K SPECIAL VA - Shel Talmy: His Greatest Productions (Super Deluxe Edition) (18CD Box Set) (2025)

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VA - Shel Talmy: His Greatest Productions (Super Deluxe Edition) (18CD Box Set) (2025)

In memory of the late, great Shel Talmy.

Sheldon Talmy (August 11, 1937 - November 13, 2024) was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger, best known for his work in England in the 1960s with the Who, the Kinks, and many other artists.

Talmy arranged and produced hits such as "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, "My Generation" by the Who, and "Friday on My Mind" by the Easybeats. He also played guitar or percussion on some of his productions.

Early career

Talmy was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and from an early age he was interested both in music (early rock, rhythm and blues, folk music, and country music) as well as the technology of the recording studio. At the age of 13, Talmy appeared regularly on the popular NBC-TV television show Quiz Kids, a question-and-answer program from Chicago. He told Chris Ambrose of Tokion Magazine, "What it did for me was that I absolutely knew that this was the business I wanted to be in."

He graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in June 1955, the same high school attended by songwriter Jerry Leiber, A&M label owner and performer Herb Alpert, Michael Jackson, and producer Phil Spector.

After working for ABC Television, he became a recording engineer at Conway Studios in Los Angeles where owner/engineer Phil Yeend trained him on three-track recording equipment. Three days later, Talmy had his first assignment, producing the record "Falling Star" by Debbie Sharron. According to journalist Chris Hunt, Talmy's move from television to audio recording was a result of "the rapid deterioration of his eyesight."

At Conway, he worked with Gary Paxton, producer of The Hollywood Argyles "Alley Oop", surf band the Marketts, vocal group The Castells, R&B pioneers Rene Hall and Bumps Blackwell, and the elite group of session musicians famously known as the "Wrecking Crew".

Talmy and Yeend often experimented with production techniques. They played with separation and recording levels and built baffles and platforms covered with carpet, using them to isolate vocals and instruments.

In an interview with Terri Stone in Music Producers, Talmy recalled that Yeend "would let me do whatever I wanted after our regular sessions were over, so I used to work out miking techniques for how to make drums sound better or guitars sound better. ... There really weren't many precedents, so we were all doing it for the first time together. It was all totally new."

British career

In the summer of 1962, Talmy went to Britain, supposedly for a 5-week European vacation. He went with little money and thought he might be able to work for a couple of weeks to earn some more.

Nick Venet, a good friend and producer at Capitol Records, gave him a stack of acetates to take along with him and use as if he had produced them, if it could get him a job.

Talmy met with Dick Rowe, head of Decca Records A&R, and played two of the acetates he was given to use. They were "Music in the Air" by Lou Rawls, and "Surfin' Safari" by The Beach Boys. Rowe told him, "you start today".

Talmy joined Decca Records as an independent record producer (among the first in the UK) working with Decca's pop performers, such as Irish trio the Bachelors, leading to the release of the hit single "Charmaine".

Once he struck out as an independent, Talmy also had success in the United States with his productions for Chad & Jeremy, including "A Summer Song" and "Willow Weep for Me"

In 1963 Talmy met Robert Wace, the manager of a group called the Ravens who later changed their name to the Kinks. He brought the Kinks into the studio and their third single, "You Really Got Me", became a landmark recording.

A long-running controversy about the song revolved around the use of future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page as a session musician on many of the Kinks' early recordings - and on the seminal guitar solo on "You Really Got Me" in particular. In an interview with rock writer and critic Richie Unterberger, Talmy set the record straight: "You know how many times I've answered that question? I wish I had a buck for each one. Jimmy Page did not play the solo on 'You Really Got Me,' he played rhythm guitar. He never played anything but rhythm guitar on that plus [the Kinks'] first album session. On 'You Really Got Me,' I used Bobby Graham on drums. Page played guitar because, at the time, Ray didn't want to play guitar, as he wanted to concentrate on his vocals. So I said, fine, let me get a rhythm guitarist, 'cause Dave [Davies] was playing the leads, and so I hired Jimmy." Whoever started the rumor, Page no longer takes credit.

Talmy produced many more hits with the group up to 1967 including "All Day and All of the Night", "Dead End Street", "Tired of Waiting for You", "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Well Respected Man", "Sunny Afternoon", and "Waterloo Sunset".

THE BLUEPRINT OF ‘WATERLOO SUNSET’ BY THE KINKS

This was my last production before my contract with The Kinks ran out and Ray Davies took over. And if I had to choose how to end an era, I couldn’t have chosen a better song to do it with! I think ‘Waterloo Sunset’ will be played as long as there are broadcasts to listen to. If it’s not the best song that Ray ever wrote, it’s certainly tied with any other choice.

I’m also aware that, according to Wikipedia and Ray, I had “nothing” to do with the production. I’ll do my best to penetrate what amounts to a famous London fog and tell you how it was. Ultimately, all of you reading this will have to decide which version is more plausible.

Ray has done tons more interviews than I have, most of which I’ve never heard or read. But I have read enough of them to have noted that, from time to time, Ray’s recollections are a mile or two away from what actually happened.

I have always put that down to how much time, measured in decades, has elapsed since the actual event, and how everybody’s memories get fuzzier with passing years.

Here’s a good example. Nicky Hopkins has been acknowledged as one of the greatest session piano players in rock history. I was fortunate to have made his acquaintance before anybody really knew who he was or how brilliant he was.

We became very good friends, and as most of you are aware, I booked Nicky wherever and whenever possible, as I knew he’d add something special to what we were recording.

The relationship between Nicky Hopkins and the Kinks deteriorated majestically after the release of the album entitled, “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society”.

Nicky became incensed when he heard that Ray credited himself with the majority of the keyboard playing on the LP, when Nicky “knew” he had actually played most of it, and as I had booked him, I can confirm that.

