw
A7. Dawning - Jimmy Justice
A8. The Price of Love - Status Quo
A9. Soul Coaxing - Sounds Orchestral
A10. Mexico - Long John Baldry
A11. Count On Me - Julie Grant
A12. Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp) - The Viscounts
A13. Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
A14. Mockingbird Hill - Migil Five
A15. La Bamba - The Roulettes
A16. You'll Never Know What You're Missing - Emile Ford
A17. (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet - Peter's Faces
A18. Something Here in My Heart - Paper Dolls
A19. 98.6 - The Bystanders
A20. Mississippi Mud - Winifred Atwell
A21. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya - Simone Jackson
A22. Poison Ivy - The Puppets
A23. Money - The Undertakers
A24. Thanks to You - Daryl Quist
A25. Wipe Out - The Saints

Disc 2:
B1. When My Little Girl is Smiling - Jimmy Justice
B2. Puppet On a String - Sandie Shaw
B3. High Wire (Theme from Danger Man) - Bob Leaper Orchestra
B4. (Roll Along) Wagon Train - Robert Horton
B5. Up On the Roof - Julie Grant
B6. Venus in Blue Jeans - Mark Wynter
B7. Sukiyaki - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
B8. A Picture of You - Joe Brown
B9. Warpaint - The Brook Brothers
B10. Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford
B11. He's a Rebel - The Breakaways
B12. Stingray - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B13. Thunderbirds - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B14. It Keeps Rainin' - Keith Powell
B15. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love - Petula Clark
B16. Smile a Little Smile for Me - The Flying Machine
B17. Ice in the Sun - Status Quo
B18. Take a Heart - The Sorrows
B19. Poor Man's Son - The Rockin' Berries
B20. Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers
B21. Funny How Love Can Be - The Ivy League
B22. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
B23. Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes
B24. You Baby - Jackie Trent
B25. Walk Like a Man - The Kestrels

Disc 3:
C1. Music to Watch Girls By - The Tony Hatch Sound
C2. Downtown - Petula Clark
C3. Catch the Wind - Donovan
C4. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw
C5. That's Why I'm Crying - The Ivy League
C6. Bye Bye Baby - Tony Jackson and the Vibrations
C7. Trains and Boats and Planes - Anita Harris
C8. Wishin' and Hopin' - The Eagles
C9. A Thousand Stars - The Chants
C10. He's in Town - The Rockin' Berries
C11. Needles and Pins - The Searchers
C12. Sea of Heartbreak - Joe Brown
C13. A Little Bitty Tear - Miki and Griff
C14. Have a Drink On Me - Lonnie Donegan
C15. The Spies Theme - Cyril Stapleton
C16. Samantha - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
C17. Come Along Please - Bob Wallis and his Storyville Jazz Band
C18. Bloodshot Eyes - Jimmy Justice and the Jury
C19. Lucky Stars - Peter Knight and the Knight Riders
C20. Hi Hi Hazel - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
C21. Red Red Wine - Jimmy James
C22. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
C23. Michelle - The Overlanders
C24. Girl - The Truth
C25. Suddenly You Love Me - The Tremeloes

Disc 4:
D1. Let the Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry
D2. Lady Jane - David Garrick
D3. Kelly - Wayne Gibson
D4. Love Potion No. 9 - The Searchers
D5. The Avengers Theme - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
D6. Baby, Now That I've Found You - The Foundations
D7. Ain't That Funny - Jimmy Justice
D8. Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
D9. Don't Sleep in the Subway - Petula Clark
D10. I Think We're Alone Now - Steve Hammond
D11. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - The Barry Gray Orchestra
D12. World Cup Willie - Lonnie Donegan
D13. Shortnin' Bread - The Viscounts
D14. Standing On the Corner - Dickie Valentine
D15. I Want to Stay Here - Miki and Griff
D16. Make Me an Island - Joe Dolan
D17. Where Are You Now - Jackie Trent
D18. Husky - Jimmy Nicol
D19. Question - Sandra Barry
D20. Just a Little Bit - The Undertakers
D21. Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair - Jackie Lynton
D22. Colours - Donovan
D23. Where Will You Be - Sue Nicholls
D24. With a Little Help from My Friends - Joe Brown
D25. The Streets of London - Ralph McTell

SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES:
1962 - NEW SOUNDS IN A YEAR OF CRISIS

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 1999
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD2851-3

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - I Remember You - Greatest Hits of 1962:
A1. Telstar - The Tornados
A2. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
A3. Hey Baby - Bruce Channel
A4. Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
A5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
A6. Sun Arise - Rolf Harris
A7. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) - Roy Orbison
A8. Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield
A9. The Young Ones - Cliff Richard
A10. Forget Me Not - Eden Kane
A11. (Dance With the) Guitar Man - Duane Eddy
A12. A Picture of You - Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
A13. I Remember You - Frank Ifield
A14. Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
A15. Wonderful Land - The Shadows
A16. Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
A17. Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone
A18. Bobby's Girl - Susan Maughan
A19. Hey! Little Girl - Del Shannon
A20. Last Night Was Made for Love - Billy Fury

Disc 2 - The Stars Will Shine - The Memories of 1962:
B1. Lesson One - Russ Conway
B2. Swingin' in the Rain - Norman Vaughan
B3. Theme from Z Cars - Johnny Keating
B4. Ahab the Arab - Jimmy Savile
B5. My Brother - Terry Scott
B6. Someone's Pinched My Winkles - Rolf Harris
B7. Unsquare Dance - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
B8. The Hole in the Ground - Bernard Cribbins
B9. So Do I - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
B10. The Stripper - David Rose and his Orchestra
B11. The Wonderful World of the Young - Danny Williams
B12. Softly As I Leave You - Matt Monro
B13. Three Stars Will Shine Tonight (Theme from Dr Kildare) - Richard Chamberlain
B14. Theme from The Saint - Les Reed
B15. Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night - Doug Sheldon
B16. Peter and the Wolf - The Clyde Valley Stompers
B17. Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole
B18. Roses Are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton
B19. A Little Bitty Tear - Burl Ives
B20. Heartaches - Patsy Cline
B21. James Bond Theme - John Barry and his Orchestra

Disc 3 - Teenage Idols - The Rock 'n' Roll of 1962:
C1. When My Little Girl is Smiling - Craig Douglas
C2. A Steel Guitar and a Glass of Wine - Paul Anka
C3. Teenage Idol - Ricky Nelson
C4. Lonely City - John Leyton
C5. Jezebel - Marty Wilde
C6. Drums Are My Beat - Sandy Nelson
C7. Pick a Bale of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan
C8. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
C9. Sharing You - Bobby Vee
C10. The Wanderer - Dion
C11. Main Title Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm - Jet Harris
C12. V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N - Connie Francis
C13. Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean
C14. Speak to Me Pretty - Brenda Lee
C15. Ain't That Funny - Jimmy Justice
C16. Peppermint Twist (Part 1) - Joey Dee and the Starliters
C17. I've Been Twistin' - Jerry Lee Lewis
C18. Don't Stop, Twist - Frankie Vaughan
C19. Reminiscing - Buddy Holly
C20. Sheila - Tommy Roe
C21. Nut Rocker - B. Bumble and the Stingers
C22. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Fats Domino

Notes

Sounds of the Sixties was an exhaustive Reader's Digest 20-volume series designed to capture the aural essence of the Swinging Decade. Concentrating for the greater part on pop music, it did however throw in the occasional TV theme morsel - and infrequently it hailed from an ITC series. It was released in two variations, with subscribers opting for 3-CD or 3-audio cassette volumes, available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.
Ten of the volumes were devoted to the individual years of the decade, 1960 to 1969, while the remaining ten releases were thematic: The Girl Singers, The Golden Groups, Easy Listening Favourites, Top Ten Hits, Favourite TV Memories and more besides. Favourite TV Memories (RDCD3081-3, 2001) is covered in our TV Themes Collections section.
A collectible box was sent to subscribers so that they could store the volumes as they were released. The 20 volumes were released at regular intervals between 1997 and 2003 with the titles published in a seemingly random order.

The storage box that was delivered to those subscribing to the CD edition

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

A 12-volume cut-down version of Sounds of the Sixties was relaunched on CD only by Reader's Digest in 2006 as Remembering the Sixties. Consequently, this volume was reissued in that year as Remembering the Sixties: 1962 (Reader's Digest, RDCD5211-3) with redesigned artwork. The track ordering was changed and some music tracks were dropped and substituted with music not included on the original edition. The Saint track on Disc 2 somehow survived the cull, particularly considering that Thunderbirds and Joe 90 were removed from the 1965 and 1968 reissues respectively.

SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES:
1964 - WHEN BRITANNIA ROCKED THE WAVES

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 1999
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD2251-3

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Shout - The Greatest Hits of 1964:
A1. My Boy Lollipop - Millie
A2. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
A3. Downtown - Petula Clark
A4. On the Beach - Cliff Richard
A5. Remember (Walkin' in the Sand) - The Shangri-Las
A6. Go Now - The Moody Blues
A7. Little Children - Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
A8. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Cilla Black
A9. Diane - The Bachelors
A10. I Love You Because - Jim Reeves
A11. A Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird) - Adam Faith
A12. The Wedding - Julie Rogers
A13. Constantly - Cliff Richard
A14. You're No Good - The Swinging Blue Jeans
A15. Wishin' and Hopin' - The Merseybeats
A16. Needles and Pins - The Searchers
A17. Just One Look - The Hollies
A18. A Little Loving - The Fourmost
A19. Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans
A20. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
A21. Shout! - Lulu and the Luvvers

Disc 2 - I Won't Forget You - The Memories of 1964:
B1. Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
B2. Can't Buy Me Love - Ella Fitzgerald
B3. Stingray - Gary Miller and the Barry Gray Orchestra
B4. Let Me Go, Lover - Kathy Kirby
B5. Suspicion - Terry Stafford
B6. Is It True? - Brenda Lee
B7. Don't Blame Me - Frank Ifield
B8. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw
B9. Stand By Me - Kenny Lynch
B10. Spanish Harlem - Sounds Incorporated
B11. You're My World - Cilla Black
B12. Walk Away - Matt Monro
B13. How Soon - Henry Mancini
B14. I Won't Forget You - Jim Reeves
B15. I Believe - The Bachelors
B16. The Twelfth of Never - Cliff Richard
B17. Juliet - The Four Pennies
B18. Crossroads Theme - Tony Hatch
B19. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
B20. Tokyo Melody - Helmut Zacharias
B21. Happiness - Ken Dodd
B22. Dominique - The Singing Nun

Disc 3 - The Wild Side of Life - The Rock 'n' Roll of 1964:
C1. 5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann
C2. Why Not Tonight - The Mojos
C3. My Baby Left Me - Dave Berry
C4. I Can't Stand It - The Spencer Davis Group
C5. Rhythm and Greens - The Shadows
C6. No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
C7. I'm the Face - The High Numbers
C8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Rod Stewart
C9. Walkin' the Dog - The Dennisons
C10. Country Line Special - Cyril Davies and his R'n'B All-Stars
C11. Baby, I Need Your Lovin' - The Fourmost
C12. Tell Me When - The Applejacks
C13. Stop, Look and Listen - Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
C14. Don't Turn Around - The Merseybeats
C15. House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
C16. Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble) - Manfred Mann
C17. Hold Me - P.J. Proby
C18. Pamela Jean - The Survivors
C19. Poison Ivy - The Paramounts
C20. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) - The Beach Boys
C21. Sweet Suzie - Johnny Burnette
C22. Wild Side of Life - Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four
C23. Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas

Notes

Sounds of the Sixties was an exhaustive Reader's Digest 20-volume series designed to capture the aural essence of the Swinging Decade. Concentrating for the greater part on pop music, it did however throw in the occasional TV theme morsel - and infrequently it hailed from an ITC series. It was released in two variations, with subscribers opting for 3-CD or 3-audio cassette volumes, available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.
Ten of the volumes were devoted to the individual years of the decade, 1960 to 1969, while the remaining ten releases were thematic: The Girl Singers, The Golden Groups, Easy Listening Favourites, Top Ten Hits, Favourite TV Memories and more besides. Favourite TV Memories (RDCD3081-3, 2001) is covered in our TV Themes Collections section.
This volume was reissued in 2006 as Remembering the Sixties: 1964 (Reader's Digest, RDCD5341-3) with redesigned artwork. The track ordering was changed and some music tracks were dropped and substituted with music not included on the original edition. The Stingray track on Disc 2 somehow survived the cull, particularly considering that Thunderbirds and Joe 90 were removed from the 1965 and 1968 reissues respectively.

SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES:
1965 - POP AND PROTEST IN A WATERSHED YEAR

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 1999
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD2711-3

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - A World of Our Own - The Greatest Hits of 1965:
A1. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers
A2. Stop! In the Name of Love - The Supremes
A3. 1-2-3 - Len Barry
A4. I Know a Place - Petula Clark
A5. Yesterday Man - Chris Andrews
A6. Concrete and Clay - Unit 4 + 2
A7. You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes
A8. Mary Anne - The Shadows
A9. Almost There - Andy Williams
A10. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
A11. It Hurts So Much to See You Go - Jim Reeves
A12. Yesterday - Matt Monro
A13. Catch the Wind - Donovan
A14. Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
A15. A World of Our Own - The Seekers
A16. Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw
A17. A Must to Avoid - Herman's Hermits
A18. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
A19. King of the Road - Roger Miller
A20. A Walk in the Black Forest - Horst Jankowski
A21. A Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers

Disc 2 - What a World! - The Memories of 1965:
B1. (I Left My Heart) in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
B2. I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone
B3. Theme from Man Alive - The Tony Hatch Sound
B4. Along Came Jones - The Overlanders
B5. The Ballad of Jed Clampett (from The Beverly Hillbillies) - Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
B6. Ballad of Cat Ballou - Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye
B7. Ringo - Lorne Greene
B8. Trains and Boats and Planes - Anita Harris
B9. Don't Make Me (Fall in Love With You) - Babbity Blue
B10. Down in the Boondocks - Billy Joe Royal
B11. The Avengers Theme - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
B12. I Belong - Kathy Kirby
B13. Thunderbirds - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B14. To Whom It Concerns - Chris Andrews
B15. War Canoe - Rolf Harris
B16. Remember the Alamo - Donovan
B17. Four Strong Winds - The Searchers
B18. What a World - Benny Hill
B19. Shame and Scandal in the Family - Lance Percival
B20. Here Comes Summer - Mark Wynter
B21. Hole in My Bucket - Pinky and Perky
B22. Only a Working Man - Charlie Drake

Disc 3 - I'm Alive - The Rock 'n' Roll of 1965:
C1. Hey Good Lookin' - Bo Diddley
C2. I Want Candy - Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
C3. The 'In' Crowd - Dobie Gray
C4. I Can't Help Myself - Four Tops
C5. Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas
C6. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (Part 1) - James Brown
C7. California Girls - The Beach Boys
C8. Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
C9. I'm Alive - The Hollies
C10. Tossin' and Turnin' - The Ivy League
C11. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals
C12. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
C13. A Little You - Freddie And The Dreamers
C14. Can't Help Thinking About Me - David Bowie with the Lower Third
C15. Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun) - Del Shannon
C16. Girls, Girls, Girls - The Fourmost
C17. I'm Ready - The Searchers
C18. Promised Land - Chuck Berry
C19. I Love You, Yes I Do - The Merseybeats
C20. Poor Man's Son - The Rockin' Berries

Notes

Sounds of the Sixties was an exhaustive Reader's Digest 20-volume series designed to capture the aural essence of the Swinging Decade. Concentrating for the greater part on pop music, it did however throw in the occasional TV theme morsel - and infrequently it hailed from an ITC series. It was released in two variations, with subscribers opting for 3-CD or 3-audio cassette volumes, available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.
Ten of the volumes were devoted to the individual years of the decade, 1960 to 1969, while the remaining ten releases were thematic: The Girl Singers, The Golden Groups, Easy Listening Favourites, Top Ten Hits, Favourite TV Memories and more besides. Favourite TV Memories (RDCD3081-3, 2001) is covered in our TV Themes Collections section.
This volume was reissued in 2008 as Remembering the Sixties: 1965 (Reader's Digest, RDCD6571-3) with redesigned artwork. The track ordering was changed and some music tracks were dropped and substituted with music not included on the original edition. The Thunderbirds track on Disc 2 was among those dropped for the new version.

LOVE, HONOUR & OBEY:
THE ALBUM

Image: EMI Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 10 April 2000
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: EMI Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: 526 3132

EAN: 724352631322

Design: The Red Room

Tracklisting

1. Avenues & Alleyways - Johnny Lee Miller
2. 'We're All Performers' (Dialogue from the Film) - Johnny Lee Miller
3. The Harder They Come - Ray Winstone
4. When You Are a King - Sadie Frost
5. 'Martial Arts' (Dialogue from the Film) - Perry Benson
6. Rock On - Jude Law
7. Band of Gold - Denise Van Outen
8. 'Sex Aids' (Dialogue from the Film) - Denise Van Outen
9. Bullet - Jamiroquai
10. 'Who is South London?' (Dialogue from the Film) - Ray Winstone and Jonny Lee Miller
11. Fireball XL5 - Sean Pertwee
12. 'Masturbation' (Dialogue from the Film) - Kathy Burke and Ray Burdis

13. Burning Love - Kathy Burke
14. The Blue Peach - Thierry Lang
15. Overcrowded - Richard Hawes
16. 'Enter the Dragon' (Dialogue from the Film) - Rhys Ifans
17. Bacchus - Feelybooth
18. 'Cabin Boy' (Dialogue from the Film) - Kathy Burke and Ray Burdis
19. Oliver's Song - Thierry Lang
20. Sleeping with the Enemy - James Graydon
21. 'Blinding Singers' (Dialogue from the Film) - Ray Winstone
22. Avenues & Alleyways - The Cast of Love, Honour & Obey

Notes

Original Soundtrack album from Love, Honour & Obey (2000), a mock gangster movie directed by Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis and starring Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen and Rhys Ifans.
Avenues & Alleyways singer Johnny Lee Miller is the grandson of James Bond's original 'M', Bernard Lee (1908-1981), who appeared in episodes of Ghost Squad, Danger Man, The Baron, Court Martial, Man in a Suitcase, The Champions, Strange Report and The Persuaders! An actor with an excellent ITC pedigree.
Sean Pertwee is the son of Doctor Who and Worzel Gummidge actor Jon Pertwee (1919-1996), who remarkably has no ITC credits to his name whatever.

SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES:
1968 - POP AND PROTEST IN A WATERSHED YEAR

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 2000
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD2871-3

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Congratulations - The Greatest Hits of 1968:
A1. Young Girl - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
A2. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
A3. Jennifer Eccles - The Hollies
A4. I'm a Tiger - Lulu
A5. Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann
A6. Bend Me, Shape Me - Amen Corner
A7. Ice in the Sun - Status Quo
A8. Lazy Sunday - Small Faces
A9. Do It Again - The Beach Boys
A10. Elenore - The Turtles
A11. My Little Lady - The Tremeloes
A12. Congratulations - Cliff Richard
A13. Delilah - Tom Jones
A14. Walk Away Renee - Four Tops
A15. For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
A16. I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten - Dusty Springfield
A17. Les Bicyclettes de Belsize - Engelbert Humperdinck
A18. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Andy Williams
A19. Sunshine Girl - Herman's Hermits
A20. Blue Eyes - Don Partridge
A21. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mama Cass
A22. Joanna - Scott Walker

Disc 2 - Something Here in My Heart - The Memories of 1968:
B1. Step Inside Love - Cilla Black
B2. The Other Man's Grass - Petula Clark
B3. Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin' Me No) - Paper Dolls
B4. Lily the Pink - Scaffold
B5. I'm the Urban Spaceman - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
B6. Joe 90 Theme - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B7. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
B8. Dance to the Music - Sly and the Family Stone
B9. Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
B10. May I Have the Next Dream With You? - Malcolm Roberts
B11. Nevertheless - Frankie Vaughan
B12. Where Will You Be? - Sue Nichols
B13. She Wears My Ring - Solomon King
B14. White Horses - Jacky
B15. Angel of the Morning - P.P. Arnold
B16. Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
B17. Little Arrows - The Dixies
B18. Cabaret - Louis Armstrong
B19. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - William Shatner
B20. Little Green Apples - Roger Miller
B21. Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? (Theme from Dad's Army) - Bud Flanagan

Disc 3 - Race with the Devil - The Rock of 1968:
C1. The Legend of Xanadu - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
C2. Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
C3. Gotta See Jane - R. Dean Taylor
C4. This Wheel's on Fire - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity
C5. Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
C6. Race with the Devil - The Gun
C7. Ain't Nothin' But a House Party - The Show Stoppers
C8. Bring It to Me Baby - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
C9. Mony Mony - Tommy James and the Shondells
C10. Everlasting Love - Robert Knight
C11. Love Child - Diana Ross and the Supremes
C12. A Day Without Love - The Love Affair
C13. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
C14. Red Red Wine - Jimmy James and the Vagabonds
C15. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Bedrocks
C16. Today - Sandie Shaw
C17. Here Comes the Judge - Shorty Long
C18. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) - Betty Everett
C19. The Universal - Small Faces
C20. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
C21. I Don't Want Our Loving to Die - Herd
C22. The Weight - The Band

Notes

Sounds of the Sixties was an exhaustive Reader's Digest 20-volume series designed to capture the aural essence of the Swinging Decade. Concentrating for the greater part on pop music, it did however throw in the occasional TV theme morsel - and infrequently it hailed from an ITC series. It was released in two variations, with subscribers opting for 3-CD or 3-audio cassette volumes, available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.
Ten of the volumes were devoted to the individual years of the decade, 1960 to 1969, while the remaining ten releases were thematic: The Girl Singers, The Golden Groups, Easy Listening Favourites, Top Ten Hits, Favourite TV Memories and more besides. Favourite TV Memories (RDCD3081-3, 2001) is covered in our TV Themes Collections section.
This volume was reissued in 2009 as Remembering the Sixties: 1969 (Reader's Digest, RDCD6691-3) with redesigned artwork. The track ordering was changed and some music tracks were dropped and substituted with music not included on the original edition. The Joe 90 track on Disc 2 was among those dropped for the new version.

STRUNG OUT! -
UK GUITAR INSTRUMENTALS '63-'71

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 26 February 2001
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMDDD 095

EAN: 5050159109524

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. The Desperados - The Eagles
A2. Special Agent - The Eagles
A3. Fireball (Theme from Fireball XL5) - The Flee-Rekkers
A4. Country Line Special - Cyril Davies and his Rhythm 'n' Blues Allstars
A5. Jump Jeremiah - Mike Ford and the Consuls
A6. The Green Man - Mike Ford and the Consuls
A7. Mad Goose - The Sons of the Piltdown Men
A8. Be a Party - The Sons of the Piltdown Men
A9. El Relicardo (Live) - Joe Brown
A10. Hava Nagila (Live) - Joe Brown
A11. Wipe Out - The Saints
A12. Midgets - The Saints
A13. Dream Lover - The Packabeats
A14. Packabeat - The Packabeats
A15. Getaway - Johnny Keating and the Z Men
A16. Station Six Sahara - The Eagles
A17. Cleopatra's Needle - Ahab and the Wailers
A18. Neb's Tune - Ahab and the Wailers
A19. Happy Talk - The Saints
A20. Parade of Tin Soldiers - The Saints
A21. Telstar - The Eagles
A22. Pipeline - The Eagles
A23. Husky Team - The Saints
A24. Pigtails - The Saints
A25. The Red Dragon - The Blackjacks
A26. Woo Hoo - The Blackjacks
A27. All Things Bright and Beautiful - Joe Brown
A28. Andorra - The Eagles
A29. Night Train - Jimmy Nicol and Shubdubs
A30. Peter Gunn - The Remo Four

Disc 2:
B1. John Peel - The Eagles
B2. Post Horn Gallop - The Eagles
B3. Rocking Rocker - The Eagles
B4. Baja - John Paul Jones
B5. A Foggy Day in Vietnam - John Paul Jones
B6. 6.10 Special - The Hootenannys
B7. Husky - Jimmy Nicol and Shubdubs
B8. Caroline - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
B9. Revenge - Kinks
B10. Zulu Stomp - The Brand
B11. Red Cabbage - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
B12. Revenge - The Ray MacVay Sound
B13. Raunchy - The Ray MacVay Sound
B14. The Big Beat - Eric Delaney's Big Beat Six
B15. Big Noise in Winnetka - Eric Delaney's Big Beat Six
B16. High Wire (Theme from Danger Man) - The Bob Leaper Orchestra
B17. The Lost World - The Bob Leaper Orchestra
B18. Sicilian Tarantella - Joe Brown
B19. Tangerine Puppet - Donovan
B20. Before the Beginning - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
B21. Solitaire - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
B22. My Little Rose - The Lancastrians
B23. Beach Bash - The Ram Jam Band
B24. Comin' Home Baby - The Cymbaline
B25. The Saint - The Eliminators
B26. Thunderbirds - The Eliminators
B27. The Eliminator - The Eliminators
B28. Completely - Kinks
B29. Telstar '69 - Velvett Fogg
B30. Classical Gas - Sounds Orchestral

Notes

This is one of those releases that can't make up its mind what it's called. The spine states "Strung Out! UK Guitar Instrumentals '63-'71", whereas the front cover suggests the subtitle is "Instrumental Diamonds '63-'71" and the disc labels go for "Strung Out!" and no subtitle at all. Take your pick. We did!

BANZAI:
SOUNDTRACK TO THE SERIES

Image: 4 Music / Channel Four Television Corporation
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 18 June 2001
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: 4 Music /
Channel Four Television Corporation

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 60:50

Catalogue No.: C4M00132

EAN: 686744001321

Design: Blue Source / Kate Barr

Tracklisting

1. Theme from Enter the Dragon - Lalo Schifrin
2. I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren
3. Oh Lori - Alessi
4. Avenues and Alleyways (Theme from The Protectors) - Tony Christie
5. Stay On These Roads - A-Ha
6. Adding N to X - Add N to (X)
7. Kites - Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
8. When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman - Dr. Hook
9. Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

10. Holiday Rap - MC Miker G. and DJ Sven
11. Sleepy Shores (Theme from Owen M.D.) - Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
12. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
13. Spanish Stroll - Mink De Ville
14. Chanson D'Amour - The Manhattan Transfer
15. The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield
16. Music - John Miles
17. Dancing Lonely Night - The Jaguars

Notes

Banzai (Channel 4, 2001-2003) was a British comedy gambling game show which spoofed the extreme nature of Japanese game shows. Produced by Radar Television, part of the RDF Media, it encouraged members of the viewing audience to bet with each other on the outcome of a series of outlandish and bizarre scenarios. Banzai lasted for three series comprised 23 episodes and 1 special and featured the voiceover talents of Burt Kwouk, one of the stars of ITC's The Sentimental Agent.
This CD comprised music tracks heard in the series, including Tony Christie's memorable Avenues and Alleyways, better known to ITC fans as the theme from The Protectors.

1963 - THE SOUNDTRACK

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 3 February 2003
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMEDD 647

EAN: 050159164721

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Hey Paula - Paul and Paula
A2. Up On the Roof - Julie Grant
A3. Little Town Flirt - Del Shannon
A4. Dance On - The Eagles
A5. Go Away Little Girl - Mark Wynter
A6. Trouble is My Middle Name - The Brook Brothers
A7. Globetrotter - The Tornados
A8. That's What Love Will Do - Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
A9. Loop De Loop - Johnny Thunders
A10. Sukiyaki - Kenny Ball's Jazzmen
A11. Count On Me - Julie Grant
A12. Say Wonderful Things - Ronnie Carroll
A13. Fireball (from Fireball XL5) - The Flee-Rekkers
A14. Cupboard Love - John Leyton
A15. Chariot - Petula Clark
A16. Harvest of Love - Benny Hill
A17. I'm a Hog for You Baby - Erkey Grant and the Earwigs
A18. Shame, Shame, Shame - Jimmy Reed
A19. Pipeline - The Eagles
A20. Hands Off, Stop Muckin' About - Kenneth Cope with The Breakaways
A21. Hobbies - Jenny Moss
A22. Only the Heartaches - Houston Wells and the Marksmen
A23. Theme from The Scales of Justice - The Tornados
A24. Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis
A25. Sweets for My Sweet - The Searchers

Disc 2:

B1. Twist and Shout - The Searchers
B2. Rondo - Kenny Ball's Jazzmen
B3. Thanks to You - Daryl Quist
B4. From Me to You - Del Shannon
B5. Lies - Johnny Sandon and the Remo Four
B6. Summer Skies and Golden Sands - The Overlanders
B7. Mashed Potatoes - The Undertakers
B8. You Can Never Stop Me Loving You - Johnny Tillotson
B9. Wipe Out - The Saints
B10. Christine - Miss X
B11. Some Other Guy - The Searchers
B12. Poison Ivy - The Puppets
B13. Teddy Bear's Picnic - Jackie Lynton
B14. You Don't Have to be a Baby to Cry - The Caravelles
B15. I Don't Care - The Chants
B16. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya - The Searchers
B17. Boys - Jeannie and the Big Guys
B18. Kiss Me Now - Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four
B19. Hippy Hippy Shake - Pat Harris and the Blackjacks
B20. That Boy of Mine - The Breakaways
B21. From Russia With Love - John Barry
B22. You're No Good - Betty Everett
B23. Money (That's What I Want) - The Searchers
B24. The Kennedy March - The Joe Meek Orchestra
B25. Steptoe and Son at Buckingham Palace (Parts 1 and 2) - Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett

1964 - THE SOUNDTRACK

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 24 February 2003
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMEDD 655

EAN: 505015916520

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Needles and Pins - The Searchers
A2. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
A3. Dr Who - The Eric Winstone Orchestra
A4. All My Loving - The Dowlands
A5. Just a Little Bit - The Undertakers
A6. Mockin' Bird Hill - The Migil Five
A7. If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Jackie Trent
A8. Long Tall Sally - The Kinks
A9. Make Love to Me - John Leyton and the LeRoys
A10. Suspicion - Terry Stafford
A11. Every Day I Have to Cry - Julie Grant
A12. Housewives' Choice - Derrick and Patsy
A13. Little Child - Jackie Lynton
A14. Hi-Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker
A15. King of Kings - Jimmy Cliff
A16. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Bill Simpson
A17. World Without Love - Del Shannon
A18. I Knew It All the Time - The Dave Clark Five featuring Mike Smith
A19. The Shoop Shoop Song - Betty Everett
A20. The Way You Do the Things You Do - The Trends
A21. Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers
A22. I Wish You Would - The Yardbirds
A23. Dimples - John Lee Hooker
A24. Wishin' and Hopin' - The Eagles
A25. Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups

Disc 2:

B1. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
B2. Love or Money - The Wackers
B3. Baby What's Wrong - The Downliners Sect
B4. Remember (Walking in the Sand) - The Shangri-Las
B5. Handy Man - Del Shannon
B6. Come to Me - Julie Grant
B7. Bye Bye Baby - Tony Jackson and the Vibrations
B8. Sweet Was the Wine - The Chants
B9. When You Walk in the Room - The Searchers
B10. He's in Town - The Rockin' Berries
B11. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
B12. Stingray - The Barry Gray Orchestra with Gary Miller
B13. The Wild Side of Life - Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four
B14. High Wire (Theme from Danger Man) - The Bob Leaper Orchestra
B15. Questions I Can't Answer - Heinz and the Wild Boys
B16. And I Love Her - Mark Wynter
B17. Sugar Babe - Jimmy Powell and the 5 Dimensions
B18. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
B19. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - The Yardbirds
B20. Downtown - Petula Clark
B21. Little Baby - The Blue Rondos
B22. I'm a Lover Not a Fighter - The Brand
B23. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw
B24. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
B25. Terry - Twinkle

Notes

The cover illustration depicted two television series, Gerry Anderson's Stingray and The Avengers. The latter image features Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee despite their adventures together not being screened until September 1965. Quite why they are on the cover of a 1964 collection is anyone's guess, particularly considering the Laurie Johnson Avengers theme is included on the 1965 volume (CMEDD 668) that was released two months after this one...

THE LATE LOUNGE PRESENTS
BOUDOIR BEATS

Image: Jazz FM Records
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 18 March 2003
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Jazz FM Records

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Total Playing Time: 152:25

Catalogue No.: JAZZFMCD48

EAN: 822334007025

Design: Cubic

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. I Am the Black Gold of the Sun - Rotary Connection
A2. Wooden Heart (I Wish I Had a) - The Free Association
A3. When You're in Love - Reno
A4. Little by Little - Groove Armada
A5. Window Pain - The Nudge
A6. Remind Me - Röyksopp
A7. Other World - Jakatta
A8. Like Rain - Alison Crockett
A9. Give Everything - Shaun Escoffery
A10. When Will I Ever Learn (Part 1) - Lewis Taylor
A11. The Rhyme - Tony D
A12. Adrift - Blue States
A13. Blue Dress - Birdie
A14. Never - Bushy
A15. Slowly - Max Sedgley
A16. Feel the Vibe - Loose Ends
A17. Theme from The Persuaders - John Barry

Disc 2:
B1. Story of Light - Strange Cargo
B2. Celestial Rhythm - Paul Hardcastle
B3. Traveller (Kid Loco's Once Upon a Time in the East Mix) - Talvin Singh
B4. Star - Primal Scream
B5. Harder - Kosheen
B6. Good Disease - Aim
B7. For What It's Worth (Shantel Remix) - Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66
B8. Failure - Skinny
B9. All That We Perceive - Thievery Corporation
B10. Lessons in Love - Nature Boy
B11. Drophere - dZihan and Kamien
B12. So Low - Custom Blue
B13. Come On Let's Go - Broadcast
B14. Never (Turntablerocker's Never! Hip Hop Mix) - Tiefschwarz
B15. Vai Minha Tristeza (Modaji Acoustic Mix) - Tom & Joyce
B16. Tired Little One - Bah Samba

KITSCH LOUNGE RIOT

Image: BMG UK & Ireland Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 7 April 2003
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: BMG UK & Ireland Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: 743219712820

EAN: 743219712820

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Kitsch:
A1. Secret Agent Man - Mel Tormé
A2. A Man in a Suitcase (The TFI Friday Theme) - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra
A3. Wonderwall - The Mike Flowers Pop
A4. Wild Elephants (from Gap advert) - James Clarke
A5. They Call Me Mr. Tibbs - The Great Chaquito Big Band
A6. Avenues & Alleyways (The Protectors Theme) - Tony Christie
A7. James Bond Theme - Leroy Holmes
A8. Oye Como Va (from Carlito's Way) - Santana
A9. The Pink Panther Theme - Hollywood Studio Orchestra
A10. Downtown (from Girl, Interrupted) - Petula Clark–
A11. The Sweeney - Simon Brint and Simon Wallace
A12. Mini Skirt (from Lynx advert) - Skeewiff
A13. Venus - Tom Jones

Disc 2 - Lounge:
B1. Feeling Good - Nina Simone
B2. Mr. Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jr.
B3. Something - Shirley Bassey
B4. From Here to Eternity - Engelbert Humperdinck
B5. Love Theme (from The Godfather) - Andy Williams
B6. Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
B7. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
B8. I Wanna Be Around - Tony Bennett
B9. Light My Fire - José Feliciano

Disc 2 (continued):
B10. Teach Me Tiger - April Stevens
B11. Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus - Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
B12. The Boy from Ipanema - Peggy Lee
B13. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
B14. Daydream - Gunter Kallmann Choir

Disc 3 - Riot:
C1. Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
C2. Do You Love Me (from Dirty Dancing) - The Contours
C3. I Get the Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
C4. Rescue Me - Oliver Darley
C5. Dance to the Music - Sly and the Family Stone
C6. War - Edwin Starr
C7. Lady Marmalade (from The Long Kiss Goodnight) - LaBelle
C8. Stuck in the Middle With You (from Reservoir Dogs) - Stealers Wheel
C9. Born to be Wild (from Easy Rider) - Steppenwolf
C10. 20th Century Boy (from Levi's advert) - T-Rex
C11. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
C12. Call Me (from American Gigolo) - Blondie
C13. A Little Less Conversation (from Nike advert) - Elvis Presley vs JXL

Notes

A 3-CD compilation divided into three discs with the individual themes of 'kitsch', 'lounge' and 'riot'. This collection was inspired by the Kitsch Lounge Riot late night loungecore club which was at the time resident on Thursday nights at London's Café de Paris.

