Sleeve Notes: As you tuck into your Chili con Carne, and the tang of Mexican spices tickles your tongue, you sip your sparkling Spanish wine and reflect —the flavour is perfect, your companion delightful —but surely an element is missing, … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Maybe we’ve used the wrong title, for a start. Maybe we should have said : “Salute to Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier.” For they were the writers, composers, producers who actually put the Supremes on the … Continued
Sleeve Notes (from German): A folklore expert once wrote: “It is one of the paradoxes of spontaneous creativity that folkloric music, by definition an anonymous art, which arises from simple people without special study, nevertheless achieves the most perfect musical … Continued
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, A House Is Not A Home, The Look Of Love, 24 Hours From Tulsa, Make It Easy On Yourself, Do You Know The Way To San Jose, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, Anyone … Continued
Sleeve Notes: No one who has ever seen a James Bond film (and this probably takes in half the population of the Western world) will forget the driving, beat-filled music of John Barry which accompanied the adventures of the high-living … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ‘Hair’ has brought the world of the Hippies into the theatre. In so doing it has caused a sensation that has rarely been equalled; the world it shows is onewhere conventional inhibitions—sexual taboos, … Continued
When a budget record claims to offer million seller hits including such classics as Hey Jude, Satisfaction, Maggie May, and I’m A Believer you should greet it with a large pinch of salt. Although nowhere on the record cover or … Continued
A budget album packing a bossa nova punch. If you like the idea of smoooooth jazzy bossa nova sounds then listen to this album through the YouTube video below – you’ll be warmly rewarded! Sleeve Notes: ‘If music be the … Continued
Includes versions of Surrender, Johnny Reggae, Look Around, Jeepster, Banks Of The Ohio, Tired Of Being Alone, Till, Gypsies Tramps And Thieves, Coz I Luv You, I Will Return, Brandy and Run Baby Run. Label: MFP 5243 Photograph: Brain Ward … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Catch a leprechaun by the coat-tails, don’t let go, and he’ll have to give you his purse full of gold. Catch this record on a spindle and another kind of treasure will be yours—the lively sounds and melodies … Continued