I know Nicky played his signature style keyboard magic on those tracks, because I produced some of them, including a version of the lead song itself, ‘Village Green’.

The last album I was fully involved with was “Something Else”, which includes Dave’s ‘Death of a Clown as well as ‘Waterloo Sunset’.

According to Wikipedia etc, there was more than one session for ‘Waterloo Sunset’ in April 1967, but I know I produced it, and I was there when the song was completed. I have a lacquer (acetate) of the final hit version in my archive that exactly matches the released record.

And finally, I have NEVER claimed that I produced a record that I did not produce...or ever needed to!

‘Sunset’ was recorded at Pye’s #2 Studio and engineered by “Mac” (Alan MacKenzie).

The personnel was the usual Kinks quartet, plus Ray’s wife Rasa on backing vocals. As mentioned above, Ray takes credit for the piano on the track.

‘Waterloo Sunset’ was released as a single in the UK in May 1967 and got to #2, but sadly when the record was issued in the US a couple of months later, it did not even chart.

Perhaps that was because it is quintessentially English. It has become one of the Kinks’ most beloved recordings. Whatever Ray might remember, I am proud to have produced it!

Shel Talmy

The Who and "My Generation"

Pete Townshend, guitarist of a band called the High Numbers, liked "You Really Got Me" so much that he wrote a similar number, "I Can't Explain", so that Talmy might produce his group. When the song was played over the telephone to Talmy, he agreed to hear the band.

Now called The Who, they were rehearsing at a church hall, and Talmy says it took about eight bars before he said "Yes!" The band was signed to his production company, Orbit-Universal. Talmy got the band a contract with Decca in America and with their subsidiary Brunswick in Britain, and produced recordings modeled on the band's high-energy live performances.

The intentional feedback on the band's second single, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", caused U.S. Decca executives to send back the recording, thinking that they had received a faulty pressing, and Talmy had to assure them it was intentional.

Talmy and the Who created a historic recording in "My Generation", the group's third release. Entertainment Weekly later called "My Generation" the "quintessential rock single".

Talmy also produced The Who's debut studio album, My Generation (1965), a collection of original songs and R&B covers. However, tensions arose between Talmy and one of the band's managers, Kit Lambert.

Lambert 'fired' Talmy, but Talmy sued for breach of contract and won. Talmy called it a pyrrhic victory, as he would no longer produce any records by the Who.

Talmy held the original session tapes to the My Generation album, but a re-release was held up for years because of the ongoing dispute. This prevented a proper re-release of the LP until 2002, when things were finally settled in Talmy's favor. My Generation was subsequently remixed by Talmy and issued on compact disc with bonus tracks.

In his book Before I Get Old, Dave Marsh commented that the records that Talmy made with the Who "are technically among the best that the band ever did, and they have a distinct, original sound."

Thanks to his work with the Who and the Kinks, Talmy is considered at the forefront of the British music scene in the mid-1960s.

THE BLUEPRINT OF ‘CIRCLES’ BY THE WHO

This was the last Who track released with me as the producer.

‘Circles’ was meant to be the follow-up to The Who’s smash hit of ‘My Generation’, but for no reason I ever heard, it continued to get “moved on down the line”.

It did eventually get released, via a bizarre and tortuous path -- with side trips into several cul-de-sacs!-- but only after the band and I had parted ways.

‘Circles’ was an excellent piece that demonstrated Pete Townshend’s continued evolution as a top-flight rock’n’roll songwriter.

The session was recorded on January 12, 1966, at IBC Studios, with Glyn Johns the engineer.

It was the usual quartet of Pete on guitar, Roger Daltrey on the vocals, John Entwistle on bass and Keith Moon, being as brilliant as usual on the drums.

We nailed the master on take # 4, and then added lead and backing vocals along with John playing French horn, an unusual touch that would later become common on Who recordings.

At the same session we also recorded ‘Instant Party Mixture’ for the B-side. A kinda throwaway song that we all laughed about as it didn’t require much thinking to record, and might be classified as a combo of “doo-wop” and Dion!

This had an even longer release date, as it didn’t surface until the 21st Century when I remixed it for the “My Generation” reissue CD.

I think I need to insert here that ‘Circles’ is probably the most appropriate title of any song I’ve produced as all the confusion and utter nonsense that surrounded this production sure had me going around in “circles”!

When it was first released on March 8, 1966, it was no longer titled ‘Circles’ but ‘Instant Party’-- we were informed because perhaps it happened due to some confusion on the half of the record label staff preparing the label copy! Really...

Production style and work with other artists

In a 1989 interview with writer Chris Hunt, Talmy described his approach to music production: "There are two categories of producers. Let me explain. First, one produces an artist the way 'they' want to hear to them, without a whole lot of regard to what the artist is really like, or how they see themselves. I'd like to think that I'm in the other category. I liked the artists that I produced – a lot, or else I wouldn't produce them, and what I wanted to do was enhance what they do already. I just wanted to make it better, more polished, put the best frame around it I could. The other 'category' of producers are divided between what I subscribe to, 'hands-on', i.e. being there from inception, and all through the recording to mastering."

In another interview with musician/producer/songwriter Artie Wayne, Talmy dismissed the idea that great music production relies primarily on some kind of personal "magic": "[Laughing] The productions don't just materialize out of a clear blue sky. I spent a lot of time in the studio working out how to isolate instruments, how to mic drums, how to do all kinds of stuff. When I arrived in London, I started recording drums using twelve mics, which I had worked out how to do in Los Angeles. Everybody in London, at the time, were only using three or four mics. They said I couldn't do that because it would (create) phase. I said, 'Just listen to it, see if it does. A month later everybody was trying to use 12 mics on the drums!'"

Asked, in the same interview, if he always picks the songs for the artists he produces, Talmy replied: "I'm a hands-on producer, meaning that I always work with the artist on choosing material, doing the arrangements, getting musicians if necessary, choosing the studio and being there for the entire production on through the mixes and mastering."

