Name: Bubblerock is Here To Stay Volume Two, The British Pop Explosion
Brand: Various

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CRSEG111T

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-02-03

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Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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5013929191129

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

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Classic

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Grapefruit

Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.

Second volume of early 70s British studio pop hits, misses and oddities. Issued in 2020, Bubblerock Is Here To Stay shone a spotlight on the lost and often murky world of early 70s British Pop, a scene largely controlled by old-fashioned, Denmark Street- based production / songwriting teams as the Rock world concentrated on the album market.

Another four-hour 3CD set, Bubblerock Is Here To Stay Volume Two treads the same neglected path to deliver more mouldy old dough from the era’s backroom boys: crack songwriting teams (Cook/Greenaway, Carter/Lewis, Chinn/Chapman), hit-or-bust producers (Phil Wainman, Jonathan King), session singers (Tony Burrows, Sue And Sunny), and writers-turned-performers (Lynsey de Paul, Barry Blue, Phillip Goodhand- Tait).

Featuring a number of hits that define the era but have long been swept under the carpet of critical/collector cool: Slade’s first major single, Brotherhood Of Man’s anthemic ‘United We Stand’, Lieutenant Pigeon’s novelty chart-topper plus Top Ten 45s from de Paul, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Middle Of The Road, The Pipkins, Greyhound, Judge Dread, Marmalade and Blue Mink.

Including numerous fascinating obscurities: Jesus Christ Superstar lyricist Tim Rice channels his inner Del Shannon, the mysterious Kidrock pick up the kinder-pop baton from Mark Wirtz, Raw Holly cut an LP of Buddy Holly songs in a more contemporary musical setting, and a Midlands-based harmony pop act look to break their chart duck by raiding The Grateful Dead songbook.

Joined by late 60s underground renegades attempting to snag a hit single (Fairfield Parlour, Velvet Opera) and sundry one-off studio aliases (Smoky Forbes, Helicopter, the Elaine Paige-assisted Hooters), ‘Bubblerock Is Here To Stay Volume Two’ is another opportunity to wallow in the sounds of what one reviewer of the first volume warily described as “dubious pop”. Dubious pop?! Gimme dat ding!

1 SHAKE A TAIL SUZY – Barry Green 2 SUGAR ME – Lynsey De Paul 3 NO MATTER HOW I TRY – Gilbert O’Sullivan 4 WALKING THROUGH THE BLUE GRASS – Stavely Makepeace 5 SUNNY, HONEY GIRL – Fluff 6 GOOD MORNING FREEDOM – Blue Mink 7 IT’S A TALL ORDER FOR A SHORT GUY – Jonathan King 8 AFTER DARK – P. C. Kent 9 DRUGTAKER – Drugtaker 10 VIETNAM ROSE – Whichwhat 11 WELL ALRIGHT – Raw Holly 12 RADANCER – Marmalade 13 DAD YOU SAVED THE WORLD – White Plains 14 MAGICAL SPIEL – Barry Ryan with The Candy Choir 15 MY BOYFRIEND’S BACK – The Paper Dolls 16 ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Iain Campbell 17 IRON HORSE – Christie 18 ROLY POLY – Stamford Bridge 19 HIGH INTO THE SKY – Roger James 20 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL – The Sweet 21 ROCK-A-BYE BLUES – Kidrock 22 THE PRICE OF LOVE – The Big Three 23 MY FRIEND JOHN – Shape 24 TELEPHONE LINE – Main Attraction 25 UNITED WE STAND – The Brotherhood Of Man

1 RUNAWAY – Huddersfield Transit Authority 2 GOOD TIMES – Alan Lake 3 LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL – Iron Cross 4 NINE BY NINE – John Dummer’s Famous Music Band 5 COZ I LUV YOU – Slade 6 BIG SIX – Judge Dread 7 SUNNY SLEEPS LATE – 22nd Street 8 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (WIMOWEH) – Dave Newman 9 THE WAY I FEEL – Complex 10 RIGHT WHEEL, LEFT HAMMER, SHAM – The Tremeloes 11 WORKING IN THE CITY – Chain Reaction 12 TIP OF MY TONGUE – Brotherly Love 13 SOLEY SOLEY – Middle Of The Road 14 TOKAIDO LINE – Portrait 15 UNCLE JOHN’S BAND – The Montanas 16 RULE BRITANNIA – The U.K.’s 17 BORN ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY – Paul Ryan 18 EVERYBODY GO HOME, THE PARTY’S OVER – Clodagh Rodgers 19 TEASE ME – Tiger Sue 20 FALLOUT – Five Day Rain 21 YOU KNOW IT FEELS RIGHT – Liverpool Echo 22 I BELONG TO YESTERDAY – Helicopter 23 YOU ARE – Phillip Goodhand-Tait 24 DO YOU – Paul Kent 25 SHE IS STILL A MYSTERY – Summer Wine 26 I REALLY MEAN YOU – Kincade 27 THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON – Nemo

1 GIMME DAT DING – The Pipkins 2 29 YEARS TO DOOMSDAY – Bruce Spelman 3 RAINBOW CHASER – Pica 4 JULIAN THE HOOLIGAN (edited single version) – Rockin’ Horse 5 DOWN DOWN DOWN – Autumn 6 GET READY FOR LOVE – Paintbox 7 YOU’RE READY NOW – Sons And Lovers 8 ALRIGHT – Bay City Rollers 9 SWEAT, DUST AND RED WINE – Deep Feeling 10 MY KIND OF MUSIC – Smoky Forbes 11 GIMME SHELTER – Birds Of A Feather 12 BRING ALL THE YOUNG MEN BACK HOME – Blackwater Junction 13 SAUSALITO – Gary Benson 14 BORDEAUX ROSE – Fairfield Parlour 15 JAM JAM – American Jam Band 16 BLACK AND WHITE – Greyhound 17 SHE KEEPS GIVING ME THESE FEELINGS – Velvet Opera 18 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – Simon Turner 19 HURDY GURDY – Muff 20 ONE MORE MILE TO FREEDOM – John Carter 21 OOH LA LA – Dave MacTavish 22 YOU BETTER RUN – Boots 23 LADY SADIE – Hotlegs 24 ROCK ‘A’ BYE – Holy Mackerel 25 SAN JOSE – Shakane 26 TOSSING AND TURNING – Hooters 27 MOULDY OLD DOUGH – Lieutenant Pigeon