REID ERROL/ARRON HARRY/DERRICK PARRIS - IMAGES (BRH-29)

More mid-80s library goodness from Bruton. This one is full of the kind of upbeat electro and smooth Shakatak-style easy-funk tracks that ITV would play during a technical fault. In other words, it's all good stuff!

REID ERROL/ARRON HARRY/DERRICK PARRIS
IMAGES (BRH-29)
BRUTON MUSIC
1986
VBR 256-320 kbps
97 mb


1 Blue Stardust    3:15
2 On Golden Sands    3:04
3 Chesapeake Bay    3:24
4 Low Riders   2:49
5 Cut Up   3:13
6 Star Turn 3:10
7 Check 'Em Out 2:04
8 Crosstalk 2:39
9 Super Heroes 2:13
10 Dreams 1.  3:06
11 Dreams 2.  3:06
12 Station N°1. 3:04
13 Back To The Streets     2:53

WARREN BENNETT & BRIAN BENNETT - IN THE GROOVE (BRH-28)

Excellent mid-80s Bruton release from the two Bennetts containing loads of sound-a-likes of upbeat dance-pop hits of the time (see how many you can spot!) - most likely used by tv productions who couldn't afford to license the original songs by the original artists that most of the tracks on here appear to emulate... For instance, "Xenon Lights" is heavily reminiscent of anything by Frankie Goes To Hollywood and even starts off with the main coda from Edwin Starr's "War", whilst "Mix It Up" is a total dead ringer for "Axel F" and "Master Mix" has Paul Hardcastle's "19" written all over it! Great fun.


WARREN BENNETT & BRIAN BENNETT
IN THE GROOVE (BRH-28)
BRUTON MUSIC
1985
128 kbps
35 mb


1  Really Moving 2:42
2  Xenon Lights 3:44
3  In The Groove 2:46
4  Master Mix 3:00
5  Laser Love 2:54
6  Live It Up 3:06
7  Tracking 2:30
8  Electro Nights 3:11
9  Beat Crazy 3:03
10  Mix It Up 2:38
11  Tight Fit 2:07
12  Whiskey Bent 3:29

COCKTAIL SWING

Here's a repost of the superb and exceedingly rare Cocktail Swing... This is an absolute must-own for easy listening, library and tv music collectors so gets it whilst you cannst!............

From the people who bought you Girl In A Suitcase, Watch With Teacher, Natural Born Fillers, The Day The TV Stood Still, Department TV and Girl In A Suitcase (Upgraded), here is one of the earliest of their superb cult/retro tv/radio/library music releases - the increasingly incredibly rare 1999 release Cocktail Swing on the Codename Music label. Cocktail Swing is an absolute must-own for collectors and connoiseurs of testcard/tv/radio/library music. All of the music comes from legendary big bands The Johnny Howard Band and The Otto Keller Band. The vibe is totally of an easy listening-lounge-testcard nature - so from that description you should know what to expect: plenty of brass, dings, dongs, happy nostalgia and how's yer father. Pearls on here include the original theme tune to ITV's Wish You Were Here, "Carnaby Chick" from Radio 2's Two's Best and "Eye Catcher" for Radio 2's The Early Show. Plus Test Card Transmission Tape classics such as "That's How The Hula Was Born", "Don't Fall In Love", "King For A Night" and "You Blew It". "Cocktails For Two" and "Everybody Loves Somebody" were used when Radio 5's Test Match Cricket was abandoned due to "Rain Stopped Play". Like I say - Cocktail Swing is an absolute must-own so download, listen and enjoy the classic retro television sound they just don't make anymore.

V/A

Cocktail Swing

Codename Music

1999
320 kbps

1. Cocktails For Two
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Opus 88
4. Burros De Bahia
5. That's How The Hula Was Born
6. Don't Fall In Love
7. King For A Night
8. You Blew It
9. Carnaby Chick
10. Eye Catcher
11. Mr Paganini: You'll Have To Swing It
12. Just One More Chance
13. Lucky 13
14. Rockin' Bugler Boy
15. I Dig You The Most
16. Beware My Heart
17. Starting Point
18. Calypso Reggae
19. Liebchen
20. See You Later

Ripped & encoded by X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut.

WATCH WITH TEACHER

Another much requested repost - so here's a fresh rip. Get it while you can!.........


From the people who bought you the superb must-own tv/library music compilations Girl In A Suitcase, Natural Born Fillers, Department TV and The Day The TV Stood Still, Watch With Teacher collects a whopping 79 tracks worth of music used during the Schools & Colleges programme transmissions (and there abouts) on British television during the late 60s to mid 80s. Trust me when I say that this is an absolute must-own for Britkids who grew up hearing this stuff at school and at home (either you were ill, on holiday or just plain wagging it!)!