Talmy continued to work with other distinguished British performers throughout the 1960s, principal amongst whom was singer-songwriter David Bowie (then known by his real name Davy Jones). Talmy produced two singles in 1965 by two groups featuring Bowie, "I Pity the Fool" by The Manish Boys and "You've Got a Habit of Leaving", where the singer was accompanied by The Lower Third. He is known to have a considerable amount of unreleased material by Bowie in his archive.

Another artist of lasting impact that Talmy produced was Australian group The Easybeats. Though successful in Australia, the act floundered when it first arrived in the UK in the summer of 1966. The first session under Talmy's direction produced the massive global hit "Friday on My Mind".

Writing in the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin described the song as "one of the all-time great beat group singles of the '60s". Bowie later covered "Friday on My Mind" on his album Pin Ups. Talmy's work with The Easybeats stretched through to their 1967 album Good Friday, after which the band's management decided to dismiss him as producer.

Once established as an independent producer in early 1964, Talmy would be incredibly busy over the next five years, producing dozens of discs, largely in the beat and mod categories, genres with which he would be forever associated.

These include records by The Mickey Finn, The First Gear, The Sneekers, The Untamed, Ben Carruthers & The Deep, The Nashville Teens, The Thoughts, Colette & The Bandits, Wild Silk and many others. He was also hired to work with successful acts like Manfred Mann, for whom he produced the hits singles "Just Like a Woman" and "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James", and Amen Corner ("If Paradise Was Half as Nice" and "Hello Susie").

Talmy also produced the pioneering all-women quartet Goldie and the Gingerbreads, and produced other female acts such as Perpetual Langley, Liz Shelley, Dani Sheridan, Vicki Brown and The Orchids.

In late 1965, Talmy and impresario Arthur Howes formed their own label, Planet Records, distributed by Philips Records. Although the venture was not successful, the label did release the initial discs by Talmy's discovery The Creation, now considered amongst the most iconic of mod/psychedelic groups, who often used pop-art imagery.

These included "Making Time" and "Painter Man", later covered by Boney M. Their later work with Talmy such as "How Does It Feel to Feel" was issued on Polydor and Talmy has said that he did some of his most essential work with the Creation.

Though he was famous primarily for his contributions to rock music, Talmy also worked with musicians from the folk scene, including Pentangle, Roy Harper and Ralph McTell. He has also worked in the pop, orchestral, pop and punk categories.

He produced the early Roy Harper albums Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith and Folkejokeopus in 1967. In 1968 and 1969 Talmy produced the influential first three albums by the folk supergroup, Pentangle, as well as their hit single "Light Flight".

In the late 1960s Talmy worked with American artists Lee Hazlewood and Tim Rose and supervised film music with his favored arranger David Whitaker. For CBS, he produced Music to Spy By and The Revolutionary Piano of Nicky Hopkins, both arranged and conducted by Whitaker.

By the early 1970s, Talmy did less record work and pursued his other interests in the book publishing and film making worlds. He was however still in demand as a producer and worked on records by Small Faces, String Driven Thing, Fumble, Coven, Chris White, Mick Cox Band, Blues Project, Rumplestiltskin and others. He had production deals with the Bell and Charisma labels in the 1970s. Amongst his final UK productions was a collector's item single by punk group, The Damned ("Stretcher Case Baby"/"Sick of Being Sick").

Talmy returned to the United States in 1979. Though he reduced his workload, Talmy continued to be sought after to produce artists. He has produced albums by Fuzztones, Nancy Boy and Sorrows. Most recently he has produced records by Hidden Charms and Strangers in a Strange Land.

THE BLUEPRINT OF MY TRIP OVER TO PUNK ROCK!

I have to confess that when I first heard punk music when it burst upon the British scene in late 1976, and I listened to the initial bands of that genre, it didn’t do a lot for me. Their inability to play their instruments did bias me against them!

I kinda shut them out over the next few months, until a friend of mine said I should take a listen to some current bands as they were “really good,” and played well. I said I would and I did. And I told him he was right, and that it was obvious that since the beginning days of punk, LOL, real musicians had got into the act, because I did hear some pretty good groups.

Not much later, I was approached by a rep of The Damned, who asked if I’d be interested in producing them. I knew who they were, but had not heard a lot of what they’d recorded and so told them, give me a few days and I will remedy that.

I liked a lot of what I heard and, unwilling to discount an entire genre without experiencing it myself, agreed to produce a couple of sides with the band, who consisted of:

Lead vocalist, Dave Vanian, (real name David Lett)

Guitarist Brian James (which is his real name)

On the bass, Captain Sensible (real name Ray Burns)

And Rat Scabies (real name Chris Millar) on the drums.

I met with the guys with no preconceived notions of what they chose to name themselves, and LOL, liked them a lot! I was pleased to see it was mutual, so we got down to work.

We went through various songs and chose to do two of their compositions, ‘Stretcher Case Baby,’ written by Brian James and Rat Scabies, and ‘Sick of Being Sick’ by Brian James, who was the main songwriter in the band at the time.

As I’ve always done, we rehearsed the songs and agreed on arrangements that satisfied all of us.

Stiff Records was their label, and we recorded at the Roundhouse in London, a studio I’d used occasionally, as there I had the luxury of working with a 24-track Studer tape machine. The recording took place on May 19, 1977. The engineers were Mark Durnley and Trevor Hallesy.

Rehearsal time paid off again, and we got finished quickly in 3 takes for each song.

Brian James was playing a Gibson SG guitar through a Hiwatt amp, and I mic’d the guitar with a Neuman U87, with a Shure 57 on the amp that I’d also did a ‘direct inject’ to the console, and mixed them all together to get the guitar sound.

