THE DECCA ORIGINALS/VOL.1 1960-64 TAB 46 (-82) UK MONO +STEREO

 

Part one of a Decca LP sampler serie containing cuts recorded for the company in the sixties. For me it's too much to include all in one post so I'll handle them separately. On this first I get originals from the period 1960-64, all carried by pristine mixes - Dave Berry "The Crying Game" stereo, the rest mono.  Audio all over very powerful making the songs come out pretty much in their original shape. Rear sleeve has photos, info on every song and artist plus a list with highest chart positions in UK. For me who was a kid back then and just had started to embrace pop and rock the songs here bring so many memories - e.g. The Tornados "Telstar", Little Eva "The Loco-Motion", Heinz "Just Like Eddie", Applejacks "Tell Me When", Dave Berry "The Crying Game" and the Carol King 1962 classic "It Might As Well Rain Until September". I also get ones I didn't know before - like stuff by Eden Kane, Jet Harris & Tony Meehan and Bern Elliot & The Fenmen. So even if released around twenty years after the fact this certainly has things going for it, at least for a sixties lover like me who wants it all on LP, just as it was. Also released like this 1982 in Germany, Holland and Downunder. I don't know of any other issues. Premiere UK had label as shown here in a thin fully laminated cover.  (SÄM*)