Various Artists - Hello Everyone; Popsike Sparks From Denmark Street 1968-70 (@320)

 

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Various Artists - Hello Everyone; Popsike Sparks From Denmark Street 1968-70

Between 1968 and 1970, some of the finest, most obscure British psychedelic pop singles of the era escaped on the Spark label, the newly-inaugurated recording arm of long-established publishers Southern Music. Recorded in the basement studio of the companys Denmark Street premises, these tracks often featured the same cabal of musicians and songwriters, leading to a homogenous in-house style that perfectly encapsulates the late 1960's British pop-psych studio sound. The best of Sparks impressive roster is now collected on CD for the first time on Hello Everyone: Popsike Sparks from Denmark Street 1968-70, which assembles highly-prized, highly-priced 45s from pre-Rare Bird band Fruit Machine, Gene Latter, post-Sorrows outfit the Eggy, the New Generation (subsequently to become the Sutherland Brothers), the Dennis Wheatley-inspired Icarus and both sides of the magnificent and astonishingly rare single by Sir Ching I (only one stock copy known to exist). Also included are exquisite Brit popsike singles from Timothy Blue, Just William, both sides of the superb John Carter/Russ Alquist collaboration The Laughing Man/Midsummer Dreaming and two sensational offerings from Eartha Kitt during her brief and unlikely immersion in late Sixties hippy chick chic.

 

Tracklist:

 

1.       Hello Everyone - Sir Ching I

2.       Room At The Top Of The Stairs - Timothy Blue

3.       Smokey Blue's Away - A New Generation

4.       The Laughing Man - John Carter & Russ Alquist

5.       Baby Come Back To Me - Simon De Lacy

6.       The Wall - The Fruit Machine

7.       Heartbreaker - The Baby

8.       Cherrywood Green - Just William

9.       You're Still Mine - The Eggy

10.   Police Is Here - A New Generation

11.   Follow Me - The Fruit Machine

12.   She Won't See The Light - Timothy Blue

13.   House For Sale Val Mckenna - Val McKenna

14.   Sadie & Her Magic Mr Galahad - The New Generation

15.   Midsummer Dreaming - John Carter & Russ Alquist

16.   Hooky - The Eggy

17.   Eartha Kitt - Eartha Kitt

18.   Michael Blues - The Baby

19.   Hiawatha Mini Ha Ha Love - Sir Ching I

20.   The Old Iron Bell - Gene Latter

21.   Cuddly Toy - The Fruit Machine

22.   Mr C - A New Generation

23.   The Devil Rides Out - Icarus

24.   Give A Hand To The Clown - Carlew Choir

25.   Digger - The New Generation

26.   I'm Alone Today - The Fruit Machine

27.   Hurdy Gurdy Man - Eartha Kitt

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