Captain Sensible played a Hofner Violin Bass, also through a Hiwatt amp. I mic’d the amp with a AKG D12 and also connected it to the console with a direct connection.

Rat Scabies Pearl drum kit was mic’d with my usual dozen as detailed in several of these vignettes, and for Dave Vanian’s lead vocal, I used a Shure SM7.

The two sides were released on July 3, 1977 but were not “sold” or distributed to record stores in the usual manner.

Only 5,000 copies were pressed, and initially given away at the first anniversary gig The Damned played at the Marquee Club in London, everlastingly famous for where Pete Townshend trashed his guitar in the early days!

Many of the singles were ultimately given to their fan club members or used as prizes in various contests.

I understand that it is now considered a “rare” record, not as rare as the woolly mammoth, but getting there!

I did not subsequently produce any other punk acts, but there were a few that I would have had fun working with, like The Jam, Buzzcocks and The Stranglers, who had good songs and were also good musicians.

In 2003, a tribute to Talmy was aired on the radio program Little Steven's Underground Garage. In 2017, Ace Records began issuing a series of compilations from Talmy's vintage catalog, including the career anthology Making Time: A Shel Talmy Production, produced by Alec Palao.

Personal life and death

Shel Talmy lived in the Los Angeles area. He had two children, Jonna and Steven Talmy (twins). He was the elder brother of the American linguist Leonard Talmy.

Talmy died from complications of a stroke on November 13, 2024, at the age of 87. His death was announced by a representative the following day.

Shel Talmy - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Talmy

https://www.sheltalmy.me/

Shel Talmy obituary | Pop and rock | The Guardian

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/17/shel-talmy-obituary

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - by Dan Epstein

https://danepstein.substack.com/p/anyway-anyhow-anywhere

Shel Talmy Official

A wealth of fascinating insight, recording sessions, dates, memories and background information on so many of Shel's best productions from the man himself!

https://www.facebook.com/ShelTalmyOfficial?mibextid=LQQJ4d

There has never been a fully comprehensive box set of Shel's groundbreaking productions all in one place, so this is a true first in this presentation and celebration of his very best wide-ranging work.

Compiled as always using the very latest and highest quality digital remasters, with a considerable number of tracks sourced from the original master tapes for superior sound quality and enjoyment.

This 18CD set contains only 100% CD quality original studio recordings, including many in their original mono form.

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Track lists

CD01

01 The Who - My Generation (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 3:20

02 The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:13

03 The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind 2:43

04 Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half as Nice (Original 1969 7" Mono Single Version) 2:47

05 The Creation - Making Time 2:57

06 Manfred Mann - Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:38

07 The Manish Boys feat. Jimmy Page - I Pity the Fool 2:09

08 Roy Harper - Midspring Dithering 2:49

09 The Pentangle - Light Flight (Theme from Take Three Girls) 3:14

10 The Sallyangie - Two Ships 3:20

11 Perpetual Langley - Surrender 2:35

12 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - That's Why I Love You 2:49

13 Ralph McTell - Abilene 2:54

14 The Kinks - Act Nice and Gentle (Mono Version) 2:39

15 The Kinks - Afternoon Tea (Mono Version) 3:27

16 Roy Harper - Ageing Raver 4:07

17 The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:24

18 The Thoughts - All Night Stand (US Version) 2:06

19 Roy Harper - All You Need Is 5:48

20 Manfred Mann - Another Kind of Music (Mono Version) 2:32

21 Wild Silk - Another Time 3:31

22 The Who - Anytime You Want Me (Mono Version) 2:36

23 The Who - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:41

24 Manfred Mann - As Long As I Have Lovin' (Mono Version) 2:44

25 Amen Corner - At Last I've Found Someone to Love 3:47

CD02

26 Manfred Mann - Autumn Leaves (Mono Version) 1:56

27 Davy Jones - Baby Loves That Way 3:02

28 Noosha Fox - Back Here in England 3:45

29 The Sneekers - Bald Headed Woman 2:30

30 Roy Harper - Ballad of Songwriter 3:09

31 Davy Jones - Bars of the County Jail 2:03

32 The Kinks - Beautiful Delilah (Mono Version) 2:09

33 Lee Hazlewood - The Bed 2:43

34 Clodagh Rodgers - Believe Me, I'm No Fool 2:30

35 Dave Helling - Bells 3:08

36 The Pentangle - Bells 4:02

37 The Creation - Biff, Bang, Pow 2:25

38 The Kinks - Big Black Smoke (Mono Version) 2:34

39 Ralph McTell - 039 Big Tree 2:30

40 Bert Jansch - Birthday Blues 1:14

41 The Hearts - Black Eyes (Alternate Take) 2:18

42 Bert Jansch - Blues 2:40

43 The Creation - Bony Moronie 3:28

44 Manfred Mann - Box Office Draw (Mono Version) 2:13

45 Ralph McTell - The Boxer 3:26

46 Wild Silk - Break Down Juanita 3:49

47 Bert Jansch - The Bright New Year 1:34

48 A Wild Uncertainty - Broken Truth 2:07

49 Wild Silk - Burn Down the Cornfield 2:42

50 Lee Hazlewood - Bye Babe 3:40

51 The Kinks - Cadillac (Mono Version) 2:46

52 The Thoughts - Call Me Girl 2:32

CD03

53 The Creation - Can I Join Your Band 3:03

54 The Fortunes - Caroline 2:02

55 The Talismen - Casting My Spell 1:57

56 The First Gear - A Certain Girl 2:21

57 The Bachelors - Charmaine 2:32

58 Dave Helling - Christine 3:09

59 Roy Harper - Circle 10:40

60 String Driven Thing - Circus 4:45

61 The Pentangle - Cold Mountain 2:00

62 The Sallyangie - Colours of the World 2:30

63 The Kinks - Come On Now (Mono Version) 1:49

64 Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds - Come On, Let's Go 2:20

