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Bubblerock Is Here To Stay! The British Pop Explosion 1970-73: 3CD Capacity Wallet

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEG080T

Release Date:  05 May 2023

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929188020

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description

    RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2020



    • Shining a searchlight on the lost and often murky world of early 70s British pop.



    • 3CD set with 85 sub-three minute nuggets in four hours of innocent, hook-laden fun.



    • Featuring all of the hits from the Chinnichap writing team hooking up with Mickie Most, who’d just started RAK Plus Machiavellian media maven Jonathan King’s hit-or- bust UK Records.



    • With 60s stalwart John Carter adopting a different pseudonym every month in his search of continued single success and aliases masking the identity of studio-bound production/ songwriting teams, including the pre-10cc Strawberry gang and Teenage Opera auteur Mark Wirtz.



    • And numerous doe-eyed youths that were being groomed by the men in suits for teen pop pin-up status: some of them made it (David Essex, The Bay City Rollers), and some of them didn’t (Simon Turner, Gary Warren, Ricky Wilde).


    More than a dozen major hits of the era (none of which you’ll hear on the many Classic Rock/ Pop radio stations of 2020) are joined by a huge number of bizarre one-offs: Vivian Stanshall’s idiosyncratic remake of Elvis hit ‘Suspicion’ (promoted by Stanshall and producer Keith Moon dressing up as Nazi SS officers), The Sad’s terrace anthem chant of rampant bisexual promiscuity, ‘My Boy Lollipop’ star Millie giving Nick Drake a ska-pop pasting, Bill Fay making an unlikely stab at pop stardom (with the previously unissued ‘I Can’t Hide’) and Jon Pertwee eyeing a Dr. Who-related novelty hit single.


    Boasting a 40-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotation, quotes, anecdotes and numerous rare illustrations, ‘Bubblerock Is Here To Stay!’ celebrates the uncelebrated to provide another essential instalment in Grapefruit’s much-acclaimed series of genre boxes. Oh, and we promise not to stick stickers on your paper knickers…

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. GROOVIN’ WITH MR. BLOE – Mr. Bloe
      • 2. IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG – The Weathermen
      • 3. THE BANNER MAN – Blue Mink
      • 4. COME ON ROUND – Paintbox
      • 5. 17 – Simon Turner
      • 6. THAT SAME OLD FEELING – Pickettywitch
      • 7. FRIEND OF MNE – Dr. Marigold’s
      • 8. FEEDBACK – Majority One
      • 9. POLLUTION – Gingerbread
      • 10. NEANDERTHAL MAN – Hotlegs
      • 11. I FOUGHT THE LAW – Posse
      • 12. ALEXANDRA PARK (PALISADES PARK) – Fumble
      • 13. EMMA LOUISE – Stud Leather
      • 14. CIRCUS GIRL – Clifford T. Ward
      • 15. MY LITTLE ONE – The Marmalade
      • 16. GAY GIRL – Jonathan King
      • 17. DIRTY OLD MAN – Lieutenant Pigeon
      • 18. SUMMER FEELING – Paul Gabriel
      • 19. TAWNY WOOD – The Answers
      • 20. MY LITTLE GIRL – Autumn
      • 21. HELLO, HELLO, HELLO – Stormy Petrel
      • 22. TURN ME ON – The Matchmakers
      • 23. SHE LA LEY – The Secrets
      • 24. HELLO GOODBYE – Sparrow
      • 25. TRAVELLIN’ MAN – Tristar Airbus
      • 26. SUNDAY GIRL – Dunno
      • 27. TOP TEN RECORD – Rick Price
      • 28. LEAP UP AND DOWN – St. Cecelia

      Disc 2

      • 1. JOHNNY REGGAE- The Piglets
      • 2. DREAMS ARE TEN A PENNY – Kincade
      • 3. WIG-WAM BAM – The Sweet
      • 4. I LIKE IT THAT WAY – The Tremeloes
      • 5. IT AIN’T EASY – The Sad
      • 6. HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR MOTHER, BABY, STANDING IN THE SHADOW? – Tina Harvey
      • 7. BABY WALK BACK – Gumm
      • 8. POPSICLES AND ICICLES – The Angelettes
      • 9. DA DOO RON RON – Grumble
      • 10. BIG FAT ORANGUMAN – Jungle Jim
      • 11. LOOP DI LOVE – Shag
      • 12. DON’T STICK STICKERS ON MY PAPER KNICKERS – X Certificate
      • 13. MAYFAIR – Millie
      • 14. ON THE DOLE – Arthur’s Mother
      • 15. WHEN YOU ARE A KING – White Plains
      • 16. COWBOY CONVENTION – California Brakemen
      • 17. LADY ROSE – Mungo Jerry
      • 18. SWEET WATER – Jeff Astle
      • 19. CECILIA – Harmony Grass
      • 20. IT’S MY PARTY – Bubblerock
      • 21. RUPERT – Jackie Lee
      • 22. CRICKETS – Peter Cowap
      • 23. RAG-A-BONE JOE – Pluto
      • 24. ROUND AND ROUND – Ricky Wilde
      • 25. COME INTO MY HEART – Rusty Harness
      • 26. WARM ME – Festival
      • 27. SHE LEFT I DIED – Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs featuring Jona Lewie
      • 28. HANG ON SLOOPY – Sakkarin

      Disc 3

      • 1. SUSPICION – Vivian Stanshall & Gargantuan Chums
      • 2. GOLDEN OLDIE SHOW – Stardust
      • 3. I CAN’T HIDE* – Bill Fay
      • 4. HARRY THE EARWIG – Pete Dello & Friends
      • 5. THE ROLLY POLE COASTER – Buggy
      • 6. I WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN – B. J. Arnau
      • 7. THE JET SONG (WHEN THE WEEKEND’S OVER) – Design
      • 8. LAMPLIGHT – David Essex
      • 9. CALIFORNIA CALLING – Fickle Pickle
      • 10. MY SWEET POTATO – Butterwick
      • 11. YOU GOT A GOOD THING – Touchwood
      • 12. JENNIFER PLEASE – Gary Warren
      • 13. KEEP ON DANCING – Bay City Rollers
      • 14. HELLO BLINKERS – Kev & Lol
      • 15. OUR JACKIE’S GETTING MARRIED – Peter Skellern
      • 16. NURSERY LANE – Christyan
      • 17. TODAY – Rich Tea
      • 18. SAMSON AND DELILAH – Middle Of The Road
      • 19. YOU GOTTA HAVE IT SOMETIME – Sparky
      • 20. WHO IS THE DOCTOR? – Jon Pertwee
      • 21. TIMOTHY JONES – Rod Thomas
      • 22. TODAY’S A TOMORROW – Crush
      • 23. DON’T YOU KNOW (SHE SAID HELLO) – Butterscotch
      • 24. HEART OF STONE – Kenny
      • 25. LIVING RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO AN ANGEL – Summer Wine
      • 26. BEEP BEEP – The Bumbles
      • 27. DRIVIN’ DRIVIN’ – High Noon
      • 28. YER BIG GIRL’S BLOUSE – Flanelcat
      • 29. BUBBLEROCK IS HERE TO STAY – Bubblerock