Stuff for Sale Music and DVDs likely to interest Radio London visitors (All sleeve photos contain direct links to click for further information about the item and how to buy it.) |
John Dunsterville with his original sleeve artwork. |
Ffolly
Sallies Fforth again! Clearly the end of the Rainbow isn't in sight... |
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Are You Experienced? The Famous Marquee Club, home to the Radio London afternoons, with resident musicians such as David Bowie, has long since left Wardour Street. However, the Marquee name and logo have been transferred to a new venue in Leicester Square. In 2004, the club hosted an exhibition of Jimi Hendrix art and memorabilia. Hendrix's Are You Experienced album contains 'Stone Free', the B-side of 'Hey Joe'. The song was first published by Radio London-associated music publishing company, Pall Mall Music. No copy of the 1966 Pall Mall contract was in evidence when I visited, but the exhibition organisers had insufficient room to display all the memorabilia from this huge collection simultaneously. They told me that they regularly change the displays to incorporate different material.
The
17-track 'Are You Experienced' CD (with completely different artwork)
is available by clicking on the sleeve photo, left.
Radio London's full page of images from the exhibition is here. |
Psychedelia rules!
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Episode
Six Love Hate Revenge Graham Carter Dimmock, interviewed by Brian Long in The London Sound, said, "As far as people in the Radio London area were concerned, we were a big chart band. Everything we brought out was always in the chart. People believe what they hear and if they are being told this record's number one or number two, they believe it!" Although the sleeve photo is from the band's psychedelic phase, their sound evolved through a number of musical styles. Additional demos and out-takes on CD 2 include a version of Burt Bacharach's 'Little Red Book' from the film 'What's new Pussycat' and 'Zip A Dee Doo Dah'. CD 1 contains all the Episode Six Fab 40 hits such as 'Put Yourself In My Place', 'I Hear Trumpets Blow', 'Morning Dew' and the Beatles' 'Here, There and Everywhere'. It also includes both tracks from a single issued in 1967, under the name of Neo Maya. The title track 'Love, Hate, Revenge' was in the Big L chart in February 1967. |
Caroline's Keefers releases his own Greatest Hits CD On Saturday nights from 1800 to midnight CHAY 93.1fm (Barrie, Ontario) presents: "Super Hots Saturday Night. The great rock and roll favorites of the 1960s and 70s with Keith Hampshire." The show is available on line, but because of the time difference between Canada and Europe, will involve some pretty late-night listening for fans on this side of the pond. Keefers is renowned in Canada for his musical career (read our Keefers feature) and he has a compilation CD out, '20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection'. Click right for info. Keefers' own website is here. |
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CD
of Vintage Album In August 1967, The London Jazz Four appeared at the National Jazz and Blues Festival, at Windsor Racecourse, alongside the likes of John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, the Small Faces and Cream. (left) Original
1967 sleeve. (right) New CD sleeve. Click for info. |
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Alert for 242 Fans! The Beatstalkers Are Back in Concert.... One
of the top Glasgow bands appearing in our recent Radio Scotland feature,
the Beatstalkers, (Dave Lennox, Alan Mair, Ronnie Smith, Eddie Campbell
and Jeff Allan) are staging a reunion concert. |
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...and the Pathfinders are out on CD! Nigel Lees, who wrote the acclaimed Record Collector A-Z of Psychedelia writes:
The tracks in question are 'Pumpkin Lantern' and 'To Love Somebody'. Interesting that Studio Six turned down a Gibb Brothers song, but the Pathfinders did not, but Nigel's excellent liner notes reveal that the band was not keen. It was Tommy Scott of Major Minor records who persuaded the Pathfinders to record the song. Other bands featured on the 13-track CD include Graded Grains and Black Cat Bones. Click left for info on the Alphabeat CD from the Marmalade Skies website. |
Standing in the Shadows of Motown Dr Licks, aka Allan Slutsky, wrote a book about legendary Motown Funk Brother bass-player James Jamerson, which he called 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown', the title being inspired by an article by music writer, Nelson George. The book became the catalyst for the making of the movie of the same name. As well as co-producing the film, Allan Slutsky played a major part in the production of the music contained in the film, and was musical director for the Funk Brothers' tour. The book is on this store page. |
Jimmy Page Hip Young Guitar Slinger Fab 40 entries by First
Gear, Twice As Much
and Chris Farlowe can be found
on this Sequel compilation, comprisng 65 tracks on 2 CDs. |
Gimme Gimme singles and unreleased rarities 1965-66 The Untamed Fans
of the Dave Dennis Show will recall that
the Double D was a great promoter of the Untamed's music. Their version
of James Brown's 'I'll Go Crazy' was popular on Radio London, and in April
1966, the band wrote and recorded jingles for the Double D. These can
be found interspersed with the songs on the 'Gimme..' CD. |
They're In Town The Rockin' Berries The
Berries clocked up a number of weeks in the Fab 40s, with five entries
and a #1 achieved on May
30th 1965, with Poor Man's Son. This, and their other singles can
be found on this 27-track 2-CD set. |
Greatest Hits Procol Harum Greatest
Hits is a 19-track CD. Naturally, A Whiter Shade of Pale the single pioneered
by Radio London, is the first track on there, but it's good to be able
to enjoy the lesser-known ones such as Conquistador and Homburg. |
John
Lennon's Jukebox compilation |
The Singles Unit 4 + 2 The
30-track CD contains both 'A' and 'B-sides' of the band's singles released
between 1964 and 1969. |
Mothballs Steve Howe A collection of recordings by various bands which featured Steve Howe, some of which also include Keith 'Teenage Opera' West. Includes Fab 40 entry, the Syndicats' 'On the Horizon' and Tomorrow's 'My White Bicycle', which John Peel included in the final Perfumed Garden, August 13/14 1967. |
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Wonderful Radio London double CD Hans Knot still has copies of his Wonderful Radio London double CD for sale. This is a collection of fascinating, audio clips, and it's especially good to be reminded how Big L sounded in its very early days. Peter Young writes a personal review:
The
double CD is very reasonably priced at only £10, including packing and
posting, and can be obtained by sending a ten pound note to: SMC, PO Box
53121, 1007 RC, Amsterdam.