65 Roy Harper - Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith 8:58

66 Bert Jansch - Come Sing Me a Happy Song to Prove We All Can Get Along the Lumpy, Bumpy, Long and Dusty Road 2:05

67 Roy Harper - Composer of Life 2:29

68 The Creation - Cool Jerk 2:19

69 Ralph McTell - Country Boys 3:17

70 Wild Silk - Crimson and Gold 2:32

71 Debbie Sharron - Cruel Way to Be 2:10

72 The Pentangle - The Cuckoo 4:29

73 Lindsay Muir's Untamed - Daddy Long Legs 2:47

74 The Who - Daddy Rolling Stone (Mono Version) 2:48

CD04

75 The Kinks - Dancing in the Street (Mono Version) 2:21

76 The Rockin' Vickers - Dandy 2:08

77 The Kinks - David Watts (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:33

78 The Kinks - Dead End Street (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:23

79 Manfred Mann - Dealer Dealer (Mono Version) 3:17

80 Dave Davies - Death of a Clown (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 3:05

81 The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:04

82 Chad & Jeremy - Dirty Old Town 3:09

83 The Easybeats - Do You Have a Soul? 2:41

84 The Kinks - Don't Ever Change (Mono Version) 2:26

85 Sherri Weine - Don't Forget 2:31

86 The Tribe - Don't Let It Be 3:20

87 Ralph McTell - Don't Make Promises 2:58

88 The Kinks - Don’t You Fret (Mono Version) 2:45

89 Oliver Norman - Drowning in My Own Despair 3:06

90 Manfred Mann - Each and Every Day (Mono Version) 2:47

91 Manfred Mann - Each Other's Company (Mono Version) 2:56

92 String Driven Thing - Easy to Be Free 3:06

93 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - 85 Westbourne Terrace 2:59

94 Noosha Fox - Elvis 3:46

95 Clodagh Rodgers - End of the Line 2:10

96 The Kinks - End of the Season (Mono Version) 2:58

97 The Kinks - Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:17

98 Sean Buckley and the Breadcrumbs - Everybody Knows 2:09

99 Amen Corner - Evil Man's Gonna Win (Mono Version) 4:02

100 Roy Harper - Exercising Some Control 2:50

CD05

101 String Driven Thing - Fairground 3:22

102 The Kinks - Fancy (Mono Version) 2:31

103 Manfred Mann - Feeling So Good (Mono Version) 3:10

104 The Creation - For All That I Am 3:04

105 Lee Hazlewood - For Once in My Life 3:00

106 Roy Harper - Francesca 1:32

107 Roy Harper - Freak Street 3:05

108 The Kinks - Funny Face (Mono Version) 2:18

109 The Tribe - The Gamma Goochie 2:57

110 Manfred Mann - Get Away (Mono Version) 2:43

111 Amen Corner - Get Back 2:41

112 Wild Silk - Girl 2:46

113 Wild Silk - The Girl I Left Behind Me 3:01

114 The Creation - The Girls Are Naked 1:59

115 Davy Jones - Glad I've Got Nobody 2:30

116 The Orchids - Gonna Make Him Mine 2:17

117 The Who - The Good's Gone (Mono Version) 4:04

118 The Preachers - Goodbye Girl 1:52

119 The Soul Brothers - Goodbye So Long 3:00

120 The Kinks - Got Love If You Want It (Mono Version) 3:46

121 The Kinks - Got My Feet on the Ground (Mono Version) 2:16

122 Van Lenton - Gotta Get Away 2:50

123 The Kinks - Gotta Get the First Plane Home (Mono Version) 1:49

124 The Liberators - Gotta Have You 2:11

125 Unknown Beat Girls - Grave Digger 2:38

126 Dani Sheridan - Guess I'm Dumb 2:28

127 Manfred Mann - Ha! Ha! Said the Clown (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:27

128 The Easybeats - Happy Is the Man 2:42

CD06

129 The Kinks - Harry Rag (Mono Version) 2:17

130 Ray Gates - Have You Ever Had the Blues (Alternative Take) 2:26

131 Ralph McTell - He'll Have to Go 2:26

132 The Pentangle - Hear My Call 3:08

133 String Driven Thing - Heartfeeder 6:37

134 Amen Corner - Hello Susie (Original 1969 Immediate Records 7" Mono Single Version) 2:36

135 Wild Silk - Help Me 3:28

136 The Creation - Hey Joe 4:10

137 Amen Corner - Hey! Hey! Girl (Mono Version) 3:04

138 Wild Silk - High Horse 2:52

139 Roy Harper - Highgate Cemetary 2:22

140 The Pentangle - Hole in the Coal 5:23

141 The Kinks - Holiday in Waikiki (Mono Version) 2:55

142 String Driven Thing - Hooked on the Road 2:56

143 The Easybeats - Hound Dog (Mono Version) 3:19

144 String Driven Thing - The House 2:35

145 The Pentangle - House Carpenter 5:30

146 The Kinks - A House in the Country (Mono Version) 3:09

147 The League of Gentlemen - How Do They Know 2:13

148 The Creation - How Does It Feel to Feel (UK Version) 2:59

149 The Pentangle - Hunting Song 6:45

150 The Kinks - I Am Free (Mono Version) 2:30

CD07

151 Bert Jansch - I Am Lonely 2:31

152 The Creation - I Am the Walker 2:46

153 The Who - I Can't Explain (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:05

154 The Who - I Don't Mind (Mono Version) 2:36

155 The Rockin' Vickers - I Don't Need Your Kind 2:31

156 Ralph McTell - I Fall to Pieces 3:07

157 The Kinks - I Gotta Go Now (Mono Version) 2:54

158 The Kinks - I Gotta Move (Mono Version) 2:24

159 The Sneekers feat. Jimmy Page - I Just Can't Go to Sleep 1:56

160 The Pentangle - I Loved a Lass 2:47

161 The Kinks - I Need You (Mono Version) 2:25

162 Ralph McTell - I Recall a Gypsy Woman 3:41

163 The Pentangle - I Saw an Angel 2:54

164 Clodagh Rodgers - I See More of Him 2:18

165 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - I See You've Come Again 2:02