1965 - THE SOUNDTRACK

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 22 April 2003
(source: AllMusic)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMEDD 668

EAN: 5050159166824

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Tired of Waiting for You - The Kinks
A2. Ringo - Lorne Green
A3. Love Potion No.9 - The Searchers
A4. Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun) - Del Shannon
A5. Hold What You've Got - Joe Tex
A6. Baby Baby (I Still Love You) - Julie Grant
A7. Funny How Love Can Be - The Ivy League
A8. Theme from Crossroads - The Tony Hatch Orchestra
A9. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Barbara Ann
A10. The 'In' Crowd - Dobie Gray
A11. Getting Mighty Crowded - Betty Everett
A12. Give Him a Great Big Kiss - The Shangri-Las
A13. The Girl Who Wanted Fame - The Wackers
A14. Baby's in Black - The Hi-Fi's
A15. I Know a Place - Petula Clark
A16. Diggin' My Potatoes - Heinz and the Wild Boys
A17. I'll Stop at Nothing - Sandie Shaw
A18. Goodbye My Love - The Searchers
A19. Where Are You Now (My Love) - Jackie Trent
A20. Catch the Wind - Donovan
A21. For Your Love - The Yardbirds
A22. Giving Up - Julie Grant
A23. The Times They Are A-Changin' - The Ian Campbell Folk Group
A24. Poor Man's Son - The Rockin' Berries
A25. Iko Iko - The Dixie Cups

Disc 2:

B1. Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw
B2. Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds
B3. Trains and Boats and Planes - Anita Harris
B4. Tossing and Turning - The Ivy League
B5. You'd Better Come Home - Petula Clark
B6. That's the Way Love Goes - Charles Dickens
B7. See My Friend - The Kinks
B8. Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis
B9. The Bells of Rhymney - The Fifth Avenue
B10. Take a Heart - The Sorrows
B11. Ride Your Pony - Lee Dorsey
B12. Any Day Now (My Wild, Beautiful Bird) - The Alan Price Set
B13. Universal Soldier - Donovan
B14. Agent 00-Soul - The John Schroeder Orchestra
B15. She Belongs to Me - The Masterminds
B16. Needle in a Haystack - Tawny Reed
B17. Do You Believe In Magic? - The Lovin' Spoonful
B18. No Other Baby - Billie Davis
B19. What a World - Benny Hill
B20. Theme from The Avengers - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
B21. A Lover's Concerto - The Toys
B22. Till the End of the Day - The Kinks
B23. I Can Never Go Home Any More - The Shangri-Las
B24. Theme from Thunderbirds - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B25. That's My Life (My Love, My Home) - Freddie Lennon

THE ESSENTIAL TONY HATCH: GROOVES, HITS AND THEMES -
TONY HATCH

Image: Castle Pulse / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Released: 27 May 2003
(source: AllMusic)

Publisher: Castle Pulse /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Tony Hatch and others

Performed by: Tony Hatch

Discs: 3

Total Playing Time: 163:21

Catalogue No.: PBXCD354

EAN: 5016073335425

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
The Tony Hatch Orchestra and Sound
A1. Music to Watch Girls By
A2. Call Me
A3. Wives and Lovers
A4. Joanna
A5. Light My Fire
A6. Theme from Bedazzled
A7. Up, Up and Away
A8. Birds
A9. Love is Blue
A10. Forget Him
A11. I Know a Place
A12. A Man and a Woman
A13. While the City Sleeps
A14. Crosstown Commuter
A15. Beautiful in the Rain
A16. Soul Coaxing
A17. Sounds of the Seventies
A18. An Occasional Man
A19. Where Are You Now
A20. Finito

Disc 2:
The Songs of Tony Hatch
B1. Downtown - Petula Clark
B2. Sugar and Spice - The Searchers
B3. You're the One - The Cookies
B4. Call Me - Petula Clark
B5. 7:10 from Suburbia - Jackie Trent
B6. Major to Minor - The Settlers
B7. Don't Sleep in the Subway - Petula Clark
B8. You've Gotta Be Loved - The Montanas
B9. The Weaver - The Pendulums
B10. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love - Petula Clark
B11. Where Are You Now - Jackie Trent

Disc 2 (continued):
The Songs of Tony Hatch
B12. Look for a Star - The Brook Brothers
B13. Lonely Without You - Julie Grant
B14. Goodbye Mr Chips - Petula Clark
B15. The Two of Us - Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch
B16. You Made Me What I Am - Mark Wynter
B17. My Love - Jackie Trent
B18. Messing About on the River - Josh Macrae
B19. Trinity Street - Two of Each
B20. The Other Man's Grass (Is Always Greener) - Petula Clark

Disc 3:
TV Themes
C1.Crossroads
C2. The Champions
C3. Man Alive
C4. Sportsnight
C5. Ben Casey
C6. The Doctors
C7. Hadleigh
C8. Emmerdale Farm
C9. Perry Mason
C10. Ghost Squad
C11. Who-Dun-It
C12. Memories of Summer (Theme from Love Story)
C13. Out of this World
C14. Be Nice to Each Other (Theme from Mr and Mrs)
C15. Eye Level (Theme from Van Der Valk)
C16. Naked City
C17. M*A*S*H
C18. The Odd Couple
C19. You're a Star (Theme from New Faces)
C20. The Dick Powell Show

Notes

A rare run-out for Philip Green's Ghost Squad theme along with the more familiar Tony Hatch theme to The Champions as part of a retrospective of Hatch's career. Divided into three distinct discs each focusing on an aspect of the composer's career - orchestra, songs and television themes - this makes for an entertaining collection.
Track C11 - the theme from Who-Dun-It - should not be confused with the 1972-78 Thames Television series Whodunnit? hosted most famously by the actor and entertainer Jon Pertwee. The track in question hails from a 1969 ATV drama anthology series with the accent on murder. It was created by Lewis Greifer and Tony Hatch composed its signature tune. Coincidentally, the single release of The Champions on 7" vinyl saw it paired on the disc with this theme.

1967 - THE SOUNDTRACK

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 3 June 2003
(source: bol.com)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMEDD 707

EAN: 5050159170722

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes
A2. Nashville Cats - The Lovin' Spoonful
A3. 98.6 - The Bystanders
A4. My Way of Giving - Chris Farlowe
A5. Harlem Shuffle - The Traits
A6. This is My Song - Petula Clark
A7. Run to the Door - Clinton Ford
A8. Michael (The Lover) - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
A9. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - The Spectres
A10. Ciao Baby - The Montanas
A11. Happy Together - The Turtles
A12. My Friend Jack - The Smoke
A13. Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear - The Alan Price Set
A14. Show Me - Joe Tex
A15. Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes
A16. Western Union - The Searchers
A17. Guns of Navarone - The Skatalites
A18. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
A19. No Good to Cry - Jimmy James and the Vagabonds
A20. The First Cut is the Deepest - P.P. Arnold
A21. Six O'Clock - The Lovin' Spoonful
A22. Don't Sleep in the Subway - Petula Clark
A23. Morning Dew - Episode Six
A24. The Ferret Song - John Cleese With The 1948 Show Choir
A25. Here Comes the Nice - The Small Faces

Disc 2:

B1. She'd Rather Be With Me - The Turtles
B2. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
B3. Death of a Clown - Dave Davies
B4. Even the Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes
B5. 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
B6. Almost But Not Quite There - Traffic Jam
B7. The House That Jack Built - The Alan Price Set
B8. Let's Go to San Francisco - The Flowerpot Men
B9. Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
B10. I See the Rain - Marmalade
B11. You're All Things Bright and Beautiful - Neil Christian
B12. The Letter - The Box Tops
B13. Train to Skaville - The Ethiopians
B14. Nine Pound Steel - Joe Simon
B15. Baby Now That I've Found You - The Foundations
B16. Don't Go Out Into the Rain - David Garrick
B17. Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
B18. Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
B19. (Do I Figure) In Your Life? - Honeybus
B20. Let the Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry
B21. Everlasting Love - Robert Knight
B22. Skinny Legs and All - Joe Tex
B23. Man in a Shop - Marmalade
B24. Handbags and Gladrags - Chris Farlowe
B25. Tin Soldier - The Small Faces

Notes

Despite a booklet that sported images from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and The Prisoner, the sole ITC track on the discs was Ron Grainer's ever-popular Man in a Suitcase.

INSTRO-HIPSTERS A GO GO!:
BRITISH & EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTALS VOL. 4

Image: Past & Present
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1 December 2003
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Past & Present

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: PAPRCD2055

EAN: 5034748003738

Design: Lorna Tiefholz

Tracklisting

1. Hanging On - The Detours
2. Canvas - Brian Bennett
3. Vendetta - George Bradley and his Band
4. Once Upon a Time - The Bugaloo Brass
5. Funky Bayswater - The Squires
6. Detroit - Sounds Incorporated
7. Soma - Zoot Money
8. Riff Raff - Music Through Six
9. Horse's Collar - The Peddlers
10. The World Tomorrow - Armando Sciascia and his Orchestra
11. Five by Five - The Dave Clark Five
12. Continental Exchange - Sounds Nice
13. Wild Cat - The Robinson Crew

14. Guys, Guns, Girls & Danger - The Reg Guest Syndicate
15. Theme from Canterbury Tales - The Gabrieli Brass
16. Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
17. Indian Bat - Chim Kothari
18. Commuter - Spencer Mac
19. Champion House Theme - The El-Ec-Tricians
20. Goin' Home - Ole Jensen and hs Music
21. True Blue - The Salon Band
22. The Margarine Flavoured Pineapple Chunk - The Brello Cabal
23. The Knack - Alan Haven
24. Daisy Chain (Part 1) - Herman's Hermits
25. Hi Heel Sneakers - Wynder K. Frog

Notes

Fourth CD in the Instro-Hipsters A Go-Go! series, bringing together 25 British and European instrumentals including the Man in a Suitcase theme. The first three volumes in this series were released between 2000 and 2003. None of these CDs featured any ITC-related music. A fifth followed in 2004 and contained one ITC track.
This album was reissued as part of a 5-CD set - Instro Hipsters A Go-Go! (Psychic Circle, PSYCHBOX3, 2008) - along with the other four Past & Present Instro Hipsters discs. ITC tracks were Ron Grainer's Man in a Suitcase theme on Disc 4 and Ivor Slaney's arrangement of the High Wire Danger Man theme on Disc 5.

Image: Psychic Circle
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES:
1971

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 2003
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD 3931-3

EAN: 5260090000006

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Teaching the World to Sing - The Hits of 1971:
A1. (Where Do I Begin) Love Story - Andy Williams
A2. It's Impossible - Perry Como
A3. There Goes My Everything - Elvis Presley
A4. Softly Whispering I Love You - Congregation
A5. Don't Let It Die - Hurricane Smith
A6. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
A7. The Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
A8. Freedom Come, Freedom Go - The Fortunes
A9. The Pushbike Song - The Mixtures
A10. Knock Three Times - Dawn
A11. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
A12. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - The New Seekers
A13. Tired of Being Alone - Al Green
A14. I'm Still Waiting - Diana Ross
A15. Nathan Jones - The Supremes
A16. Double Barrel - Dave and Ansel Collins
A17. Black and White - Greyhound
A18. Banner Man - Blue Mink
A19. Jack in the Box - Clodagh Rodgers
A20. Co-Co - The Sweet
A21. Sultana - Titanic

Disc 2 - Sing a Song - The Memories of 1971:
B1. Banks of the Ohio - Olivia Newton-John
B2. What Have They Done to My Song Ma? - Melanie
B3. Tom Tom Turnaround - New World
B4. Mammy Blue - Roger Whittaker
B5. Sing a Song of Freedom - Cliff Richard
B6. Never Ending Song of Love - The New Seekers
B7. Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue - Séverine
B8. Theme from The Persuaders! - John Barry
B9. Las Vegas - Tony Christie
B10. She's a Lady - Tom Jones
B11. Bridget the Midget - Ray Stevens
B12. Rosetta - Georgie Fame and Alan Price
B13. Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) - Benny Hill
B14. Jig a Jig - East Of Eden
B15. (Is This the Way to) Amarillo - Tony Christie
B16. Rupert (Theme from The Adventures of Rupert the Bear) - Jackie Lee
B17. 1st Movement from Symphony No. 40 - Waldo De Los Rios
B18. Brandy - Scott English
B19. Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
B20. I Believe (In Love) - Hot Chocolate
B21. For All We Know - Shirley Bassey

Disc 3 - Keep on Dancing - The Favourites of 1971:
C1. Burundi Black - Burundi Black
C2. Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone
C3. Funny Funny - Sweet
C4. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Mac and Katie Kissoon
C5. Baby Jump - Mungo Jerry
C6. Coz I Luv You - Slade
C7. Strange Kind of Woman - Deep Purple
C8. Keep on Dancing - Bay City Rollers
C9. River Deep, Mountain High - The Supremes and the Four Tops
C10. Tap Turns on the Water - CCS
C11. The Story in Your Eyes - The Moody Blues
C12. Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster
C13. My Brother Jake - Free
C14. Oh You Pretty Things - Peter Noone
C15. Tonight - The Move
C16. I Will Return - Springwater
C17. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
C18. Simple Game - Four Tops
C19. Something Old, Something New - The Fantastics
C20. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics
C21. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Notes

Sounds of the Seventies was an exhaustive Reader's Digest 12-volume series designed to capture the aural essence of the decade of glam rock, punk and more. Concentrating for the greater part on pop music, it did however throw in the occasional TV theme morsel - and infrequently it hailed from an ITC series. It was available only by mail order from Reader's Digest.
Ten of the volumes were devoted to the individual years of the decade, 1970 to 1979, while the remaining two releases were thematic: Top Ten Hits and The End of the Decade.

1968 - THE SOUNDTRACK

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 15 March 2004
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CMEDD 765

EAN: 5050159176526

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred and his Playboy Band
A2. Susannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies
A3. Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
A4. The Other Man's Grass (Is Always Greener) - Petula Clark
A5. Suddenly You Love Me - The Tremeloes
A6. (If You Think You're) Groovy - P.P. Arnold
A7. Back On My Feet Again - The Foundations
A8. Don't Stop the Carnival - The Alan Price Set
A9. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
A10. Green Tambourine - Sun Dragon
A11. Men are Gettin' Scarce - Joe Tex
A12. When Jezamine Goes - The Bystanders
A13. Sunshine Day - Jethro Toe
A14. Simon Says - The 1910 Fruitgum Co.
A15. Ain't Nothin' But a Houseparty - The Showstoppers
A16. You've Got to be Loved - The Montanas
A17. Captain of Your Ship - Reparata and the Delrons
A18. Cry Like a Baby - The Box Tops
A19. Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A-Telling Me No) - The Paper Dolls
A20. I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus
A21. Lazy Sunday - Small Faces
A22. (You Keep Me) Hangin' On - Joe Simon
A23. Wonderboy - The Kinks
A24. Lovin' Things - Marmalade
A25. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - The Ohio Express

Disc 2:

B1. Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
B2. Lincoln County - Dave Davies
B3. Where Will You Be - Sue Nicholls
B4. America - The Nice
B5. Red, Red Wine - Jimmy James and the Vagabonds
B6. Angel of the Morning - P.P. Arnold
B7. Days - The Kinks
B8. When the Sun Comes Shining Thru' - Long John Baldry
B9. Paint It Black - Chris Farlowe
B10. Keep On - Bruce Channel
B11. The Universal - Small Faces
B12. I Shall Be Released - Boz
B13. Ice in the Sun - Status Quo
B14. Indian Reservation - Don Fardon
B15. Girl of Independent Means - Honeybus
B16. Just for Tonight - David Essex
B17. Wait for Me Marianne - Marmalade
B18. (Underneath the Sun in) Mexico - Long John Baldry
B19. Joe 90 Title Theme - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B20. Elenore - The Turtles
B21. Brandenburger - The Nice
B22. Ain't Got No / I Got Life - Nina Simone
B23. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
B24. Build Me Up, Buttercup - The Foundations
B25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Marmalade

Notes

The cover illustration includes a photograph of the legendary comedian Tony Hancock, who committed suicide on 25th June 1968. Considering that Castle owned the rights to Hancock's Tune by Hancock with The Derek Scott Music (Pye Records, 7N 15500, 1963) and peddled it endlessly on their TV themes collections, it would arguably have been more respectful and appropriate to include that and the photograph on 1963 - The Collection (CMEDD 647, 2003) especially as there were no Hancock-related tracks to be found on the 1968 volume.

THIS IS EASY

Image: Virgin Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 15 March 2004
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Virgin Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: VTCD 605

EAN: 724357701020

Design: Zip Design

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Wingding Party:
A1. Bond Street (from Casino Royale) - Burt Bacharach
A2. Jason King Theme - Laurie Johnson and the London Studio Orchestra (*)
A3. A Swinging Safari - Bert Kaempfert
A4. Big Train - Max Greger und sein Orchester (*)
A5. Strange Report - Geoff Love and his Orchestra
A6. The 'In' Crowd - Percy Faith and his Orchestra
A7. Ticket to Ride - Cyril Stapleton (*)
A8. Up, Up and Away - Fifth Dimension
A9. South American Getaway - Burt Bacharach (*)
A10. It Never Rains in Southern California - Ray Conniff and the Singers
A11. Do You Know the Way to San José - Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra
A12. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
A13. Girl in a Sportscar - Alan Hawkshaw
A14. The Penthouse Suite - Syd Dale (*)
A15. Theme from Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
A16. Young Scene (Theme from The Big Match) - Keith Mansfield
A17. Pop Looks Bach (Theme from Ski Sunday) (*)
A18. Asteroid (Pearl and Dean Theme) - Pete Moore
A19. Avenues & Alleyways (Theme from The Protectors) - Tony Christie
A20. The Riviera Affair - Neil Richardson
A21. The Night Rider - Alan Hawkshaw (*)
A22. Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones and his Orchestra (*)
A23. Mais Que Nada - Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66 (*)
A24. Stumbling - Tak Shindo (*)
A25. A Taste of Honey - The Mexicans
A26. House of Bamboo - Earl Grant (*)
A27. Wonderwall - The Mike Flowers Pops (*)

Disc 2 - Après-Ski:
B1. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
B2. I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Bobbie Gentry (*)
B3. Trains & Boats & Planes - Billy J. Kramer (*)
B4. What the World Needs Now is Love - Burt Bacharach (*)
B5. Alfie - Cilla Black (*)
B6. Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
B7. Left Bank Two (gallery music from Vision On) (*)
B8. Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus - Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (*)
B9. The Odd Couple - Billy May and his Orchestra (*)
B10. Theme from Midnight Cowboy - John Barry and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
B11. Theme from The Go-Between - Michel Legrand and the London Symphony Orchestra
B12. The Windmills of Your Mind (from The Thomas Crown Affair) - Noel Harrison
B13. Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) - Peter Sarstedt (*)
B14. I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus
B15. Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary (*)
B16. As Tears Go By - Nancy Sinatra
B17. The More I See You - Chris Montez (*)
B18. Can't Get Used to Losing You - Andy Williams (*)
B19. From Here to Eternity - Engelbert Humperdink (*)
B20. (They Long to Be) Close to You - Matt Monro
B21. Fly Me to the Moon - Julie London (*)
B22. Boy from Ipanema - Peggy Lee (*)
B23. California Dreaming - Bobby Womack (*)
B24. The Look of Love - Isaac Hayes

Notes

A reissue of Virgin's 1996 compilation of the same name but re-ordered and featuring a large number of revisions. Tracks above marked (*) were subtitutions.
In terms of ITC tracks, Tony Hatch's theme from The Champions was dropped and replaced with Laurie Johnson's Jason King theme.

AVENUES & ALLEYWAYS -
RINALDI SINGS

Image: Tangerine Records

Released: 10 May 2004
(source: Rate Your Music)

Publisher: Tangerine Records

Music by: Rinaldi Sings

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: TANGCDS 015

EAN: 5021449261536

Design: David Houghton

Tracklisting

1. Avenues & Alleyways
2. Lucky Day
3. If She's Gonna Want You

Notes

Rinaldi Sings is the name assumed by the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Rinaldi, whose orchestrated pop music - reminiscent of the late 1960s bubblegum soul of artists like Love Affair and The Foundations - prompted New Musical Express to describe him as a "cocksure 21st century Scott Walker" (NME, 4 September 2004).
This CD single came packaged in a cardboard sleeve.
Rinaldi Sings' Avenues and Alleyways was the first single from his album What's It All About? (Tangerine Records, TANGCD 016), which was ultimately released on 7 March 2005.

INSTRO-HIPSTERS:
VOLUME FIVE

Image: Past & Present
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 14 June 2004
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Past & Present

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: PAPRCD2057

EAN: 5034748003837

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. The Bouncer - Sound Sixty-Six
2. Hot Pants - Tony Brans Band
3. Move In - Harry Stoneham
4. Theme One - John Mayer and Indo Jazz
5. Beefeaters - John Dankworth Orchestra
6. Wade in the Water - Graham Bond Org
7. Slippery Jim De Grize - Brian Bennett
8. Explosive Corrosive Joseph - John Schroeder Orchestra
9. Stop Press - Alan Moorhouse Orchestra
10. Moon Shot - Galactic Federation
11. Owed to the Dip - Velvet Fogg
12. The Fix - Howie G. Conder

13. Juliet Simpkins - Powerpack
14. Like That - Mike Cotton Sound
15. Land of the Magic Wizard - Electric Frankenstein
16. Impressions of Oliver - Herd
17. Image - Alan Haven
18. Too Fortiche - Les Yper Sounds
19. Burn Up - Titan Studio Orchestra
20. Ridin' On the Gravy Train - Thunder Company
21. Destination Moon - Ray McVay Orchestra
22. Ride Your Pony - Gabrieli Brass
23. The Tag - Mike Carr and Tony Crombie
24. High Wire (Theme from Danger Man) - Ivor Slaney and his Orchestra

Notes

The fifth CD in the Instro-Hipsters A Go-Go! series (now simplified to Instro Hipsters), bringing together 24 British and European instrumentals including the High Wire Danger Man theme.
No composer credits were given on this release.
This album was reissued as part of a 5-CD set - Instro Hipsters A Go-Go! (Psychic Circle, PSYCHBOX3, 2008) - along with the other four Past & Present Instro Hipsters discs. ITC tracks were Ron Grainer's Man in a Suitcase theme on Disc 4 and Ivor Slaney's arrangement of the High Wire Danger Man theme on Disc 5.

