TRACK LISTING
SIDE ONE
1. MEDLEY:
RIVERS OF BABYLON
(Farian/Reyam/Dowe/McNaughton)
Blue Mountain Music Limited/Hansa Productions Limited/ATV Music Limited/MCPS
RASPUTIN (Farian/Reyam/Jay)
Hansa Productions Limited/ATV Music Limited /MCPS
BROWN GIRL IN THE RING
(Trad. Arr. Farian) Hansa Productions Limited/ATV Music Limited/MCPS
2. MEDLEY:
SIMON SAYS (Chiprut) Carlin Music
Corp
SNOOPY VERSUS THE RED
BARON (Gernhard/Holler) Schwartz Music Limited
YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY
(Resnick/Levine) T. M. Music Limited
3. MEDLEY:
BLACK IS BLACK (Wadey/Hayes/
Grainger) Robert Mellin Limited
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
(Freed/Brown) Big 3 Music Limited
4. MEDLEY:
(I CANT GET NO) SATISFACTION (Jagger/Richard)
Essex Music International
ALL RIGHT NOW
(Rodgers/Fraser) Blue Mountain Music Limited
SIDE TWO
1. MEDLEY:
COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE
(Mann/Weil) Screen Gems/EMI Music
Limited
YOU'RE MORE THAN A
NUMBER IN MY
LITTLE RED BOOK (Macaulay/Greenaway)
Macaulay Music Limited/Cookaway Music
Limited
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE
MOVIES
(Mann/Weil) Screen Gems/EMI Music Limited
2. MEDLEY:
YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT
(Farrar) Famous Chappell
SUMMER NIGHTS
(Casey/Jacobs) Chappell/Morris Limited
3. MEDLEY:
KNOCK THREE TIMES
(Levine/Brown/Russell) Carlin
Music Corp
BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY
(Boone/McQueen) Stirling McQueen Limited
DA DOO RON RON
(Greenwich/Barry/Spector)Carlin Music Corp
4. MEDLEY:
SUGAR, SUGAR (Barry/Kirn) ,
Kirshner/Warner Brothers Music Limited
MONY, MONY (Bloom/Cordell/Gentry/ James) Planetary Nom (Ldn) Limited
LET'S TWIST AGAIN
(Mann/Appell) Carlin Music Corp
Recorded at EMI Studios, London.
Recording Engineer: John Kurlander
Associate Producer: Gil King
Produced by: Norman Newell
(P)1979 A Supertunes Production
Human beings have been having
parties ever since there have been human beings. One of the several good things
about the human race is that it is basically fun-loving, hospitable and
gregarious, and only too willing to take advantage of any pretext or excuse for
a celebration in the form of a party.
One can only conjecture about parties that took place in the earliest days of
the human race. Unless it was a hot summer, they probably took place in caves
with everyone wearing their best furs and drinking whatever passed then for
party punch. The music would be provided by someone beating a drum and maybe
someone plucking a primitive stringed instrument, and undoubtedly everybody
would be singing along together as the party punch mellowed them and eased their
inhibitions. Everybody would probably have had to stay the night as well or else
run the risk of falling victims to roaming dinosaurs, brontosauruses and
pterodactyls on the way back to their own caves.
As time progressed, parties became more elaborate and indulgent. The Romans
particularly knew how to spoil themselves with feasts lasting for days during
which everyone ate and drunk themselves to a standstill (or fall-down), felt
better and then started all over again. Indeed, some people believe that the
characteristic Roman posture of reclining sideways on a couch was a practical
measure to ensure one didn't have far to fall. There were minstrels and dancing
girls to help the party spirit, and those dancing girls would probably have been
astonished and even hurt if dancing was all that was required of them.
And so to the present day, where parties usually are not the ribald, roistering
excesses they were during Roman and medieval times. The human race has not lost
the capacity to enjoy itself at parties, however, given convivial company and
the right atmosphere. The latter will be assisted enormously by this party album
from the Geoff Love Singers, containing the right mixture of party songs
presented in such a way that your fellow guests will be unable to resist joining
in.
Whether your friends are coming over to your place or you're going to theirs,
this is the record to get the party going with a swing. And no one has anything
to fear from dinosaurs, brontosauruses or pterodactyls on the way home
afterwards — unless the punch is far too strong.
NIGEL HUNTER
Music Week
