[2025-08-22] Various "All Things Bright And Beautiful: The UK Pop Explosion 1967-1969" 3CD box set (Grapefruit UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 23, 2025 11:56 am

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Description
• A four-hour, 3CD anthology of the late 60s British pop scene during the early years of Radio 1.

• Big hits and intriguing misses from some of the biggest acts and most prominent writing/production teams of the era.

In 1967, British pop radio underwent a seismic change when the pirate stations that had ruled the airwaves over the previous couple of years were declared illegal by an Act of Parliament and replaced by a national station controlled by publicly-funded broadcaster the BBC.

The arrival of Radio 1 saw the British pop scene remade in the station’s own image, with a new wave of songwriting and production teams competing to create bright, brassy, relentlessly upbeat tracks that would be embraced by Radio 1’s all-important playlist.

While The Love Affair, The Herd, The Tremeloes and The Foundations were among the groups who made the headlines, the key figures were really the backroom auteurs: names like Tony Macaulay, Howard Blaikley and arranger Keith Mansfield were all integral to the new, homogenised pop radio sound.

‘All Things Bright And Beautiful: The UK Pop Explosion’ is a 3CD, four-hour celebration of this pivotal period in British pop history, with a huge number of key hits – including several featured in the opening hour of Radio 1’s first broadcast – joined by more minor successes and some 45s that received considerable airplay but nevertheless failed to make the grade.

Housed in Grapefruit’s standard clamshell box packaging with a 48-page booklet and track-by-track annotation, it’s another essential purchase for any late 60s pop aficionado.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Flowers In The Rain – The Move
2. Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear – Alan Price Set
3. You’re All Things Bright And Beautiful – Neil Christian
4. I Live For The Sun – Vanity Fare
5. Smokey Blue’s Away – A New Generation
6. Baby Now That I’ve Found You – The Foundations
7. Thanks – J. Vincent Edward
8. Let’s Live For Today – Living Daylights
9. Carrie Anne – The Hollies
10. Round, Round – Jonathan King
11. I’m A Box (Mum-Mum-Mum) – The Hi-Fi’s
12. Friends – Arrival
13. House For Sale – Val McKenna
14. Slow Motion (demo version) – Sweetshop
15. Everything I Am – Plastic Penny
16. Shame, Shame – Magic Lanterns
17. Wonderboy – The Kinks
18. Mr. Blue – Force West
19. The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian – Don Fardon
20. A Walk In The Sunshine – Davey Payne & The Medium Wave
21. Samantha’s Mine – The Spectrum
22. Little Bit O’ Soul – Candy
23. Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A Tellin’ Me No) – The Paper Dolls
24. I Think I Need The Cash – The Secrets
25. The Gloria Bosom Show – The Sundowners
26. In A Moment Of Madness – The Flower Pot Men
27. Excerpt From “A Teenage Opera” – Keith West

[CD2]
1. Bringing On Back The Good Times – The Love Affair
2. The Boat That I Row – Lulu
3. Beautiful Dreams – Twiggy
4. Baby Come Back To Me – Simon De Lacy
5. What’s The Matter With Juliet – The Wheels
6. Come Back And Shake Me – Clodagh Rodgers
7. March – Cindy Ann Lee
8. Sign On The Dotted Line – Gene Latter
9. Please Let Me Hide – The Skatalites
10. A Way Of Life – The Family Dogg
11. Wide Smiles – The Episode
12. Peanuts And Chewy Macs – The Cymbaline
13. The Silent Sun – Genesis
14. And The Rains Came Down – U.K. Jones
15. Lovely Loretta – The Merseys
16. I Thought You Thought – Chuckles
17. Lovin’ Things – The Marmalade
18. Cool It – The Quotations
19. Baubles And Bangles – Mike Stuart Span
20. Would You Believe What I Say – The Unit (Unit Four Plus Two)
21. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ – Whichwhat
22. Hookey – The Eggy
23. (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice – Amen Corner
24. What’s It To You – The Chocolate Watch Band
25. Micky – Twinkle
26. Anybody At The Party Seen Jenny – Tony Ritchie
27. Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday – Circus
28. Gentle People Pts. 1 And 2 – Violent Thimble

[CD3]
1. Eloise – Barry Ryan
2. I Don’t Want Our Loving To Die – The Herd
3. Mystery Lady – The Mirage
4. (Here We Go Round The) Lemon Tree – Jason Crest
5. Penelope Breedlove – Dave Christie
6. Jesamine – The Casuals
7. Round Going Round – Grapefruit
8. Publicity Girl – The Gnomes Of Zurich
9. Last Night In Soho – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich
10. I Remember – Harmony Grass
11. Everything’s Gone Wrong – Tony Hazzard
12. Blueberry Blue – Sun Dragon
13. Great Train Robbery (demo version) – Outer Limits
14. I Can’t Let Maggie Go – The Honeybus
15. Let’s Take A Trip Down The Rhine – Apple
16. Ding Dong Bell – Yellow Pages
17. Huma-Luma – The Carlew Choir
18. Things You Do – Sons And Lovers
19. While We’re Friends – Katch-22
20. The Turtle Tortoise And The Hare – Guy Darrell Syndicate
21. I See Red – Steve Rowland
22. Angeline – Warm Sounds
23. Drive, Drive, Drive – Jimmy Henderson Set
24. Just One Thing – The Roll Movement
25. Bright-Eyed Apples – Tuesday’s Children
26. Evenings With Corrina (So Long Ago) – The Picadilly Line
27. Even The Bad Times Are Good – The Tremeloes

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Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:22 pm

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[2025-08-22] Various "All Things Bright And Beautiful: The UK Pop Explosion 1967-1969" 3CD box set (Grapefruit UK)

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