As Time Goes By
With at least four albums of unheard Carpenters material already released, you'd have
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thought the well would surely be dry by now. Yet with As Time Goes By, Richard Carpenter digs up another batch of outtakes, demos and TV performances to delight the duo's legions of fans. A legendary perfectionist, he's eschewed the "warts and all" approach, and instead rearranged, remixed and often rerecorded the original backing tracks to lend that famous Carpenters smoothness to even the ropier TV efforts. Most interesting are the endearingly innocent garage versions of "Nowhere Man" and "California Dreamin'", recorded in 1967 when Karen was just 16, a sweet 1971 cover of Wildweeds' "And When He Smiles" and a pretty take on Kermit the Frog's classic "The Rainbow Connection". Elsewhere, there's a warm and loungey medley where Karen and Perry Como sing each other's songs, and a glorious duet with Ella Fitzgerald where "My Funny Valentine" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" are made to shine once more. Richard displays his keyboard virtuosity with "Dizzy Fingers" and a grand medley of sci-fi themes, and the only disappointment is a cover of "Dancing in the Street" where Karen fails to really capture the song's joyous mood. Despite this, it's a must for all fans of easy listening. --Dominic Wills
Advantages: Great British Pop Soul Disadvantages: Criminally Overlooked
...Paul Weller loves them and Phil Collins wanted to join them, but The Action remain one of the hidden gems of the 60's Mod scene.
In fact, they were the REAL Mod favourites. Their choice of soul covers and well produced originals had Mods flocking from far and wide to see them.
At the time, real mods were heading to clubs like The Flamingo to listen to authentic blues and R&B, played by authentic blues and R&B players. A small contingent of British acts were learning their craft from the originals, and combining the American sound with the sound of swining London. Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, The Animals, Them and ChrisFarlowe all had their share of the limelight.
Listening to this album, it's difficult to understand why they weren't huge! in Reggie King, they had a singer to rival the pure soul power of Steve Marriott, and they were...
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Advantages: Some good tracks Disadvantages: See text re comments on packaging, and also for likelihood of its being superseded
...;Eleanor Rigby’, except in their case the string quartet is replaced by classical-type guitar, harpsichord and hammered dulcimer, and it’s really rather lovely. Baroque, I think critics labelled it at the time. If you remove the vocals, the backing track could have doubled quite neatly as a theme for a Tudor costume drama on TV.
‘Out Of Time’ is the song they produced and gave away to ChrisFarlowe, who took his version to No. 1 in the summer of 1966. Here, the Stones replaced strings with what sounds like a xylophone. I feel Mick doesn’t really put heart and soul into this one; it comes across more like a music publisher’s demo, or else a rushed job. [Another version appeared on a long-since deleted 1975 compilation ‘Metamorphosis’, which has Mick singing to the backing track used by Chris...
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Advantages: Great selection of tracks. Disadvantages: Its not long enough.
...' All Over - Kidd, Johnny & The Pirates
3. Go Now - Moody Blues
4. Elenore - Turtles
5. Catch The Wind - Donovan
6. Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - West, Keith
7. If Paradise Is Half As Nice - Amen Corner
8. Honey - Goldsboro, Bobby
9. Fun Fun Fun - Beach Boys
10. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Beck, Jeff
11. On The Road Again - Canned Heat
12. Where Do You Got To My Lovely - Sarstedt, Peter
13. He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother) - Hollies
14. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
15. Let's Go To San Francisco - Flower Pot Men
16. First Cut Is The Deepest - Arnold, P.P.
17. Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
18. Sweets For My Sweet - Searchers
CD Two
19. America - Nice
20. Out Of Time - Farlowe, Chris
21. Wonderful Land - Shadows
22. Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes
23. Three Steps To Heaven - Cochran, Eddie
24. I'm Alive...
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somewhat helpful 20.02.2008
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