166 The Kinks - I Took My Baby Home (Mono Version) 1:48

167 Manfred Mann - I Wanna Be Rich (Mono Version) 2:31

168 Davy Jones - I Want My Baby Back 2:38

169 The Kinks - I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (Mono Version) 2:02

170 Davy Jones - I'll Follow You 2:00

171 The Untamed - I'll Go Crazy 2:14

172 John Lee's Groundhogs - I'll Never Fall in Love Again 2:11

173 The Kinks - I'll Remember (Mono Version) 2:27

174 The Kinks - I'm a Lover Not a Fighter (Mono Version) 2:05

175 The Who - I'm A Man (Mono Version) 3:23

176 The Nashville Teens - I'm Coming Home 3:12

177 The Untamed - I'm Going Out Tonight 2:27

178 The Tribe - I'm Leaving 2:50

179 The Untamed - I'm Leaving 1:52

CD08

180 The Kinks - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Mono Version) 3:27

181 The Kinks - I'm On an Island (Mono Version) 2:18

182 The Kinks - I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain (Mono Version) 2:03

183 The Pentangle - I've Got a Feeling 4:29

184 Bert Jansch - I've Got a Woman 5:15

185 The Kinks - I’ve Got That Feeling (Mono Version) 2:44

186 The Creation - If I Stay Too Long 3:28

187 Chad & Jeremy - If She Was Mine (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:05

188 The Fortunes - If You Don't Want Me Now 2:32

189 Roy Harper - In a Beautiful Rambling Mess 2:50

190 Roy Harper - In the Time of Water 2:16

191 The Pentangle - In Time 5:10

192 The Pentangle - In Your Mind 2:18

193 The Who - Instant Party Mixture (Mono Version) 3:28

194 Lee Hazlewood - It Was a Very Good Year 4:19

195 String Driven Thing - It's a Game (Original 1973 7" Single Version) 3:35

196 The Kinks - It's Alright (Mono Version) 2:36

197 The Who - It's Not True (Mono Version) 2:33

198 IMP-ACT - It's Superman 2:13

199 Roy Harper - It's Tomorrow and Today Is Yesterday 4:11

200 The Kinks - It's Too Late (Mono Version) 2:35

201 String Driven Thing - Jack Diamond 5:19

202 Ben Carruthers and the Deep - Jack O' Diamonds 2:43

CD09

203 Tim Rose - Jamie Sue 3:55

204 Wild Silk - Jessie 3:00

205 The Kinks - Just Can't Go to Sleep (Mono Version) 2:00

206 The Talismen - Just Can't Keep a Good Man Down 1:34

207 Manfred Mann - Just Like a Woman (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:53

208 Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds - 208 Kelly 2:36

209 The Who - The Kids Are Alright (Original 1966 UK 7" Mono Single Version) 3:04

210 The Untamed - Kids Take Over 2:38

211 The Who - La-La-La Lies (Mono Version) 2:17

212 Ralph McTell - Ladies Love Outlaws 3:38

213 Colette and the Bandits - A Ladies' Man (Alternate Version) 3:20

214 Amen Corner - Lady Riga 3:18

215 The Kinks - Lazy Old Sun (Mono Version) 2:49

216 The First Gear - Leave My Kitten Alone 2:22

217 The Who - Leaving Here (Mono Version) 2:48

218 The Who - A Legal Matter (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 2:50

219 String Driven Thing - Let Me Down 4:03

220 The Pentangle - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 2:48

221 Lee Hazlewood - Let's Burn Down the Cornfield 2:43

222 The Creation - Life Is Just Beginning 2:58

223 Tony Christie and the Trackers - Life's Too Good to Waste 3:01

224 The Creation - Like a Rolling Stone 2:59

225 Chad & Jeremy - Like I Love You Today (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:41

226 The Easybeats - Lisa 3:23

227 The Kinks - Little Miss Queen of Darkness (Mono Version) 3:21

228 The Lancastrians - Lonely Man 2:46

CD10

229 The Kinks - Long Tall Sally (Mono Version) 2:12

230 The Kinks - Long Tall Shorty (Mono Version) 2:51

231 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Look for Me Baby 2:18

232 Small Faces - Lookin' for a Love 3:13

233 The Kinks - Louie Louie (Mono Version) 2:58

234 The Who - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave (Mono Version) 2:41

235 The Pathfinders - Love Love Love 2:24

236 Dave Davies - Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Mono Version) 3:19

237 The Who - Lubie (Come Back Home) (Mono Version) 3:36

238 The Dennisons - Lucy (You Sure Did It This Time) 2:18

239 The Pentangle - Lyke-Wake Dirge 3:36

240 String Driven Thing - The Machine That Cried 5:17

241 The Easybeats - Made My Bed (Gonna Lie in It) 2:08

242 John Lee Hooker - Mai Lee 3:39

243 Liz Shelley - Make Me Your Baby 2:41

244 National Pinion Pole - Make Your Mark Little Man 3:18

245 A Wild Uncertainty - Man with Money 2:07

246 Roy Harper - Manana 4:20

247 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Margo's Groove 2:36

248 Ralph McTell - Marie 3:01

249 Lee Hazlewood - Mary 3:10

250 Pros & Cons - Mary Ann 2:09

CD11

251 Roy Harper - McGoohan's Blues 17:54

252 The Thoughts - Memory of Your Love 2:08

253 The Creation - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 2:33

254 The Creation - Midway Down 2:46

255 The Kinks - Milk Cow Blues (Mono Version) 3:42

256 The Pentangle - Mirage 2:02

257 Bert Jansch - Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell 2:10

