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The Sound Spectrum (1995)
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Roy Budd - Get Carter    
      2.  
      		 Roy Budd - Love Is A Four Letter Word    
      3.  
      		 Roy Budd - Getting Nowhere    
      4.  
      		 Roy Budd - Plaything    
      5.  
      		 The John Schroeder Orchestra - Grow Your Own    
      6.  
      		 The City Of Westminster String Band - A Touch Of Velvet    
      7.  
      		 Chico Rey and The Jet Band - Stiletto    
      8.  
      		 Ray Davies and his Funky Trumpet - Heavy Water    
      9.  
      		 Roy Budd - Hurry To Me    
      10.  
      		 The Lovin' Spoonful - Speakin' Of Spoken    
      11.  
      		 Sister Goose and the Ducklings - Super Shine No. 9    
      12.  
      		 John Schroeder - Headband    
      13.  
      		 Milton Hunter Orchestra - The Loner    
      14.  
      		 Ted Dicks - Busy Boy    
      15.  
      		 The Tony Hatch Orchestra - Birds    
      16.  
      		 Ray Davies and his Funky Trumpet - Mach 1    
      17.  
      		 The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sound - 2001    
      18.  
      		 Mike Vickers - Pegasus    
      19.  
      		 Badder Than Evil - Hot Wheels    
      20.  
      		 The City Of Westminster String Band - Split Level    
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      The Sound Spectrum (1995)

      Review by Jason Ankeny AMG

      For the follow-up to their Sound Gallery collection, compilers Martin Green and Patrick Whitaker turn to the Pye label vaults for this superb retrospective of British Now Sound cuts from the late '60s and early '70s — like its predecessor, The Sound Spectrum manages to straddle the line between nostalgic appreciation and kitschy irony with genuine aplomb, and remains one of the most engaging easy listening compilations to appear. Credit the disc most for its work in rehabilitating the reputation of the fashionable film composer Roy Budd, who contributes five tracks, most notably his inimitable title theme for the classic gangster thriller Get Carter. Other highlights: the sinister funk of John Schroeder's "Headband," the Tony Hatch Orchestra's 1968 Eurovision theme "Birds," and Cecil Holmes' hallucinatory take on "Also Sprach Zarathustra," a clear antecedent to Walter Murphy's Saturday Night Fever entry "A Fifth of Beethoven."


      1 Get Carter - Roy Budd 3:19
      2 Love Is a Four Letter Word - Roy Budd 2:39
      3 Gettin' Nowhere in a Hurry - Roy Budd 3:09
      4 Plaything - Roy Budd 2:52
      5 Grow Your Own - The John Schroeder Orchestra 2:56
      6 A Touch of Velvet - The City of Westminster String Band 2:43
      7 Stiletto - Chico Rey and The Jet Band 2:50
      8 Heavy Water - Ray Davies and his Funky Trumpet 4:20
      9 Hurry to Me - Roy Budd 4:00
      10 Speakin' Of Spoken - The Lovin' Spoonful 2:40
      11 Super Shine No. 9 - Sister Goose and the Ducklings 2:45
      12 Headband - John Schroeder 3:08
      13 The Loner - Milton Hunter Orchestra 2:43
      14 Busy Boy - Ted Dicks 1:17
      15 Birds - The Tony Hatch Orchestra 3:37
      16 Mach 1 - Ray Davies and his Funky Trumpet
      17 2001 - The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sound 2:51
      18 Pegasus - Mike Vickers 1:35
      19 Hot Wheels - Badder Than Evil 3:02
      20 Split Level - The City Of Westminster String Band 3:17
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