BOSSA RIO - "idem"
Released 30/03/09. Bossa Rio were a great group produced by Sergio Mendes for- but without all the ballads and slower stuff. Members of the group include Manfredo Fest and Pery Ribeiro, Brazilian stars in their own right. This first album is very jazzy, with nice versions of Cacao do Sal , Veleiro , Saiupa , and Nana -- plus lots of other nice groovers that have a classic A&M bossa feel to them. Group leader Gracinha Leporace was Mrs. Sergio Mendes, and was to provide vocals for the later Brasil 77 albums... Poptastic and Brasilliant!
Salupa / Do You Know The Way To San Jose / Wave / Day By Day / Today, Tomorrow / Up, Up And Away / Nana / Old Devil Moon / Veleiro / Gentle Rain / Cancao Do Sal
Salupa / Do You Know The Way To San Jose / Wave / Day By Day / Today, Tomorrow / Up, Up And Away / Nana / Old Devil Moon / Veleiro / Gentle Rain / Cancao Do Sal
THE YOUNG IDEA
With A Little Help From My Friends
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Released 30/03/09. Every Beatles album release in the 60s was accompanied by a glut of opportunistic cover versions. Most were largely ignored by the record buying public but occasionally one broke through see The Overlanders' 'Michelle', Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' 'Got To Get You Into My Life' and the subject of this particular release, The Young Idea, who took the happy-go-lucky Sgt Pepper track 'With A Little Help From My Friends' to #10 in the UK in the summer of 1967.
The Young Idea was a vocal duo comprising Tony Cox and Douglas MacRea-Brown. They'd previously toured with The Hollies and Paul Jones, which resulted in Graham Nash giving them the then-unreleased Hollies song 'Peculiar Situation' that became a turntable hit in early 67. The duo released five singles on EMI's Columbia label, which were followed in 1968 by an album named after the hit and released, bizarrely, on EMI's budget imprint Music For Pleasure.
To their credit, the duo signed a deal as songwriters as well as recording artists and managed to record a number of their own songs alongside the usual Tin Pan Alley offerings. Their records were afforded the big band, major label production style of Darkness' (later to lend its name to a volume of the influential Rubble compilations.
To their credit, the duo signed a deal as songwriters as well as recording artists and managed to record a number of their own songs alongside the usual Tin Pan Alley offerings. Their records were afforded the big band, major label production style of Darkness' (later to lend its name to a volume of the influential Rubble compilations.
With A Little Help From My Friends / The Games Men Play / The World's Been Good To Me Tonight / On The King's Road / Mister Lovin' Luggage Man / Just Look At The Rain / Peculiar Situation / In Bond Street / Just To Love Her / Gotta Get Out The Mess I'm In / Room With A View / Tar And Cement / Bonus Tracks- It Can't Be (45 B-Side) / Saturday Night People (45 Issued As "Scott Henderson") / Colours Of Darkness (45 Bside) / Mister Really Good (Unissued 1968 Session) / The French Horn (Unissued 1968 Session
LES BAXTER
The Fruit Of Dreams
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Released 2nd March 09. The Fruit Of Dreams" is a fantastic combination of Les Baxter's rarest, best and most pure exotica albums "Ports Of Pleasure" and "The Sacred Idol". Both of these records are rightly internationally acclaimed as masterpieces; remarkably this is their first release anywhere on CD.
Les Baxter was the founding father of exotica, a variation of easy listening that documented the sounds and styles of the South seas, India and South America. Exotica became a massively popular trend from the early fifties and with the onset of international jet travel, making it possible for middle-class Americans to simulate an authentic travelogue experience in the comfort of their suburban homes. The music of Les Baxter is never sad or gloomy-it is full of the adventure of life, the sounds of exotic lands and the free spirit of life close to nature. Because of the wild inventiveness of his music Les Baxter is a hero to contemporary independent artists as diverse as Jello Biafra and Beck.
Les Baxter has scored many movies and he also scored music for theme parks and seaworlds. In the nineties Baxter was widely celebrated, alongside Martin Denny (for whom he had written the 1959 top ten hit Quiet Village ) and Arthur Lyman Group, as one of the progenitors of exotica.
Tahiti: A Summer Night At Sea / Shanghai Rickshaw / City Of Veils / Hong Kong Cable Car / Tramp Steamer To Singapore / Monkey Dance Of Bali / The Pearls Of Ceylon / Harem Silks From Bombay / Sidewalk Cafes Of Saigon / The Gates Of Annam / Procession Of The Princes / The Feathered Serpent / Fruit Of Dreams / Pool Of Love / Aquaducts / The Games / Conquistadores / Gardens Of The Moon / Temple Of Gold / Pyramid Of The Sun / The High Priest Of The Aztecs / Acapulco
LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS
Improvisations For The Human Voice
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Released 16/03/09. Lambert Hendricks & Ross are still regarded as the finest jazz vocal group of all time: Their fame comes from their pioneering of vocalese; wordless vocals imitating instruments and they achieved this in an astonishing style that has never been surpassed.
The EL edition is full of rarities, restored and re-issued on compact disc for the first time including numerous superb pre-LHR recordings involving Dave Lambert Singers and Annie Ross and three LHR live tracks from a 1958 radio broadcast; including a wild, nine minute Popity Pop that encapsulates everything about the group that was so extraordinary. Jazz / light vocal pop crossover potential with significant exports to Japan and America. Very modern and cool; Beach Boys, Four Freshmen, Hi-Los, Free Design, Harpers Bizarre, Association etc.