Gems on here include the full-length version of Randy Oda's sublime and funky "Bart" - a track often played before start-up and also when there was a technical problem, the full version of one of my fave theme tunes of all time: Stop Look Listen (we're talking about the flutey second and - in my opinion - superior theme as used in the late 70s and early 80s, not the earlier theme tune which is available on Girl In A Suitcase) aka Tany Turens' "High Life", Raymond Guiot's "Ardente Elisabeth" - a tune they played during the schools and colleges clocks but is possibly known a lot better as the theme to ITV's Gardening Time, Alan Parker's "9-10-Out" aka the theme to Good Health (oooh yes!!), Gerd Luft's "Prima Ballerina" (theme from Watch!) makes yet another appearance, Paul Keogh's excellent Dragster (theme from Watch It!) and many, many more.

Watch With Teacher is an absolute must-own for collectors of library music, cult soundtracks, easy listening, light music, funk, etc, etc. Enjoy!! ;)

V/A
WATCH WITH TEACHER
WHR
2008
VBR
207 mb

CD1: Break Time
1. Bart
Randy Oda
2. Ardente Elisabeth
Raymond Guiot
3. Rustic Rigaudon
Leslie Pearson
4. Move Over Mozart (Theme - Meeting Our Needs)
Glen Somers
5. Rouge Escarlate
Raymond Guiot, Luis Pena
6. Close-Up
Jean-Pierre Martin
7. Children Of The Forest
Johnny Pearson
8. Perception
Lee Mason
9. Flute + Flute
Raymond Guiot, Luis Pena
10. Lorito
Luis Conti, Francois Langel
11. Emma
Frank Weston, James Godfrey
12. 9-10-0ut (Theme - Good Health)
Alan Parker
13. Pop Strings
Luis Conti, Francois Langel
14. Scarlatti Sound
Raymond Guiot, Luis Pena
15. Flight And Form
Lee Mason
16. Water Girl
David Holland
17. Sonate A Trois
P. Loeillet, C. Guiot, R. Guiot
18. Alley Cat
Richard Hill
19. Puppy Dogs' Tails (Theme - My World)
Sydney Cordell, Stan Butcher
20. Scarbalancelle
Raymond Guiot, Luis Pena
21. Blues Cynetique
Benoir Kaufmann, Gilles Jerome
22. The Little Trumpeter
Johnny Hawksworth
23. Hamlet On Toast
Gordon Franks
24. Indian Tea
Pete Philips
25. Prima Ballerina (Theme - Watch!)
Gerd Luft
26. Moving On Through
Alan Parker
27. Eine Kleine Swipe
Roger Holman, Simon May
28. Beadle-Um-B0
Norman Warren
29. Les Trois Chats
Norman Warren
30. Eldorado
Roger Holman, Simon May
31. Avez-Vous Le Tempo
Norman Warren
32. Middle Of The Day
Roger Holman, Simon May
33. High Life (Theme - Stop Look Listen)
Tany Turens

CD2: Playtime
1. Time To Spare
Roger Holman, Simon May
2. Campus Capers
Norman Warren
3. Tambourin En Forme De Musette
Francois de Boisvallee
4. Paysage Ecossais
Pierre Duclos
5. This Is England
Ronald Hanmer
6. Commercial Link 4 - Comedy
Syd Dale
7. Puntillas
Raymond Guiot, Luis Pena
8. Running With The Wind
Roger Roger
9. Balalaika Melody
John Leach
10. Russian Dance
John Leach
11. Pirol
Hanns Knerr
12. Mail Carriage
Gerd Luft
13. The Cuckoo Calls
Louis Claude Daquin arr. Leslie Pearson
14. Sister Monique
Francois Couperin arr. Leslie Pearson
15. Flower Sequence 2
Johnny Pearson
16. Sunny Woodlands
Johnny Pearson
17. Sonata In A Major
Domenico Scarlatti arr. Brian Whitehouse
18. Study In A Major
Matteo Carcassi arr. Brian Whitehouse
19. Hey Presto
Brian Bennett, Cliff Hall
20. Bacarrat
Brian Bennett, Cliff Hall
21. Frivolity
Andrew Jackman
22. Chateaux
Francis Fumiere
23. Passing Time
David Snell
24. Handelian Harp
David Snell
25. Sunny Standby
Johnny Patrick
26. Clockwise
Johnny Patrick
27. Tennessee Railroad
Martin Kershaw
28. Spring To Life 2
Steve Gray
29. Sweet Lovely Jean
David Snell
30. Gwlad Y Gan
David Snell
31. Gleeful Gigue
John A. Coleman
32. Crisp Courante
John A. Coleman
33. Lincoln Green
Leslie Pearson, Jay T. Virgo
34. Wessex Village Dance
Leslie Pearson
35. Turkey
James Clarke
36. The Fledgling
James Clarke
37. Like Clockwork
Errol Reid, Jim Stokoe
38. Round The Clock
Errol Reid, Jim Stokoe
39. Lavender 2
Martin Kershaw
40. Buttercup
Martin Kershaw
41. Night Groove
Frank MacDonald, Chris Rae, Gerry Shury
42. Freedom Rock
Frank MacDonald, Chris Rae, Gerry Shury
43. Courtesan
Alec Gould
44. Maypole Dance
Alec Gould
45. Dragster (Theme - Watch It!)
Paul Keogh
46. Walking On ("Saint-Louis-En-L'Isle")
Jack Arel, Pierre Dutour


Ripped & encoded by X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut.

