Beach Baby

Won't Somebody Help Me

What Became of Me

Surfer Queen

The First Day of Your Life

Long Time Gone

Funny How Love Can Be

Dreams Are Ten a Penny

Bobby Dazzler

The Disco Kid

I Was Always a Joker

Beach Baby (Single Version, Full-Length)

Both Sides of the Story

Lavender Man

One Good Time

Born to Be a Rebel

Baby Doll Love

Chinese Christmas

Going on

A Quiet Life

Loving

Beach Baby (Single Version, Edit)

I Was a Star

Ain't No Love

Child's Play

Old Time Love

Baby Blue

Life Is Whatever You Want It to Be

Carry on Singing My Song

Smiles on a Summer Night

Seven Ten to Nowhere

Autumn Love

And She Cried

Brook Street (Jingle)

Too Many Golden Oldies (Single Version)

Make It on My Own

Broken Toy

Lisa (I Always Loved You)

Birds Dream Topping (Jingle)

Song on the Wind

The Saddest Word

Ocean of Glass

Bienvenido

Sunlight Detergent (Jingle)

Gimme Little Sign

Average Rainfall

Please Yourself (Rowntrees Tots) (Jingle)

We Like to Dance (Milk Is Our Way) (Jingle)

Disco Kid

Midnite Music

Singer Sewing Machines (Jingle)

Oh California

I'm in Love Again

Kit-E-Kat Munchies (Jingle)

The Sound of Summer

Let's Go British

Caledonian (Jingle)

Sidewalk Johnny

Midnite Music

Vauxhall Chevette

(Whatever You Want It to Be) #1 (Jingle)

Crawfords Cheddars (Jingle)

If I Don't Have You

Birds Eye Cod (Jingle)

Sunday Child

Greasy Dollar Bill

Ever Ready Batteries (Jingle)

Top Forty Angel

Typhoo 1 (Jingle)

Typhoo 2 (Jingle)

Silver Surfer

Silvikrin (Jingle)

Coney Island

Malibu (Jingle)

I Can't Believe My Eyes

Wake Up America

Right Guard Deodorant (Jingle)

The Song Was Wrong

Woman Magazine (Jingle)

Shine on Me Woman

One More Mile to Freedom

Cracker Jack Popcorn (Jingle)

Vauxhall Chevette

(Whatever You Want It to Be) #2 (Jingle)

Too Many Golden Oldies (Full-Length Version)

Item UPC: 5013929192423

Date First Available: January 27, 2023

Label: GRAPEFRUIT

First Class

Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings (Uk)

Name: First Class - Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings (Uk)
Brand: First Class
SKU: 5013929192423
Price: 33.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

ABOUT THE ALBUM

First-ever complete 3CD anthology of 'Beach Baby' harmony pop hitmakers. Featuring both First Class LPs, all singles, pseudonymous releases and numerous previously unreleased tracks including advertising jingles and songs from an aborted 1974 musical. There weren't too many classic British pop singles issued in 1974, but harmony pop epic 'Beach Baby' bucked the trend, reaching the UK Top 20 and becoming an even bigger hit in America, peaking at the No. 4 spot. Arguably the ultimate Beach Boys tribute, 'Beach Baby' introduced a new name, The First Class - actually veteran pop hitmaker and songwriter John Carter with the aid of Chas Mills and lead singer Tony Burrows. While other singers and musicians adopted the name to front their music in public, the Carter/Burrows/Mills combination continued to record new First Class material, including a self-titled LP that is quite possibly the finest, most ambitious British harmony pop album of the 70s. The First Class had a couple of follow-up minor hit singles in America that failed to attract the same attention at home, where second album 'SST' (not even released in the US) sank without trace. By the end of the 70s, Carter had effectively laid the name to rest. A 3CD set in a lavish digipak package featuring a new 5000 word essay, 'Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings' is the definitive document of both The First Class and John Carter's myriad overlapping activities during the second half of the 70s. It contains an embarrassment of riches: both albums, all singles, out-takes, pseudonymous releases, a huge number of previously unissued TV/radio advertising jingles and, most fascinatingly of all, seven previously-unheard 1974 demos for the musical Bobby Dazzler, abandoned when the single of the same name unfathomably failed to chart.

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