Dave Lambert & Buddy Stewart & The Gene Krupa Trio - What's This? / Dave Lambert & Buddy Stewart -A Cent And A Half / Perdido / Charge Account / Gussie G / Dave Lambert Choir - Jo Stafford - Jolly Jo / Annie Ross - Twisted / Farmer's Market / Annie's Lament / Dave Lambert Singers- Hawaiian War Chant / Four Brothers / Cloudburst / Standin' On The Corner (Whistlin' At The Pretty Girls) / Lambert Hendricks & Ross -Doodlin' / Spirit-Feel / Two For The Blues / Little Pony / Fiesta In Blue / Down For Double / Lil' Darlin / Rusty Dusty Blues / Popity Pop
SERGE GAINSBOURG
Songs On Page One
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Released 16/03/09. There are many standard-issue personae to which an aspiring rock star might be drawn, but one has always been cooler, darker and sexier than all the rest. It is that of the artist who single-mindedly pursues his creative muse while embracing the full panoply of self-destructive, decadent, badboy behaviour: heavy drinking, frequent drug use, committed womanising, a general fuck-you attitude to both public and media, a casual disregard for society's sacred cows and taboos, and a self-belief bordering on the messianic. For three turbulent decades Serge Gainsbourg heroically exemplified all of the above - and much more.
He wrote and directed four controversial movies, he published a scurrilous novel, his records were often denounced as obscene and he was perpetually embroiled in scandal, whether for turning up drunk on a TV show and offering to f**k fellow guest Whitney Houston, recording a reggae version of Le Marseillaise, burning a 500 franc banknote on prime-time TV, or making a decidedly queasy video with his 13-year-old daughter Charlotte to promote their single, Lemon Incest. Summarising his approach to life and art, he said: "Without controversy it would all be very boring" and "For me, provocation is oxygen."
The EL edition comprises his shockingly brilliant debut album, a live track from the same period transmitted on Radio France and fine versions of songs from this momentous first album recorded with commercial success by Parisian comtemporaries Michèle Arnaud and Jean Claude Pascal Serge Gainsbourg has been one of, if not the, major single international influence on British and American independent pop music; Portishead, Franz Ferdinand, Tricky, Jarvis Cocker, Beck, Arcade Fire, Placebo, PJ Harvey, Brett Anderson, Mick Harvey, Momus and Belle and Sebastian have all claimed him as mentor In France, Gainsbourg is nothing less than an institution. As Jane Birkin put it recently: "Now French culture is talked of as before and after Serge."
Serge Gainsbourg - Le Poinçonneur des Lilas / La Recette de l'amour fou / Douze belles dans la peau / Ce Mortel ennui / Ronsard 58 / La Femme des uns sous le corps des autres / Alcool / Du Jazz dans le ravin / Charleston des déménageurs de piano / Mes petites odalisques (Radio France 5-1-58) Michèle Arnaud- La Recette de l'amour fou / Douze belles dans la peau / Jeunes femmes et vieux messieurs / La Femme des uns sous le corps des autres / Ronsard 58 / Il était une oie / Jean Claude Pascal - Douze belles dans la peau / La Recette de l'amour fou
BANDA SONORA Paper Moon Original Sound Track + Django Reinhardt And The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France
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Released 16/03/09. First ever re-issue on CD for this much sought-after soundtrack to Peter Bogdanovich's famous depression-era comedy, featuring Ryan O'neal and his ten year old daughter Tatum, who memorably stole the show and walked away with an Oscar
The much heralded score exclusively comprises hits of the period with such numbers as Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee and Keep Your Sunnyside Up exemplifying the cheery chin-up mood of the period.
The much heralded score exclusively comprises hits of the period with such numbers as Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee and Keep Your Sunnyside Up exemplifying the cheery chin-up mood of the period.
As a significant additional feature, to complement Paper Moon our edition comprises beautifully restored thirties recordings of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, playing the repertoire upon which this fantastic guitarist's reputation was founded. Strong export potential (especially to America)
Paper Moon: Original Film Soundtrack- It's Only A Paper Moon - Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / About A Quarter To Nine - Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / (It Will Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes Along – Leo Resiman & his Orchestra (Vocal Larry Stewart) / Flirtation Walk - Dick Powell / Just One More Chance - Bing Crosby / One Hour With You Jimmie Grier & his Orchestra (Vocal Donald Novis) / I Found A Million Dollar Baby - Victor Young & his Orchestra with The Boswell Sisters / The Object Of My Affection - Jimmie Grier & his Orchestra (Vocal Pinky Tomlin) / Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael & his Orchestra / A Picture Of Me Without You - Paul Whiteman with Ken Darby and Ramona / On The Banks Of The Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys / My Mary - Jimmy Davis / After You've Gone - Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee - Enric Madgriguera and his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Sunnyside Up - Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (vocal Frank Luther) / Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France - Limehouse Blues / Are You In The Mood? / You're Driving Me Crazy / When Day Is Done / Leieberstraum No. 3 / Mystery Pacific / Improvisation / Minor Swing / Swingin' With Django / Echoes Of Spain / I'll See You In My Dreams
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