Music While You Watch

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

Music While You Watch

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

Ripped,encoded and fully tagged by X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut.

JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH - THE DOLBY DECADES

Twenty more of John's finest recordings to date, the long awaited follow up to 'The Yamaha Years'. Tap your toes to such classics as 'Three Men In A Van', 'Blatherwyke', 'I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now', 'Disaffected Youth', 'Mutiny Over The Bounty' and 'Scenes From South Yorkshire' and many many (well, fourteen) more!

JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH

THE DOLBY DECADES

2008

100 mb

VBR

Mastermix Classic Cuts - Radio Sets Chapter 1

Absolute, total must-own 2-disc set of (mostly) British radio sound clips, jingles, theme tunes, sketches and all manner of sublime radio daftness. Includes a whole load of novelty record pearls by the likes of Steve Wright, Terry Wogan, Kenny Everett, Tony Blackburn, DLT, Noel Edmonds, etc, such as "The Gay Cavalieros", "I Wanna Be A Winner", "I'll Be Back", "Convoy GB", "The Floral Dance", The Shirehorses, etc, Binky Baker's tribute to "Toe Knee Black Burn", Wogan jingles by Madness, "Disco Duck", Jimmy Young, Bruno & Liz, etc, etc, etc, and etc. This is an absolute total must-own for fellow CosmoBellians. Enjoy.


Mastermix Classic Cuts - Radio Sets Chapter 1
Music Factory
2004
160 kbps
178 mb

PS. Notice the endless mistake they make on the printed playlist - it should be Jimmy Savile - not "Saville".

Fingerbobs - Original Television Soundtrack

Short-lived (only approx. 25 mins running time) but sweet collection of music from the cult classic 70s' British pre-school show Fingerbobs which starred Fingermouse and Canadian actor, ex-Play School presenter and Meal Ticket frontman Rick Jones as "Yoffy".


Fingerbobs - Original Television Soundtrack
Trunk
2011

1 Fingerbobs Theme
2 Fingermouse Theme
3 Fingermouse Incidental
4 Enoch Makes The Wheel
5 Instrumental Titles
6 Scampi's Theme
7 Drawing On Stones
8 Seeds
9 Enoch's Wheel 2
10 Gulliver's Theme
11 Gulliver's Instrumental
12 Fingermouse Plays The Organ
13 Fingermouse & Flash Play The Guitar
14 Plasticine
15 Flash's Theme
16 Shapes
17 Little Link
18 Bricks
19 Shiny Thing
20 Story Of The Wooden Tower
21 Wood End Titles


25 mb
VBR

THE REBEATLES PROJECT - GET BACK

Excellent Beatles-tribute band from Germany who perform contemporary pop songs in the various styles of the Fab Four. A hugely enjoyable listen from a very talented band - this album is far better than one would probably assume. Great music and a lot of fun spotting the Beatles song influences.

THE REBEATLES PROJECT

GET BACK

2010

1 Beautiful

2 Get the Party Started

3 Rehab

4 Around The World

5 Fight For Your Right

6 Eternal Flame

7 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

8 Let Me Entertain You

9 Hold Me Now

10 Poker Face

11 Three Lions

12 Happy Birthday

13 One

14 I Want You (To Say)

46 mb

Encoded @ 160 kbps.

JOIN EXTABIT NOW - THE BEST NEW FILEHOSTER ON THE PLANET!

WHAT A CARRY ON!

Superb re-recordings of music from the Carry On films which sound just like the originals - courtesy of Gavin Sutherland and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. An absolute must-own. Includes cover scans and PDF of booklet.

WHAT A CARRY ON!
THEME MUSIC FROM THE CLASSIC BRITISH FILM SERIES
ERIC ROGERS & BRUCE MONTGOMERY
Vocalion
2004


Carry On Theme
Twice Round the Daffodils
Carry On Doctor 
Carry On Up the Jungle
Carry On Henry
Watch Your Stern
Carry On Girls
Carry On Camel 
Carry On Screaming
Carry On Again Doctor Suite
Carry On Abroad
Carry On Camping
Carry On Spying
Carry On Matron
Carry On Dick
Carry On Loving
Sunday Night at the London Palladium Theme


ROYAL BALLET SINFONIA
Gavin Sutherland (conductor)


Gary Williams (vocalist)


Recorded at Abbey Road Studio No.2, London
27-29 September 2004


132 mb
Encoded @ 320 kbps.