Complete Recordings 1964-1972 3-CD Holland Popular • 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. – 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 Dont 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 (Dont Go Way) (Alternative Version) 23. Never Look Back 24. Time Will Tell On You – 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 (Dont 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. Cant Wait To Wait For the Evening 23. I Dont Want Her Anymore (Demo Version) 24. Ill Always Love You 25. Scarlet River 26. Cindy In Love – 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