Image: Psychic Circle
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

DEFINITIVE COLLECTION -
TONY CHRISTIE

Image: Universal Music TV

Released: 21 February 2005
(source: hit.co.uk)

Publisher: Universal Music TV

Music by: Tony Christie

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: 9827867

EAN: 602498278673

Design: Peacock

Tracklisting

1. (Is This the Way to) Amarillo
2. Avenues & Alleyways
3. Las Vegas
4. Solitaire
5. Happy Birthday Baby
6. I Did What I Did for Maria
7. Drive Safely Darlin'
8. On This Night of a Thousand Stars
9. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
10. Most Beautiful Girl
11. Don't Go Down to Reno

12. The Way We Were
13. So Deep Is the Night
14. Didn't We
15. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
16. Home Lovin' Man
17. Walk Like a Panther - All Seeing I with Tony Christie
18. Vienna Sunday
19. Loving You
20. Almost in Love
21. A Street of Broken Dreams

Notes

A 'best of' collection released in recognition of Tony Christie's long career and revival of popularity since his 1972 single (Is This the Way to) Amarillo featured in Peter Kay's sitcom Phoenix Nights (Channel 4, 2001-2002).
The Definitive Collection performed remarkably well and peaked at #1 in the UK Album Charts. In the end of year charts, it was ranked the 28th best selling album of 2005.
A European edition with an alternative cover was published by Universal Music International Division with a different EAN (0602498315774):

Image: Universal Music TV

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? -
RINALDI SINGS

Image: Tangerine Records

Released: 7 March 2005
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Tangerine Records

Music by: Rinaldi Sings

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: TANGCDS 016

EAN: 5021449261628

Design: David Houghton

Tracklisting

1. Happy
2. On a Magic Carpet Ride
3. Rollercoaster
4. Come Fly With Me
5. You're Alive
6. Lucky Day

7. Melody
8. Come Again
9. A Matter of Life and Death
10. This Time Tomorrow
11. Avenues & Alleyways
12. Heaven Knows

Notes

Rinaldi Sings is the name assumed by the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Rinaldi, whose orchestrated pop music - reminiscent of the late 1960s bubblegum soul of artists like Love Affair and The Foundations - prompted New Musical Express to describe him as a "cocksure 21st century Scott Walker" (NME, 4 September 2004).
The rear cover, as well as splitting the tracklisting into a 'Side One / Side Two' arrangement in a nod to the vinyl era, introduced the album as "featuring 12 fab and groovy tunes crafted in the glorious high alter of pop cool
that is Swinging London!"

HATCHBOX -
TONY HATCH

Image: Castle Music / Sanctuary Records Group Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 31 May 2005
(source: AllMusic)

Publisher: Castle Music /
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

Music by: Tony Hatch and others

Performed by: Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent,
The Tony Hatch Orchestra / Sound / Satin Brass

Discs: 6

Total Playing Time: 209:58

Catalogue No.: CMXBX 1088

EAN: 5050749410887

Design: Paul Bevoir for Love Melody

Tracklisting

Disc 1: The Tony Hatch Sound -
The Tony Hatch Sound
A1. Downtown
A2. Forget Him
A3. Music
A4. Sugar and Spice
A5. You'd Better Come Home
A6. Where Are You Now
A7. Maori
A8. Look for a Star
A9. Crosstown Commuter
A10. When Summertime is Over
A11. Roundabout
A12. I Know a Place

Disc 2: A Latin Happening -
Tony Hatch
B1. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
B2. Call Me
B3. Somewhere My Love
B4. Working in a Coal Mine
B5. Sunny
B6. Whizz-Ball
B7. Daydream
B8. Pretty Flamingo
B9. Black is Black
B10. Guantanamera
B11. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
B12. A Latin Happening

Disc 3: Beautiful in the Rain -
The Tony Hatch Sound
C1. Beautiful in the Rain
C2. Music to Watch Girls By
C3. Once Upon a Time
C4. An Occasional Man
C5. Too Late Now
C6. El Payaso (Spanish Clown)
C7. Surrey with the Fringe on Top
C8. Mas Que Nada
C9. While the City Sleeps
C10. Fiddler on the Roof
C11. How Insensitive
C12. Finito

Disc 4: The Two of Us -
Jackie Trent and Tony Hatch
with The Tony Hatch Orchestra
D1. I Must Know
D2. Play It Again
D3. Don't Stop Now
D4. Morning Dew
D5. Work Song
D6. Thank You for Loving Me
D7. Route 66
D8. Living It Up Again
D9. The Fool on the Hill
D10. The Joker
D11. Country Girl and City Man
D12. The Two of Us

Disc 5: Sounds of the 70's -
Tony Hatch and the Satin Brass
E1. Laia Ladaia
E2. For Once in My Life
E3. Hey Jude
E4. Soulful Strut (Am I the Same Guy)
E5. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
E6. Herbin'
E7. Latin Satin
E8. Yester-You, Yester-Me, Yesterday
E9. Something
E10. Codename
E11. This Guy's in Love With You
E12. Sounds of the Seventies

Disc 6: Hit the Road to Themeland - The Tony Hatch Orchestra
F1. Eye Level (Van Der Valk)
F2. The World at War
F3. Theme from M*A*S*H
F4. Hadleigh
F5. Best in Football
F6. You're a Star (New Faces)
F7. Serenade of Love (Theme from the MGM film Travels with My Aunt)
F8. The Champions
F9. Midweek
F10. Theme from Romeo and Juliet
F11. The Odd Couple
F12. Crossroads
F13. Emmerdale Farm
F14. Man Alive
F15. Memories of Summer (Love Story)
F16. Sportsnight

Notes

Six CDs and just the one ITC track (The Champions)... but this comprehensive retrospective collection nicely captures the zeitgeist of the mid-1960s up to the mid-1970s, bringing together six original Tony Hatch LPs, remastered for their CD debuts and presented in 'mini-LP' replica CD sleeves. All these and a booklet were held in a clamshell-style cardboard 'Hatchbox'.
The Pye Records albums included in this collection were The Tony Hatch Sound (NSPL 18124, 1965), A Latin Happening (NPL 18164, 1966), Beautiful in the Rain (NSPL 18176, 1967), The Two of Us (NSPL 18214, 1968), Sounds of the 70's (NSPL 18335, 1970) and Hit the Road to Themeland (NSPL 41029, 1974).

HITS OF THE SIXTIES

Image: Union Square Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 13 June 2005
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Union Square Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: METRDCD565

EAN: 698458706522

Design: Auto @ automatt

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
A2. Downtown - Petula Clark
A3. Needles & Pins - The Searchers
A4. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
A5. Tin Soldier - Small Faces
A6. Hello Susie - Amen Corner
A7. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
A8. The First Cut is the Deepest - P.P. Arnold
A9. Good Day Sunshine - The Tremeloes
A10. The Avengers - Laurie Johnson Orchestra
A11. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
A12. Handbags and Gladrags - Chris Farlowe
A13. The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake - Humble Pie
A14. Israelites - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
A15. Catch the Wind - Donovan
A16. Venus - The Jerry Ross Symposium
A17. Melting Pot - Blue Mink
A18. Good Morning Girl - David Bowie
A19. Michelle - The Overlanders
A20. Take a Giant Step - The Rockin' Berries
A21. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Marmalade
A22. I’ve Been Hurt by Love - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
A23. Long Shot Kick de Bucket - The Pioneers
A24. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
A25. Granny Takes a Trip - The Purple Gang

Disc 2:

B1. Telstar - The Tornados
B2. Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
B3. Out of Time - Chris Farlowe
B4. Streets of London - Ralph McTell
B5. Sunshine of Your Love - John Baldry
B6. America - The Nice
B7. Wonderful World Beautiful People - Jimmy Cliff
B8. Lazy Sunday - Small Faces
B9. Joe 90 - The Barry Gray Orchestra
B10. Sweets for My Sweet - The Searchers
B11. (If Paradise is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner
B12. Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes
B13. Natural Born Bugie - Humble Pie
B14. Baby Now That I’ve Found You - The Foundations
B15. Get Out of My Life Woman - John Schroeder
B16. Man in a Suitcase - The Ron Grainer Orchestra
B17. If You’re Going to San Francisco - Petula Clark
B18. Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes
B19. Angel of the Morning - P.P. Arnold
B20. Mess Around - The Marmalade
B21. This Wheel’s On Fire - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity
B22. Colours - Donovan
B23. Circles - Les Fleur De Lys
B24. The Kettle - Colosseum

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC: 61 -
VARIOUS

Image: EMI Records Ltd / Virgin Records Ltd / Universal Music Operations Ltd

Released: 25 July 2005
(source: 45worlds / Discogs)

Publisher: EMI Records Ltd /
Virgin Records Ltd /
Universal Music Operations Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: CDNOW61

EAN: 094633608825

Design: Qd

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
A2. Ghetto Gospel - 2Pac featuring Elton John
A3. Speed of Sound - Coldplay
A4. Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
A5. Don't Phunk with My Heart - Black Eyed Peas
A6. Shot You Down - Audio Bullys featuring Nancy Sinatra
A7. They - Jem
A8. Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia
A9. Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall
A10. Lyla - Oasis
A11. Somewhere Else - Razorlight
A12. I Like the Way - Bodyrockers
A13. Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs
A14. Jerk It Out - Caesars
A15. Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
A16. Hard to Beat - Hard-Fi
A17. Beverly Hills - Weezer
A18. Lonely No More - Rob Thomas
A19. Forever Lost - The Magic Numbers
A20. Good People - Jack Johnson
A21. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2

Disc 2:
B1. Lonely - Akon
B2. Let Me Love You - Mario
B3. Rich Girl - Gwen Stefani featuring Eve
B4. Switch - Will Smith
B5. Roc Ya Body "Mic Check 1, 2" - M.V.P.
B6. It's Like That - Mariah Carey
B7. N Dey Say - Nelly
B8. Slow Down - Bobby Valentino
B9. Again - Faith Evans
B10. Don't Cha Wanna Ride - Joss Stone
B11. The Avenue - Roll Deep
B12. Crazy Chick - Charlotte Church
B13. So Good - Rachel Stevens
B14. Nasty Girl - Inaya Day
B15. Say Hello - Deep Dish
B16. So Much Love to Give - Freeloaders featuring The Real Thing
B17. Giving You Up - Kylie Minogue
B18. Wake Me Up - Girls Aloud
B19. Axel F - Crazy Frog
B20. Avenues and Alleyways - Tony Christie
B21. You've Got A Friend - McFly
B22. Proud - Heather Small

Notes

An entry in the long-running pop music collection Now That's What I Call Music! (regularly shortened to NOW) - a series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music (Universal/Sony Music) which began in 1983. The compilation series was conceived at Virgin Records in London and took its name from a 1930s British advertising poster for Danish bacon featuring a pig declaring "Now, That's What I Call Music" as it listened to a chicken singing. The pig became the mascot for the range, making its last regular appearance on the fifth volume before reappearing on the one hundredth in 2018, and again since 2021.
Avenues and Alleyways was featured by virtue of its then forthcoming re-release in the wake of the successful revival of Tony Christie's (Is This the Way to) Amarillo.

AVENUES & ALLEYWAYS -
TONY CHRISTIE

Image: Universal Music TV

Released: 29 July 2005
(source: OfficialCharts.com)

Publisher: Universal Music TV

Music by: Tony Christie

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: 9831670

EAN: 602498316702

Design: Peacock

Tracklisting

1. Avenues & Alleyways
2. Santa Maria
3. Avenues & Alleyways (Love to Infinity Radio Mix)

Notes

CD Single released in the wake of the re-release of (Is This the Way to) Amarillo which peaked at Number 1 in the UK music charts in April 2005. The reissue of Avenues & Alleyways also performed well, entering the chart for the first time on 6 August 2005 and recording a high of #26 in the Singles Chart, which was an improvement on its original release when it peaked at #37.
A DVD Single was also released. See ITC Pop DVD.

THE DANGERMEN SESSIONS: VOLUME ONE -
MADNESS

Image: Live & Intensified Records / V2 Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 1 August 2005
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Live & Intensified Records /
V2 Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Performed by: Madness

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: VVR1033232

EAN: 5033197332321

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. This is Where
2. Girl Why Don't You?
3. Shame & Scandal
4. I Chase the Devil AKA Ironshirt
5. Taller Than You Are
6. You Keep Me Hanging On
7. Dangerman AKA High Wire

8. Israelites
9. John Jones
10. Lola
11. You'll Lose a Good Thing
12. Rain
13. So Much Trouble in the World

Notes

An album of cover versions by the ska and pop band Madness. As with many such ventures, it doesn't really live up to the standards of their original compositions. That said, their ska-beat rendition of High Wire is a lot of fun, so we'll give them a free pass for the 'Dangerman' faux pas!
The first track - This is Where - is a 30-second introductory track. The credited sources of the original versions of the music included are as follows: Prince Buster (track 2), Lord Tanamo (3, 5), Max Romeo (4), Diana Ross and the Supremes (6), Bob Leaper and his Orchestra (7; Edwin Astley is credited in the booklet), Desmond Dekker (8, 9), The Kinks (10), Barbara Lynn (11), Jose Feliciano (12) and Bob Marley (13).
Despite this CD being proclaimed as 'Volume One', a second volume has yet to materialise.

MEDALLION MAN

Image: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Released: 3 September 2005
(source: Rate Your Music)

Publisher: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 57:48

Catalogue No.: SM/SUN015GB

EAN: None

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Avenues & Alleyways (Theme from The Protectors) - Tony Christie
2. Release Me - Engelbert Humperdinck
3. Forever and Ever - Demis Roussos
4. Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
5. Contact - Edwin Starr
6. Your Heart and Soul - Barry White
7. Rhinestone Cowboy - David Hasselhoff
8. What's New, Pussycat? - Tom Jones
9. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
10. You'll Never Find Another Love - Lou Rawls

Bonus Tracks:
11. So Peachy - Big Hank
12. Like Boys Do - Funnell Web
13. Weekend Lady - Hank Band
14. Only You - Sustenance
15. Ballad - The Rogues

Notes

A free CD cover disc included in the Saturday 3 September 2005 edition of The Sun newspaper.
This disc came packaged in a cardboard sleeve.

THE SUPER SIXTIES COLLECTION

Image: Metro / Union Square Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 17 April 2006
(source: find-cd.co.uk)

Publisher: Metro / Union Square Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 75:00

Catalogue No.: METRCD187

EAN: 5013929360129

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. I Dig Everything - David Bowie
2. Call Me - Petula Clark
3. Needles and Pins - The Searchers
4. Baby, Now That I've Found You - The Foundations
5. Tin Soldier - The Small Faces
6. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
7. Green Onions - Paraffin Jack Flash Limited
8. Handbags and Gladrags - Chris Farlowe
9. Guns of Navarone - The Skatalites
10. 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
11. She Shot a Hole in My Soul - Geno Washington
12. Natural Born Bugie - Humble Pie
13. The Avengers (Theme) - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra

14. Catch the Wind - Donovan
15. Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra
16. Liquidator - Harry J. All Stars
17. As Tears Go By - P.P. Arnold
18. Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes
19. Return of Django - The Upsetters
20. If Paradise is Half as Nice - Amen Corner
21. Thunderbirds - The Barry Gray Orchestra
22. Erotica - Man
23. He's in Town - The Rockin' Berries
24. Funny How Love Can Be - The Ivy League
25. Melting Pot - Blue Mink

I HELPED PATRICK McGOOHAN ESCAPE -
THE TIMES

Image: Artpop! / Cherry Red Records Ltd

Released: 30 October 2006
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Artpop! / Cherry Red Records Ltd

Music by: The Times

Discs: 1

Total Playing Time: 69:36

Catalogue No.: ARTPOP NO.1

EAN: 5013929360129

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
2. Theme from Dangerman
3. All System Are Go!
4. Big Painting
5. Stranger Than Fiction
6. Up Against It (Long Version)
7. Song for Joe Orton
8. David Jones (Is On His Way)
9. London Boys
10. The Polite Force
11. Power is Forever
12. Tears on a Rainy Sunday
13. I'll See You in My Dreams
14. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (previously unreleased version)
15. Goodbye Piccadilly (previously unreleased version)
16. All System Are Go! (alternative session take)
17. Theme from Dangerman (alternative session take)
18. Power is Forever (alternative session take)
19. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Live at The Cavern, Liverpool, 2000)

Notes

This CD expanded upon the 1992 CD of the same name and featured three versions of The Times' catchy I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape single along with two versions of the 'High Wire' Danger Man theme.
In a practice that seems to have reached almost epidemic proportions where cover versions of its theme are concerned, Danger Man is again misrepresented as 'Dangerman'.

REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES:
1962

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 2006
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD5211-3

EAN: 5380010000005

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - I Remember You - Greatest Hits of 1962:
A1. Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
A2. The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - The Tokens
A3. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
A4. Hey Baby - Bruce Channel
A5. Telstar - The Tornados
A6. Sealed with a Kiss - Brian Hyland
A7. Last Night was Made for Love - Billy Fury
A8. Wonderful Land - The Shadows
A9. Crying in the Rain - The Everly Brothers
A10. A Picture of You - Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
A11. Bobby's Girl - Susan Maughan
A12. The Young Ones - Cliff Richard
A13. Forget Me Not - Eden Kane
A14. Nut Rocker - B. Bumble and the Stingers
A15. Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
A16. Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
A17. What Now, My Love? - Shirley Bassey
A18. Let's Dance - Chris Montez
A19. Breaking Up is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
A20. I Remember You - Frank Ifield
A21. Love Letters - Ketty Lester

Disc 2 - Dream Baby - Musical Memories of 1962:
B1. James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven
B2. Sun Arise - Rolf Harris
B3. Up on the Roof - Kenny Lynch
B4. The Hole in the Ground - Bernard Cribbins
B5. Theme from Z Cars - Johnny Keating
B6. A Little Bitty Tear - Burl Ives
B7. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) - Roy Orbison
B8. Heartaches - Patsy Cline
B9. Roses Are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton
B10. English Country Garden - Jimmie Rodgers
B11. Peter and the Wolf - The Clyde Valley Stompers
B12. The Wonderful World of the Young - Danny Williams
B13. Theme from The Saint - Les Reed Brass
B14. Swingin' in the Rain - Norman Vaughan
B15. Theme from Dr Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) - Richard Chamberlain
B16. Lesson One - Russ Conway
B17. My Brother - Terry Scott
B18. So Do I - Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
B19. The Stripper - David Rose
B20. Softly As I Leave You - Matt Monro

Disc 3 - Don't Stop, Twist - Swinging Sounds of 1962:
C1. Sheila - Tommy Roe
C2. Jezebel - Marty Wilde
C3. The Wanderer - Dion
C4. V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N - Connie Francis
C5. Return to Sender - Elvis Presley
C6. Pick a Bale of Cotton - Lonnie Donegan
C7. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
C8. Speak to Me Pretty - Brenda Lee
C9. As You Like It - Adam Faith
C10. When My Little Girl is Smiling - Craig Douglas
C11. Ain't That Funny - Jimmy Justice
C12. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Fats Domino
C13. Main Title Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm - Jet Harris
C14. Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield
C15. Lonely City - John Leyton
C16. Little Black Book - Jimmy Dean
C17. Reminiscing - Buddy Holly
C18. Sharing You - Bobby Vee
C19. (Dance With the) Guitar Man - Duane Eddy
C20. Peppermint Twist (Part 1) - Joey Dee and the Starliters
C21. Don't Stop, Twist - Frankie Vaughan

Notes

Essentially, Remembering the Sixties: 1962 was based on an earlier Reader's Digest release - Sounds of the Sixties - 1962: New Sounds in a Year of Crisis (RDCD2851-3, 1999). The new, retitled edition sported a revised track ordering, several track substitutions and redesigned artwork.
This 3-CD 1962 box set was just one release in Reader's Digest's Remembering the Sixties range of CDs. There were 12 separate releases in this range: one for each year from 1960 to 1969 plus two special volumes (Easy Listening Favourites and Golden Groups).
Volumes of this 12-CD set were released at regular intervals - but not in year order - between 2006 and 2009.

REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES:
1964

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Released: 2006
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: RDCD5341-3

EAN: 5380020000002

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Shout - Great Hits of 1964:
A1. The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
A2. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
A3. My Boy Lollipop - Millie
A4. Constantly - Cliff Richard
A5. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandie Shaw
A6. Someone, Someone - Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
A7. I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits
A8. The Wedding - Julie Rogers
A9. I Love You Because - Jim Reeves
A10. A Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird) - Adam Faith
A11. A World Without Love - Peter and Gordon
A12. Wishin' and Hopin' - The Merseybeats
A13. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself - Dusty Springfield
A14. Just One Look - The Hollies
A15. You're No Good - The Swinging Blue Jeans
A16. Needles and Pins - The Searchers
A17. A Little Loving - The Fourmost
A18. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Cilla Black
A19. Diane - The Bachelors
A20. I'm Gonna Be Strong - Gene Pitney
A21. Little Children - Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
A22. Downtown - Petula Clark
A23. Shout - Lulu and the Luvvers

Disc 2 - I Won't Forget You - Musical Memories of 1964:
B1. 5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann
B2. Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong
B3. Girl Don't Come - Sandie Shaw
B4. Crossroads Theme - Tony Hatch
B5. I Won't Forget You - Jim Reeves
B6. Walk Away - Matt Monro
B7. Let Me Go Lover - Kathy Kirby
B8. Juliet - The Four Pennies
B9. Tokyo Melody - Helmut Zacharias
B10. Suspicion - Terry Stafford
B11. I Believe - The Bachelors
B12. Move Over Darling - Doris Day
B13. Don't Blame Me - Frank Ifield
B14. Is It True - Brenda Lee
B15. Stingray - Gary Miller and the Barry Gray Orchestra
B16. The Twelfth of Never - Cliff Richard
B17. How Soon - Henry Mancini
B18. Kissin' Cousins - Elvis Presley
B19. You're My World - Cilla Black
B20. Stand By Me - Kenny Lynch
B21. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
B22. Happiness - Ken Dodd

Disc 3 - Dancing in the Street - Swinging Sounds of 1964:
C1. You Really Got Me - The Kinks
C2. Have I the Right - The Honeycombs
C3. Hold Me - P.J. Proby
C4. Country Line Special - Cyril Davies and his R'n'B All-Stars
C5. No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
C6. Wild Side of Life - Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four
C7. Stop, Look and Listen - Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
C8. Don't Turn Around - The Merseybeats
C9. Walkin' the Dog - The Dennisons
C10. Rhythm and Greens - The Shadows
C11. Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans
C12. Tell Me When - The Applejacks
C13. Why Not Tonight - The Mojos
C14. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) - The Beach Boys
C15. On the Beach - Cliff Richard and the Shadows
C16. I'm the Face - The High Numbers
C17. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Rod Stewart
C18. I Can't Stand It - The Spencer Davis Group
C19. Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble) - Manfred Mann
C20. My Baby Left Me - Dave Berry
C21. Baby I Need Your Lovin' - The Fourmost
C22. Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas
C23. Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley

Notes

Essentially, Remembering the Sixties: 1964 was based on an earlier Reader's Digest release - Sounds of the Sixties - 1964: When Britannia Rocked the Waves (RDCD2251-3, 1999). The new, retitled edition sported a revised track ordering, several track substitutions and redesigned artwork.
This 3-CD 1964 box set was just one release in Reader's Digest's Remembering the Sixties range of CDs. There were 12 separate releases in this range: one for each year from 1960 to 1969 plus two special volumes (Easy Listening Favourites and Golden Groups).
Volumes of this 12-CD set were released at regular intervals - but not in year order - between 2006 and 2009.
ITC content was minimal in this series, with themes appearing on just two volumes (The Saint on 1962 and Stingray on 1964) and photo content on the covers of 1962 (The Saint) and 1967 (The Prisoner). In the latter case, the presence of the photograph of Patrick McGoohan was misleading as neither The Prisoner or Danger Man featured among the music included.

Image: Reader's Digest Association Ltd

THOSE BRITISH INSTRUMENTALS -
VOLUME 3

Image: Sling Back Records Ltd / Roo-Roo Products
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 2007
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Sling Back Records Ltd /
Roo-Roo Products

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: SB 1081

EAN: 5673299800672

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Danger Man - The Red Price Combo
2. Ambush - The Outlaws
3. Poet and Peasant - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
4. The Trek to Rome - Nero and the Gladiators
5. Peak Hour - The Krew Kats
6. Mad Goose - The Beachcombers
7. Samurai - The Barons
8. Pop the Whip - Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds
9. The Mexican - The Fentones
10. Melodie D'Amour - The Moontrekkers
11. Samovar - The Krew Kats
12. 1.15 am - Gary Edwards Combo
13. Hurricane - The Honeycombs
14. Gypsy Beat - The Packabeats
15. High Strung - The Rustlers

16. Swingin' Low - The Outlaws
17. Bleak House - The Gladiators
18. Applejack - Jet Harris and Tony Meehan
19. Yep - The Checkmates
20. Sky Men - Geoff Goddard
21. Magic Carpet - The Dakotas
22. Topaz - The Staccatos
23. Talent Spot - Ted Taylor Four
24. Pinto - Stonehenge Men
25. More Like Nashville - Nashville Five
26. Hall of the Mountain King - Nero and the Gladiators
27. Fly by Night - The Cougars
28. Dodge City - The Ramblers
29. Scorpio - The Scorpions
30. Tom Tom Cat - The Tom Cats

Notes

This series of British instrumental recordings ran to ten CD volumes between 2007 and 2012, but only volumes 3, 6, 8 and 10 featured ITC related music.
The Danger Man theme was credited to 'Red Price' rather than the correct 'The Red Price Combo'. As with other instances of this theme performed by this group, the music is based on Edwin Astley's first Danger Man theme from 1960. The theme was credited to 'Sweeney' which needless to say is incorrect.
We are including this release despite the likelihood that it was not a UK publication. The record label Roo-Roo Products was a Japanese company and the stated UK distributor Sling Back Records - based at the former home of ITC and Pye Records, ATV House, 16 Great Cumberland Place, London W1 - is alleged to have been a bogus company. We are featuring it here as even if it wasn't a British publication, it purports to be one.

RARE AND UNISSUED -
THE PRISONERS

VINYL

Image: Big Beat Records
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 6 May 2008
(source: jpc.de)

Publisher: Big Beat Records

Music by: The Prisoners

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: CDWKD 276

EAN: 029667427623

Design: Jaffa

Tracklisting

1. Revenge of the Cybermen
2. Hush (*)
3. The More I Teach You (Alt Mix)
4. Don't Burst My Bubble (*)
5. Love Me Lies (*)
6. Ain't No Telling (Demo)
7. Coming Home (Live in Berlin)
8. Looking for You (*)
9. Joe 90 Theme (*)
10. Mourn My Health (Mellotron Version) (*)
11. Love Changes (*)

12. Trophies (Live Demo)
13. Go Go (Full Version) (*)
14. 96 Tears (*)
15. Deceiving Eye (Live in Lausanne)
16. Buccaneer (Demo)
17. Come to the Mushroom (Live in Lausanne)
18. Far Away (Radio Medway)
19. He's in Love (Radio Medway)
20. Be On Your Way (Demo)
21. Love Me Lies (Radio Medway) (*)
22. Mourn My Health (Demo)

Notes

A retrospective collection of obscure tracks sourced from the vaults of Chatham-based garage band The Prisoners. Formed in 1980, the band took inspiration from the music of the 1960s, particularly Mod and psychedelic, and occasionally employed the Albertus typeface on their cover designs, leaving no doubt as to the source of inspiration behind their band name...
Rare and Unissued arguably met neither claim made by its title as the CD was itself a reissue of an identically-titled vinyl LP that debuted in 1988 (Hangman Records, HANG-23 UP) and was then re-released in 1991 (Cyanide Records, CND 002).
That said, Big Beat expanded the collection for its CD debut to include ten additional tracks including the band's version of Barry Gray's Joe 90 theme. These are marked (*) above. Tracks 5 and 13 were previously unreleased on any format.
The 2008 CD also omitted two tracks that were present on the vinyl editions: Pop-Star Party and Happyness for One, which is notable as the last song recorded by the band.
The Prisoners were: Graham Day (guitar, vocals), James Taylor (hammond organ), Alan Crockford (bass), and Johnny Symons (drums). Following the band's demise, Taylor and Crockford went on to form The James Taylor Quartet.

ROARING BLUE:
RETURN OF THE INSTRO-HIPSTERS VOL. 3

Image: Psychic Circle
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 12 January 2009
(source: Record Heaven)

Publisher: Psychic Circle

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: PCCD7028

EAN: 5051125702817

Design: Bigkick! Creations Ltd

Tracklisting

1. Roaring Blue - The Sound of Jimmy Nicol
2. It Takes a Thief - The Des Champ Orchestra
3. Round Up - Clubman
4. 30-60-90 - The Duke of Burlington
5. Venus - Casey and the Pressure Group
6. Santana - Okko Bekker
7. Boogaloo - The Keith Mansfield Orchestra
8. Beat Party - The Underground
9. All About My Girl - The 4 Instants
10. Deadeye Dick - Rajah

11. Junction Blues - Ram Inn Junction
12. Make Like Shake - Shake Keane
13. My Friend Jack - Monty Babson
14. El Pussy Cat - The Johnny Howard Band
15. Stoned Out - Simon Park
16. Ladies Wear - Jim Doherty Trio
17. Theme from Department S - Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
18. Trans-Love Airways - Big Jim Sullivan
19. J. C. Greaseburger - The Stormsville Shakers
20. Theme Number One - The New Dance Orchestra

Notes

A third CD in the Return of the Instro-Hipsters series, bringing together 20 groovy instrumentals including Cyril Stapleton's rendition of the Department S theme. The collection was compiled by Nick Saloman of the psychedelic rock band The Bevis Frond.
The source image inverted on the booklet cover of this release had earlier appeared on the cover of a 2004 UK CD compilation of music by Danish band Superheroes (Sidewinder Sounds, SDWR5) and before that on their 1998 Denmark CD EP See You at the Railroads (Crunchy Frog, FROG 010-2):

Image: Sidewinder Sounds

THOSE LAZY, CRAZY DAYS...
40 OF THE COOLEST SUMMER SOUNDS

Image: Universal Music TV
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 19 July 2010
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Universal Music TV

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Total Playing Time: 123:20

Catalogue No.: 5329645

EAN: 600753296455

Design: Peacock

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Theme from A Summer Place - Percy Faith and his Orchestra
A2. The Girl with the Sun in Her Hair - John Barry Orchestra
A3. Music to Watch Girls By - Tony Hatch
A4. A Swinging Safari - Bert Kaempfert
A5. Soul Sauce - Cal Tjader
A6. Soulful Strut - Ronnie Aldrich
A7. The James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven and Orchestra
A8. Route 66 - Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra
A9. Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra
A10. Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
A11. On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer
A12. Desafinado - Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
A13. Take Five - Dave Brubeck
A14. Cuban Love Song (Canción Cubana) - Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra
A15. 'S Wonderful - Ray Conniff and his Orchestra & Chorus
A16. Send in the Clowns - Mantovani and his Orchestra
A17. Love is a Many Splendoured Thing - Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra
A18. Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk
A19. Guantanamera - Kai Warner
A20. Tokyo Melody - Helmut Zacharias

Disc 2:
B1. Mas Que Nada - Sérgio Mendes
B2. The 'In' Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio
B3. Moon River - James Last and his Orchestra
B4. Concierto de Aranjuez - Roberto Delgado
B5. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Henry Mancini and his Orchestra
B6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
B7. The Persuaders! - John Barry
B8. Summer Samba - Walter Wanderley
B9. The Pink Panther Theme - The Ultimate Mancini Orchestra
B10. Pretty Flamingo - Tony Hatch
B11. Something - Ronnie Aldrich
B12. Wichita Lineman - Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66
B13. By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Horst Jankowski
B14. Charmaine - Mantovani and his Orchestra
B15. Strangers in the Night - Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra
B16. Moonlight Serenade - Syd Lawrence
B17. Baby I'm A-Want You - Ronnie Aldrich
B18. Pipeline - The Chantays
B19. Guaglione - Perez Prado
B20. Tequila - The Champs

Notes

A scant duo of ITC tracks on this compilation but from the perspective of it being an easy listening / loungecore set, it must be said it's an exceptionally decent collection! Much spun here at Randall and Hopkirk (Declassified).

PAUL McCARTNEY ARCHIVE COLLECTION:
BAND ON THE RUN (DELUXE EDITION) -
PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS

CD / DVD

Image: MPL Communications Ltd / Hear Music / Concord Music Group
with thanks to Julian Knott

Released: 1 November 2010
(source: paulmccartney.com)

Publisher: MPL Communications Ltd /
Hear Music / Concord Music Group

Music by: Paul McCartney and Wings

Discs: 4 (3 CD + 1 DVD)

Catalogue No.: HRM-32565-00

EAN: 8888872325654

Design: Peter Nash

Tracklisting

Disc 1 (CD) - Remastered Album:
A1. Band on the Run
A2. Jet
A3. Bluebird
A4. Mrs Vandebilt
A5. Let Me Roll It
A6. Mamunia
A7. No Words
A8. Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
A9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

Disc 2 (CD) - Bonus Audio Tracks:
B1. Helen Wheels
B2. Country Dreamer
B3. Bluebird (from One Hand Clapping)
B4. Jet (from One Hand Clapping)
B5. Let Me Roll It (from One Hand Clapping)
B6. Band on the Run (from One Hand Clapping)
B7. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (from One Hand Clapping)
B8. Country Dreamer (from One Hand Clapping)
B9. Zoo Gang

Disc 3 (CD) - Audio Documentary:
C1-21: Remastered documentary disc originally produced for the 25th anniversary release of Band on the Run. Features interview contributions from Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Geoff Emerick, Tony Visconti, Al Coury, Clive Arrowsmith, James Coburn, John Conteh, Kenny Lynch, Michael Parkinson, Christopher Lee, Clement Freud and Dustin Hoffman.

Disc 4 (DVD) - Music Videos:
D1. Band on the Run (Music Video)
D2. Mamunia (Music Video)
D3. Album Promo (featuring Band on the Run, Mrs Vandebilt, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five and Bluebird)
D4. Helen Wheels
D5. Wings in Lagos - rare footage of the McCartneys in Nigeria
D6. Osterley Park - behind the scenes at the album's cover shoot
D7-15. One Hand Clapping (1974 TV Special)

Notes

This numbered deluxe collection was the first release in The Paul McCartney Archive Collection a series that was overseen by McCartney himself.
Packaged in a lavishly illustrated 128-page hardcover book that included a new interview with Paul McCartney, the collection's discs were held in pouches set into the book's penultimate and last inside pages.

JACKIE: THE PARTY ALBUM

Image: EMI Records Ltd

Released: 15 November 2010
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: EMI Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Total Playing Time: 238:13

Catalogue No.: VTDCD 1015

EAN: 5099990971822

Design: DC Thompson & Co Ltd

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Waterloo - Abba
A2. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
A3. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
A4. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
A5. Saturday Night at the Movies - The Drifters
A6. You Can Get It If You Really Want It - Desmond Dekker
A7. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
A8. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
A9. I Can't Help Myself - Four Tops
A10. Get Ready - The Temptations
A11. Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean
A12. You To Me Are Everything - The Real Thing
A13. It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King
A14. The Wanderer - Dion
A15. Sweet Talkin' Guy - The Chiffons
A16. Sugar Baby Love - The Rubettes
A17. Avenues and Alleyways - Tony Christie
A18. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
A19. Venus - Shocking Blue
A20. Yellow River - Christie
A21. (Call Me) Number One - The Tremeloes
A22. It's Getting Better - Mama Cass
A23. Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
A24. The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
A25. Band of Gold - Freda Payne
A26. Lovin' Things - The Marmalade
A27. Mony Mony - Tommy James and the Shondells

Disc 2:
B1. Can't Stand Losing You - The Police
B2. Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting) - Elton John
B3. Twistin' the Night Away - Rod Stewart
B4. Roll Away the Stone - Mott the Hoople
B5. Gudbuy T'Jane - Slade
B6. Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina Turner
B7. Blockbuster - Sweet
B8. Crazy Horses - The Osmonds
B9. Tiger Feet - Mud
B10. Caroline - Status Quo
B11. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Disc 2 - continued:
B12. Amateur Hour - Sparks
B13. Children of the Revolution - T. Rex
B14. The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
B15. When I'm Dead and Gone - McGuinness Flint
B16. The Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
B17. Silver Dream Machine - David Essex
B18. Thunder in My Heart - Leo Sayer
B19. January - Pilot
B20. Boogie Nights - Heatwave
B21. Lady Marmalade - Labelle
B22. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
B23. Liquidator - Harry J Allstars
B24. Double Barrel - Dave And Ansel Collins

Disc 3:
C1. Breaking Up is Hard to Do - David Cassidy
C2. Remember (Sha La La) - Bay City Rollers
C3. See My Baby Jive - Wizzard
C4. The Bump - Kenny
C5. Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro
C6. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
C7. Beggin' - Timebox
C8. Sorry Suzanne - The Hollies
C9. Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
C10. Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Showaddywaddy
C11. The Locomotion - Little Eva
C12. What Are You Doing Sunday - Dawn
C13. Rock the Boat - The Hues Corporation
C14. Year of Decision - The Three Degrees
C15. Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum - Middle of the Road
C16. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - The New Seekers
C17. Love is in the Air - John Paul Young
C18. Gotta Go Home - Boney M
C19. Wanted - The Dooleys
C20. I'm in the Mood for Dancing - The Nolans
C21. Yes Sir, I Can Boogie - Baccara
C22. Copacabana (at the Copa) - Barry Manilow
C23. December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
C24. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
C25. You're the First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White

Notes

This was the sixth CD collection in the pop music compilation series harking back to DC Thompson's hugely popular magazine for teenage girls, Jackie.
Jackie magazine was launched on 11 January 1964 and endured for 29 years and 1,538 issues, making its last appearance on newsstands on 3 July 1993. It's greatest success came in the 1970s when it was regularly the best selling teen magazine for girls or boys.
This collection was later reissued on 27 October 2014, pruned back to a 2 CD collection with the same title that comprised just 34 tracks. Tony Christie's Avenues and Alleyways - theme from The Protectors - was one of the 42 songs to be left off this second edition.

