May 14, 2009

PEDDLERS - BIRTHDAY (CBS 1969) Jap mastering cardboard sleeve + 3 bonus



...by requests!
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A brief biography again!..
Though short of "teen appeal', this seated, short-haired jazz-styled combo was appreciated by other artists for their stylistic tenacity and exacting technical standards. For much of 1964, the polished jazz pop concoctions of ex-Tornados Tab Martin (b. 24 December 1944, Newcastle, England; bass), ex-Faron's Flamingos Trevor Morais (b. 10 October 1944, Liverpool, England; drums) and the Dowlands' former backing guitarist Roy Phillips (b. 5 May 1943, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England; Hammond organ/vocals) were heard nightly at London's exclusive Scotch of St. James" club - and, the following January, their arrangement of Teddy Randazzo's "Let The Sun Shine In", delivered by Phillips in a blues-tinged snort, slipped fleetingly into the UK Top 50. It took over four years for the three to come up trumps again when an invigorating CBS Records contract launched Freewheelers into the album chart. This was the harbinger of a Top 10 strike with the self-penned "Birth", a stunningly innovative composition. The follow-up, "Girlie", was a minor success and the Peddlers fared well in the album lists with Birthday. The long-term benefits of this commercial Indian summer included the broadening of the group's work spectrum - notably in providing musical interludes for television chat-shows - and the command of larger fees for their stock-in-trade cabaret bookings.
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After Birthday, the Peddlers returned to Philips Records again. In 1971, Philips issued Georgia on My Mind, followed a year later by Suite London.
Morais left the trio during an Australian tour in 1972, and the Peddlers disbanded in 1976. In 2002, Columbia/CBS released the double album CD anthology, How Cool Is Cool...The Complete CBS Recordings, which contained the songs from their three albums, their singles and B-sides, and a pair of previously unissued tracks.
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13 comments:

Oldie said...

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Thx....Thx....Thx
Oldie

6D Music said...

Georgie. This is really appreciated. Many, many thanks. Cheers CZ

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this. Would really like to hear Trevor's next band, Quantum Jump.

beaylosdalton said...

Thank you for your nearly jo b.I'll listen to it right now. Thanks again

beaylosdalton said...

Thank you for your nearly daily job

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to say thank you. You have a great blog. So many great albums that bring back a lot of memories. I enjoy reading all the information that you give us on each title. I have spent the last few days reading every page. Thanks again. I will check back daily to read your new posts.
Zim

jake said...

Thanks - I always wondered why they didn't make a bigger splash in the music world. Roy Philips lives in New Zealand now and performs occasionally.

Copacetic47 said...

Fantastic!!! Can't believe someone's finally posted some of this largely ignored band's great music. Many thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thx for this post ! Got a small comment though, i have had the pleasure of beiing a sound technician in Holland late 70s early 80s i had the honour of working one night in 1980 with these guys... they did a one night gig i dont know if it was the original group but Roy Phillips was behind the organ !So the band did not completely dissapear in 76... i never forget that night ! Grtz From Holland EU John

Anonymous said...

Please post "Live at the Pickwick" if you can. the peddlers are great!
thanks for your fantastic blog

Anonymous said...

Many thanks, found it at last!

the saucer people said...

I have only recently discovered The Peddlers thanks to the 1970 film Gemini Twins which has their track "Tell The World We're Not In' as the opening to the film and I just fell in love with it!

Then when I went to search for it assuming that though it had inexplicably bypassed my radar I was sure it would be over the net..how wrong I was! Then I discover this veritable Peddlers oasis with three albums by them!

Of course none of the three Peddlers albums contains the track I was looking for but it wonderful discovery listening to them all the same...why they are not more well known is beyond me!

I have found a crackly rip of the track but nothing high quality...so..you know whats coming don't you!....

Does anyone have the following album rips in non-crackly format:

Peddlers – Three For All [1970]
Peddlers - Peddler's Power [1972]

I only just noticed as well, it was Don Black who wrote the track I was on about, makes sense from the man who wrote 'Born Free' and countless other classics.

Peddlers – Peddlers Power

Newlyner said...

Many thanks for this post. They were a fabulous band