The Marmalade • Lovin 'Things (The Singles 1966-1968) (Flac + MP3)

Another imaginative edition from the sound guerrillas from Chu-Chu N'Dra Records . This time, the Scottish pop-psychedelic group under the dessert and gastronomic sign “The Marmalade” , which in translation from the Scottish dialect into Pomeranian Sanskrit, does not mean “marmalade” in the form we have become accustomed to since childhood, got into the range of their sonars . For us, it is primarily a culinary product in the form of slices or slices, made from fruits boiled with sugar, in which either pectin or agar-agar is used as a thickener. In pre-revolutionary Russiathis sweet delicacy was sometimes called "fruit jelly". However, in countries in which, by the will of fate, the aborigines living in them are forced to express themselves using the English dialect, the word "marmalade" means a thick jam made from citrus fruits (mainly from oranges).

The islanders living in Foggy Albion , in 1480 , borrowed, slightly distorted, the word "marmelade" from the French living on the continent, by which lovers of frogs and grape snails meant quince jam. The French stole this delicacy from the Portuguese, for whom the word "marmelo" means "quince". In turn, "marmelo" comes from Latin, where "melimelum" means "honey apple". And it got into Latin from Ancient Greece . Such is the cycle of marmalade across countries and historical eras.

But let's return to the most important British island, where our musical heroes come from, in order to understand what atmosphere surrounded them when they had the idea to name their creative association in honor of a high-calorie confectionery product, because, as you know, ideas are in the air.

In 1524 , the English polygamist king Henry the Eighth (whose gender-based crimes were sung in the twentieth century by the master of black and white keys Rick Wakeman ) received from his subject a "box of marmalade", which was then a very thick quince jam with the addition of honey, and apparently did not want to share the overseas "marzipan" with his debut wife Catherine of Aragon (he had half a dozen in total), as a result of which there was a crisis in the family relations of the monarch couple, which ended in divorce and exile of the former wife to Kimbleton Castle .

For the first time, its homegrown marmalade appeared in Great Britain only in the 18th century. It happened, in general, by accident. Once, a Spanish ship battered by a storm found shelter in the port of Dundee , now the fourth largest city in Scotland , in which about 150 thousand people live , and in those days its population was even less. On board the ship was a cargo of oranges from Seville , which were no longer the first freshness due to the delay in the journey due to the storm. In anticipation of easy money, the citrus fruits were bought in bulk by local pastry chef James Keiler, however, they did not sell them out because of the sharp, bitter taste. The covetous mother of the "marzipan", not wanting to throw away the goods unsuitable for sale in the trash can, cooked huge quantities of marmalade, using oranges finely chopped together with the peel instead of the traditional quince. However, in its manufacture, she used more water than in the original formulation, in order to obtain a product of a more liquid consistency, since then there is more of it. And this is not surprising, for there are legends about the stinginess of the inhabitants of Scotland . Once a Scotsman came to Colorado and dropped a half-shilling into a crevice - so the Grand Canyon was born . According to the accepted in Scotlandetiquette marmalade is traditionally consumed in the morning for breakfast. Preferably in the kitchen of the neighbors. It should be eaten a little, greedily raking up a handful from a large container, trying to fill your mouth as quickly as possible, and the eyes that crawl out of boundless happiness should be held with the fingers of your free hand.

As you probably already understood, marmalade in Scotland is not just food - it is practically a national dish. And since in a straight line from the homeland of British marmalade to the largest metropolis of Scotland , the city of Glasgow , where the group "The Marmalade" was formed , it is only 112 miles to go, it is not surprising that the guys decided to name their team after this popular delicacy in the "Scottish country" ... However, initially the band called itself "The Gaylords" , but with such an ambiguous name you can't go far, so four seven-inch vinyl discs released under this name just went down the drain. Therefore, in connection with the move to London inIn 1966 it was decided to change the signboard to something more attractive from a marketing point of view. This is how The Marmalade was born - everyone loves marmalade. Well, almost everything. And then things went smoothly. Even if not so fast.

From 1968 to 1972 , ten gummy singles made it to the top four decades of the British charts. Of these, seven are in the "top ten". Overseas, there were also some achievements: "Reflections of My Life" (# 10 Bilboard Hot 100 ) and "Rainbow" (# 51 Bilboard Hot 100 ). However, the band's unsurpassed commercial breakthrough was the cover version of the simple Beatles song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" , which in January 1969 was on the first step of the national list of pop hits. Thanks to the little thing borrowed from the main group of the country, "Marmalade"went down in history as the first Scottish group to conquer the top of the English singles list. Moreover, their variation turned out to be much more popular than the original, since for some reason the eminent Liverpudlians did not want to release this song on the "forty-five" in their homeland. It was released as a single only in Australia , Belgium , Germany , Austria , Sweden and Norway . And then in 1976 it was reissued in Canada and the United States .

While the ingenious four "flapped their ears" squandering the hard earned millions of British tugriks with the help of the corporation "Apple Corps." Ltd ” , the Scottish“ gummies ”immediately took advantage of the opportunity to earn extra money on other people's song masterpieces. As a result, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" performed by them was sold around the world with a circulation of over a million copies, of which 500 thousand copies were sold in the UK .

The irony of fate is that it was the “gummy” version of this composition by Lennon and McCartney (although in fact it belongs exclusively to the pen of the cloned Paul ) that I heard first, and it immediately became one of the mega-hits of my school time. When I heard the original on the Music for Dancing program on the wave of Voice of America , it seemed to me a pitiful parody of the fantastic action movie by The Marmalade , which, along with The Monkees and Christie, was one of the coolest teams I heard at that time. The primary source seemed to me secondary in relation to the copy, which was then for me the original, copied by some clever "bugs". However, replacing one McCartney with another is much more difficult than stealing someone else's song from the future. When you deal with space and time twisted into knots, it would be too rash to be absolutely sure of anything. Tested in practice.

And finally, a couple of words directly about the publication itself - this is a chronological collection published by the group in Britain "forty-five" in the period from 1966 to 1968. Well, that's - like everything.

Tracks:

• 01. It's All Leading Up To Saturday Night 2'18

(Stevens)

• 02. Wait A Minute Baby 2'09

(Campbell - McAleese)

• 03. Can't Stop Now 2'07

(Kellaher - Wood - Fitzpatrick )

• 04. There Ain't No Use In Hanging On 2'00

(T. MacAleese - W. Campbell)

• 05. I See The Rain 3'45

(W. Campbell - T. MacAleese)

• 06. Laughing Man 3 '22

(W. Campbell)

• 07. Man In A Shop 3'18

(W. Campbell)

• 08. Cry (The Shoob Doroorie Song) 2'38

(W. Campbell - D. Ford)

• 09. Lovin 'Things 3'03

(Schroeck - Loring)

• 10. Hey Joe 3'58

(Traditional) (W. Campbell - P. Fairley - T. McAlease - G. Knight - A. Whitehead)

• 11. Wait For Me Marianne 3'20

(Howard Blaikley)

• 12. Mess Around 3'08

(Campbell - McAleese )

• 13. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3'01

(Lennon - McCartney)

• 14. Chains 2'33

(W. Campbell)

Produced By Mike Smith

℗ 1966 (01, 02)

℗ 1967 (03-08)

℗ 1968 (09-14)

The Marmalade:

• Dean Ford - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica

• Patrick Fairley - vocals, 6 string bass / rhythm guitars

• William Junior Campbell - vocals, guitars, keyboards

• Raymond Duffy - drums (01, 02))

• Graham Knight - vocals, bass

• Alan Whitehead - drums (03-14)

Extracted From Deserter's Songs Blog

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