The Sound Gallery

Alan Hawkshaw - "Girl In A Sports Car"

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Scamp

Tracks:

1. Oh, Calcutta! - Dave Pell
2. Black Rite - Mandingo
3. Punch Bowl - Alan Parker
4. Night Rider - Alan Hawkshaw
5. Riveiera Affair - Neil Richardson
6. Jet Stream - John Gregory
7. Half Forgotten Daydreams
8. Jaguar - John Gregory
9. Life of Leisure - Keith Mansfield
10. Girl in a Sportscar - Alan Hawkshaw
11. Young Scene - Keith Mansfield
12. It's All About the Co-Op Now - Alan Hawkshaw
13. Funky Fever
14. Shout About Pepsi - Denny Wright & the Hustlers
15. Headhunter - Mandingo
16. Blarney's Stones - Alan Hawkshaw
17. Earthmen - Paddy Kingsland
18. I Feel the Earth Move - John Keating, Johnny Keating
19. Penthouse Suite - Syd Dale
20. Snake Pit - Mandingo
21. Boogie Juice - Brian Bennett
22. Detectives - Alan Tew
23. Jesus Christ Superstar - Johnny Keating
24. Music to Drive By - Joe Loss Concertium

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The first volume of The Sound Gallery represents the headwaters of the British easy-listening scene. Each song on this one is a prize waiting to be discovered. You will not be disappointed.

...a breathtaking musical exhibition of the finest quality recordings that will alternately excite and thrill, soothe and relax today's discerning music lover.

"The Sound Gallery is a visionary compilation of music's lost genre. Here are tunes, overtures and background music from a time when the whole world was trying to be hip..." -- Daily Telegraph

"Infant synthesizers are taken to the outer limits and brass, wah-wah and bongos create a brooding sense of sex and espionage...****" --Q Magazine

"Extraordinary" -- NME

This album is the first in a planned series that will explore the world of some of the most exciting mood music ever recorded. Mostly originating from EMI's flagship 'Studio Two' label, augmented by offerings from the United Artists label and the KPM Recorded Music Library, 'The Sound Gallery' features tracks from albums recorded over an eight year period from 1968 to 1976. These tracks were recorded using the best available studios (more often than not EMI's Abbey Road Studio Two -- home to nearly all of the unforgettable Cilla Black recordings) with the best session men -- and using the most advanced recording techniques of the day. Tired myopic tastemakers of yesteryear had long dismissed these records but time has now gone full circle and I am very happy to see that these legendarily fabulous recordings are once more available for all to enjoy. -- Jerry Cornelius London February 1995

THE SOUND GALLERY - The Critics' Choice
'If I'd had tuppence for every frenzy induced by these tracks I'd have over a Guinea by now' -- Matthew Glamorre -- Smashing

'The Young Scene -- 'This leering meisterwerk conjures up visions of both Sid James drooling through a bathing beauties contest and the beer-and-fags genius of Stan Bowles, Frank Worthington et al. "Of its time" shall we say' -- Bob Stanley -- St Etienne

'The only way to be fashionable is to be totally out of fashion' -- Gene Simmons -- Kiss

Night Rider -- 'Grooving over rooftops, swinging like a pendulum and all because the lady loves a big organ solo' -- Ben Addison --Corduroy

'A pipe smoking, nylong wearing, police grooving sensation' -- Scott Addison -- Corduroy

'An out of this world slice of intergalactic cheese' -- Frazer Moss -- Professor Head

'If this album were a car it would be an Aston Martin' -- Johnny Dean -- Menswear

'It's here because you're there' -- Barry McCann -- Studio Two Marketing Director

'A music for pleasure classic incorporating enough flutes, horns and wah wah to make your ears stand to attention' -- The Karminsky Experience Inc.

'No point for needless intellectualism' -- Carl Puttnam -- Cud

'I can think of no other album that has brought me such continuous pleasure than this outrageously funny and versatile one' -- Jason King

The Sound Gallery team comprises of the following three devoted experts:

Martin Green
One of Britain's most in-demand DJ's, Martin Green is one of the founding fathers of the world-famous 'Smashing' club. Martin has been DJing since the age of 15 when he played his father's Studio Two collection at his cousin's Barmitzvah. Well-studied with City and Guilds in Tailoring, Plumbing and Home Economics, Martin is considered by some to be an 'all-rounder' but prefers to be thought of as 'deep'. Martin is 27 and his favourite colour is green.

Patrick Whitaker
Known affectionately as 'The Quadfather' for his indulgence in four channelled recordings, Patrick Whitaker first entered the world of Studio Two via EMI's issue of SQ encoded discs and eight track cartridges. Patrick proudly owns every quadraphonic disc issued by a UK record company and is currently searching for the elusive New Zealand eight track quad issue of 'Mandingo II'. Paddy, 29, is one half of top fashion design duo 'Whitaker Malem' and his favourite colour is fawn.

Tristram Penna
An EMI staffer of eight years, Tris' first Studio Two album was 'The Sound Of Magic' by Franck Pourcel, bought for him as a tenth birthday present. He runs the A&R area for EMI's SMD division and would like to hear Strings featured on every record release EMI makes. His heroes are Serge Gainsbourg, Patrick Troughton and Dirk Bogarde. He also digs Pasolini, Kenneth Williams and Swingers. Tris is 33 and would like it to be known that he has no favourite colour.