All The Love In The World - West Coast Consortium - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

• Complete 3CD anthology of harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with ‘All The Love In The World’. • Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue. After being signed by producer and songwriter Tony Macaulay, North London harmony pop group West Coast Consortium issued a handful of sophisticated, lushly-orchestrated late Sixties singles for Pye. In the spring of 1969, they reached the No. 22 spot in the UK singles chart with the ballad ‘All The Love In The World’, issued under the abbreviated name Consortium. Unable to build on that success, the band splintered in 1972, although lead singer Robbie Fair would put together an entirely new Consortium line-up a few years later. A 3CD set, ‘All The Love In The World’ features all of their Pye releases as well as subsequent recordings for the short-lived Trend label and no less than four acetate-only 1967-1969 albums recorded in the band’s home studio. These demo recordings reveal them to have been a garage psychedelic pop band at heart, utilising Mellotron, fuzz guitar and Vox Continental organ while also suggesting a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of ‘Smiley Smile’/’Friends’-era Beach Boys. While some of these recordings have been issued before, this package sees the first-ever release of twenty additional tracks to provide the first-ever complete anthology of a band that deserve better than to be remembered as one-hit wonders.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Some Other Someday
2. Looking Back
3. Indigo Spring
4. Listen To the Man
5. Colour Sergeant Lillywhite
6. Lady From Baltimore
7. All the Love In the World
8. Spending My Life Saying Goodbye
9. When the Day Breaks
10. The Day the Train Never Came
11. Beggar Man
12. Cynthia Serenity
13. I Don't Want Her Any More
14. The House Upon the Hill
15. Melanie Cries Alone
16. Copper Coloured Years
17. Annabella (Aka Annabella Umbrella)
18. Tell Me, My Friend
19. Sunday In the Park
20. To Please Louise (Tony Macaulay Production Version)
21. We All Love You Baby
22. Ginny Stop (Don't Go 'Way) (Alternative Version)
23. Never Look Back
24. Time Will Tell On You

Disc 2

1. All the Love In the World (Demo Version)
2. Willow Wood
3. When the Day Breaks (Demo Version)
4. Cynthia Serenity (Demo Version)
5. Spending My Life Saying Goodbye (Demo Version)
6. Ginny Stop (Don't Go 'Way)
7. The Elastic Band
8. Copper Coloured Years (Demo Version)
9. Oh! What a Feeling
10. To Please Louise
11. Lady From Baltimore (Demo Version)
12. Rest of Your Life (Down Lonely Street)
13. One Six Two
14. One Day the Train Never Came (Demo Version)
15. Soldiers In the Rain
16. This Poor Man
17. Live and Let Live
18. Amanda Jane
19. House On a Hill (Demo Version)
20. Once Upon a Time
21. What Are They All Singing About Today?
22. Can't Wait To Wait For the Evening
23. I Don't Want Her Anymore (Demo Version)
24. I'll Always Love You
25. Scarlet River
26. Cindy In Love

Disc 3

1. The Fire Fighter
2. Gone From Me
3. Crime Detector Hector
4. Windmill Hill
5. Money Matters
6. Rings and Things
7. Fairground Playboy
8. All Night Dancing
9. Mr. Umbrella Man
10. Holding On
11. Santa Monica Bay
12. In Search of Fair Weather
13. Whatever Became of Emily Jane?
14. Leave Your Homework Till Sunday
15. Here Comes Lorraine
16. Homewrd Bound the Sailor (Growing Old)
17. Madeline
18. A Walk In the Park
19. Come On Into the Warm
20. Save Me Rosemary
21. Take a Round Trip
22. Too Close For Comfort
23. Sweeter Than Ever
24. Bye Bye Birdie
25. Aimie (Sing Your Song For Me)
26. Philadelphia

Label: Grapefruit | Origin: Import