FIRST CLASS / ファースト・クラス / SUMMER SOUND SENSATIONS / CD

英国サーフ・サウンドの最高峰!

ボーナス1曲収録!

『ペット・サウンズ』をどこよりも早く評価した英国には、数多くのビーチ・ボーイズ・フォロワーが存在しました。その中でもジョン・カーターとトニー・バロウズがタッグを組んだこのグループ、ファースト・クラスは最高のクォリティを持ち、大ヒット‘Beach Baby’をものにしました。本作は、彼らの2枚のオリジナル・アルバム、シングル、未発表曲から選曲されたベスト盤です。既発のシー・フォー・マイルズ盤/エム・レコーズ盤には収録されていない初CD化の曲が4曲!! シングルB面でアルバム未収録だった‘Lavender Man’と‘Both Sides Of The Story’、未発表曲(幻のサードからの音源)‘Wake Up America’と‘Too Many Golden Oldies’です。本作で初めてファースト・クラスを知る人も、マニアの人も、どちらも楽しめる好内容。ライナー/写真も充実してます。

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RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2005 First Class were the brain child of John Carter (Ivy League/ Flowerpot Men), and scored a massive international hit in 1974 with the single Beach Baby . Bob Stanley writes: Beach Baby was possibly the fullest flowering of the John Carter Sound - constantly shape shifting, the harmonies, the strings, and more hooks than any four minute pop single should have by rights. John Peel raved about it in Sounds and it was no.4 in the US in the summer of 74. In Britain it stalled at 11 but felt much bigger- it s been a radio staple since This studio group, including luminaries such as Tony Burrows, Chas Mills, Spencer James (from the Searchers), and Clare Torry (of Pink Floyd fame), released two LP s and recorded tracks for a third that remained unreleased. All continued in the vein described above of hook laden /harmony driven /string backed perfectly produced pop. All recorded 1974 - 1977, plus a bonus track from 1985 when Carter recorded a throw back single for possible release in Holland when Beach Baby became a reissued hit, that totally captures the Beach Baby excitement and gives it the hi-production wall of sound. With entertaining and informative notes are by Mojo writer Kieron Tyler - RPM are proud to present the definitive collection of First Class (including 7 previously unreleased tracks) aimed at the mainstream pop buyer, with the Guilty Pleasures market also a target; this is the summer sounds of the seventies comp ...

1. BEACH BABY
2. WHAT BECAME OF ME
3. I WAS ALWAYS THE JOKER
4. LONG TIME GONE
5. DREAMS ARE TEN A PENNY
6. BOBBY DAZZLER
7. LAVENDER MAN
8. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY
9. SMILES ON A SUMMER NIGHT
10. I WAS A STAR
11. SUNDAY CHILD
12. BABY BLUE
13. LIFE IS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE
14. CARRY ON SINGING MY SONG
15. AND SHE CRIED
16. THE SONG WAS WRONG
17. WAKE UP AMERICA
18. CONEY ISLAND
19. I CAN T BELIEVE MY EYES
20. TOO MANY GOLDEN OLDIES*

BONUS TRACK
21. SILVER SURFER