258 The Kinks - Mister Pleasant (Original 1967 7" Mono Single Version) 2:59

259 Wild Silk - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 2:36

260 The Pentangle - Moon Dog 2:44

261 Manfred Mann - Morning After the Party (Mono Version) 2:35

262 The Kinks - Most Exclusive Residence for Sale (Mono Version) 2:50

263 The Who - Motoring (Mono Version) 2:49

264 Amen Corner - Mr. Nonchalant 3:31

265 The Who - Much Too Much (Mono Version) 2:47

266 The Untamed - My Baby Is Gone 2:26

267 String Driven Thing - My Real Hero 3:53

268 The Kinks - Naggin' Woman (Mono Version) 2:38

269 Lee Hazlewood - The Night Before 3:20

270 String Driven Thing - Night Club 5:03

271 The Mickey Finn - Night Comes Down 2:11

CD12

272 The Creation - Nightmares 3:12

273 Liz Shelley - No More Love 3:11

274 The Kinks - No Return (Mono Version) 2:03

275 Chad & Jeremy - No Tears for Johnnie (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:20

276 The Kinks - Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl (Mono Version) 2:46

277 Chad & Jeremy - Now and Forever 1:50

278 Manfred Mann - Now and Then Thing (Mono Version) 2:44

279 The Pentangle - Once I Had a Sweetheart 4:45

280 Roy Harper - One for All 8:14

281 Chad & Jeremy - Only for the Young 2:53

282 The Orchids - Oo-Chang-a-Lang 2:33

283 The Creation - Ostrich Man 3:01

284 IMP-ACT - Our Love Is Gone 1:50

285 The Who - Out in the Street (Mono Version) 2:33

286 John Lee's Groundhogs - Over You Baby 2:25

287 The Who - The Ox (Mono Version) 3:55

288 Noosha Fox - Panama Brandy and a Mandarin 3:12

289 Lee Hazlewood - Paris Bells 2:47

290 The Kinks - Party Line (Mono Version) 2:38

291 The Pentangle - Pentangling 7:14

292 String Driven Thing - People on the Street 6:01

293 The Trekkas - Please Go 2:31

294 The Gnomes of Zurich - Please Mr. Sun 2:27

CD13

295 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Please, Please 1:52

296 The Who - Please, Please, Please (Mono Version) 2:46

297 Bert Jansch - Poison 3:16

298 Wild Silk - Poor Man 2:56

299 The Easybeats - Pretty Girl 2:17

300 Bert Jansch - Promised Land 2:52

301 Amen Corner - Proud Mary 3:06

302 The Kinks - Rainy Day in June (Mono Version) 3:19

303 Amen Corner - Recess 2:29

304 String Driven Thing - Regent St. Incident 2:54

305 The Easybeats - Remember Sam 2:34

306 The Kinks - Revenge (Mono Version) 1:31

307 The Kinks - Ring the Bells (Mono Version) 2:20

308 The Easybeats - River Deep Mountain High 3:59

309 String Driven Thing - River of Sleep A) The Sowee B) Search in Time C) Going Down 10:59

310 The Kinks - Rosie Won't You Please Come Home (Mono Version) 2:36

311 Wild Silk - The Sad Thing (You're Leaving Me) 3:34

312 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Sailor Boy 2:31

313 The Pentangle - Sally Go Round the Roses 3:39

314 Amen Corner - Sanitation 2:46

315 The Easybeats - Saturday Night 3:26

316 Margo and the Marvettes - Say You Will 2:12

317 Amen Corner - Scream and Scream Again 3:36

318 The Soul Brothers - Searching 1:40

CD14

319 The Easybeats - See Line Woman 3:16

320 The Kinks - See My Friends (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:47

321 Wayne Gibson and the Dynamic Sounds - See You Later, Alligator 2:23

322 Chad & Jeremy - September in the Rain 2:33

323 Lee Hazlewood - September Song 5:00

324 The Kinks - Session Man (Mono Version) 2:22

325 The Kinks - Set Me Free (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:11

326 Roy Harper - Sgt. Sunshine 3:04

327 The Presidents - She Said Yeah 1:46

328 Roy Harper - She's the One 4:45

329 Christine Holmes - A Shoulder to Cry On 3:13

330 The Who - Shout and Shimmy (Mono Version) 3:18

331 The Damned - Sick of Being Sick (Original Stiff Single July, 1977) 1:59

332 Trini Lopez - Sinner Not a Saint 2:32

333 The Kinks - Sittin' on My Sofa (Mono Version) 3:05

334 The Kinks - Situation Vacant (Mono Version) 3:20

335 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - The Skip 2:30

336 The Kinks - So Long (Mono Version) 2:11

337 The Kinks - So Mystifying (Mono Version) 2:55

338 Perpetual Langley - So Sad 2:53

339 String Driven Thing - Sold Down the River 4:27

340 The Kinks - Something Better Beginning (Mono Version) 2:26

341 Clodagh Rodgers - Sometime Kind of Love 2:27

342 Dani Sheridan - Songs of Love 2:03

343 The Pentangle - Sovay 2:52

344 The Orlons - Spinning Top 2:21

CD15

345 The Mickey Finn - The Sporting Life 2:30

346 The Pentangle - Springtime Promises 4:09

347 The Orchids - Stay at Home 2:21

348 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Stone Crazy 2:11

349 The Rokes - Stop and Watch the Children Play 2:57

350 Wild Silk - Stop Crying 3:27

351 The Kinks - Stop Your Sobbing (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:07

352 Stevie Holly - A Strange World 2:14

353 The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby (Original Stiff Single July, 1977) 2:13

354 The Kinks - Such a Shame (Mono Version) 2:19

355 Chad & Jeremy - A Summer Song (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:40

