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BEV BEVAN'S CD PICKS FEBRUARY FAB FOUR
Clarence Carter – Testifying / Patches (Kent)
There is a sign on the unprepossessing brown building that is the home of FAME studios that proclaims it to be the Home Of The Muscle Shoals Sound. It’s a message that is as true now as it was back in the sixties, when FAME was the recording home of stars as diverse as Candi Staton and the Osmonds and the studio’s flagship artist was Clarence Carter.
He was at the peak of his popularity at the time and would be a chart regular for the next five years, until disco knocked southern soul for six. Recorded in 1969 and 1970, Clarence Carter’s third and fourth albums, plus bonus tracks, are now together on this CD. Songs include Soul Deep; I Smell A Rat; Instant Reaction; Say A Little Prayer; Willie and Laura Mae Jones; and his biggest hit, Patches.
Listen People – The Graham Gouldman Songbook 1964/2005 (ACE)
In the mid-sixties, barely a month went by when Graham Gouldman’s name did not feature on the UK charts under the title of a current hit. The young Mancunian wrote regularly for some of the top artists of the time, including Herman’s Hermits and The Hollies, as well as maintaining his own recording career in several groups, some real and some fictional combinations that Graham and his friends, in what later became 10cc, invented within the confines of their Strawberry Studios in Manchester.
Of Graham Gouldman’s peers, probably only Paul McCartney, Ray Davies, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard can lay claim to such songwriting longevity and like those rock veterans, Graham is still out there on the road with 10cc and a solo show too.
Stand out tracks on this compilation include Bus Stop by the Hollies; Evil Hearted You by the Yardbirds; Tallyman by Jeff Beck.
Leo Sayer – The Gold Collection (Crimson)
Leo Sayer turns 70 this year and in a career spanning 45 years, has sold more than 80 million records worldwide. This new retrospective album, which Leo Sayer personally compiled and sequenced, is a 54-track triple-CD set delving into his rich catalogue of original songs and cover versions. It includes his 11 UK top ten hits and the UK number ones, When I Need You and Thunder In My Heart Again and the US chart topper, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.
The Gold Collection also includes many key album tracks from the early part of his career, many which were recorded by other major artists, like Roger Daltrey’s version of Giving It All Away, as well as a number of recordings written for him by other international singer / songwriters. The pick of his cover versions includes his interpretations of The Crickets’ More Than I Can Say; Lennon & McCartney’s Let It Be; Everly Brothers’ Love Hurts; Buddy Holly’s Raining In My Heart; and Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody.
Matthew Fisher – Strange Days/Matthew Fisher (Angel Air)
Matthew Fisher is best remembered as organist with Procol Harum and as co-writer of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, the most played single ever on British radio. Matthew began his musical career as a member of Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers before becoming a co-founder of Procol Harum in 1967. He left that band two years later and was soon producing albums for other artists, amongst them Robin Trower, whose Bridge Of Sighs album went platinum in the USA.
Having released two solo albums in the seventies and running his own much in demand recording studio, he recorded the Matthew Fisher album in 1980 followed by Strange Days in 1981. Both albums are now available on this budget-priced CD containing 20 tracks including Give It A Try; Only A Game; Miss Suzie; and Take Me For A Ride.
DON’T MISS BEV BEVAN LIVE With Quill on Feb 17th at Ludlow Assembly Rooms and on March 2nd at Lichfield Garrick.
With Stand Up And Rock on March 3rd in Chesterfield, March 7th Isle Of Wight, March 8th Weymouth , March 9th Poole, March 13th Southend, March 16th Kings Lynn,
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March 25th Llandudno , March 26th Buxton, March 28th Torquay and March 31st in Great Yarmouth .
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