HANK, BRUCE, BERT, JOE, BIG JIM & MORE...
THE UK INSTRO SCENE, 1956-61

Image: Rockhistory.co.uk / Highnote Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 12 November 2012
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Rockhistory.co.uk / Highnote Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Catalogue No.: RHGB 21

EAN: 827565058754

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Trambone - The Krew Kats
A2. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - The Scorpions
A3. Teen Scene - The Hunters
A4. Driftin' - The Drifters
A5. Chariot - Rhet Stoller
A6. Tom Tom Cat - The Tom Cats
A7. Apache - Bert Weedon
A8. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Nero and the Gladiators
A9. Ambush - The Outlaws
A10. Lone Rider - The Flee-Rekkers
A11. The Ghoul Friend - The Ravens Rock Group
A12. Swagger - Joe Brown
A13. Whirlwind - The Barons
A14. Cannonball - Ernie Shear with the Lew Randall Band
A15. Bongo Rock - The Jetstreams
A16. Yorkshire Relish - The Apex Group
A17. I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded - The Cannons
A18. A Thunder of Drums - Johnny Gregory and his Orchestra
A19. Gypsy Beat - The Packabeats
A20. Clearway - Judd Proctor
A21. Winding It Up - The Werlwinds
A22. Caravan - The Checkmates
A23. Gurney Slade Theme - Max Harris
A24. The Savage (Part 2) - The Sneaky Petes
A25. Samovar - The Krew Kats
A26. Fried Onions - Lord Rockingham's XI
A27. Man in Space - The Vigilantes
A28. Mistral - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
A29. Tequila - Johnny 'The Gash' Gray with Ken Jones and his Orchestra
A30. High Strung - The Rustlers
A31. Walk Don't Run - The John Barry Seven
A32. F.B.I. - The Shadows

Disc 2:
B1. Night of the Vampire - The Moontrekkers
B2. The Storm - The Hunters
B3. Green Jeans - The Fabulous Flee-Rekkers
B4. Yashmak - Chico Arnez and his Orchestra
B5. Cats Eyes - The Ted Taylor Four
B6. Man of Mystery - The Shadows
B7. Peak Hour - The Krew Kats
B8. The Switch - Joe Brown
B9. Scorpio - The Scorpions
B10. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Bert Weedon
B11. Three Old Maids - The Pete Chester Group
B12. Swingin' Low - The Outlaws
B13. Yep - The Checkmates
B14. Clap Trap - The Vampires
B15. Samurai - The Barons
B16. Main Line - The Staccatos
B17. Raunchy - Ken Mackintosh and his Orchestra
B18. Chicken Sax - Rex and the Minors
B19. Entry of the Gladiators - Nero and the Gladiators
B20. Theme from Tightrope - The Volcanos
B21. Last Night - David Ede
B22. Eclipse - Arthur Greenslade and the Gee-Man
B23. Honky Tonk - George Chisholm and the Bluenotes feat. Bert Weedon
B24. Drunken Guitar - Tommy Steele and Joe Brown
B25. Bullfight - The Jeff Rowena Group
B26. Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham's XI
B27. Jet Black - The Drifters
B28. Theme from Danger Man - The Red Price Combo
B29. Rio Grande - The Ikons
B30. Jam Roll - The Planets
B31. Caravan - Cherry Wainer
B32. Beat Girl (Main Title Theme) - The John Barry Seven

THOSE BRITISH INSTRUMENTALS -
VOLUME 6

Image: Sling Back Records Ltd / Roo-Roo Products
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 2012
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Sling Back Records Ltd /
Roo-Roo Products

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: SB 1084

EAN: 6673299009760

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Black Eyes - The Hearts
2. Dark Eyes - Bert Weedon
3. Fireball (from Fireball XL5) - The Flee Rekkers
4. The Turk - Judd Proctor
5. Stand and Deliver - The Snobs
6. What's All That About - The Zephyrs
7. Solitaire - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
8. 6.10 Special - The Hootenannys
9. Baja - John Paul Jones
10. Applejack - Bud Ashton
11. Big Bad Bass - Jet Harris
12. Wipe Out - The Eliminators
13. On the Move - DC5
14. Last Stage West - The Outlaws
15. Ghostriders in the Sky - The Scorpions

16. Backfire - Judd Proctor
17. Drunken Guitar - Joe Brown and Tommy Steele
18. Charlie Boy - Bert Weedon
19. The Happy Organ - Cherry Wainer
20. Warpaint - Joe Loss
21. The Traitors - The Packabeats
22. Pepe - Steve Stannard
23. Husky Team - The Saints
24. William Tell - Sounds Incorporated
25. Revenge - Ray McVay
26. Wheels - Bud Ashton
27. Safari - The Flintstones
28. Desperado - Jim Gunner and his Sidekicks
29. Shortcut - Rhet Stoller
30. Manhunt - The Sunsets

Notes

Track 24, William Tell by Sounds Incorporated, is an arrangement of the Gioachino Rossini William Tell Overture, a piece which formed the basis for the ITC TV series theme with lyrics added by Harold Purcell that were sung by David Whitfield. The UK single release of the Sounds Incorporated arrangement (Columbia, DB 7404, 1964) makes no mention of the TV series and therefore we do not consider this to be a version of the ITC series theme.
We are including this release despite the likelihood that it was not a UK publication. The record label Roo-Roo Products was a Japanese company and the stated UK distributor Sling Back Records - based at the former home of ITC and Pye Records, ATV House, 16 Great Cumberland Place, London W1 - is alleged to have been a bogus company. We are featuring it here as even if it wasn't a British publication, it purports to be one.

THOSE BRITISH INSTRUMENTALS -
VOLUME 8

Image: Sling Back Records Ltd / Roo-Roo Products
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 2012
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Sling Back Records Ltd /
Roo-Roo Products

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: SB 1086

EAN: 6673299815354

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. A Shot in the Dark - Joe Loss
2. Telstar - Bud Ashton
3. Twistin' the Chestnuts - The Flee-Rekkers
4. Ku-Pow - The Outlaws
5. Burn Up - The Titan Studio Orchestra
6. Mogambo - Sounds Incorporated
7. Night Cry - Bert Weedon
8. Pipeline - The Eliminators
9. Let There Be Drums - Steve Stannard
10. Blue Tango - The Flee-Rekkers
11. No Stopping - DC5
12. Packabeat - The Packabeats
13. Special Agent - The Eagles
14. Red Cabbage - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
15. Zulu Stomp - The Brand

16. Z Cars - Johnny Keating and the Z-Men
17. Saturday's Child - John Barry
18. Hall of the Mountain King - Casey Jones and the Governors
19. Iced Coffee - Cherry Wainer
20. Raunchy - Ray McVay
21. Spanish Armada - Les Reed Combo
22. Wildwood Flower - The Royal Blues
23. The Green Man - Mike Ford and the Consuls
24. Sleepwalk - The Sleepwalkers
25. Theme from Dixie - Bud Ashton
26. Thunderbirds Theme - The Barry Gray Orchestra
27. Oriental Dream - The Zephyrs
28. Plainsman - Judd Proctor
29. Caravan - Rhet Stoller
30. VC10 - The Jet Set

Notes

The Thunderbirds Theme, the sole ITC track on this compilation, was erroneously credited to the 'Bary Gray Orchestra'.
We are including this release despite the likelihood that it was not a UK publication. The record label Roo-Roo Products was a Japanese company and the stated UK distributor Sling Back Records - based at the former home of ITC and Pye Records, ATV House, 16 Great Cumberland Place, London W1 - is alleged to have been a bogus company. We are featuring it here as even if it wasn't a British publication, it purports to be one.

THOSE BRITISH INSTRUMENTALS -
VOLUME 10

Image: Sling Back Records Ltd / Roo-Roo Products
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 2012
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Sling Back Records Ltd /
Roo-Roo Products

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: SB 1088

EAN: 6673299822710

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

1. Hoots Mon - Gordon Franks
2. Black Jackets - Bert Weedon
3. Country Line Special - Cyril Davies
4. Evening in Paris - The Packabeats
5. Genesis - Terry Dene andhe Soul Seekers
6. Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
7. Palamino - Judd Proctor
8. The Saint - The Eliminators
9. Nut Rocker - Bud Ashton
10. Christmas Star - The Ants
11. Orbit - Johnny Howard
12. Caroline - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
13. Indian Brave - The Outlaws
14. Fandango - The Flee-Rekkers
15. Pop Corn - Joe Brown

16. Old Ned - The Eagles
17. Woo Hoo - The Blackjacks
18. Wipe Out - The Saints
19. Gurney Slade - Steve Stannard
20. In a Persian Market - Laurie Johnson
21. Temptation - The Scorpions
22. Pompeii - The Checkmates
23. Keep Moving - Sounds Incorporated
24. Jump Jeremiah - Mike Ford and the Consuls
25. Night Train - Fifty Fingers, Five Guitars
26. Sandstorm - The Saints
27. Winding It Up - The Werlwinds
28. Cruising 600 - The Jet Set
29. Phantom Stage - The Rapiers
30. All Rhet - Rhet Stoller

Notes

Those British Instrumentals Volume Ten appears to have been the final entry in this series of releases.
We are including this release despite the likelihood that it was not a UK publication. The record label Roo-Roo Products was a Japanese company and the stated UK distributor Sling Back Records - based at the former home of ITC and Pye Records, ATV House, 16 Great Cumberland Place, London W1 - is alleged to have been a bogus company. We are featuring it here as even if it wasn't a British publication, it purports to be one.

KEEP LOOKIN':
80 MORE MOD, SOUL & FREAKBEAT NUGGETS

Image: RPM Records / Cherry Red Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 17 June 2014
(source: Tower Records Japan)

Publisher: RPM Records /
Cherry Red Records Ltd

Music by: Various

Discs: 3

Total Running Time: 213:51

Catalogue No.: RPM BX 523

EAN: 5013929552302

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Keep Lookin' - The Artwoods
A2. Finger Poppin' - The In Crowd
A3. Voodoo Woman - Laurel Aitken
A4. Gloria - The Spektors
A5. Don't Be Messing Around With My Bread - John Lee Hooker
A6. I'm Leaving - The Tribe
A7. Smokestack Lightning - The Others
A8. Yo Yo - Ray Columbus and the Invaders
A9. Blue Feeling - The Rogers
A10. Whatcha' Gonna Do - Billie Davis and the LeRoys
A11. I'm Coming Down with the Blues - The Gnomes of Zurich
A12. Don't Lie to Me - Four + One
A13. Mickey’s Monkey - The Hi-Fi's
A14. Lookin' for My Pigs - Ray Hoff and the Offbeats
A15. Casting My Spell - The Talismen
A16. The Green Ball - Arthur Brown Set
A17. High Time Baby - The Gremlins
A18. My Life Ain't Easy - Gene Latter and the Detours
A19. Gimme, Gimme Some Shade - The Untamed
A20. Hey Girl (No Need to Push) - Ministry of Sound
A21. Go-Go - The Four Fours
A22. Memory of Your Love - The Thoughts
A23. I Put on My Shoes - The Jeeps
A24. Say Those Magic Words - The Birds
A25. A Man with Money - A Wild Uncertainty
A26. Make Your Mark Little Man - National Pinion Pole
A27. Dandy - The Rockin' Vickers

Disc 2:
B1. A Touch of Velvet, a Sting of Brass - The Mood-MosaiC
B2. Springtime - Jimmy Thomas
B3. I Can't Dance With You - The Valentines
B4. Taking Out Time - The Spencer Davis Group
B5. I'm Looking for a Saxophonist Doubling French Horn Wearing Size 37 Boots - The Artwoods
B6. You Better Get Going Now - The Lomax Alliance
B7. Boogaloo Down Broadway - Soul Purpose
B8. My Heart Won't Believe It - The Tribe
B9. Summer Leaves Me with a Sigh - Tuesday's Children
B10. We Want a Beat - Ray Columbus
B11. Trust Yourself a Little Bit - Lindsay Muir's Untamed
B12. Tell Her No - Kompany

Disc 2 (continued):
B13. You're On Your Own - The In Crowd
B14. I'm Good for You - Troubled Mind
B15. Sweet Precious Love - Laurel Aitken With the Carols
B16. Soul Finger - Willpower
B17. Call My Name - Liz Christian
B18. Don’t You Worry - Jacki Bond
B19. Surrender - Perpetual Langley
B20. The Way You Are - Eartha Kitt
B21. Sweet Sweet Lovin' - Val McKenna
B22. Something to Hold On To - Marilyn Powell
B23. Give and Take - Kris Ife
B24. Lightning Never Strikes - Sheridan
B25. River Deep Mountain High - Sands
B26. Go-Go Girl - John's Children
B27. Utterly Funky - The Heavyweights

Disc 3:
C1. Arcipelago - The Underground Set
C2. Holding a Dream - Gene Latter
C3. Stoned Out of It - John Fitch and Associates
C4. Sookie Sookie - The Valentines
C5. Man in a Suitcase (Vocal Version) - Alexander Stone
C6. You're in Life - Icarus
C7. Someday You'll Need Someone - Dee and the Quotum
C8. Moneylender - Rhubarb Rhubarb
C9. Shambala - The Heavyweights
C10. Some People - Chords Five
C11. Major Catastrophe - Katch 22
C12. Run Run Run - Coconut Mushroom
C13. Hey Conductor - The League
C14. Cornflake Zoo - Andy Ellison
C15. Something's Coming Along - The Sceptres
C16. She's Alright - Lyons and Malone
C17. Trans-Love Airways (Fat Angel) - Big Jim Sullivan
C18. Rip Van Winkle - Joker
C19. Don't Torture Your Mind - The Exception
C20. Love is a Beautiful Thing - The Alan Bown
C21. Rollin' Over - The Sorrows
C22. Rescue Me - Mike Stuart Span
C23. All Night Drinker - Fat Mattress
C24. We’re Going to Beat It (Battle Hymn) - Canterbury Glass
C25. Bat Poem - Liverpool Scene
C26. La Virra - Arrival

Notes

A rare CD outing for Alexander Stone's vocal version of the Man in a Suitcase theme, originally released on Gemini Records in 1970.
This collection was reissued by Cherry Red on 1 April 2022.

IT'S A WONDERFULL LIFE: A JOURNEY INTO SOUND -
COMPILED FOR MOJO BY SIOUXSIE SIOUX AND STEVEN SEVERIN

Image: Mojo Magazine / Bauer Media Group
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: November 2014
(source: 45worlds)

Publisher: Mojo Magazine / Bauer Media Group

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: None

EAN: 977135019164 (magazine)

Design: Dave Henderson and Doug Hart

Tracklisting

1. The Twilight Zone - Marty Manning and his Orchestra
2. Suite One: Romeo and Juliet ~ Montagues and Capulets - Dimitri Mitropoulos' New York Philharmonic Orchestra
3. Man of Mystery - The Shadows
4. Surabaya-Johnny (from Happy End) - Lotte Lenya, Roger Bean and Orchestra
5. Zero G (from Fireball XL5) - Barry Gray and his Spacemakers
6. Perry Mason Theme - Buddy Morrow and his Orchestra
7. Night and Day - Frank Sinatra

8. The James Bond Theme (from Dr. No) - The John Barry Seven and Orchestra
9. Whiplash - Frank Ifield
10. Vertigo: Prelude and Rooftop - Bernard Herrmann
11. Gymnopedie No 1 - Francis Poulenc
12. Trust in Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
13. A Night on Bare Mountain - Leopold Stokowski
14. When You Wish Upon a Star - Cliff Edwards and Disney Studio Chorus

Notes

It's a Wonderfull Life: A Journey into Sound was a CD cover disc given away free with the November 2014 issue of Mojo - The Music Magazine. It was a 23 Ears Production.

Image: Mojo Magazine / Bauer Media Group

Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, who compiled this release for Mojo, are famous respectively as the vocalist and bass guitarist of the cult rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The ITC tracks included were the incidental track Zero G from Fireball XL5 (which had featured as the A-side of the Barry Gray and his Space Makers Fireball XL5 7" single from Melodisc (MEL 45/1591, 1963)) and Edwin Astley's little-heard theme to Whiplash, sung by Frank Ifield.

Image: Melodisc

TFI FRIDAY: THE ALBUM

Image: Universal Music TV

Released: 8 June 2015
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Universal Music TV

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 2

Total Playing Time: 154:15

Catalogue No.: 5361287

EAN: 600753612873

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. A Man in a Suitcase (30 second intro) - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra
A2. The Riverboat Song (Live from TFI Friday) - Ocean Colour Scene
A3. Place Your Hands - Reef
A4. Going for Gold - Shed Seven
A5. Good Enough - Dodgy
A6. You're Gorgeous - Babybird
A7. Regret - New Order
A8. Wake Up Boo! - The Boo Radleys
A9. Inbetweener - Sleeper
A10. Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) - Cornershop
A11. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
A12. Step On - Happy Mondays
A13. Halo - Texas
A14. North Country Boy - The Charlatans
A15. Love is the Law - The Seahorses
A16. Erase / Rewind - The Cardigans
A17. Sunflower - Paul Weller
A18. Pumping On Your Stereo - Supergrass
A19. She Said - Longpigs
A20. Babies - Pulp
A21. A Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra

Disc 2:
B1. Reverend Black Grape - Black Grape
B2. Hush - Kula Shaker
B3. A Design for Life - Manic Street Preachers
B4. Beautiful Ones - Suede
B5. Ready to Go - Republica
B6. Local Boy in the Photograph - Stereophonics
B7. Old Red Eyes is Back - The Beautiful South
B8. Female of the Species - Space
B9. Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals
B10. Slight Return - The Bluetones
B11. Goldfinger - Ash
B12. Can't See Me - Ian Brown
B13. Wide Open Space - Mansun
B14. Mr E's Beautiful Blues - Eels
B15. Waterfront - Simple Minds
B16. She's a Star - James
B17. Walkaway - Cast
B18. Mulder and Scully - Catatonia
B19. Jumpin' Jack Flash (Live from TFI Friday) - Shed Seven

Notes

A two-CD tie-in release with the TFI Friday music entertainment series (Channel 4, 1996-2015) presented by Chris Evans. The series utilised Ron Grainer's Man in a Suitcase theme (here shown as A Man in a Suitcase), introducing this fine signature tune to a fresh generation of British TV viewers. As such, the theme appears twice on this collection, at the start and end of Disc 1 (quite why it wasn't placed last on Disc 2 is a mystery!).
From the perspective of a live music fan, this is a disappointing collection in that only two of the tracks - A2: Ocean Colour Scene's The Riverboat Song and B19: Shed Seven's version of The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash - were recordings of TFI Friday performances. All other tracks were standard studio versions, with one being a Norman Cook remix.

