5013929476684

Passing Through - The Complete Studio Recordings: 6CD Remastered Boxset

Help Yourself

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Format: 6CD

Cat No: QECLEC62766

Release Date:  27 August 2021

Label:  Esoteric / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  6

Barcode:  5013929476684

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    • A NEW 6CD REMASTERED BOXED SET ANTHOLOGY FEATURING THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS BY THE UNSUNG HEROES OF BRITISH EARLY ‘70s ROCK, HELP YOURSELF
    • FEATURING 66 TRACKS ON 6 CDs INCLUDING THE ALBUMS ‘HELP YOURSELF’, ‘STRANGE AFFAIR’, ‘BEWARE THE SHADOW’, ‘THE RETURN OF KEN WHALEY’ / ‘HAPPY DAYS’, THE UNRELEASED ALBUM ‘5’ AND MALCOLM MORLEY’S 1976 UNRELEASED ALBUM ‘LOST AND FOUND’ ALONG WITH A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BBC SESSION & DEMO. REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ALBUM MASTER TAPES
    • INCLUDES AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH EXTENSIVE ESSAY WITH PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS AND INTERVIEWS AND A POSTER
    • WITH COVERAGE ON ALL SPECIALIST & NATIONAL RADIO, REVIEWS IN UNCUT, MOJO, RECORD COLLECTOR, PROG & CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINES PLUS ALL PRESS COVERAGE ON RELEVANT WEBSITES & FANZINES

    Over four decades on, Help Yourself are now regarded as one of the great, unsung British bands of their era and the songs of Malcolm Morley are recognised as true treasures.

    ‘PASSING THROUGH – THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS’ is a 6CD set by a band who took their influences from American West Coast Country and Acid Rock, they featured Malcolm Morley (guitars, keyboards, vocals), former Sam Apple Pie member Dave Charles (drums, percussion, vocals), Richard Treece (guitars, vocals, harmonica) and Ken Whaley (bass); the band signed to United Artists in 1970 and their eponymous debut album was issued in 1971. Various comings and goings saw Ernie Graham and Jonathan Glemser, then Deke Leonard in the band.

    A fifth album was recorded in 1973 but failed to gain a release for over 30 years while Morley recorded a solo album in 1976 that would also remain unreleased for 30 years.

    This box set gathers together all of the albums plus the unreleased album ‘5’, all of the band’s nonalbum singles and Malcolm Morley’s unreleased album ‘Lost And Found’ along with a previously unreleased BBC session and a studio demo. The set is newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features an illustrated booklet with rare photographs and a new essay with interviews and a poster.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. I MUST SEE JESUS FOR MYSELF
      • 2. TO KATHERINE THEY FELL
      • 3. YOUR EYES ARE LOOKING DOWN
      • 4. OLD MAN
      • 5. LOOK AT THE VIEW
      • 6. PAPER LEAVES
      • 7. RUNNING DOWN DEEP
      • 8. DEBORAH
      • 9. STREET SONGS

      Disc 2

      • 1. STRANGE AFFAIR
      • 2. BROWN LADY
      • 3. MOVIE STAR
      • 4. DEANNA CALL AND SCOTTY
      • 5. HEAVEN ROW
      • 6. EXCERPTS FROM “THE ALL ELECTRIC FUR TRAPPERâ€� (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FILM OF THE NOVEL)
      • 7. MANY WAYS OF MEETINGS
      • 8. HEAVEN ROW (SINGLE VERSION)

      Disc 3

      • 1. ALABAMA LADY
      • 2. REAFFIRMA TION
      • 3. CALAPSO
      • 4. SHE’S MY GIRL
      • 5. MOLLY BAKE BEAN
      • 6. AMERICAN MOTHER
      • 7. PASSING THROUGH
      • 8. MONA (WITH DEKE LEONARD & B.J. COLE) (LIVE)
      • 9. EDDY WARING (WITH DEKE LEONARD & B.J. COLE) (LIVE)

      Disc 4

      • 1. CANDY KANE
      • 2. PIONEERS OF THE WEST IN THE HEAD
      • 3. WHO KILLED PARADISE?
      • 4. AMY
      • 5. BLOWN AWAY
      • 6. MAN WE’RE GLAD TO KNOW YOU
      • 7. IT HAS TO BE HAPPY DAYS
      • 8. THE GOLDEN HANDSHAKE
      • 9. JESUS WHAT ARE LITTLE KIDS FOR?
      • 10. VIRGINIA
      • 11. WAITING AT THE STATION
      • 12. SEASHELL
      • 13. I’VE GOT BEAUTIFUL YOU
      • 14. MY FRIEND
      • 15. ELEPHANT BY MY SIDE

      Disc 5

      • 1. LIGHT YOUR WAY
      • 2. COWBOY SONG
      • 3. MONKEY WRENCH
      • 4. ROMANCE IN A TIN
      • 5. GRACE
      • 6. MARTHA
      • 7. MONKEY WRENCH (REPRISE)
      • 8. THE ROCK
      • 9. WILLOW
      • 10. ALLEY CAT
      • 11. DUNEBURGERS
      • 12. LET IT ROLL (BBC BOB HARRIS SESSION)
      • 13. JOHNNY B. GOODE (BBC BOB HARRIS SESSION)
      • 14. HALF BREED (BBC BOB HARRIS SESSION)
      • 15. RICKY THE REINDEER (DEMO 1972)

      Disc 6

      • 1. WITHOUT A WORD
      • 2. BURNING LOVE
      • 3. LOST AND FOUND
      • 4. HONEY PLEASE
      • 5. ALL THAT I NEED
      • 6. RUBY
      • 7. GRACE
      • 8. FISH AND CHIPS
      • 9. WHITEMAN’S BLUES
      • 10. ROMANCE IN A TIN
      • 11. NAKED AS THE NIGHT