Paddy Roberts - Strictly For All Ages - Complete Recordings 1959-1962

JASMINE RECORDS

£12.73

Cat. no: JASMCD2676
Format: CD2
Barcode: 604988267624
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Genre: Easy Listening

This Jasmine collection brings together everything Paddy Roberts recorded between late 1958 and late 1962 - three full length albums, an EP and a brace of non-album 45s.

A prolific pop songwriter of the pre-rock ‘n’ roll 1950s with hits by Max Bygraves, David Whitfield, Anne Shelton and Ruby Murray (and many more) to his credit, Paddy Roberts became an unlikely recording artist in his own right at the end of the 1950s at the instigation of a friend who worked for a record label.

Delivered in a style described in the sleeve note as ‘a cross between Noel Coward and Eartha Kitt’, Roberts own pithy, humorous and frequently risqu material was “Strictly For Grown Ups” rather than the teenagers who bought pop singles. Nevertheless it didn’t stop it from receiving the kind of radio play that led to strong album and EP sales.

Paddy even had a ‘turntable hit’ with ‘The Ballad Of Bethnal Green’ a cheeky
number that frequently found its way onto all manner of BBC radio shows - even ‘Children’s Favourites’! Some of the material on ‘Strictly For All Ages’ has been issued on CD before but the vast majority of it has not. A more comprehensive collection of his work from those years could not be possible. As always, the collection is remastered from the best possible sources and features a comprehensive biography of Paddy in the booklet.

Pop music has evolved and changed considerably in the 60+ years since the earliest of these recordings were committed to tape, but the wit of Paddy Roberts’ charming, cheeky catalogue has not dimmed even slightly in that time, and what was once ‘For Grown Ups’ is now ‘Strictly For All Ages’!

CD 1: Love Isn’t What It Used To Be / Follow Me / Don’t Upset The Little Kiddie- Winks / The Architect / The Big Dee Jay / L’anglais Avec Son Sang Froid / The Ballad Of Bethnal Green / Love In A Mist / A Short Song / Growing Old / I’ve Got The Blues / Lavender Cowboy / Poor Little Country Girl / Let Me Introduce The Boys / I Gave My Love A Cherry / You’re A Square / We’ve Never Had It So Good / I Wanna Go Home / The Belle Of Barking Creek / Why Did It All Begin

CD 2: An Awful Lot Of Bull / I Love Mary / The Pie-Eyed Piper / Tattooed Lady / We’ve Got To Thank Columbus / What’s All This Fuss About Love? / Introduction By Noel Harrison/A Short Song / At The Blue Angel / Love Is A Wonderful Thing / Our Little Village / You’ll Always Find A Drunk / Women / Send For Me/ Love Is A Wonderful Thing (Reprise) / French Song / The Rabbi And The Priest / Medley: Horsey Horsey/Softly Softly/Lay Down Your Arms / The Ballad Of Bethnal Green / I Remember Tilly / Dad’s Song / Follow Me / Auntie Bridget / Our Little Village (Studio Version) / I Remember Tilly (Studio Version) / The Rabbi And The Priest (Studio Version) / Love Is A Wonderful Thing (Studio Version) / Send For Me (Studio Version) / Merry Christmas You Suckers / Got An
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