A Snapshot In Time

Back in September 1962, the only Beatles records in the shops saw them backing Tony Sheridan on a goosedup version of 'My Bonnie'. Their debut single 'Love Me Do' would be released in October 1962 and the seismic change they brought to music worldwide would occur once the band achieved light speed in 1963. There was, however, before Beatlemania, a thriving music culture that dropped anchor in a number of ports. Proto pop charts might be dominated by the likes of Cliff and his Shadows, crooners and sweet-looking pop idols who brushed their teeth but R&B was gently finding its way into record racks either through imports or a growing number of homegrown cover versions. The Motown sound was taking root in Detroit and already filtering into the UK on poor-selling 7' singles on London and Fontana. ' The twist might be considered an old dance but in political circles no one twisted in the wind harder than John Profumo, undone in 1961 for a triangular relationship where the other two parties were Christine Keeler and a Russian spy. Politicians and the establishment lived by the dictum of do what I say rather than what I do. Until they got caught with their pants down. This was a situation Patrick McGoohan in Danger Man always avoided, although after 1963 part of James Bond's appeal on the big screen was his ability to drop his pants and bed Russian spies. ' To say that before the Beatles, before the Stones, before the Who, before the blues explosion there was no good music being rec

Tracks

1~1~Sugar Baby Part 1 - Jimmy Powell
1~2~Sugar Baby Part 2 - Jimmy Powell
1~3~When You Walked Out - Alex Murray With The Tony Crombie Quartet
1~4~Baby Please Don't Go - Ottilie Patterson Accompanied By Sonny Boy Williamson
1~5~Why Should We Not - Manfred Mann
1~6~Chicago Calling - Cyril Davies & His Rhythm & Blues All Stars
1~7~King Of Kings - Jimmy Cliff
1~8~Air Travel - Chris Farlowe
1~9~It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy And Bess") - Duffy Power
1~10~Sounds Like Locomotion - Sounds Inc.
1~11~Dance Her By Me - Jimmy Powell
1~12~Gurney Slade (From "The Strange World Of Gurney Slade") - Max Harris With His Group
1~13~Moanin' - Lynn Cornell
1~14~Tom Hark - Jimmy Powell
1~15~Christine - Miss X
1~16~A New Kind Of Lovin' - Eden Kane
1~17~I'm Just A Baby - Louise Cordet
1~18~Orange Street - The Blue Flames
1~19~I'm Built For Comfort - Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated (Vocal Cyril Davies)
1~20~Angi - Davy Graham
1~21~Strawberry Fair - Anthony Newley
1~22~Country Line Special - Cyril Davies & His Rhythm & Blues All Stars
1~23~Wicked Woman - Don Lang & His Boulder Rollers
1~24~Theme From "Danger Man" - The Red Price Combo With Orchestra

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Various
Release Date: 30 September 2022
Genre: Pop
Label: ACE RECORDS
Distributor: Rocket Group