First Class - Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings (Uk) [CD]
First Class - Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings (Uk) [CD]
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First-ever complete 3CD anthology of 'Beach Baby' harmony pop hitmakers. Featuring both First Class LPs, all singles, pseudonymous releases and numerous previously unreleased tracks including advertising jingles and songs from an aborted 1974 musical. There weren't too many classic British pop singles issued in 1974, but harmony pop epic 'Beach Baby' bucked the trend, reaching the UK Top 20 and becoming an even bigger hit in America, peaking at the No. 4 spot. Arguably the ultimate Beach Boys tribute, 'Beach Baby' introduced a new name, The First Class - actually veteran pop hitmaker and songwriter John Carter with the aid of Chas Mills and lead singer Tony Burrows. While other singers and musicians adopted the name to front their music in public, the Carter/Burrows/Mills combination continued to record new First Class material, including a self-titled LP that is quite possibly the finest, most ambitious British harmony pop album of the 70s. The First Class had a couple of follow-up minor hit singles in America that failed to attract the same attention at home, where second album 'SST' (not even released in the US) sank without trace. By the end of the 70s, Carter had effectively laid the name to rest. A 3CD set in a lavish digipak package featuring a new 5000 word essay, 'Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings' is the definitive document of both The First Class and John Carter's myriad overlapping activities during the second half of the 70s. It contains an embarrassment of riches: both albums, all singles, out-takes, pseudonymous releases, a huge number of previously unissued TV/radio advertising jingles and, most fascinatingly of all, seven previously-unheard 1974 demos for the musical Bobby Dazzler, abandoned when the single of the same name unfathomably failed to chart.
Tracklist:
- Beach Baby
- Won't Somebody Help Me
- What Became of Me
- Surfer Queen
- The First Day of Your Life
- Long Time Gone
- Funny How Love Can Be
- Dreams Are Ten a Penny
- Bobby Dazzler
- The Disco Kid
- I Was Always a Joker
- Beach Baby (Single Version, Full-Length)
- Both Sides of the Story
- Lavender Man
- One Good Time
- Born to Be a Rebel
- Baby Doll Love
- Chinese Christmas
- Going on
- A Quiet Life
- Loving
- Beach Baby (Single Version, Edit)
- I Was a Star
- Ain't No Love
- Child's Play
- Old Time Love
- Baby Blue
- Life Is Whatever You Want It to Be
- Carry on Singing My Song
- Smiles on a Summer Night
- Seven Ten to Nowhere
- Autumn Love
- And She Cried
- Brook Street* (Jingle)
- Too Many Golden Oldies (Single Version)
- Make It on My Own
- Broken Toy
- Lisa (I Always Loved You)
- Birds Dream Topping (Jingle)
- Song on the Wind
- The Saddest Word
- Ocean of Glass
- Bienvenido
- Sunlight Detergent (Jingle)
- Gimme Little Sign
- Average Rainfall
- Please Yourself (Rowntrees Tots) (Jingle)
- We Like to Dance (Milk Is Our Way) (Jingle)
- Disco Kid
- Midnite Music
- Singer Sewing Machines (Jingle)
- Oh California
- I'm in Love Again
- Kit-E-Kat Munchies (Jingle)
- The Sound of Summer
- Let's Go British
- Caledonian (Jingle)
- Sidewalk Johnny
- Midnite Music
- Vauxhall Chevette
- (Whatever You Want It to Be) #1 (Jingle)
- Crawfords Cheddars (Jingle)
- If I Don't Have You
- Birds Eye Cod (Jingle)
- Sunday Child
- Greasy Dollar Bill
- Ever Ready Batteries (Jingle)
- Top Forty Angel
- Typhoo 1 (Jingle)
- Typhoo 2 (Jingle)
- Silver Surfer
- Silvikrin (Jingle)
- Coney Island
- Malibu (Jingle)
- I Can't Believe My Eyes
- Wake Up America
- Right Guard Deodorant (Jingle)
- The Song Was Wrong
- Woman Magazine (Jingle)
- Shine on Me Woman
- One More Mile to Freedom
- Cracker Jack Popcorn (Jingle)
- Vauxhall Chevette
- (Whatever You Want It to Be) #2 (Jingle)
- Too Many Golden Oldies (Full-Length Version)
UPC: 5013929192423
Label: Grapefruit
Release Date: 1.27.23
Format: CD
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