Marty Wilde - Marty. A Lifetime In Music 1957-2019. (@320)

 

Marty Wilde - Marty. A Lifetime In Music 1957-2019.

• One of the first generation of British rock’n’roll stars, Marty Wilde celebrates his 80th birthday (April 15th) with a UK tour and this very personal quartet of discs from across a musical career which spans over six decades.

• During the late 1950s, Marty was one of the biggest UK pop stars, with a string of Top 10 hits for Philips Records, on which he was often backed by The Wildcats: ‘Endless Sleep’ (No. 4), ‘Donna’ (No. 3), ‘A Teenager In Love’ (No. 2), ‘Sea Of Love’ (No. 3) and ‘Bad Boy’ (No. 7).

• As the Sixties dawned, Marty continued to enjoy chart success while evolving his sound away from American rock’n’roll: ‘Johnny Rocco’ (No. 30), ‘The Fight’ (No. 47), ‘Little Girl’ (No. 16), ‘Rubber Ball’ (No. 9), ‘Hide And Seek’ (No. 47), ‘Tomorrow’s Clown’ (No. 33), ‘Jezebel’ (No. 19) and ‘Ever Since You Said Goodbye’. In the mid-60s, he also recorded as folk-pop trio The Wilde Three with wife Joyce (ex-Vernons Girls) and future Moody Blue star Justin Hayward.

• During the late 1960s, Marty became a hit songwriter for other artists, penning originals for The Casuals (‘Jesamine’), Status Quo (‘Ice In The Sun’) and Lulu (‘I’m A Tiger’). While his own career continued apace throughout the 1970s, Marty was also heavily involved with the launch of daughter Kim’s career in the early 1980s. In recent years, Marty has fronted one of Britain’s most respected rock’n’roll bands.

• ‘MARTY’ is a unique celebration of Marty’s long and illustrious career. While Discs One and Two are devoted to all of his early A’s and B’s (including the aforementioned hits), Disc Three unveils a hitherto unissued Radio Luxembourg performance from 1959 while Disc Four boasts a whole CD’s worth of previously unheard demo recordings handpicked from Marty’s own archive.

• Beautifully presented with remastered sound, detailed sleeve-notes and a booklet awash with images from across the years, MARTY perfectly commemorates the musical legacy of one of Britain’s most enduring talents who was awarded an MBE for his achievements.

Tracklist:

DISC 1: MARTY WILDE AND HIS WILDCATS - SINGLES A’S AND B’S

1. HONEYCOMB

2. WILD CAT

3. LOVE BUG CRAWL

4. AFRAID OF LOVE

5. OH OH, I’M FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN

6. SING, BOY, SING

7. ENDLESS SLEEP

8. HER HAIR WAS YELLOW

9. MY LUCKY LOVE

10. MISERY’S CHILD

MARTY WILDE – SINGLES A’S AND B’S

11. THE FIRE OF LOVE

12. NO-ONE KNOWS

13. DONNA

14. LOVE-A LOVE-A LOVE-A

15. A TEENAGER IN LOVE

16. DANNY

17. SEA OF LOVE

18. TEENAGE TEARS

19. BAD BOY

20. IT'S BEEN NICE

21. JOHNNY ROCCO

22. MY HEART AND I

23. THE FIGHT (STEREO)

24. JOHNNY AT THE CROSSROADS (STEREO)

25. I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU (STEREO)

26. ANGRY

27. LITTLE GIRL

28. YOUR SEVENTEENTH SPRING (STEREO)

29. MY BABY IS GONE (STOP THIS WORLD)

30. AMAPOLA (STEREO)

31. AUTUMN LEAVES (STEREO)

32. RUBBER BALL

33. LIKE MAKIN' LOVE

34. WHEN DOES IT GET TO BE LOVE

35. YOUR LOVING TOUCH

36. JETSTREAM

 

DISC 2: MARTY WILDE - SINGLES A’S AND B’S

 

