West Coast Consortium- All The Love In The World: Complete Recordings 1964-1972
Complete 3CD anthology of harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with 'All The Love In The World'. Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue. After being signed by producer and songwriter Tony Macaulay, North London harmony pop group West Coast Consortium issued a handful of sophisticated, lushly-orchestrated late Sixties singles for Pye. In the spring of 1969, they reached the No. 22 spot in the UK singles chart with the ballad 'All The Love In The World', issued under the abbreviated name Consortium. Unable to build on that success, the band splintered in 1972, although lead singer Robbie FaiR. Would put together an entirely new Consortium line-up a few years later. A 3CD set, 'All The Love In The World' features all of their Pye releases as well as subsequent recordings for the short-lived Trend label and no less than four acetate-only 1967-1969 albums recorded in the band's home studio. These demo recordings reveal them to have been a garage psychedelic pop band at heart, utilising Mellotron, fuzz guitar and Vox Continental organ while also suggesting a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of 'Smiley Smile'/'Friends'-era Beach Boys. While some of these recordings have been issued before, this package sees the first-ever release of twenty additional tracks to provide the first-ever complete anthology of a band that deserve better than to be remembered as one-hit wonders.
Track List
- Some Other Someday
- Looking Back
- Indigo Spring
- Listen To The Man
- Colour Sergeant Lillywhite
- Lady From Baltimore
- All The Love In The World
- Spending My Life Saying Goodbye
- When The Day Breaks
- The Day The Train Never Came
- Beggar Man
- Cynthia Serenity
- I Don't Want Her Any More
- The House Upon The Hill
- Melanie Cries Alone
- Copper Coloured Years
- Annabella (Aka Annabella Umbrella)
- Tell Me My Friend
- Sunday In The Park
- To Please Louise (Tony
- Macaulay Production Version)
- We All Love You Baby
- Ginny Stop (Don't Go
- 'Way) (Alternative Version)
- Never Look Back
- Time Will Tell On You
- All The Love In The World (Demo Version)
- Willow Wood
- When The Day Breaks (Demo Version)
- Cynthia Serenity (Demo Version)
- Spending My Life Saying
- Goodbye (Demo Version) 6 Ginny Stop (Don't Go 'Way)
- The Elastic Band
- Copper Coloured Years (Demo Version)
- Oh! What A Feeling
- To Please Louise
- Lady From Baltimore (Demo Version)
- Rest Of Your Life (Down Lonely Street)
- One Six Two
- One Day The Train Never
- Came (Demo Version)
- Soldiers In The Rain
- This Poor Man
- Live And Let Live
- Amanda Jane
- House On A Hill (Demo Version)
- Once Upon A Time
- What Are They All Singing About Today?
- Can't Wait To Wait For The Evening
- I Don't Want Her Any
- More (Demo Version)
- I’ll Always Love You
- Scarlet River
- Cindy In Love
- The Fire Fighter
- Gone From Me
- Crime Detector Hector
- Windmill Hill
- Money Matters
- Rings And Things
- Fairground Playboy
- All Night Dancing
- Mr. Umbrella Man
- Holding On
- Santa Monica Bay
- In Search Of Fair Weather
- Whatever Became Of Emily Jane?
- Leave Your Homework Till Sunday
- Here Comes Lorraine
- Homewrd Bound The Sailor (Growing Old)
- Madeline
- A Walk In The Park
- Come On Into The Warm
- Save Me Rosemary
- Take A Round Trip
- Too Close For Comfort
- Sweeter Than Ever
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Aimie (Sing Your Song For Me)
- Philadelphia
Complete 3CD anthology of harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with 'All The Love In The World'. Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue. After being signed by producer and songwriter Tony Macaulay, North London harmony pop group West Coast Consortium issued a handful of sophisticated, lushly-orchestrated late Sixties singles for Pye. In the spring of 1969, they reached the No. 22 spot in the UK singles chart with the ballad 'All The Love In The World', issued under the abbreviated name Consortium. Unable to build on that success, the band splintered in 1972, although lead singer Robbie FaiR. Would put together an entirely new Consortium line-up a few years later. A 3CD set, 'All The Love In The World' features all of their Pye releases as well as subsequent recordings for the short-lived Trend label and no less than four acetate-only 1967-1969 albums recorded in the band's home studio. These demo recordings reveal them to have been a garage psychedelic pop band at heart, utilising Mellotron, fuzz guitar and Vox Continental organ while also suggesting a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of 'Smiley Smile'/'Friends'-era Beach Boys. While some of these recordings have been issued before, this package sees the first-ever release of twenty additional tracks to provide the first-ever complete anthology of a band that deserve better than to be remembered as one-hit wonders.
Track List
- Some Other Someday
- Looking Back
- Indigo Spring
- Listen To The Man
- Colour Sergeant Lillywhite
- Lady From Baltimore
- All The Love In The World
- Spending My Life Saying Goodbye
- When The Day Breaks
- The Day The Train Never Came
- Beggar Man
- Cynthia Serenity
- I Don't Want Her Any More
- The House Upon The Hill
- Melanie Cries Alone
- Copper Coloured Years
- Annabella (Aka Annabella Umbrella)
- Tell Me My Friend
- Sunday In The Park
- To Please Louise (Tony
- Macaulay Production Version)
- We All Love You Baby
- Ginny Stop (Don't Go
- 'Way) (Alternative Version)
- Never Look Back
- Time Will Tell On You
- All The Love In The World (Demo Version)
- Willow Wood
- When The Day Breaks (Demo Version)
- Cynthia Serenity (Demo Version)
- Spending My Life Saying
- Goodbye (Demo Version) 6 Ginny Stop (Don't Go 'Way)
- The Elastic Band
- Copper Coloured Years (Demo Version)
- Oh! What A Feeling
- To Please Louise
- Lady From Baltimore (Demo Version)
- Rest Of Your Life (Down Lonely Street)
- One Six Two
- One Day The Train Never
- Came (Demo Version)
- Soldiers In The Rain
- This Poor Man
- Live And Let Live
- Amanda Jane
- House On A Hill (Demo Version)
- Once Upon A Time
- What Are They All Singing About Today?
- Can't Wait To Wait For The Evening
- I Don't Want Her Any
- More (Demo Version)
- I’ll Always Love You
- Scarlet River
- Cindy In Love
- The Fire Fighter
- Gone From Me
- Crime Detector Hector
- Windmill Hill
- Money Matters
- Rings And Things
- Fairground Playboy
- All Night Dancing
- Mr. Umbrella Man
- Holding On
- Santa Monica Bay
- In Search Of Fair Weather
- Whatever Became Of Emily Jane?
- Leave Your Homework Till Sunday
- Here Comes Lorraine
- Homewrd Bound The Sailor (Growing Old)
- Madeline
- A Walk In The Park
- Come On Into The Warm
- Save Me Rosemary
- Take A Round Trip
- Too Close For Comfort
- Sweeter Than Ever
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Aimie (Sing Your Song For Me)
- Philadelphia