5013929184909

Come Join My Orchestra: The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73 (Clamshell Boxset) (3cd)

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEGBOX049

Release Date:  30 November 2018

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929184909

Genres:  Rock  Psychedelic Rock  

  • Description

    When Paul McCartney - who arguably kick-started the whole baroque pop genre when he recorded the likes of 'Yesterday' and 'Eleanor Rigby' with pivotal strings arrangements - made his oft-quoted remark that pop was the classical music of the 20th Century, perhaps he meant it in a more literal sense than anyone realised at the time. In the immediate wake of ground-breaking albums like Rubber Soul, Revolver and Pet Sounds, the British and American music scenes became increasingly ambitious and cerebral. As the major recording studios becoming ever more sophisticated, a new generation of musicians and producers sought to emulate the backroom auteur status of Brian Wilson or the symbiotic relationship between George Martin and The Beatles.

    A new, more melancholic strain was introduced into British pop: expansive orchestral arrangements merged with the burgeoning psychedelic mind-set to create such studio-bound masterpieces as Days Of Future Passed and (of course) Sgt Pepper, with harpsichords, oboes, flutes, recorders and French horns providing a moody, introverted chamber pop flourish. Wilson and The Left Banke led the way in the US, but Britain was also awash with acts mining the baroque pop seam. Honeybus, The Zombies, Donovan, Nirvana and many others made significant recordings in that field, fusing mournful minor chord melodies with fey vocals, ornate arrangements and what had previously been considered non-rock instrumentation..Come Join My Orchestra covers British baroque pop's formative years and its integration into a wide variety of genres, ranging from Johnny McEvoy's exquisitely sculpted take on traditional pop balladry and a clutch of dyed-in-the-wool folkies (Ian Campbell, Bert Jansch etc) to McCartney acolytes (Fickle Pickle, Mike Batt, the Gerry Rafferty-led Humblebums) and symphonic/art rock bands like Procol Harum and Barclay James Harvest. With a lavish 40-page booklet, many recordings making their first appearance on CD and two tracks (by The Regime and The Mellow Yellow) gain

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Come Join My Orchestra
      • 2. (Do I Figure) In Your Life
      • 3. Coathanger
      • 4. Poor Jimmy Wilson
      • 5. The Better Side
      • 6. Acorn Street
      • 7. Flowers Never Blend With The Rainfall
      • 8. Disappear
      • 9. The Sound Of The Candyman’s Trumpet
      • 10. Your Dog Won't Bark
      • 11. Can't Find Time For Anything Now
      • 12. Woe Is Love, My Dear
      • 13. Sandy
      • 14. Isandula Road
      • 15. Am I Very Wrong?
      • 16. Away, Away
      • 17. Sticks And Stones
      • 18. You're Not In My Class
      • 19. Melinda (More Or Less)
      • 20. I'm Going Home
      • 21. Don't Try To Explain
      • 22. Everyman
      • 23. Do You Love Me
      • 24. Today
      • 25. Private Harold Harris
      • 26. Not So Young Today

      Disc 2

      • 1. Popcorn, Double Feature
      • 2. Barterers And Their Wives
      • 3. Justine
      • 4. Courtyards Of Castile
      • 5. Mother Dear
      • 6. Competition
      • 7. I See Wonderful Things In You
      • 8. Doris Comes Today
      • 9. Yep
      • 10. This Song Is Green
      • 11. Cherrybelle
      • 12. I Could Write A Book
      • 13. Windfall
      • 14. Poet
      • 15. Dear Amanda (Previously Unreleased)
      • 16. Battle Of Trafalgar
      • 17. Letters From Her
      • 18. It's Been A Long Time
      • 19. Fillin' A Gap
      • 20. Illinois
      • 21. Father Dickens
      • 22. A Little Smile On Christmas Morning
      • 23. He's Very Good With His Hands
      • 24. Charlotte Rose
      • 25. Genevieve
      • 26. Luskus Delph (Live)
      • 27. The Answer Is

      Disc 3

      • 1. Saturday
      • 2. Writer In The Sun
      • 3. A Rose For Emily
      • 4. Rick Rack
      • 5. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
      • 6. Broken Bicycle
      • 7. Cloudy
      • 8. I'll Keep Smiling
      • 9. Mist On A Monday Morning
      • 10. Strange People
      • 11. If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind
      • 12. Picture On The Wall
      • 13. New Kind Of Feeling
      • 14. Only Fooling
      • 15. Mrs Richie
      • 16. Rosemary
      • 17. Row Row Row
      • 18. Time Seller (Single Version)
      • 19. Thoughts On A Rainy Day
      • 20. Tuesday (Previously Unreleased)
      • 21. This Little Man
      • 22. Face In My Window
      • 23. Smokey Blue's Away
      • 24. Breakfast
      • 25. All My Life
      • 26. Shades And Shadows
      • 27. Goodbye