1. HIDE AND SEEK

2. CRAZY DREAMS

3. TOMORROW'S CLOWN

4. THE HELLIONS

5. COME RUNNING

6. EV’RYONE

7. JEZEBEL

8. DON'T RUN AWAY

9. EVER SINCE YOU SAID GOODBYE

10. SEND ME THE PILLOW YOU DREAM ON

11. HONESTLY SINCERE

12. ONE LAST KISS

13. A LOT OF LIVIN' TO DO

14. LONELY AVENUE

15. BRAND NEW LOVE

16. SAVE YOUR LOVE FOR ME

17. BLESS MY BROKEN HEART

18. WHEN DAY IS DONE

19. I CAN'T HELP THE WAY THAT I FEEL

20. KISS ME (as Marty Wilde & The Wildcats)

21. MY, WHAT A WOMAN (as Marty Wilde & The Wildcats)

22. NOBODY BUT YOU (DEMO)

23. MONEY (LIVE TV PERFORMANCE)

THE WILDE THREE – SINGLES A’S AND B’S

24. SINCE YOU'VE GONE (as The Wilde Three)

25. JUST AS LONG (as The Wilde Three)

26. I CRIED (as The Wilde Three)

27. WELL WHO'S THAT (as The Wilde Three)

BONUS TRACKS

28. BORN TO ROCK AND ROLL (LIVE)

29. MOVE IT (with Brian Bennett, Hank Marvin & Bruce Welch) (LIVE)

30. MILK COW BLUES (with Albert Lee & His Band) (LIVE)

31. THE PRICE OF LOVE (with Kim & Roxanne Wilde) (LIVE)

32. I AM AN ASTRONAUT

33. LULLABY (RE-RECORDING)

 

DISC 3: RADIO LUXEMBOURG (1959)

 

1. MY BABE

2. BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY

3. A TEENAGER IN LOVE

4. GO GO GO (MOVE ON DOWN THE LINE)

5. MY HAPPINESS

6. I FORGOT TO REMEMBER

7. I’M IN LOVE AGAIN

8. FEVER

9. MY BABY LEFT ME

10. TROUBLE

11. INSTRUMENTAL

12. DANNY

13. HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU

14. BLUE SUEDE SHOES

15. HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

16. I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT

17. I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING

18. RIP IT UP

19. DONNA

20. OH BOY

21. MEAN WOMAN BLUES

BONUS TRACKS

22. CATERPILLAR (as Cold Fly)

23. YESTERDAY STARTED FOR JUDY (as Cold Fly)

24. ALL NIGHT GIRL

25. SHE'S A MOVER

26. I LOVE YOU

27. IN DREAMS

28. HARD TO FIND, EASY TO LOSE

29. SEA OF HEARTBREAK

30. DON'T WANNA BE THE ONE

31. ONE SUCH AS I (DEMO)

 

Tracks 1-21, 31 previously unissued

 

DISC 4: PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED DEMO RECORDINGS

 

1. THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS

2. FEEL IN THE MOOD

3. SLAP BANG

4. A LAY-ABOUT’S LAMENT

5. WASN'T IT A HANDSOME PUNCH-UP

6. POLARIS

7. YOUR KIND OF LOVE

8. IS IT TRUE

9. MY, WHAT A WOMAN

10. SINCE YOU'VE GONE (as The Wilde Three)

11. JUST AS LONG (as The Wilde Three)

12. I JUST WANNA DANCE (as The Wilde Three)

13. HARMONICA

14. THE BEGINNING OF THE END

15. DADDY WHAT'LL HAPPEN TO ME

16. ALL I CAN SAY IS GOODBYE

17. JESAMINE

18. ELIZABETH DREAMS

19. THROUGH MY TELESCOPE

20. RIFLES AND FIREWATER

21. IT'S SO UNREAL

22. IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

23. SANTA MARIE

24. HALFWAY TO WHERE

25. SUNNY ST LOUIS

26. A PLACE IN MY HEART

27. SHEY SHEY

28. LEAPING ABOUT

29. JUNGLE JIM

30. TRY

31. I'M A MOVER

32. IT'S A HANG UP WORLD (by Marty & Joyce Wilde)

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