Release Date: 16 December 2022
Label: El / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 5013929336636
Description
• Not only are we painting sound pictures, our palette is infinite.” George Martin• An anthology of George Martin's sound productions before the advent of the Beatles; before the collaboration that would change popular music forever.• He re-defined the role of producer; pioneering the recording itself as an art form.• This edition is testament to a elegant, fearless musical innovator.The surrealistic, sometimes free-form recordings he created with comic geniuses Sellers, Milligan, Cribbins and Ustinov involved sound effects and collage. These madcap sonic adventures, allied to his understanding of the workings of an orchestra, his contacts within the classical fraternity, his love of the romantic and impressionist composers, and his fascination with studio experimentation made George Martin uniquely able to provide a particular objectivity and realise what the ever-curious Beatles, or any artist, would ask of him.As head of Parlophone, determined to explode the label onto the scene, he sought artists of character; taking mobile recording units out to capture Flanders And Swann's two-man show and the irreverent satirical revue, Beyond The Fringe. The Top Five was breached in 1960 both by Matt Monro and by Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren. George Martin's first UK Number One single, and an exemplar, was 'You're Driving Me Crazy' by The Temperance Seven who combined a revival of popular music from the 20s with styles from the Edwardian era.
Tracklisting
:DISC ONEIn All Directions1 Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44 - Moderato quasi Marcia (London Baroque Ensemble / Karl Haas)2 Frank Chacksfield`s Tunesmiths - Little Red Monkey3 Kenneth McKellar - Corn Rigs Are Bonnie4 The Kirchin Band - Bandbox5 Cléö Laine with the Johnny Dankworth Seven- Honeysuckle Rose6 Sidney Torch and His Orchestra - Bicycle Belles7 Dick James - Robin Hood8 Eve Boswell - Besame Mucho9 Bert Weedon - Theme from ITV's 64,000 Question10 The Vipers Skiffle Group – Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O11 Ron Goodwin & His Concert Orchestra - Skiffling Strings12 Jim Dale - Don't Let Go13 Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Mercury Gets the Message14 Jack Parnell & His Orchestra - Trip to Mars15 Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band – Saturday Jump16 Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band - The House that Humph Built17 Christopher Logue - Lithe Girl, Brown Girl18 Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra - Girl from Corsica19 Nadia Cattouse - Long Time Boy20 Johnny Dankworth &. His Orchestra - African Waltz21 The Temperance Seven - You're Driving me Crazy22 The Temperance Seven - Pasadena23 The Temperance Seven - Everybody Loves My Baby24 Ray Cathode - Time Beat25 Ray Cathode - Waltz in Orbit26 The Fentones - Just for Jerry27 Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (London Philharmonic Orchestra / Adrian Boult)DISC TWOExperiments With Pop1 Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra - Experiments with Mice2 Flanders and Swann - The Gnu Song3 Ian Wallace - The Hippopotamus Song4 Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band - Bad Penny Blues5 Peter Sellers - I'm So Ashamed6 Fred Flange & Peter Sellers - You Keep Me Swingin'7 The Temperance Seven With vocal refrain by Peter Sellers - Ukulele Lady8 Irene Handl & Peter Sellers - Shadows On The Grass9 Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me!10 Sophia Loren - Zoo be Zoo be Zoo11 Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Bangers & Mash12 Tommy Watt & His Orchestra - Victorian Plums13 Matt Monro - Portrait of Our Love14 Flanders and Swann - The Armadillo15 Flanders and Swann - The Spider in the Bath16 Matt Monro - My Kind of Girl17 Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra - Murder She Says18 Bernard Cribbins - The Hole In the Ground19 Bernard Cribbins - Right, Said Fred20 Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra - Barefoot Girl21 The Goons (Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe) - Tale of Men's ShirtsDISC THREECOMEDY SURREALIST1 Peter Ustinov - Mock Mozart2 Peter Ustinov - Phoney Folk-Lore3 The Goons (Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan) - Unchained Melody4 Count Jim Moriarty with Gravely Stephens and the Massed Alberts - You Gotta Go Oww!5 Peter Sellers - Jakka and the Flying Saucers (Parts 1 & 2)From BEYOND THE FRINGE6 Alan Bennett - Take A Pew7 Dudley Moore - And the Same to You8 Peter Cook - Sitting on the Bench9 Spike Milligan - The Sewers of the Strand10 Michael Bentine - Train Commercial : The Astronauts11 The Alberts - Morse Code MelodyBRIDGE ON THE RIVER WYE(Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook)12 Bridge Over the River Wye (Part One)13 Bridge Over the River Wye (Part Two)DISC FOURCLASSICAL INFLUENCES1 Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 - Venus, the Bringer of Peace (Adagio) (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Malcolm Sargent)2 Maurice Ravel: Prélude in A Minor (Vlado Perlemuter; piano)3 Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Lever du jour / Daphnis & Chloe are Reunited (Boston Symphony Orchestra & New England Conservatory Chorus / Charles Munch)4 Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin – Fugue (Monique Haas: piano)5 Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Philharmonia Orchestra / Guido Cantelli)6 Claude Debussy: L'isle joyeuse (Samson François: piano)7 Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (from A Village Romeo and Juliet) (Halle Orchestra / John Barbirolli) 8 Frederick Delius - La Calinda (from Koanga) (London Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham)9 Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten: Foggy, Foggy Dew (Peter Pears: tenor; Benjamin Britten: piano)10 Domenico Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C Minor: I. Introduzione. Larghetto (Evelyn Rothwell: oboe - Pro Arte Orchestra / John Barbirolli)11 Gershwin: Bess, You is My Woman (from Porgy & Bess) (Todd Duncan And Anne Brown - Decca Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Smallens)12 Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 - No.1 Chorus: "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen" (Munich-Bach Orchestra and Chorus / Karl Richter)13 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 - Adagio sostenuto (William Kapell: piano - The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia / William Steinberg)14 Frédéric Chopin - Preludes for Piano, Op. 28: No. 4 in E minor (Geza Anda: piano),
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