New Music Releases: 'It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown' Soundtrack, Yardbirds at the BBC, Girls with Guitars, More
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Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) is thrilled to announce the release - for the first time ever - from recently rediscovered tapes - the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, the timeless 6th animated Peanuts special, from writer and creator Charles Schulz, director Bill Melendez and producers Melendez and Lee Mendelson.
Originally the special aired in September 27, 1969, on CBS-TV. The album includes the original recordings that comprise the cues from the Special across twenty-six tracks, plus another 6 alternative tracks that have never been released or heard before. Guaraldi lovingly created the soundtrack for the summer camp adventure where Charlie Brown and his gang face off against the girls camp lead by Peppermint Patty.
The large jazz combo album also includes the best rendition of Guaraldi classic, Love Will Come (Nova Bossa) as well as the first use of additional percussion in Victor Feldman. The recording features Guaraldi (piano), Monty Budwig (double bass), Jack Sperling (drums), Conti and Pete Candoli (trumpet), Frank Rosolino (trombone), Victor Feldman (percussion), Herb Ellis (guitar), Willian Hood and Peter Christlieb (woodwinds), and John Scott Trotter as the orchestra leader.
The soundtrack was produced by Sean and Jason Mendelson and restored and re-mastered by Vinson Hudson.
The most definitive and complete set of the Yardbirds' BBC appearances to date. Over 89 tracks, of which 30 previously unreleased.
With an introduction by Chris Welch. A spined book of track by track, in-depth sessions notes by BBC historian Ashley Wood. Interviews of Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith by Chris Welch. Sound quality restored and improved, fully remastered. Total playing time: approx. 250 mins. Mono recordings.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first documented live appearance by the Yardbirds, this 4-CD set features 3 discs' worth of material from Jeff Beck's time on lead guitar with The Yardbirds, while the 4th disc documents the period when Jimmy Page held the lead guitar spot in the band. Over the past 25 years, there have been several issues of Yardbirds BBC material by Repertoire Records, but 30 of the tracks included here have not been heard since broadcast, and almost all the other tracks represent either a massive upgrade in quality or at least some improvement on previous releases.
With track by track, in-depth sessions notes with detailed broadcast information by BBC historian Ashley Wood, edited by Chris Welch. Stand by for a detailed and brilliantly researched story of the band and their music, compiled by Ashley Wood, and hear how the Yardbirds' 'Train Kept A Rollin' thanks to all those who rescued and salvaged original BBC archive material, including miraculous performances of classics like 'Jeff's Boogie,' 'White Summer' and 'Dazed And Confused.'
Nothing said new or modern or futuristic quite like a synthesiser in the 70s and 80s.
If you were shooting an advert and you wanted your product or your company to appear forward-thinking and ahead of the game, then you would want something electronic, something out of the ordinary.
When TV producers and advertising directors started searching for music that sounded like "Tubular Bells" - and then Tomita, and later Jean Michel Jarre - music libraries such de Wolfe, Bruton, Parry and Chappell had to have the tracks readily available.
Compiled by Bob Stanley, "Tomorrow's Fashions" varies from advertising jingles and TV themes to space exploration and gorgeous, beatless ambience. Though it's 40-to-50 years old there's a real freshness to this music.
Older jazz players Brian Bennett, John Cameron, Alan Hawkshaw and others seized the chance to operate a synth; younger pups including John Saunders and Monica Beale were simply intrigued by the new technology being wheeled into the studios. There's a tangible sense of adventure. "Tomorrow's Fashions'" brand of electronica anticipated new age and ambient music. It also had both a direct and indirect influence on pop - the early Human League and the future sounds of Warp Records are all over this collection.
Electronic library tracks have been sampled by everyone from MF Doom to Kendrick Lamar. One person's primitive and experimental is another person's space-age lullaby. This was music made in the shadows - in Soho's secretive music library studios - that has now become desirable and influential.
The chances are chunks of it will be sampled and used on hit records that have yet to be written. If the musicians' aim was to soundtrack tomorrow's fashions, they couldn't have got it more right.
Bona fide all-girl bands the Hairem, the Girls, the Debutantes, the Missfits, the Beat-Chics and the Ace Of Cups are stars of the show on this new vinyl volume in our ear-grabbing "Girls With Guitars" series, providing further confirmation that girls can do what the guys do.
This collection opens with 'Get Away From Me' by the mean-sounding Angels (probably not the 'My Boyfriend's Back' group of that name), a slice of feisty she-rock recorded circa 1965 that remained on the shelf at Philadelphia's Swan Records until Ace rescued it about 40 years later, and closes with 'Glue' by the Ace Of Cups, a hippy outfit raved about by Jimi Hendrix in a Melody Maker interview back in 1967.
Elsewhere, ballsy-voiced Joyce Harris (think Wanda Jackson meets Tina Turner) teams up with Texas bar band the Daylighters to tear the roof off 'I Got My Mojo Working', teenage ice skater Debbie Williams sings lead with male garage band the Unwritten Law, guitarist Chiyo fronts the Crescents on the instrumental 'Pink Dominos' and, well, you get the picture.
Those so inclined can learn more about all the tracks on the swanky inner bag containing a picture-packed 3,000-word track commentary by series compiler Mick Patrick
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