LIVERPOOL SOUNDS:
75 CLASSICS FROM THE SINGING CITY

Image: Fantastic Voyage / Future Noise Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 14 August 2015
(source: musicMagpie)

Publisher: Fantastic Voyage /
Future Noise Music Ltd

Music by: Various

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: FVTD222

EAN: 5055311002224

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Love Me Do - The Beatles
A2. Give Me the Moonlight Give Me the Girl - Frankie Vaughan
A3. Halfway to Paradise - Billy Fury
A4. Lover Please - The Vernons Girls
A5. We Will Make Love - Russ Hamilton
A6. The Story of My Life - Michael Holliday
A7. Love is Like a Violin - Ken Dodd
A8. Be Mine - Lance Fortune
A9. Whip Jamboree - The Spinners
A10. Last Night Was Made for Love - Billy Fury
A11. Starry Eyed - Michael Holliday
A12. Hey There - Lita Roza
A13. The Boll Weevil Song - Howie Casey and the Seniors
A14. Chicago Buzz - The Merseysippi Jazz Band
A15. Frankie and Johnnie - George Melly
A16. Get Out and Get Under - Clinton Ford and the Merseysippi Jazz Band
A17. Never On Sunday - Lyn Cornell
A18. Theme from Danger Man - Red Price Combo
A19. Allentown Jail - Lita Roza
A20. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Gerry and the Pacemakers
A21. Angela Jones - Michael Cox
A22. The Rose Tattoo - Michael Holliday
A23. Make Me a Miracle - Mal Perry
A24. Daddy Rolling Stone - Earl Preston's Realms
A25. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Lita Roza

Disc 2:
B1. Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
B2. The Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan
B3. You Know What I Mean - The Vernons Girls
B4. My Bonnie - Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (The Beatles)
B5. Cry for a Shadow - The Beat Brothers (The Beatles)
B6. Wrong - The Crescents
B7. I Ain't Mad at You - Howie Casey and the Seniors
B8. Roll Over Beethoven - King Size Taylor and the Dominoes
B9. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Frankie Vaughan
B10. Pianissimo - Ken Dodd
B11. It Might As Well Rain Until September - The De Laine Sisters
B12. The Champion of the Seas - The Spinners

Disc 2 (continued):
B13. Trains and Boats and Planes - Michael Allen
B14. Jealousy - Billy Fury
B15. Oh by Jingo - Clinton Ford and the Merseysippi Jazz Band
B16. After You've Gone - George Melly and Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band
B17. Johnny Todd (Theme from Z Cars) - The Spinners
B18. Young at Heart - Alma Warren
B19. (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window - Lita Roza
B20. The Bee Song - Arthur Askey
B21. The Runaway Train - Michael Holliday
B22. The Sneeze - Red Price
B23. Swinging in the Rain - Norman Vaughan
B24. Four Feather Falls - Michael Holliday
B25. Little One - Russ Hamilton

Disc 3:
C1. The Green Door - Frankie Vaughan
C2. The Loco-motion - The Vernons Girls
C3. What'd I Say - Gerry and the Pacemakers
C4. This Love I Have for You - Lance Fortune
C5. I'd Never Find Another You - Billy Fury
C6. Tower of Strength - Frankie Vaughan
C7. Have a Bit of Pity On the Crooner - Arthur Askey
C8. Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Michael Holliday
C9. The Man in the Raincoat - Lita Roza
C10. Rainbow - Russ Hamilton
C11. Collette - Billy Fury
C12. Fury's Tune - Billy Fury
C13. Baby, Baby, Baby - The Crescents
C14. That's When Your Heartaches Begin - Mal Perry
C15. Sweet Little Sixteen - Michael Cox
C16. The Sweet Life (La Dolce Vita) - Lyn Cornell
C17. Greedy Landlord - Stan Kelly and Leon Rosselson
C18. Gonna Find Me a Bluebird - Russ Hamilton
C19. Keep Your Heart - Michael Holliday
C20. Stealin' - Alma Warren
C21. Incurably Romantic - Frankie Vaughan and Marilyn Monroe
C22. Funny All Over - The Vernons Girls
C23. Wendy - Johnny Gentle
C24. Johnny Gentle talks about writing I've Just Fallen for Someone
C25. I've Just Fallen for Someone - Darren Young
C26. PS I Love You - The Beatles

Notes

A collection of music linked to the British city, compiled and annotated by author and BBC Radio Merseyside broadcaster Spencer Leigh. Liverpool Sounds presented 75 tracks which, in the main, related to the pre-Beatles era (and The Beatles were represented in their own right and with Tony Sheridan).
Three TV series themes are included: Granada Television's Four Feather Falls by Michael Holliday, ITC's Danger Man (Red Price's version of the original 1960 theme) and the BBC's Z Cars (Johnny Todd recorded by The Spinners). Both Holliday and Price were born in Liverpool, in 1924 and 1933 respectively, and The Spinners were a Liverpool folk group who are not to be confused with the Motown group of the same name. The Z Cars theme is played to this day at home games of Everton FC, one of the city's two professional football clubs.
Track C24 was a spoken word track in which recording artist and songwriter Johnny Gentle spoke about writing track C25, I've Just Fallen for Someone.

CASINO CLASSICS:
COMPLETE COLLECTION

Image: Soul Time / Cherry Red Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 28 August 2015
(source: Casino Classics Facebook)

Publisher: Soul Time /
Cherry Red Records Ltd

Music by: Various

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: TOCKBX1

EAN: 5013929960107

Design: Joe Boy

Tracklisting

Disc 1 - Casino Classics Chapter One, 1979:
A1. A Touch of Velvet - A Sting of Brass - The Ron Grainer Orchestra
A2. Lost Summer Love - Lorraine Silver
A3. Theme from Joe 90 - The Ron Grainer Orchestra
A4. Panic - Reparata and the Delrons
A5. Shake a Tail Feather - James and Bobby Purify
A6. I'll Do Anything - Lenny Gamble
A7. Six by Six - Allnight Band
A8. The Joker - Allnight Band
A9. Little Darling - The Flirtations
A10. I'm Gonna Share It With You - Diana Foster
A11. I Go to Pieces - Gerri Granger
A12. Long After Tonight is Over - Jimmy Radcliffe
A13. Time Will Pass You By - Tobi Legend
A14. I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish

Bonus Tracks:
A15. Time Out - Autumn
A16. Stone Soul Loving - Nicky Wilson
A17. Cry Like A Child - Nicky Wilson

Disc 2 - Casino Classics Chapter Two, 1980:
B1. Tainted Love - Gloria Jones
B2. Ain’t Nothing But a Houseparty - The Show Stoppers
B3. Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers
B4. You Got Me Where You Want Me - Tommy Hunt
B5. I Can’t Seem to Hold You - All Night Band
B6. I’ve Got a Feeling - Diana Foster
B7. Sign on the Dotted Line - Gene Latter
B8. Better Late Than Never - Diane Ducane
B9. It Really Hurts Me Girl - The Carstairs
B10. Love Factory - Eloise Laws
B11. When Love Grows Cold - The Ron Grainer Orchestra
B12. Gonna Love You Stronger Baby - The Reflections
B13. Loving on the Losing Side - Tommy Hunt

Disc 2 - Bonus Tracks:
B14. Why’d You Put It to Me Baby - Short People
B15. How Long - J. J. Barnes
B16. Playing It Cool - The Ron Grainer Orchestra
B17. Stop - Samantha Jones
B18. Green Onions - Mods '79
B19. High on Your Love - Mods '79

Disc 3 -Casino Classics Chapter Three, 1981:
C1. Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me - The Tams
C2. Wade in the Water - The Ramsey Lewis Trio
C3. Stop What You’re Doing - The Playthings
C4. Send Her Away - Jackie Trent
C5. I Struck It Rich - Len Barry
C6. Our Love Is Getting Stronger - Jason Knight
C7. The Snake - Al Wilson
C8. Nobody Knows What’s Going On - Tammy St John
C9. Goodbye, Nothing to Say - The Javells featuring Nosmo King
C10. I Know That You’ll Be There - Lorraine Silver
C11. Love Hustle - Family Affair
C12. Surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine - The Playthings
C13. A Lover’s Concerto - The Toys
C14. Girl Watcher - The O'Kaysions

Bonus Tracks:
C15. You Baby - Jackie Trent
C16. Love Feeling - Val McKenna
C17. I’m Your Number One - Brad Stevens
C18. Living in a Dream World - Rainbow People
C19. Never Can Say Goodbye - Tommy Hunt
C20. Sign on the Dotted Line - Tommy Hunt
C21. You Got Me Up There - Tommy Hunt

Notes

The Casino Classics record label grew out of a highly-rated northern soul nightclub, Wigan Casino. The club's owner Gary Marshall, manager Mike Walker and founder and DJ Russ Winstanley established the record label in 1978 as a means to re-release a selection of music played in the club as singles. The idea was that the club's devoted followers would be given the opportunity to own them, and it would be a signifier of the nightclub's popularity.
These three LPs were released in 1979, 1980 and 1981 respectively and brought together songs and music released as singles on the Casino Classics labels. The Cherry Red collection marked their debut on the compact disc format.
The presence of the Joe 90 theme in the midst of a collection of mainly US Northern Soul seems rather incongruous, but the thought of people dancing to Barry Gray's music (even via Ron Grainer's cover version) in a hip club in the North of England in the late 1970s brings a smile to the face.

SONGS FOR SWINGING GHOSTS

Image: Croydon Municipal
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 25 September 2015
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Croydon Municipal

Music by: Various

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: CR9 016

EAN: 5013929831681

Design: Flack

Tracklisting

1. Swinging Ghosts - Ted Heath
2. Diabolical Twist - Max Bygraves
3. The Monster - Chris Williams and the Students
4. Cool Gool -Sharkey Todd and the Monsters
5. Death Valley - Charles Blackwell
6. Fallout Shelter - Mike and Bernie Winters
7. Clap Trap - The Vampires
8. Ghost Riders in the Sky - Kay Starr
9. The Witch's Twist - Mandrake
10. Casting My Spell - Johnny Otis
11. Ghost Train - Bert Weedon

12. Nightmare - Johnny Worth
13. The Creep - Ken Mackintosh
14. Demon Lover - Lyn Cornell
15. The Ghoul Friend - The Ravens
16. Faces in the Dark - Janine De Wayleyne
17. Ghost Squad - Tony Hatch
18. The Cool Spectre - Fraink Weir
19. Til the Following Night - Screaming Lord Sutch
20. Riders in the Sky - The Scorpions
21. The Horror Show - Sharkey Todd and the Monsters
22. Swinging Ghosts - The Vampires

Notes

This release was compiled by the pop historian and Saint Etienne band member Bob Stanley, who also contributed liner notes, and disc jockey Martin Green.
The Croydon Municipal label was set up by Stanley in order to unearth lost albums and singles from the mid-20th century which had fallen into public domain and present them cleaned up on CD at affordable prices. Distributed by Cherry Red Records, a total of 21 CD compilations were released.

GREAT BRITISH INSTRUMENTALS
OF THE '50s & '60s

Image: One Day Music / Not Now Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 23 October 2015
(source: Spotify)

Publisher: One Day Music /
Not Now Music Ltd

Music by: Various

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: DAY3CD075

EAN: 5060259820755

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Telstar - The Tornados
A2. The Storm - The Hunters
A3. The Savage - The Shadows
A4. The Breeze and I - The Fentones
A5. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Bert Weedon
A6. Walk Don't Run - The John Barry Seven
A7. Clap Trap - The Vampires
A8. Rockin' Susannah - Arthur Greenslade and the Gee-Men
A9. Chaquita - The Dave Clark Five
A10. Man in Space - The Vigilantes
A11. Trambone - The Krew Kats
A12. Pop Corn - Joe Brown
A13. Swingin' Low - The Outlaws
A14. Theme from Tightrope - The Volcanos
A15. Got a Match - Wee Willie Harris
A16. I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded - The Cannons
A17. Special Agent - The Eagles
A18. Entry of the Gladiators - Nero and the Gladiators
A19. Gypsy Beat - The Packabeats
A20. Jet Black - The Drifters

Disc 2:
B1. F.B.I. - The Shadows
B2. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Nero and the Gladiators
B3. The James Bond Theme (from Dr. No) - The John Barry Seven and Orchestra
B4. Chariot - Rhet Stoller
B5. The Mexican - The Fentones
B6. Hoots Mon! - Lord Rockingham's XI
B7. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - The Scorpions
B8. Manhunt - Frank Weir and his Werewolves
B9. Teen Scene - The Hunters
B10. The Switch - Joe Brown
B11. The Savage (Part 2) - The Sneaky Petes

Disc 2 (continued):
B12. Bongo Rock - The Jetstreams
B13. Night of the Vampire - The Moontrekkers
B14. Sounds Like Locomotion - Sounds Inc.
B15. Valley of the Sioux - The Outlaws
B16. The Ghoul Friend - The Ravens Rock Group
B17. Poppin' (Part 1) - The Chaps
B18. Yep! - The Checkmates
B19. Tequila - Johnny 'The Gash' Gray with Ken Jones and his Orchestra
B20. Green Jeans - The Fabulous Flee-Rekkers

Disc 3:
C1. Hit and Miss (from Juke Box Jury) - The John Barry Seven
C2. Nut Rocker - Bud Ashton Trio
C3. The Man with the Golden Arm - Jet Harris
C4. Love and Fury - The Tornados
C5. Samurai - The Barons
C6. Honky Tonk - George Chisholm
C7. Apache - Bert Weedon
C8. Drunken Guitar - Tommy Steele and Joe Brown
C9. There's Something at the Bottom of the Well - The Moontrekkers
C10. Peak Hour - The Krew Kats
C11. Main Line - The Stacattos
C12. Can Can '62 - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
C13. Lone Rider - The Flee-Rekkers
C14. Scorpio - The Scorpions
C15. Ambush - The Outlaws
C16. Party Twist - The Firestones
C17. Sleepwalk - The Sleepwalkers
C18. Theme from Danger Man - The Red Price Combo
C19. Dance On! - The Shadows
C20. At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal (from Pick of the Pops) - Brian Fahey and his Orchestra

WHEN COOL WAS KING

Image: Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 20 November 2015
(source: World of Books)

Publisher: Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: MOSCD431

EAN: 5051275080223

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra
A2. Feeling Good - Nina Simone
A3. Ain't That a Kick in the Head - Robbie Williams
A4. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
A5. Me and Mrs. You - Michael Bublé
A6. Big Spender - Shirley Bassey
A7. Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole
A8. Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington
A9. At Last - Etta James
A10. Ain't No Way - Aretha Franklin
A11. Music to Watch Girls By - Matt Monro
A12. How D'ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning? - Dean Martin feat. Helen O'Connell
A13. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - Sarah Vaughan
A14. Don't Rain On My Parade - Bobby Darin
A15. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) - Julie London
A16. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
A17. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
A18. My Baby Just Cares for Me - Sophie Milman
A19. A Wink and a Smile - Rhydian and the Residuals
A20. In the Mood - Glenn Miller

Disc 2:
B1. It's a Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown
B2. Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
B3. Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
B4. Respect - Aretha Franklin
B5. Proud Mary - Tina Turner
B6. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
B7. Fever - Peggy Lee
B8. Comin' Home Baby - Mel Tormé
B9. Mr. Bojangles - Sammy Davis Jr.
B10. L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
B11. As Time Goes By - Tony Bennett

Disc 2 (continued):
B12. It Had to Be You - Ray Charles
B13. The Way You Look Tonight - Steve Tyrell
B14. Stand By Me - Ben E. King
B15. What the World Needs Now is Love - Dionne Warwick
B16. Downtown - Petula Clark
B17. Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Engelbert Humperdinck
B18. Samantha - Kenny Ball
B19. A Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer and his Orchestra
B20. La Foule - Edith Piaf

Disc 3:
C1. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
C2. Puttin' On the Ritz - Gregory Porter
C3. That's Amore - Dean Martin
C4. It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
C5. I've Got a Woman - Ray Charles
C6. Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
C7. I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song) - Louis Prima, Phil Harris and Bruce Reitherman
C8. For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
C9. Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Jackie Wilson and Count Basie
C10. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - Solomon Burke
C11. Peroxide Swing - Michael Bublé
C12. Devil May Care - Jamie Cullum
C13. Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton
C14. Moondance - Van Morrison
C15. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Jools Holland and Rumer
C16. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
C17. She Said - Plan B
C18. Crazy in Love - L'Orchestra Cinematique
C19. You're the One That I Want - Lo-Fang
C20. Earned It - Dtale

SIXTIES:
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION

Image: Rhino / Union Square Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 23 October 2020
(source: hmv.com)

Publisher: Rhino / Union Square Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 5

Catalogue No.: ULTIM5CDW27

EAN: 4050538635799

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
A2. I'm into Something Good - Herman's Hermits
A3. When You Walk in the Room - The Searchers
A4. We've Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals
A5. I'm Alive - The Hollies
A6. Rainbow Valley - The Love Affair
A7. I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus
A8. Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes
A9. Baby Make It Soon - The Marmalade
A10. I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher
A11. I Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
A12. The Locomotion - Little Eva
A13. Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers
A14. Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valance
A15. Let the Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry
A16. Walking Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro
A17. Telstar - The Tornados
A18. Apache - The Shadows
A19. Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
A20. Living in the Past - Jethro Tull

Disc 2:
B1. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone - The Monkees
B2. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
B3. Let's Go to San Francisco - Flower Pot Men
B4. Windy - The Association
B5. Always See Your Face - Love
B6. Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells
B7. Once I Was - Tim Buckley
B8. Shifting Sands - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
B9. Sand - Clear Light
B10. 1969 - The Stooges
B11. Kites - Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
B12. My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
B13. Running from Home - Bert Jansch
B14. Universal Soldier - Donovan
B15. Once I Had a Sweetheart - Pentangle
B16. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - The Frugal Sound
B17. Girl - The Truth
B18. Colour of My Love - Jefferson
B19. Are You Growing Tired of My Love - Status Quo
B20. Hello, How Are You? - The Easybeats

Disc 3:
C1. Hard to Handle - Otis Redding
C2. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
C3. Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin
C4. Soul Sister Brown Sugar - Sam and Dave
C5. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
C6. What a Man - Laura Lee
C7. Cry to Me - Solomon Burke
C8. Behave Yourself - Booker T and the MG's
C9. Saturday Night at the Movies - The Drifters
C10. You Really Got a Hold On Me - Percy Sledge
C11. Water - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
C12. Just One Look - Doris Troy
C13. The Tide is High - The Paragons
C14. The Liquidator - Harry J. All Stars
C15. On a Slow Boat to China - Emile Ford and the Checkmates
C16. Spanish Harlem - Jimmy Justice
C17. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Ben E. King
C18. I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Dionne Warwick
C19. You're A Wonderful One - The Trends
C20. The Green Door - Wynder K. Frog

Disc 4:
D1. A World Without Love - Peter and Gordon
D2. Don't Sleep in the Subway - Petula Clark
D3. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
D4. Moon River - Danny Williams
D5. Anything Goes - Harpers Bizarre
D6. The Carnival is Over - The Seekers
D7. I (Who Have Nothing) - Shirley Bassey
D8. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Cilla Black
D9. Trains & Boats & Planes - Anita Harris
D10. Where Will You Be - Sue Nicholls
D11. Lady Jane - David Garrick
D12. A Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy
D13. Golden Lights - Twinkle
D14. That's the Way Love Goes - Charles Dickens
D15. Where Are You Now (My Love) - Jackie Trent
D16. Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin' Me No) - The Paper Dolls
D17. Trouble is My Middle Name - The Brook Brothers
D18. Make Me an Island - Joe Dolan
D19. Happiness - Ken Dodd
D20. Man in a Suitcase - The Ron Grainer Orchestra

Disc 5:
E1. Do You Want to Know a Secret? - Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
E2. Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers
E3. Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers
E4. Nowhere Man - The Settlers
E5. Michelle - The Overlanders
E6. He's in Town - The Rockin' Berries
E7. I Understand - Freddie and the Dreamers
E8. Suddenly You Love Me - The Tremeloes
E9. Ciao Baby - The Montanas
E10. Mr. Second Class - The Spencer Davis Group
E11. From the Bottom of My Heart (I Love You) - The Moody Blues
E12. That's Why I'm Crying - The Ivy League
E13. I'll Never Get Over You - Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
E14. Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost
E15. You Were There - Heinz
E16. (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet - The Spectres
E17. Kelly - Wayne Gibson
E18. Rosie - Don Partridge
E19. Will I What? - Mike Sarne
E20. Tribute to Buddy Holly - Mike Berry

HOOTS MON -
LORD ROCKINGHAM'S XI

Image: Jasmine Records
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 14 May 2021
(source: Jasmine Records)

Publisher: Jasmine Records

Music by: Lord Rockingham's XI /
Various Composers

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: JASMCD2723

EAN: 604988272321

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Lord Rockingham's XI:
1. The Squelch
2. Fried Onions
3. Hoots Mon
4. Blue Train
5. Wee Tom
6. Lord Rockingham, I Presume?
7. What the Butler Saw (Live)
8. Lord Rockingham's Lament (Live)
9. Fried Onions (Live)
10. Blue Train (Live)
11. Lord Rockingham Meets the Monster (Live)
12. Ra-Ra Rockingham
13. Farewell to Rockingham
14. Newcastle Twist
15. Rockingham Twist

Bonus Tracks:
16. Cerveza - Cherry Wainer
17. Week End - Red Price
18. The Sneeze - Red Price
19. Valencia - Cherry Wainer
20. The Happy Organ - Cherry Wainer
21. Iced Coffee - Cherry Wainer
22. The Fat Washerwoman - Jack Good's Fat Noise
23. The Fat Noise - Jack Good's Fat Noise
24. My Baby's Door - Rockin' Red Price
25. Wow! - Rockin' Red Price
26. Chicken Sax - Rex and the Minors
27. Snake Eyes - Rex and the Minors
28. Money (That's What I Want) - Cherry Wainer
29. Heavy Date - Harry Robinson's XV
30. Sentimental Journey - Harry Robinson's XV
31. Theme from Danger Man - The Red Price Combo
32. Blackjack - The Red Price Combo
33. Red River Rock - Cherry Wainer with the Red Price Combo
34. Backscratcher - The Harry Robinson Crew
35. Whisht, It's the Twis(h)t! - The Harry Robinson Crew
36. Son of Twist - The Harry Robinson Crew

Notes

Fronted by bandleader and arranger Harry Robinson, the Lord Rockingham's XI were the house band on the United Kingdom's first Rock 'n' Roll television show, Oh Boy! (Jack Good / ITV, 1958-59). In addition to backing the various singers and guest artistes, they frequently performed their own instrumental numbers on the show. They also recorded a handful of 7" singles and topped the British charts for three weeks in December 1958 with the novelty instrumental Hoots Mon (Decca, 45-F 11059).
This compilation comprises all of The Rockingham XI's releases between 1958 and 1962, alongside similarly-styled 45s from band members and spinoff projects, Cherry Wainer, Red Price, Jack Good's Fat Noise, Rex and the Minors, Harry Robinson's XV and The Harry Robinson Crew.
The appearance of the 1960 Danger Man theme on this compilation is due to Red Price of The Red Price Combo also having been a member of Lord Rockingham's XI.