356 Manfred Mann - Sunny (Mono Version) 3:11

357 The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (Original 1966 7" Mono Single Version) 3:40

358 Manfred Mann - Superstitious Guy (Mono Version) 2:46

359 The Plain & Fancy - Surrender 2:45

360 The Pentangle - Sweet Child 5:17

361 Ralph McTell - Sweet Girl on My Mind 2:19

362 The Creation - Sweet Helen 2:59

363 The Manish Boys - Take My Tip 2:12

364 The Rising Sons - Talk to Me Baby 2:12

365 Liz Shelley - Tar and Cement 2:47

366 Ralph McTell - Tequila Sunset 3:14

367 Davy Jones - That's Where My Heart Is 2:24

368 The Zephyrs - There's Something About You 2:21

369 Amen Corner - Things Ain't What They Used to Be 2:07

370 The Kinks - Things Are Getting Better (Mono Version) 1:56

371 Total - Think 3:03

CD16

372 Margo and the Marvettes - This Heart Is Not for Sale 2:19

373 The Kinks - This Is Where I Belong (Mono Version) 2:26

374 The Pentangle - Three Part Thing 2:31

375 The Creation - Through My Eyes 3:06

376 The Kinks - Till the End of the Day (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:24

377 The Kinks - Tin Soldier Man (Mono Version) 2:50

378 The Kinks - Tired of Waiting for You (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:35

379 String Driven Thing - To See You 3:56

380 The Creation - Tom Tom 2:56

381 The Kinks - Too Much Monkey Business (Mono Version) 2:17

382 The Corduroys - Too Much of a Woman 1:46

383 The Kinks - Too Much on My Mind (Mono Version) 2:32

384 Chad & Jeremy - Too Soon My Love 2:31

385 Wild Silk - Toymaker 2:57

386 The Pentangle - Train Song 4:45

387 The Pentangle - Travelin' Song 3:01

388 String Driven Thing - Travelling 2:52

389 Bert Jansch - Tree Song 2:37

390 The Pentangle - The Trees They Do Grow High 3:51

391 Manfred Mann - Trouble and Tea (Mono Version) 2:12

392 Chad & Jeremy - The Truth Often Hurts the Heart 2:51

393 The Creation - Try and Stop Me 2:27

394 Perpetual Langley - Two By Two 2:13

395 The Kinks - Two Sisters (Mono Version) 2:03

396 String Driven Thing - Two Timin' Mama 3:08

397 The Creation - Uncle Bert 2:30

398 The New Breed - Unto Us 2:30

CD17

399 Ralph McTell - Van Nuys 3:22

400 String Driven Thing - Very Last Blue 3:56

401 Wild Silk - (Vision in a) Plaster Sky 2:28

402 Lee Hazlewood - Wait Till Next Year 3:42

403 The Kinks - Wait Till the Summer Comes Along (Mono Version) 2:09

404 Vicki Brown - Walkin' in the Sun 3:38

405 The Pentangle - Waltz 5:06

406 The Lancastrians - Was She Tall 2:07

407 The Pentangle - Way Behind the Sun 3:13

408 Wild Silk - The Way You Look Tonight 2:40

409 Perpetual Langley - We Wanna Stay Home 2:29

410 Amen Corner - The Weight 5:50

411 Amen Corner - Welcome to the Club 3:05

412 The Kinks - A Well Respected Man (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:43

413 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - What Kind of Man Are You 2:25

414 Roy Harper - What You Have 5:16

415 Johnny B Great & The Orchids - What'd I Say 2:49

416 The Kinks - What's in Store for Me (Mono Version) 2:07

417 Lee Hazlewood - What's More I Don't Need Her 3:38

418 The Kinks - When I See That Girl of Mine (Mono Version) 2:13

419 Amen Corner - When We Make Love 2:51

420 The Kinks - Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Mono Version) 2:49

421 The Kinks - Who'll Be the Next in Line (Original 1965 7" Mono Single Version) 2:02

422 The Easybeats - Who'll Be the One 2:37

423 The Pathfinders - Why 1:35

CD18

424 Pros & Cons - Why Do You Stand in My Way 2:14

425 Manfred Mann - Wild Thing (Mono Version) 2:51

426 Chad & Jeremy - Willow Weep for Me (Original 1964 7" Mono Single Version) 2:35

427 Ralph McTell - 427 Winnie Rag 2:19

428 Bert Jansch - Wishing Well 2:18

429 Manfred Mann - With a Girl Like You (Mono Version) 4:04

430 Bert Jansch - A Woman Like You 4:27

431 Noosha Fox - Won't Change My Mind 3:55

432 The Kinks - The World Keeps Going Round (Mono Version) 2:37

433 Tony Lord - World's Champion 3:09

434 Chad & Jeremy - Yesterday's Gone (Original 1963 7" Mono Single Version) 2:35

435 String Driven Thing - Yodell 3:51

436 The Kinks - You Can't Win (Mono Version) 2:42

437 The Kinks - You Do Something to Me (Mono Version) 2:25

438 Van Lenton - You Don't Care 2:08

439 Roy Harper - You Don't Need Money 2:27

440 Liz Shelley - You Made Me Hurt 2:59

441 The Easybeats - You Me, We Love 3:23

442 The Kinks - You Shouldn't Be Sad (Mono Version) 2:02

443 The Kinks - You Still Want Me (Mono Version) 2:00

444 The Kinks - You're Lookin' Fine (Mono Version) 2:53

445 Manfred Mann - You're My Girl (Mono Version) 2:48

446 Roy Harper - Zaney Janey 3:31

447 The Creation - Painter Man 2:53

448 The Who - Circles (Shel Talmy Original 1966 7" Mono Single First Version) 3:13

449 Davy Jones with the Lower Third - You've Got a Habit of Leaving 2:29

450 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Original 1967 7" True Stereo Single Version) 3:18

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