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To Be Or Not To Be, Island ISTA VARIOUS 6. Producers: Lionel Conway and Risky Business. Virgin V2302. Budget Original soundtrack Roger Watson, Those who find Another strong release which stands Brooks the front-of-comera ham a as a compilation (if a rather limited lot less enjoyable than Brooks the one, since there is a lot of Tangerine The Very Best Of Alma Cogan. VARIOUS razzamatazz film music used pur- director will probably be overruled Dream, and little of Bob Sogcr, Jeff Music For Pleasure MFP 41 5643. Scarface. MCA MCF 3198. posefully by Brooks, or even the by those who will love the film as un- Beck, Prince, Journey and Phil The Very Best Of Ruby Murray. Producer: Giorgio Moroder. more sophisticated (though more demanding Hollywood farce. The Collins) as well as a soundtrack LP. MFP 41 5644. Definitely strong enough to stand timid) modern conceptual film- soundtrack is certainly perfect for Film grossed $80m in six months in alone as a pop LP release — scores. The film should be big and the film, but with its chunks of the US, and opens here on March 9 The Very Best Of Ronnie Hilton. Moroder's production is as slick as this LP should do very well. dialogue and idiosyncratic songs can — boosted by national TV ads and MFP 41 5645. ever, and there are several tracks have little appeal except to the film other promo. One to keep an eye on. which stand a good chance as audience (that, however, is likely to The Very Best Of Michael singles. Plenty of variety, and light MEL BROOKS & ANNE be very big). Holliday. MFP 41 5646. years away from the old schmaltzy BANCROFT The Very Best Of Malcolm Vaughan. MFP41 5647. MORAZ - BRUFORD Comprehensive sleeve notes add to 20 Golden Hits Of 1957. MFP 41 Music for Piano and Drums. EG. the 's strong appeal. 5648 EGED 33, Producers; artists. 20 Number Ones Of The Fifties. Another example of EC's talent for General ORANGE JUICE MFP 41 5649 coming up with unusual, high- Texas Fever. Polydor OJMLP 1. quality for the discerning Producer: Dennis Bovell. Although The Goon Show. MFP 41 5650 few. Patrick and Bill, with only the OJ is now down to two (Edwyn instruments mentioned in the title, huge European hit last year with clear case of never mind the con- Collins and Zeke Manyika) this is the AFTER ITS success with Fifties offer pure, unadorned, thoughtful, Midnight Blue, which registered cept, here are the songs — and final LP with the previous four- nostalgia packages from the US artistic and highly enjoyable music in only mild sales in the UK. Her new they're all good (topped with DMM strong line-up, and deserves to be Capitol and MCA catalogues, a set of tracks which show their LP, produced by Tim Smit and sound quality on vinyl version). Poor favourably received by fans — for its budget company MfP comes nearer interest in different kinds of music, Charlie Skarbeck, who have also chart performance of Best of APP content and also for its price (low to home with these eight albums and which manage to sound both written all the material, is in the album bodes ill, but this should do price sixtrack mini-LP), It's a long spotlighting the artists and music of impromptu and polished at the same easy-listening mould and should reasonably well. time since the last hit, but Bridge is a the pre-rock and roll era in the UK. time. pick up Radio Two airplay. Whether contender now, so LP could sell well Most of these compilations are that can be converted into hard on the strength of that. drawn from EMI's Columbia, record sales remains to be seen. Parlophone and His Master's Voice RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO GENERAL/VARIOUS STEFAN BEDNARCZYK vaults, and re-instate into catalogue Reunion. CBS 25804. Producers: Atlantic Records — History Of Live At The Morgue. ASV ALA artists who have been missing for artist, Paul Serrano. The reunion Rhythm And Blues Vocal Groups. 3005. Producer: Nathan Joseph. too long. took place 17 years after Lewis's hit Records (WEA) 90132-1. Manhatten The sleeve note claims Bednarczyk The Cogan LP is timely, in that parade heyday, and features his PROJECT Transfer's Tim Hauser has spent as virtually another Noel Coward, current day artists like Mari Wilson successes such as Hang On Sloopy , Arista 206 100. several months compiling this 12- but a latter-day Tom Lehrer is more have re-generated interest in "the and The In Crowd. Still pleasant Producer: Alan Parsons. An track LP which features just a few of accurate. He is reminiscent of Lehrer girl with the laugh in her voice", as listening, although without its excellent AOR album, about as pop the gems from Atlantic Records' in both style and content, she was known. The two Fifties hits original edge and the Lewis piano as APP is likely ever to get (or vast catalogue. Several of the R&B accompanies himself well on piqno, compilations are a good reminder of sounds uncertain in places. Parsons' appreciators would want). tracks here were covered by white and displays Lehrain wit and what UK popular music was all Nostalgia value for yesterday's steps forward to do US acts, who in most cases went on irreverence with songs sniping at the about immediately prior to the teenagers. much of the lead vocals, and makes to have the big hit, during the early Establishment, well-heeled Lefties or advent of Elvis and rock and roll. All a great job of them. Fifties. Listen to the original versions ghoulishly chronicling the eight albums should do well for LOUISE TUCKER contributes a standout track of Sh-Boom by The Chords, The radioactive delights of the nuclear MFP. in view of the current trend After The Storm. Ariola 205 875. Dancing On A High Wire, and Lenny Clovers' Devil Or Angel. The age. Worth a prominent place in towards Fifties nostalgia. Bristol-born Tucker, who trained in Zakatek and Chris Rainbow also Coasters' Down In Mexico and The comedy browsers. *** (each album) opera before switching to pop, had a make a strong vocal showing. A Drifters' Fools Fall In Love.

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