Music While You Watch

CosmoBells has it's third anniversary today and what better way to celebrate it than a share of this spanking brand new compilation of library/tv/testcard/interlude music from the same people that bought you the equally excellent must-own comps: Girl In A Suitcase, Watch With Teacher, Natural Born Fillers, Cocktail Swing, The Day The TV Stood Still, Department TV and Girl In A Suitcase (Upgraded).

As you can read from the cover, this superb compilation features two discs comprising of 62(!) tracks which have been used variously on good old British television back in the day whether it be tv shows (such as Crown Court, Hark At Barker, The Village, ...And Mother Makes Three, Queenie's Castle, Potter and Finding Out, amonst many others), testcards, interludes, incidental music and the like. Faves on here include Paddy Kingsland's "March Of The Moogs" - best known to me as the theme tune to both Tripper's Day (Leonard Rossiter's final show before he died) and it's follow-up series Slinger's Day (a better series which starred Bruce Forsyth in a rare and rather excellent acting outing), "Distant Hills" - the end theme to Crown Court (also available on the excellent Cult Fiction Royale), a great bit of disco called "Dot's" by The Bruton Players, "Airedale Curry" has 80s daytime-afternoon quiz show theme tune written all over it, Nick Glennie-Smith's synthtastic "Looking Forward",  The Bruton Beat's "Soul Machine", The Bruton Players' "Lots Of Fun" and all the Keith Mansfield stuff on this collection is top notch.

Personally speaking, both discs are superb but I have a preference for the second disc which has a lot of synthy/electronic and disco/funk-style tracks as opposed to the easy listening "classical"-type stuff on the first disc which I've got a bit tired of hearing in recent times. Highlight for me is The Bruton Beat's "Winners" which was used as the theme music to the feature-length Return Of The Saint adventure The Saint And The Brave Goose. All I can say is that Music While You Watch is yet another absolute must-own from the WHR label. Enjoy and happy third birthday CosmoBells! ;)

Various
Music While You Watch
WHR
2010

383 mb

MU* / RS

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CD1

   1. Smiley - Projection
   2. Four in Hand - The Otto Keller Orchestra
   3. Merry Ocarina - The Pierre Arvay Group
   4. Song of Autumn - The Reg Tilsley Orchestral
   5. Get Up and Go - The Richard Nielson Group
   6. Mazurka to Minuet - The Pandora Orchestra
   7. A Girl Like You - The European Sound Stage Orchestra
   8. Boulevard St. Michel - The International Studio Orchestra
   9. The Greatest Show on Earth - The Reg Tilsley Orchestral
  10. Lumineux Cheverny - Raymond Guiot
  11. Danza Gaya - The Raphaele Woodwind Sextet
  12. Summer Convertible - The Reg Tilsley Orchestral
  13. Bouncing Boots - The London Studio Group
  14. March of the Moogs - Paddy Kingsland
  15. Open House - The William Gardner Group
  16. Sweet Unity - The Otto Keller Orchestra
  17. Family Theme - Johnny Hawksworth Group
  18. Distant Hills - The International Studio Orchestra
  19. Snowdrops and Raindrops - The European Sound Stage Orchestra
  20. Morning Call - Orchestra Raphaele, cond. Peter Walden
  21. Doodle - Munich Concert Pop Orchestra
  22. Live Free - The International Studio Orchestra
  23. Spindoe - The Modern Sound
  24. Swinging Pizzicato - The Gerhard Narholz Orchestra
  25. Sparky - The Roger Webb Group
  26. Pink Skies - The International Studio Orchestra
  27. Kitten - The Pandora Orchestra
  28. The Little Hacienda - Orchestra Raphaele, cond. Peter Walden
  29. Perky Flute - The International Studio Orchestra
  30. The Glass Triangle - The Pierre Arvay Orchestra
  31. Mr Pickwick - The Group 10 Players
  32. The Muffin Man - Projection

