An issue allowing you to dig deep into British music history. Fourteen reordings by at their time prominent Music Hall artists, with larger part transfered directly from 78:s. I'm having difficulties finding an exact timeline for any of them, but as a couple seem to be acoustic recordings and others sounding almost modern I'm guessing they cover most of the first half of the 20th century. The only name still widely known would be George Formby and here you get one of his first recordings. For the rest I recommend reading the liner notes shown below. Reason I'm interested is many British pop and psych band grew up with this tradition, which shows in much of the song-writing and choices of covers that came out of these isles in the sixties. It also explains some of the differences to the more blues and country orientated contemporary American pop/rock scene. Most of the songs may seem dated as part of a totally different zeitgeist and as directed to a sort of public that's long gone by know, but the brand still lived on and then not seldom represented by rock, pop and psych bands. The songs chosen for this sound very much alike to a modern ear - perky melodies with often funny lyrics handeling situations and/or problems from the times in which they were made, not seldom with some kind of twist. My favorites would be the oldest sounding recordings, sending greetings from a hundred years ago or more - Kate Carney "Are We To Part Like This Bill?", Jack Pleasants "I'm Shy Mary Ellen", Charle Coborn "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" and Billy Merson "The Night I Appeared As Macbeth". To my knowledge this was UK only and never reissued in any shape. Don't know the exact year, but judging from the K/T tax code, the ridged label and heavy vinyl plus the laminated flip/back cover with the handling/playing inner, I'd guess issued sometimes between 1963-65. (SÄM*) (FÄV*)
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