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At the dawn of the Seventies, British rock bands were either on the road, playing to the adoring masses or fooling around in hotel rooms with groupies and mud-sharks, or holed up for months on end recording their latest triple-album sets for stoned student hairies.
But while their older brothers were getting it off on that revolution stuff, young teens in the UK were glued to pop radio (which, prior to commercial stations opening in 1973, effectively meant Radio One and Luxembourg) as the backroom boys of the traditional pop industry assumed total control of the airwaves.
Shining a searchlight on the lost and often murky world of early Seventies British pop, the 3-CD set Bubblerock Is Here To Stay! crams 85 sub-three minute nuggets into four hours of innocent, hook-laden fun as we focus on the faceless studio creations, ubiquitous session musicians and carefully nurtured pop idols as they battled for the hearts, minds and pocket money of the nation’s pop kids.
The Chinnichap writing team collaborated with producer Phil Wainman on The Sweet’s early hits before hooking up with Mickie Most, who’d just started RAK Records. Machiavellian media maven Jonathan King launched the hit-or-bust UK Records, while Sixties stalwart John Carter adopted a different pseudonym every month in his search for continued single success. Aliases also masked the identity of studio-bound production/songwriting teams, including the pre-10cc Strawberry gang and Teenage Opera auteur Mark Wirtz.
All are featured herein, together with numerous doe-eyed youths that were being groomed by the men in suits for teen pop pin-up status: some of them made it (David Essex, The Bay City Rollers), and some of them didn’t (Simon Turner, Gary Warren, Ricky Wilde).
More than a dozen major hits of the era (none of which you’ll hear on the many Classic Rock/Pop radio stations of 2020) are joined by a huge number of bizarre one-offs: Vivian Stanshall’s idiosyncratic remake of Elvis hit ‘Suspicion’ (promoted by Stanshall and producer Keith Moon dressing up as Nazi SS officers), The Sad’s terrace anthem chant of rampant bisexual promiscuity, ‘My Boy Lollipop’ star Millie giving Nick Drake a ska-pop pasting, Bill Fay making an unlikely stab at pop stardom (with the previously unissued ‘I Can’t Hide’) and Jon Pertwee eyeing a Dr. Who-related novelty hit single.
Title: Bubblerock Is Here To Stay - British Pop Explosion 1970-73
Format: CD
Release Date: 23 Oct 2020
Artist: Various
Sku: 2601604
Catalogue No: CRSEG080T
Category: Pop
DISC 1
1. Groovin With Mr. Bloe Mr. Bloe
2. Its The Same Old Song The Weathermen
3. The Banner Man Blue Mink
4. Come On Round Paintbox
5. 17 Simon Turner
6. That Same Old Feeling Pickettywitch
7. Friend Of Mne Dr. Marigolds
8. Feedback Majority One
9. Pollution - Gingerbread
10. Neanderthal Man Hotlegs
11. I Fought The Law Posse
12. Alexandra Park (Palisades Park) Fumble
13. Emma Louise Stud Leather
14. Circus Girl Clifford T. Ward
15. My Little One The Marmalade
16. Gay Girl Jonathan King
17. Dirty Old Man Lieutenant Pigeon
18. Summer Feeling Paul Gabriel
19. Tawny Wood The Answers
20. My Little Girl Autumn
21. Hello, Hello, Hello Stormy Petrel
22. Turn Me On The Matchmakers
23. She La Ley The Secrets
24. Hello Goodbye Sparrow
25. Travellin Man Tristar Airbus
26. Sunday Girl Dunno
27. Top Ten Record Rick Price
28. Leap Up And Down St. Cecelia
29. Johnny Reggae- The Piglets
30. Dreams Are Ten A Penny Kincade
31. Wig-Wam Bam The Sweet
32. I Like It That Way The Tremeloes
33. It Aint Easy The Sad
34. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? Tina Harvey
35. Baby Walk Back Gumm
36. Popsicles And Icicles The Angelettes
37. Da Doo Ron Ron Grumble
38. Big Fat Oranguman Jungle Jim
39. Loop Di Love Shag
40. Dont Stick Stickers On My Paper Knickers X Certificate
41. Mayfair Millie
42. On The Dole Arthurs Mother
43. When You Are A King White Plains
44. Cowboy Convention California Brakemen
45. Lady Rose Mungo Jerry
46. Sweet Water Jeff Astle
47. Cecilia Harmony Grass
48. Its My Party Bubblerock
49. Rupert Jackie Lee
50. Crickets Peter Cowap
51. Rag-A-Bone Joe Pluto
52. Round And Round Ricky Wilde
53. Come Into My Heart Rusty Harness
54. Warm Me Festival
55. She Left I Died Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs featuring Jona Lewie
56. Hang On Sloopy - Sakkarin
57. Suspicion Vivian Stanshall & Gargantuan Chums
58. Golden Oldie Show Stardust
59. I Cant Hide Bill Fay
60. Harry The Earwig Pete Dello & Friends
61. The Rolly Pole Coaster Buggy
62. I Want To Go Back There Again B. J. Arnau
63. The Jet Song (When The Weekends Over) Design
64. Lamplight David Essex
65. California Calling Fickle Pickle
66. My Sweet Potato Butterwick
67. You Got A Good Thing Touchwood
68. Jennifer Please Gary Warren
69. Keep On Dancing Bay City Rollers
70. Hello Blinkers Kev & Lol
71. Our Jackies Getting Married Peter Skellern
72. Nursery Lane Christyan
73. Today Rich Tea
74. Samson And Delilah Middle Of The Road
75. You Gotta Have It Sometime Sparky
76. Who Is The Doctor? Jon Pertwee
77. Timothy Jones Rod Thomas
78. Todays A Tomorrow Crush
79. Dont You Know (She Said Hello) Butterscotch
80. Heart Of Stone Kenny
81. Living Right Next Door To An Angel Summer Wine
82. Beep Beep The Bumbles
83. Drivin Drivin High Noon
84. Yer Big Girls Blouse Flanelcat
85. Bubblerock Is Here To Stay Bubblerock
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