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Brian Wilson Performs Pet Sounds Live in London A fourteen-track DVD recording of one of Brian's Royal Festival Hall performances. It incorporates extras: Pet Stories the ultimate inside look at the making of the original album, through new interviews with Brian, lyricist Tony Asher and others. Brian Wilson Discography complete details on every release in Brian Wilson's solo career. Pet Sounds Live Photo Gallery - a collection of photographs of Brian and the band taken during the production of this DVD. Brian Wilson Performs Pet Sounds Live (below, left) is a Sixteen-track Japanese import DVD, with tracks differing from those on 'Live in London'.You can find our reviews and pictures of the concert here. |
![]() 'Pirates Waive the Rules' is a DVD of footage taken during the award-winning Pirate BBC Essex broadcast, much of it shot for BBC TV. The Beeb permitted the material to be released on DVD in aid of the Pharos Trust charity, headed by local man Tony O'Neil, which is restoring the LV18, the light vessel used for the Easter broadcast. As one of the last manned Trinity House lightships, it is destined to become a floating museum. Highlights of 'Pirates Waive the Rules' include the live broadcast by BBC Look East, a tour of the mess, galley and cabins, listeners communicating with the ship by flashing car headlights (it's great to witness what this looked like from the ship!) and hilarious pranks played on Keith Skues. Events culminate in the overwhelming welcome from crowds lining the Ha'penny Pier for the DJs, when they came ashore for the final time. The launch of the DVD was covered by BBC Essex and supported by two of the celebrity participants in the Easter broadcast original Big L jocks, Dave Cash and Duncan Johnson (below). Dave, who narrated 'Pirates Waive the Rules', introduced it to the audience at the Electric Palace cinema. The DVD is available from the LV18 website. Radio London's Pirate BBC Essex coverage and photos are here. Pirate BBC Essex website is here. |
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Kenny Everett - The Complete Naughty Bits! Radio London's most famous and hilarious export, Kenny Everett, took a bunch of zany characters, some of which (like Captain Kremmen and his busty sidekick Carla) had originally appeared on his radio shows, and turned them into TV stars via The Kenny Everett Video Show. Strangely, with the notable exception of Carla, played by Anna Dawson , they all bore a close ressemblance to Cuddly Ken himself! Now you can meet the likes of Angry of Mayfair, and Sid Snot, (posing delicately on the cover, left) on DVD. It has to be assumed from the Amazon description, that the clips on this DVD are taken from the original Thames TV series, The Kenny Everett Television Show, rather than the later BBC one. There was some dispute with Thames over ownership of the characters and new ones such as Cupid Stunt (the glamorous, but hirsute, starlet whose catchphrase gave title to David Lister's 1996 Everett biography, In the Best Possible Taste) and punk hero, Gizzard Puke, were created for the BBC series. (Our tribute pages to Kenny are here) |
Dateline Diamonds DVD, film also available on VHS |
Live it Up, Be My Guest, Dateline Diamonds Low-budget 'B-movies', shown as supports to the main feature, were an integral part of a visit to the 'flicks' in the Sixties. The musical movies Live it Up and Be My Guest were promotional vehicles for the Rank Organisation's Film Music division, which was run by Harold Shampan and acquired by him at the end of 1964. Harold became a director of Radio London's music publishing company, Pall Mall Music and later wrote and produced Dateline Diamonds, released in April 1966 to play alongside Doctor in Clover. The film was based around the story of the Big L ship mv Galaxy being used for the purpose of smuggling stolen gems. Our two-page feature on the film with full cast list, songs featured and foyer photos, is here. Live it Up came out in 1963, undergoing a change of title in the US to become Sing and Swing. The musicians directed on celluloid by Joe Meek included The Outlaws (with Ritchie Blackmore on lead guitar) and Gene Vincent. Be My Guest starred David Hemmings, with performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Nashville Teens, the Zephyrs, the Plebs and Kenny and the Wranglers. Steve Marriott appears in all three films, but only in Dateline Diamonds as a member of the Small Faces. |
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In 1965, the Chantelles were heavily promoted as the Big L group and the B-side of I Want That Boy is the Big L song, (originally part of a PAMS promo package) London, My Hometown. The Chantelles also appeared twice in Dateline Diamonds, singing I Think of You and Please Don't Kiss Me. (Both tracks available with other Chantelles recordings on the Go Girl compilation CD.) |
Wild Thing The Sixties DVD Jukebox A
DVD compilation of twenty performances from the German TV show Beat Club.
Some of the songs are well-known numbers, others less so, although of
course those which are unfamiliar in the UK, may well have enjoyed greater
chart action in Germany. |
Radio
London Film |