Bob Stanley Presents 76 In The Shade

The months without rain and airless days and nights might not have been something out of the ordinary in the Algarve or the south of France, but it was without precedent in Britain. The Summer of 1976 has remained a benchmark for long, hot summers - there may have been scorchers since, but none have seemed quite as relentless or enervating. The country melted into a collective puddle. '76 In The Shade' probably wasn't anyone's real life soundtrack of the year - that could have included Bowie's 'Station To Station' and Abba's 'Greatest Hits'. Instead, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley has put a compilation together that sonically evokes the summer of 1976 itself, its sweet heat and almost narcotic lethargy. Getting out of the sun, you might have sat inside with the radio on, and heard the dreamy wooziness of Liverpool Express's 'You Are My Love', 10cc's 'I'm Mandy Fly Me', or the Emotions' 'Flowers'. Or maybe you flopped out in front of the telly, where you heard an alternative summer soundtrack - the music libraries that provided the bulk of the testcard's music gave us Simon Park's minimal ' 'Stoned Out' and John Cameron's deeply immersive 'Liquid Sunshine'; the Californian jazzer Spike Janson provided the wordless vocal harmonies of 'Walking So Free'. '76 In The Shade' follows in the footsteps of Bob Stanley's hugely successful comps for Ace, including 'English Weather' and 'The Tears Of Technology'. It suggests bright yellow sunshine, hot plastic car seats, cats lolloping

Tracks

1~1~Walking So Free - Spike Janson
1~2~Sugar Shuffle - Lynsey De Paul
1~3~Miracles (Single Version) - Jefferson Starship
1~4~Get Out Of Town - Smokey Robinson
1~5~I'm Mandy Fly Me (Album Version) - 10Cc
1~6~Stoned Out - Simon Park
1~7~Nothing To Remind Me - Cliff Richard
2~1~You're The Song (That I Can't Stop Singing) - Hollywood Freeway
2~2~You Are My Love - Liverpool Express
2~3~Liquid Sunshine - John Cameron
2~4~Not On The Outside - Sylvia
2~5~Stay With Me - Blue Mink
2~6~Wild Mountain Honey - Steve Miller Band
2~7~Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
2~8~Flowers - The Emotions
2~9~Montreal City - Azimuth
2~10~Rock'n'roll Star - Barclay James Harvest
2~11~Miss My Love Today - Gilbert O'Sullivan
2~12~Music - Carmen McRae

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 28 August 2020
Genre: Soul
Label: ACE
Distributor: Rocket Group