Memorial - Clifford Brown

Advantages: Easy listening, beautiful songs.
Disadvantages: Clifford died so no more from him.

...is music that anyone old or young can listen to. My children grew up with the LP's playing in the background. They both say that the songs are beautiful and bring back memories of their childhood. Myself, I know almost all the songs word perfect and can sing along if no one is at home, sometimes I feel very sad that my voice isn't beautiful and that I can't sing in tune. Occaisionally I hear a track on my local radio station, and I have heard that radio 2 plays his music sometimes, and although that might date the music a bit I am certain that this music is timeless and will live on in the hearts of the people who have heard it forever. The cd. The front cover is a rather rustic picture of Clifford leaning up against a fence. His hair is long and he looks typically 1970's. Inside there is a short piece by Cliff Richard, telling... Read review

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Advantages: Classics, original, music from the Stones Hayday
Disadvantages: Too old for some

...tell you how it's gonna be, We're gonna have Lamb Chops for tea. It's strange what stays with you over the years isn't it? The next dozen or so tracks moved on a little in time but still remained in the 1960's. Many of these tracks such as Satisfaction, The Last Time and Paint it Black I had bought out of my pocket money as 45 singles. You know the old, small vinyl records. In fact I still have most of these but they are well worn, a little jumpy and mostly mono so the quality is a little raw. It was good to here these tracks in pristine fashion although the more earthy sound seems more authentic. The final tracks move on to the late sixties and into the 1970's. Unless my aged memory is playing tricks on me I think that is as far as we move in time with this CD. This suits me as I feel that The Rolling Stones were at their peak... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful songs, sympathetic arrangements
Disadvantages: It's over too soon

...When the exquisite "Gaye" reached the airwaves in the summer of 1973 and eventually climbed to #8 (UK), it was evident that here was an astonishing new talent. To general disappointment the whimsical follow-up "Wherewithal", a more commercial single, also went on to the Radio 1 playlist but failed to chart. Both are still heard from time to time on the radio, but if you only know the former English teacher from Worcestershire from those songs and want to know more, you should buy this compilation. His gift for melody and lyrics is unique. The most famous song apart from these two has to be "Home Thoughts From Abroad", written in a wry conversational style, was named after Browning's poem of the same title. It namechecks Wordsworth and Keats, and asks, 'Do you still use television to send you fast asleep - does the cistern still leak... Read review

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