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MY PICTURE GALLERY: THE ARTPOP! RECORDINGS -
THE TIMES

Image: Cherry Red Records Ltd

Released: 3 December 2021
(source: Rough Trade)

Publisher: Cherry Red Records Ltd

Music by: The Times

Discs: 6

Total Playing Time: 419:26

Catalogue No.: CRCDBOX117

EAN: 5013929111790

Design: Keith Davey at altmarkcreative.com

Tracklisting

Disc 1: Go! With The Times
A1. You Can Get It
A2. I'm With You
A3. Your Generation
A4. Pinstripes
A5. Dressing Up for the Cameras
A6. Red with Purple Flashes
A7. The Joke's on Zandra
A8. Nowhere to Run
A9. No Hard Feelings
A10. My Andy Warhol Poster
A11. Man from Uncle
A12. Reflections in an Imperfect Mirror
Bonus Tracks:
A13. Red With Purple Flashes (7")
A14. Biff! Bang! Pow! (7")
A15. My Andy Warhol Poster (Stereo)
A16. Pinstripes (Stereo)
A17. The Joke's on Zandra (Stereo)
A18. Nowhere to Run (Stereo)
A19. No Hard Feelings (Stereo)
A20. You Can Get It 3:01
A21. Man from Uncle (Stereo)
A22. Reflections in an Imperfect Mirror (Stereo)
A23. My Andy Warhol Poster (Teenage Filmstars 'McGoohan' Sessions)
A24. Spoken word: 'Joe, Dan and Me… Before The Creation Context'

Disc 2: Pop Goes Art!
B1. Picture Gallery
B2. Biff! Bang! Pow!
B3. It’s Time!
B4. If Now is the Answer
B5. A New Arrangement
B6. Looking at the World Through Dark Shades
B7. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
B8. Pop Goes Art! (Melody in Mono)
B9. Miss London
B10. The Sun Never Sets
B11. Easy as Pie
B12. This is TOMORROW…
Bonus Tracks:
B13. Have You Seen the Beautiful People
B14. This is Tomorrow (Alternative Ending)
B15. Picture Gallery (Teenage Filmstars 'McGoohan' Sessions)
B16. The Sun Never Sets (Teenage Filmstars 'McGoohan' Sessions)
B17. Easy as Pie (Teenage Filmstars 'McGoohan' Sessions)
B18. Theme from Dangerman (7")
B19. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (7")
B20. Theme from Dangerman (Alternative Session Take)
B21. Goodbye Piccadilly (October 1981 Version)
B22. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (A Splash of Colour Version)
B23. Spoken Word: 'I Haven’t Seen Him… In Anybody Else' Speech: Edward Ball, December 1999

Disc 3: This is London
C1. This is London
C2. Goodbye Piccadilly
C3. Whatever Happened to Thamesbeat
C4. If Only
C5. Big Painting
C6. Goodnight Children Everywhere
C7. The Party
C8. Stranger Than Fiction
C9. (There’s A) Cloud Over Liverpool
C10. Will Success Spoil Frank Summit?
C11. The Chimes of Big Ben
C12. This Green and Pleasant Land
Bonus Tracks:
C13. Here Come the Holidays (7")
C14. Three Cheers for the Sun (7")
C15. All Systems Are Go!
C16. Up Against It (Long Version)
C17. Big Painting (Alternative Session Take)
C18. Whatever Happened to Thamesbeat? (Alternative Session Take)
C19. This is London (Alternative Session Take)
C20. All Systems Are Go! (Alternative Session Take)

Disc 4: Hello Europe
D1. Radiate
D2. Blue Fire
D3. Victory Drums
D4. Everything Turns to Black and White
D5. Boys Brigade
D6. Where the Blue Begins
D7. Public Reaction Killed This Cat
D8. Faith
D9. Things We’ve Learnt
D10. Kulturshock
Bonus Tracks:
D11. Power is Forever (7")
D12. Stop in the Name of Love
D13. Tears on a Rainy Sunday
D14. I’ll See You in My Dreams
D15. Power is Forever (Alternative Session Take)
D16. Biff! Bang! Pow! (Live in Germany, 1985)
D17. Red with Purple Flashes (Live in Germany, 1985)

Disc 5: Up Against It (Joe Orton's Screenplay for The Beatles)
E1. Up Against It
E2. Last Tango for One
E3. Boys About Town
E4. Garden in the Moonlight (Love Theme for McTurk and Rowena)
E5. WPC Boon
E6. Most Modern Woman in the World
E7. Jacks Revolution
E8. Ladies of the Cause
E9. Mutiny in the British Empire
E10. Escape!
E11. She’s a Professional
E12. It’s Cabaret Time!
E13. The War
E14. The Wedding Song
Bonus Tracks:
E15. David Jones (Is On His Way)
E16. Victim
E17. Song for Joe Orton
E18. London Boys (7")
E19. Dada Europe (I’m So Cut Up About You)
E20. Oranges and Lemons
E21. Dial L for Love

Disc 6: Enjoy
F1. Britannia Sleeps Tonight
F2. Something Like the Truth
F3. (Where to Go) When the Sun Goes Down
F4. Times TV
F5. Think Big!
F6. Housewives Law
F7. The Third Wave
F8. The American Way
F9. Winning Hearts and Minds
F10. Cousin Frank Goes to Hollywood
F11. Enjoy
F12. Dream Now (Young America)
F13. Times Radio
F14. When the Talking Had to Stop
Bonus Tracks:
F15. Trailer from Enjoy
F16. The Polite Force
F17. El Aragua
F18. Pick It Up
F19. Times Television Sting
F20. If Only (Live at The 100 Club, 1987)
F21. (There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool (Live at The 100 Club, 1987)
F22. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Thanks for the Trip Dad)

Notes

A comprehensive retrospective bringing together the complete Artpop! recordings of The Times, known by ITC fans especially for their single release I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape.
Track C11 - The Chimes of Big Ben on This is London - obviously takes its title from the Prisoner episode of the same name but the song does not reference the series.

GREATEST EVER 60s LEGENDS

Image: Rhino / Union Square Music Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 8 April 2022
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Rhino / Union Square Music Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 4

Total Playing Time: approx. 4 hours

Catalogue No.: GTST4CDW23

EAN: 4050538789591

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
A2. Everlasting Love - Love Affair
A3. I Think We’re Alone Now - Tommy James and the Shondells
A4. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - The Monkees
A5. When You Walk in the Room - The Searchers
A6. Little Children - Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
A7. You’ll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers
A8. Moon River - Danny Williams
A9. Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers
A10. Lovers of the World Unite - David and Jonathan
A11. No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits
A12. Reflections of My Life - Marmalade
A13. Baby Now That I’ve Found You - The Foundations
A14. My Girl - Otis Redding
A15. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
A16. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
A17. Have I the Right - The Honeycombs
A18. A Picture of You - Joe Brown and the Bruvvers
A19. Congratulations - Cliff Richard
A20. Telstar - The Tornados

Disc 2:
B1. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
B2. Hold On, I’m Comin’ - Sam and Dave
B3. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You) - Aretha Franklin
B4. Get Ready - Ella Fitzgerald
B5. Shake Rattle and Roll - Arthur Conley
B6. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
B7. Green Onions - Booker T. and the M.G.'s
B8. Hi Hi Hazel - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
B9. Tighten Up Part 1 - Archie Bell and the Drells
B10. Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters
B11. Let’s Hang On - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
B12. Up On the Roof - Julie Grant
B13. You’ll Never Know What You’re Missing (‘Till You Try) - Emile Ford and the Checkmates
B14. It Mek - Desmond Dekker and the Aces
B15. The Liquidator - Harry J. Allstars
B16. Moon Hop - Derrick Morgan
B17. Angel of the Morning - Joya Landis
B18. Angie - Bert Jansch
B19. 98.6 - The Bystanders
B20. The Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton

Disc 3:
C1. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
C2. The Beat Goes On - Sonny and Cher
C3. A House is Not a Motel - Love
C4. Turn Around - The Beau Brummels
C5. No Regrets - Tom Rush
C6. You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge
C7. I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes
C8. It’s My Life - The Animals
C9. I Ain’t Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs
C10. Living in the Past - Jethro Tull
C11. Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway - The Humblebums
C12. Turquoise - Donovan
C13. Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes
C14. Any Old Time (You’re Lonely and You’re Sad) - The Foundations
C15. Lovin’ Things - Marmalade
C16. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
C17. St. Louis - The Easybeats
C18. Elegy - Colosseum
C19. I’m the Urban Spaceman - The Bonzo Dog Band
C20. Excerpt from A Teenage Opera - Keith West

Disc 4:
D1. You Were Made for Me - Freddie and the Dreamers
D2. Goodbye My Love - The Searchers
D3. To Know You is to Love You - Peter and Gordon
D4. Love of the Loved - Cilla Black
D5. Foot Tapper - The Shadows
D6. As You Like It - Adam Faith
D7. He’s Old Enough to Know Better - The Brook Brothers
D8. Spanish Harlem - Jimmy Justice
D9. He’s in Town - The Rockin' Berries
D10. Dear Mrs Applebee - David Garrick
D11. Theme from Z Cars - Johnny Keating and the Z-Men
D12. Willow Tree - The Ivy League
D13. In My Life - Judy Collins
D14. All the Love in the World - Consortium
D15. Even the Bad Times Are Good - The Tremeloes
D16. The Colour of My Love - Jefferson
D17. If You Love Me, Really Love Me - Jackie Trent
D18. Theme from Department S - Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
D19. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Ian Campbell Folk Group
D20. Yesterday - Matt Monro

Notes

Part of Union Square Music's Greatest Ever series released on the Rhino label. The range focused on particular decades and music genres, though some were more loosely themed such as Greatest Ever Feelgood Songs.
Just the one ITC track here - Cyril Stapleton's rendition of the Department S theme - and just two television themes, the other being Z Cars.

A SNAPSHOT IN TIME:
SOCIETY, SCANDAL AND THE
FIRST STIRRINGS OF MODERNISM 1960-63

Image: Ace Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 30 September 2022
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Ace Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: CDTOP 1623

EAN: 029667107129

Design: Niall McCormack

Tracklisting

1. Sugar Baby (Part 1) - Jimmy Powell
2. Sugar Baby (Part 2) - Jimmy Powell
3. When You Walked Out - Alex Murray
4. Baby Please Don't Go - Ottilie Patterson
5. Why Should We Not - Manfred Mann
6. Chicago Calling - Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All Stars
7. King of Kings - Jimmy Cliff
8. Air Travel - Chris Farlowe
9. It Ain't Necessarily So - Duffy Power
10. Sounds Like Locomotion - Sounds Incorporated
11. Dance Her by Me - Jimmy Powell
12. Gurney Slade Theme - Max Harris

13. Moanin' - Lynn Cornell
14. Tom Hark - Jimmy Powell
15. Christine - Miss X
16. A New Kind of Lovin' - Eden Kane
17. I'm Just a Baby - Louise Cordet
18. Orange Street - The Blue Flames
19. I'm Built for Comfort - Blues Incorporated
20. Angi - Davy Graham
21. Strawberry Fair - Anthony Newley
22. Country Line Special - Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All Stars
23. Wicked Woman - Don Lang and his Boulder Rollers
24. Theme from Danger Man - The Red Price Combo

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FOLK, FUNK & BEYOND:
THE ARRANGEMENTS OF JOHN CAMERON

Image: Ace Records Ltd

Released: 27 May 2023
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Ace Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists /
John Cameron

Discs: 1

Catalogue No.: CDTOP 1631

EAN: 029667108621

Design: Neil Dell

Tracklisting

1. Kes (Opening Titles) - John Cameron
2. The Observation - Donovan
3. How Could You Say You're Leaving Me? - The Piccadilly Line
4. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead - Julie Felix
5. Look at the Lights Go Up - Hopscotch
6. Boat Trip - Gordon Haskell
7. Willow's Harp - World of Oz
8. La Mer, les Étoiles et le Vent - Françoise Hardy
9. If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind - Edwards Hand
10. Isn't This Where We Came In - Lionel Bart
11. Primrose Hill - Kathe Green
12. Barnes Bridge - Harold McNair

13. Move Me - Flamma Sherman
14. Everybody Needs Somebody (To Love in the End) - The Flirtations
15. Avenues and Alleyways - Tony Christie
16. Half Forgotten Daydreams - John Cameron
17. Open Your Window - Ella Fitzgerald
18. A Road to Nowhere - Lesley Duncan
19. Brother - CCS
20. Cicero Park - Hot Chocolate
21. Heat Haze - John Cameron
22. Cleopatra Jones - Bobby Harrison
23. I've Got Just What You Need - Cheryl Lynn
24. Always and Forever - Heatwave

Notes

John Cameron is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to pop recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and Hot Chocolate.
Cameron came out of the British jazz scene, playing live as a teenager with the likes of Dick Heckstall-Smith. Moving to London, his first arrangement job was Donovan’s Sunshine Superman – Cameron came up with a unique jazz-folk single with psychedelic leanings that topped the charts in America and made his name overnight. The Donovan connection (Cameron arranged virtually all of his 60s recordings) led to work based around woodwinds for Françoise Hardy and Julie Felix, but he was more in his element with funky brass section orchestrations. In the 1970s this led to classic hits with Tony Christie, Hot Chocolate and Heatwave, as well as some of the most influential and heavily sampled KPM library recordings. His instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love was a hit for his group CCS and, for many years, a version of Cameron's arrangement was used as the theme music for the BBC TV show Top of the Pops.

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YOU CAN WALK ACROSS IT ON THE GRASS:
THE BOUTIQUE SOUNDS OF SWINGING LONDON

Image: Grapefruit Records / Cherry Red Records Ltd
with thanks to Bernard Dunne

Released: 19 January 2024
(source: Discogs)

Publisher: Grapefruit Records /
Cherry Red Records Ltd

Music by: Various Artists

Discs: 3

Catalogue No.: CRSEG3BOX140

EAN: 5013929194007

Design: Uncredited

Tracklisting

Disc 1:
A1. A Touch of Velvet, A Sting of Brass - The Mood-Mosaic
A2. Hold Tight! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
A3. Why Don't I Run Away from You? - Kiki Dee
A4. I Wanna Be (Your Everything) - Jimmy James and the Vagabonds
A5. When I Think of You - Twiggy
A6. Theme from The Avengers - The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
A7. Kinky Boots - Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman
A8. Emergency 999 - The Alan Bown Set
A9. Invitation - A Band of Angels
A10. 5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann
A11. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - The Yardbirds
A12. That Little Old Heartbreaker Me - David John and the Mood
A13. Girl Don't Tell Me - Tony Rivers and the Castaways
A14. Dolly Catcher Man - The Knack
A15. Little by Little - Dusty Springfield
A16. She Shot a Hole in My Soul - Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band
A17. I Don't Wanna Know - The Mike Cotton Sound
A18. You Better Believe It Baby - The End
A19. In My Lonely Room - The Action
A20. I Really Learnt How to Cry - Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
A21. Mockingbird - Glenda Collins with the Riot Squad
A22. On the Ball (World Cup Theme) - The John Schroeder Orchestra
A23. She Said Yeah - Neil Christian and the Crusaders
A24. London Look - The Hi-Fi's
A25. Walking Down the Street - Electric Banana
A26. Winchester Cathedral - John Carter
A27. I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt On You - Phillip Goodhand-Tait and the Stormsville Shakers
A28. Christine - Miss X
A29. You've Got What It Takes - Mandy Rice-Davies
A30. Don't Blow Your Cool - The Caravelles

Disc 2:
B1. I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs
B2. Can't Help Thinking About Me - David Bowie with the Lower Third
B3. Try and Stop Me - The Creation
B4. Viva La Tamla Motown - The London Studio Group
B5. New Directions - Dave Anthony's Moods
B6. Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
B7. She's a Liar - The Shots
B8. Caroline - The Fortunes
B9. A Man in a Suitcase - Ron Grainer
B10. Help Me Girl - Eric Burdon and the Animals
B11. I Like What I'm Trying to Do - Waygood Ellis
B12. Wade in the Water - The Graham Bond Organisation
B13. I'm a Boy - The Who
B14. Red White and You - Sounds Around
B15. Put Yourself in My Place - Episode Six
B16. Mr. Frantic - Bluesology

Disc 2 - continued:
B17. Little Games - Des James
B18. Chills and Fever - Tom Jones
B19. Take Me to the Dance - Twinkle
B20. I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith
B21. Big City - The Artwoods
B22. Little Girl - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
B23. Looking Back (Single Version) - The Spencer Davis Group
B24. Because I Love You (aka I Do Love You) - The Mickey Finn
B25. Sorrow (Demo Version) - The Merseys
B26. If Trees Could Talk - Samantha Juste
B27. Portobello Road - The Spectrum
B28. Julie Brown Loves Captain Cook - Les and Paul Barrett
B29. Morningtown Ride - Stan Butcher, his Birds and Brass
B30. What'cha Gonna Do About It - The Mirage
B31. London, My Home Town - The Chantelles

Disc 3:
C1. Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats
C2. The Cost of Living - The Downliners Sect
C3. The Hustle - Basil Kirchin and John Coleman
C4. Crazy Feeling - Carl Douglas and the Big Stampede
C5. Do the Dog - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
C6. I'll Go Crazy - The Untamed
C7. I Get Excited - Moon's Train
C8. I'm Out - The Richard Kent Style
C9. Henry's Panter - Wynder K. Frogg
C10. Whatcha Gonna Do About It - Small Faces
C11. I'm Following You - The Syn
C12. I'm Gettin' Tired (Of Drinkin' and Gamblin' Etcetera) - Jack Bruce
C13. Town Talk - Ken Woodman and his Piccadilly Brass
C14. If You Need Me - The Union
C15. I'm Out On My Own - The Roll Movement
C16. Where Did My Heart Go - The Good Time Losers
C17. Get Out of My Way - The Drag Set
C18. Don't You Ignore Me - The Extreem
C19. Don't Stop and Stare - Gary Farr and the T-Bones
C20. Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind) - The Moody Blues
C21. Cheat and Lie - Miki Dallon
C22. Haven't They Got Better Things to Do - The Profile
C23. She's a Raver - Dana Gillespie
C24. I'm Waiting for the Day - Peanut
C25. I'm Back - The Good Things
C26. Not the Sort of Girl You Take to Bed (Alternative Version) - John's Children
C27. How Long is Time - The Odyssey
C28. The Music Goes Round - The Jeeps
C29. We Love the Pirates - The Roaring 60's
C30. Pageing Sullivan - The London Studio Group
C31. Love Ya Illya - Angela and the Fans
C32. England Swings - Petula Clark

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