Soul Jazz announce major TV music comp | The Quietus

Soul Jazz announce major TV music comp

2CD compilation promises to explore “the serious contribution that these creative musicians have made on the landscape of popular music in Britain”

Soul Jazz records have announced a new 26-track 2CD compilation, championing the oft-neglected realms of British Television, Film and Library music. TV Sound and Image: British Television, Film and Library Composers 1955-80 has been put together by Soul Jazz’s Stuart Baker, and features a huge array of names ranging from the well-known (John Barry, best known for his James Bond soundtracks) through to the obscure.

Still, often the music will be familiar even if the name behind it isn’t: Roy Budd’s masterfully suspenseful theme tune to Get Carter will set neurons firing; C.C.S.’s version of Led Zep’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ is forever associated with the top 40 for anybody over a certain age; and Richard Denton and Martin Cook’s theme music for Tomorrow’s World feels like a relic from a lost age when bleeding-edge technology was still something the public could get excited about. The compilation doesn’t intent to be a trip down memory lane, though, so much as a serious reappraisal of the huge – if largely un-discussed – impact this music has had on British cultural consciousness.

The release will include a 50-page booklet with sleeve notes penned by the inimitable Johnny Trunk, and will also be available as a two-volume, limited edition gatefold LP. Full tracklist below.

CD 1

  1. Barry Stoller – ‘Condition Red’
  1. Pentangle – ‘Light Flight (Theme From Take Three Girls)’
  1. Geoff Love And His Orchestra – ‘Three Days Of The Condor’
  1. The Tony Hatch Sound – ‘Man Alive’
  1. Richard Denton And Martin Cook – ‘Tomorrow’s World’
  1. Brian Fahey And His Orchestra – ‘At The Sign Of The Swingin’ Cymbal’
  1. Bullet – ‘The Contract Man’
  1. Syd Dale – ‘Man Friday’
  1. The Laurie Johnson Orchestra – ‘Echo Four-Two’
  1. Keith Papworth – ‘Hard Hitter’
  1. John Barry – ‘The Persuaders’
  1. Roy Budd – ‘Getting Nowhere In A Hurry’
  1. The Simon Park Orchestra – ‘Dawn To Dusk’
  1. The Marylebone Orchestra – ‘Fiesta Numero Uno’
  1. Sort Of Soul – ‘Bird ‘n Brass’
  1. Johnny Gregory And His Orchestra – ‘The Avengers’
  1. Johnny Harris – ‘Fragment Of Fear’
  1. Roy Budd – ‘Get Carter’
  1. Neil Richardson – ‘Guide Path’

CD 2

  1. Brian Bennett – ‘Canvas’
  1. Wil Malone – ‘Death Line’
  1. Syd Dale – ‘Huckleberry Fine’
  1. The Harry Roche Constellation – ‘Spiral’
  1. The Ivor And Basil Kirchin Band – ‘Jungle Fire Dance’
  1. The Laurie Johnson Orchestra – ‘The New Avengers Theme’
  1. James Clarke + Sounds – ‘Folk Song’
  1. The Reg Tilsley Orchestra – ‘Strike Rich’
  1. The Barry Gray Orchestra – ‘Joe 90’
  1. Keith Mansfield – ‘Soul Thing’
  1. C.C.S. – ‘Whole Lotta Love’
  1. Syd Dale – ‘Artful Dodger’
  1. John Gregory And His Orchestra – ‘Jaguar’
  1. Nick Ingman – ‘Down Home’
  1. Barbara Moore – ‘Steam Heat’
  1. Alan Parker – ‘Angels’
  1. Alan Moorhouse – ‘Face Up’

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