Sleeve Notes: Featuring the funky trumpet of Ray Davies With so much good music around these days, the difficulty when compiling material for an album is deciding what to leave out! When Tony Palmer and I got together to discuss … Continued
With Rhythm Accompaniment by Geoff Love Label: Contour 2870 190 1972 1970s Covers
Sleeve Notes: If there’s a recipe for an album that sets out to combine the very best in songs with the best in orchestral performances, then Cyril Ornadel has surely achieved it with this collection. What’s more he’s managed it … Continued
Sleeve Notes: HAMMOND ORGANS TODAY presents the superb combination of the incomparable sound of the Hammond organ and today’s finest exponents on the instrument. The artists playing on this album are KEITH BECKINGHAM, the acknowledged master of the easy listening … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The prerequisite for relaxed jazz is the quality of intimacy. Yet, all too often the tempos and the instrumentation of such groups have served to incite a mood far different. To prove the point, soak in the feeling … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The Kalman Lendvay Gipsy Orchestra Romance, irrepressible gaiety, a touch of sadness – its all inexplicably mixed together in the bitter-sweet music of the Hungarian gipsies. From Old Budapest, a true gipsy band of violins and dulcimer (like … Continued
Long player, long hair, long dress, long long ago. Love songs in HiFi Stereo was an early seventies delight. Label: Polydor 2482 294 1972 1970s Covers
“His full artistry comes from the incredible speed of his fingering“ Sleeve Notes: Folks down around Texarkana way say, “Give ole Lightnin’ Red anything with strings on it an’ he’ll sure as hell play it.” Red’s picking is naturally slanted … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Andy Williams, the singer with the velvet voice and perfect pitch has been topping the best selling album charts for many years. Windmill Records have selected the best known songs which made Andy famous and have commissioned the … Continued
Sleeve Notes: TOP OF THE POPS SOUNDS WHILE THEY ARE HOT ON THE B.B.C. CHARTS, THE ORIGINAL HIT SOUNDS THAT ARE SELLING MILLIONS. LOOK FOR AN EXCITING NEW ALBUM OF UP-TO-DATE HITS EACH MONTH. BUILD THE MOST EXCITING COLLECTION OF … Continued