Release Date: 19 January 2024
Label: Grapefruit / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929193802
Description
• Complete 3CD anthology of harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with 'All The Love In The World'.
• Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue.
After being signed by producer and songwriter Tony Macaulay, North London harmony pop group West Coast Consortium issued a handful of sophisticated, lushly-orchestrated late Sixties singles for Pye.
In the spring of 1969, they reached the No. 22 spot in the UK singles chart with the ballad 'All The Love In The World', issued under the abbreviated name Consortium.
Unable to build on that success, the band splintered in 1972, although lead singer Robbie Fair would put together an entirely new Consortium line-up a few years later.
A 3CD set, 'All The Love In The World' features all of their Pye releases as well as subsequent recordings for the short-lived Trend label and no less than four acetate-only 1967-1969 albums recorded in the band's home studio.
These demo recordings reveal them to have been a garage psychedelic pop band at heart, utilising Mellotron, fuzz guitar and Vox Continental organ while also suggesting a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of 'Smiley Smile'/'Friends'-era Beach Boys.
While some of these recordings have been issued before, this package sees the first-ever release of twenty additional tracks to provide the first-ever complete anthology of a band that deserve better than to be remembered as one-hit wonders.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE1 SOME OTHER SOMEDAY2 LOOKING BACK3 INDIGO SPRING4 LISTEN TO THE MAN5 COLOUR SERGEANT LILLYWHITE6 LADY FROM BALTIMORE7 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD8 SPENDING MY LIFE SAYING GOODBYE9 WHEN THE DAY BREAKS10 THE DAY THE TRAIN NEVER CAME11 BEGGAR MAN12 CYNTHIA SERENITY13 I DON’T WANT HER ANY MORE14 THE HOUSE UPON THE HILL15 MELANIE CRIES ALONE16 COPPER COLOURED YEARS17 ANNABELLA (aka ANNABELLA UMBRELLA)18 TELL ME, MY FRIEND19 SUNDAY IN THE PARK20 TO PLEASE LOUISE (Tony Macaulay production version)21 WE ALL LOVE YOU BABY22 GINNY STOP (DON’T GO ‘WAY) (alternative version)23 NEVER LOOK BACK24 TIME WILL TELL ON YOU1-2 Single, Pye 7N 17352, released July 19673-4 Single, Pye 7N 17370, released September 1967 as Robbie5-6 Single, Pye 7N 17482, released March 19687-8 Single, Pye 7N 17635, released January 1969 as Consortium9-10 Single, Pye 7N 17725, released May 1969 as Consortium11-12 Single, Pye 7N 17797, released July 1969 as Consortium13-14 Single, Pye 7N 17841, released November 1969 as Consortium15-16 Single, Trend TNT 52, released January 1970 as Consortium17-18 Single, Trend 6099 004, released March 1971 as Consortium19 Portuguese-only single, Trend 6099011, released 1972 as Consortium20-23 Acetates, recorded 196724 Acetate, recorded 1964 as Group 66
DISC TWO1 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD (demo version)2 WILLOW WOOD3 WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (demo version)4 CYNTHIA SERENITY (demo version)5 SPENDING MY LIFE SAYING GOODBYE (demo version) 6 GINNY STOP (DON’T GO ‘WAY)7 THE ELASTIC BAND8 COPPER COLOURED YEARS (demo version)9 OH! WHAT A FEELING10 TO PLEASE LOUISE11 LADY FROM BALTIMORE (demo version)12 REST OF YOUR LIFE (DOWN LONELY STREET)13 ONE SIX TWO14 ONE DAY THE TRAIN NEVER CAME (demo version)15 SOLDIERS IN THE RAIN16 THIS POOR MAN17 LIVE AND LET LIVE18 AMANDA JANE19 HOUSE ON A HILL (demo version)20 ONCE UPON A TIME21 WHAT ARE THEY ALL SINGING ABOUT TODAY?22 CAN’T WAIT TO WAIT FOR THE EVENING23 I DON’T WANT HER ANYMORE (demo version)24 I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU25 SCARLET RIVER26 CINDY IN LOVE1-13 Demo album acetate, recorded early 196814-26 Demo album acetate, recorded late 1968
DISC THREE1 THE FIRE FIGHTER2 GONE FROM ME3 CRIME DETECTOR HECTOR4 WINDMILL HILL5 MONEY MATTERS6 RINGS AND THINGS7 FAIRGROUND PLAYBOY8 ALL NIGHT DANCING9 MR. UMBRELLA MAN10 HOLDING ON11 SANTA MONICA BAY12 IN SEARCH OF FAIR WEATHER13 WHATEVER BECAME OF EMILY JANE?14 LEAVE YOUR HOMEWORK TILL SUNDAY15 HERE COMES LORRAINE16 HOMEWRD BOUND THE SAILOR (GROWING OLD)17 MADELINE18 A WALK IN THE PARK19 COME ON INTO THE WARM20 SAVE ME ROSEMARY21 TAKE A ROUND TRIP22 TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT23 SWEETER THAN EVER24 BYE BYE BIRDIE25 AIMIE (SING YOUR SONG FOR ME)26 PHILADELPHIA1-26 Demo album acetate (2-LP), recorded 1969,
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