1978

Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Cha Cha with Manuel

Manuel and the Music of the Mountains – Cha Cha with Manuel

Sleeve Notes:

Fernando, Baubles, Bangles And Beads, Guantanamera, Stranger In The Shadows, South Of The Border, Blue Skies, Dancing In The Sun (Un Rayo Del Sol), Frenesi, Sway, Quizas, Quizas, Quizas, Amor, Amor, Perfidia

[Manuel was actually Geoff Love – British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes. Search Geoff Love or Manuel for other covers by him]

Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Cha Cha with Manuel

Label: EMI NTS 152
Cover photo: Rayment Kirby
Cover design: Feref

1978 1970s Covers

Country Giants Vol. 8 - Jim Reeves - Where Does A Broken Heart Go?, Skeeter Davis - Let's Get Together, Hank Snow – Honey, Carroll Baker - The Need In Me, Chet Atkins - Snowbird, Digby Richards - Play Mama Play, Jim Reeves - I'm Getting Better, Skeeter Davis - A Place In The Country, Hank Snow - Gentle In My Mind, Don Gibson - Am I That Easy To Forget, George Hamilton IV - Steel Rail Blues, Ronnie Prophet - Misery Loves Company

Country Giants Vol. 8

Jim Reeves – Where Does A Broken Heart Go?, Skeeter Davis – Let’s Get Together, Hank Snow – Honey, Carroll Baker – The Need In Me, Chet Atkins – Snowbird, Digby Richards – Play Mama Play, Jim Reeves – I’m Getting Better, Skeeter Davis – A Place In The Country, Hank Snow – Gentle In My Mind, Don Gibson – Am I That Easy To Forget, George Hamilton IV – Steel Rail Blues, Ronnie Prophet – Misery Loves Company

Country Giants Vol. 8 - Jim Reeves - Where Does A Broken Heart Go?, Skeeter Davis - Let's Get Together, Hank Snow – Honey, Carroll Baker - The Need In Me, Chet Atkins - Snowbird, Digby Richards - Play Mama Play, Jim Reeves - I'm Getting Better, Skeeter Davis - A Place In The Country, Hank Snow - Gentle In My Mind, Don Gibson - Am I That Easy To Forget, George Hamilton IV - Steel Rail Blues, Ronnie Prophet - Misery Loves Company

Label: Camden CDS 1169

1978 1970s Covers

Christina Gregg - Music 'n Motion

Christina Gregg – Music ‘n Motion

Sleeve Notes:

Exercise my way. Seen on magazine covers, in films and TV Commercials, Christina Gregg is one of the true professionals. For a model to stay at the top of the ladder for so long takes loads of dedication, self discipline and attention to detail and Christina has these qualities in abundance. Christina Gregg is a top model as well as being a busy housewife and mother of two boys. Christina has also written a book, currently available, “Beauty My Way published by Van Dyke Books.
‘I know the difficulties of maintaining a slim body but with the easy to follow exercise plan I have devised on this record I know a sleek and trim healthy body can be achieved. Most models have to work at keeping slim, as nothing lies like a camera which tends to make you look fatter! So why not start today by exercising to burn up those unwanted calories and lose that extra weight. Exercising to music is simple and fun. If I can do it … what’s stopping you?’

Christina Gregg - Music 'n Motion

Label: Warwick WW5041
Photographs by John Adriaan
Designed by Apollo

1978 1970s Covers

Anthony Ventura Orchestra - Dream Music - a dreamy album cover from Cover Heaven

Anthony Ventura Orchestra – Dream Music

Sleeve Notes:

Love is only half the story. Music is the food of love.

It can be stirring, inspiring, soulful, mind blowing or toe tapping. It can capture your heart or tear you apart.

Calming sounds to put back that piece of mind our hustle-bustle days too often taken away.

This, then, is the musical magic of Anthony Ventura, composer, arranger and pianist… to create an album of cool, romantic, melodic sounds that are nice and easy to enjoy, anytime you like.

Now isn’t that just perfect?

Anthony Ventura Orchestra - Dream Music - a dreamy album cover from Cover Heaven

Label: Lotus RecordsWH 5007

1978 1970s Covers

Ecstacy - Various Artists - Billy Paul, Barry White ("The Walrus of Love"), Minne Ripperton, Gladys Knight

Ecstacy – Various Artists – Billy Paul, Barry White (“The Walrus of Love”), Minne Ripperton, Gladys Knight

A genuine compilation of strong tunes featuring Billy Paul, Barry White (“The Walrus of Love”), Minne Ripperton, Gladys Knight and others. The cover is quite racy though in keeping with the times. Though every artist on this record is black the producers of this release thought a white woman should adorn its cover. Strange days indeed. But the seventies were clearly not ready for basic equality.

Ecstacy - Various Artists - Billy Paul, Barry White ("The Walrus of Love"), Minne Ripperton, Gladys Knight

Label: Lotus Records WH 5003

1978 1970s Covers

Norrie Paramor and the Midland Radio Orchestra - By Request Mull of Kintyre

Norrie Paramor and the Midland Radio Orchestra – By Request

Sleeve Notes:

Five years since it started, and still going strong, Top Tunes has always been a unique radio programme, in that its music is dictated by you, the listeners, through an ever-increasing nationwide postal vote. This album has been compiled in the same way the thirteen titles were “By Request ” of our listeners and represent the most popular Radio Two tunes of the moment.
These tunes have been given a coat of lasting varnish by our very special team of arrangers without whom Top Tunes would never be possible, and are performed in the impeccable stereo style of the BBC Midland Radio Orchestra under their conductor Norrie Paramor.
Norrie’s talent as arranger can be appreciated in “Singing In The Rain”, and his piano playing is featured in “Matchstalk Men ” “Do It, Do It Again” and “Walk In Love”.
Two other members of the MRO who have a special place on this record are Jan MacDonald with her flute (The Lonely Shepherd) and pianist Harold Rich (All Creatures Great and Small) who with their thirty colleagues have carved another notch in the short five-year history of this fine BBC staff orchestra in Birmingham.

JON KINGDON

Label: BBC Records REB 326

1978 1970s Covers