A much requested repost - so here's a fresh rip. Get it while you can!.........
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.
V/A
WHR
2010
VBR
215 mb
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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