CD2

   1. Superstar (A) - Keith Mansfield
   2. Butterfly 1 - The Bruton Light Orchestra
   3. Spacefree - Memo
   4. A Boy and a Girl - The Anthony Mawer Orchestra
   5. Heroes - The Gordon Giltrap Band
   6. Laurel Canyon Backstep (I) - Polson Pickers
   7. All the Good Times (B) - Keith Mansfield
   8. Dot's - The Bruton Players
   9. Electronic Toccata - Monica Beale
  10. Taste for Living - The European Sound Stage Orchestra
  11. Jazz Prelude - The Brian Bennett Group
  12. Looking Forward (A) - Nick Glennie-Smith
  13. Family Affair - The Bruton Players
  14. Pennyweight - Kevin Peek
  15. Colour Supplement - The Bruton Beat
  16. Those Sparkling Eyes - The David Snell Quartet
  17. Winners - The Bruton Beat
  18. Sunny Day - Trevor Jones
  19. Sherwood Forest - Alan Parker
  20. Sunday in the City - Ray Davies
  21. Motivation - Andy Clark
  22. Flirtation - The Bruton Players
  23. Prelude - Kathleen Crees
  24. Charisma - Michelangelo
  25. Airedale Curry - Geoff Bastow
  26. Country Squire - The International Studio Orchestra
  27. Soul Machine - The Bruton Beat
  28. Rose Petals - Kevin Peek
  29. Lots of Fun - The Bruton Players
  30. Captain Quirk - Memo

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Injection X feat. Gary Glitter - Woogie

You saw the promo vid last week, now here's the actual single. Injection X "dance it up" with a stunning remix of Gary Glitter's disco classic "A Little Boogie Woogie In The Back Of My Mind". Alright!

Injection X feat. Gary Glitter

Woogie

Wokka Chokka Chum! Records

2010

MU / RS

1. Woogie (Single Mix) (4:22)

2. Woogie (Extended Remix) (7:15)

27 mb

Encoded @ 320 kbps.

Little & Large - Around The Old Camp Fire

Here it is - the "holy grail" of Little & Large records: Around The Old Camp Fire! This cost quite a bit on ebay but it was worth every pound/euro... Much loved and remembered by those who were there at the time (like myself), Around The Old Camp Fire should have been a hit but it wasn't. But everyone - including myself - seems to remember it from the performance on The Little & Large Show - so that only proves how extremely popular Syd and Eddie were at that point. Aaahh yes. The good old fun loving days where you could look forward to a decent Saturday early evening comedy variety show - Little & Large, Russ Abbot, Bobby Davro, even Michael Barrymore had it in him at some point (but we won't go into that). How times have sadly changed... Well, anyway, onto the record...

"Around The Old Camp Fire" is a nostalgic anecdotal tale of being a boy scout, singing songs and eating fairy cakes whilst sitting around the old camp fire "where the mushrooms used to grow and me muscles you to show". It's a splendid bit of harmless fun and an insanely catchy track to boot. It's a bit of a crime that it hasn't been reissued on some novelty compilation. The b-side - "I'm In Love With Angela Rippon" - is rather horrible and is twice the length of the superior a-side although it does feature the amusing line: "There's nowhere on Earth that I wouldn't take her - She's much nicer legs than Richard Baker." Note that the song chorus actually goes "We're in love with Angela Rippon" and not "I'm in love with Angela Rippon" which it is actually titled. For the record, I could never stand Angela Rippon - I was always more of an Anna Ford kinda guy.

For more Little & Large audio shenanigans - go here...

Little & Large

Around The Old Camp Fire

EMI

1981

17 mb

MU / RS

1. Around The Old Camp Fire

2. I'm In Love With Angela Rippon

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Injection X featuring Tommy Steele - Tommy The Toreador Never Knows

Superb promo vid for Tommy The Toreador Never Knows - the excellent 2009 "mash-up" of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and Tommy Steele's "Little White Bull" by Injection X.

Samplesonic - Rising Damp

Promo video for Samplesonic's junglefied drum 'n' bass remix of the theme tune to classic 70s Britcom Rising Damp.

Injection X - Woogie

Promo video for the new Injection X single "Woogie" which samples Gary Glitter's disco classic "A Little Boogie Woogie In The Back Of My Mind". The single will be available to download on this site from next week and will feature the "radio edit" as heard on the promo video along with various remixes.