Hi Richard, the 1964 Saturday Club is the one broadcast on March 7th. Matt's songs are Happy Am I, and From Russia With Love. Both session recordings rather than from record (as some songs played were).
EDIT: Richard, I've just listened to the show for the first time in a while and the tracks are as you suggest, 'Let Me Sing And I'm Happy', and 'From Russia With Love'. I took the title 'Happy Am I' off the track listing on the CD-R which is obviously wrong!
I know the show as the estate have this one too (along with all the TOTP). Always looking for anything new, although songs we haven't got date from pre 1964 (I have a complete listing from BBC archives of all the songs Matt sang on Saturday Club from the original show listings which are preserved at BBC Written Archives - Everything he recorded for Sat Club from mid 64 onwards was issued on TOTP). Thank goodness Bernie Andrews kept so many songs (see Heart of The Man!) but there are still a lot that have never been heard of since, that weren't recorded anywhere else. Richard
Hi Richard, still working my way through this thread. The above is from post no.40. It was me who sent you this acetate for you to copy/restore for me. I was wondering if you had any plans for a future release featuring it and great that you've located the tape. If it ever comes to pass, a little nod by way of a cover notes thanks would be nice. Always wanted to be in print on a cd! I remember you mentioning that you'd made a copy for Michele. Did you ever get any feedback? This newly found version needs to be shared with the world and I'm very proud of that find (and of finding you to share it with). Steve.
Hi Steve, Always like to give credit where possible, although at the moment, with no interest from Warner in a future releases I don't know where that would be. Wish i'd known about it before Alternate!
Richard - is making the track available to purchase as a download a viable option? Best Wishes, David
By the way, Michele says thanks. Unfortunately alternate takes/mixes (even mono vs stereo) mean very little to her personally due to her M.S. which makes it hard for her to process differences, so she has to leave that sort of thing to me. She's delighted to have a copy for the archive though.
Sounds like the title of a forgotten B-Movie! Maddening though - there's no excuse in the modern world for witholding approval/support/licensing of artists' material. The market may be small or 'niche' but there is a market. If the large labels don't adapt, they *will* go under. Best Wishes, David
They aren't withholding the recordings, they just have no desire to look to deeply into their catalogues, but at the same time charge ridiculous amounts to license material they don't want to release themselves - and therefore nobody gets anywhere. Universal are the same. Sony can be more reasonable depending on what you want to license.
Just received an almost new second-hand copy of the twofer 'Walk Away' and 'Invitation To The Movies'. Looking forward to some quality listening time tomorrow. Best Wishes, David
First impressions: I really like the 'flow' of both albums, with 'Walk Away' sounding slightly more coherent than 'Invitation To The Movies' I think it's an often under-appreciated and under-estimated skill in choosing the correct order of tracks for an album to lead the listener through the material. Whoever was responsible for 'Walk Away' got it just right. Best Wishes, David
For someone looking to buy Matt's CDs for the first time but baffled with the different compilations out there, which ones are best recommended at this point in time? I have scoured through threads but realize many are out of print. Thanks in advance!
Matt Monro's The Singer's Singer is a four CD box set collection in great remastered sound that has 101 songs on it. The perfect place to start. It is also quite cheap as I recall. I also love The Collection as it has his later discovered great version of Yesterday When I Was Young as well as some of his greatest hits. I would start with those two collections and the first box set really has all his essential recordings, including his fantastic version of My Kind Of Girl.
I echo RSteven about Singer's Singer. Just make sure you pick up the fully remastered 2011 edition that comes in the clam shell case not the 2001 long box edition with fairly ropey mastering.
Now that's a really good piece of news! I hope things go well for you all in the discussions. Best Wishes, David
Not much. It's slow progress but will involve Capitol material and hopefully something not heard before.
I'd like to hear some more things with just voice and piano or voice and guitar. A trio would be OK, but simple accompaniment is great.
How about a quartet (Piano, Bass, Drums, Guitar) - If I get my way then that's what it'll be! There aren't many songs Matt recorded simply though. I don't know how many clean vocals could be found as Matt did tend to record live with the orchestra. That's an interesting idea though. A sort of opposite to the "Big Orchestra" Elvis/Orbison/Beach boys idea. Matt's vocals with a trio.
That's great. Did he do songs with just his pianist (or a guitarist or a trio/quartet) in concerts or clubs? If soundboard tapes exist, maybe a little collection could be put together.
He very rarely performed with anything less than 7/8 piece band. Often bigger. Unfortunately we don't have much soundboard wise, definitely nothing with just piano. What does exist (and only found last year) is a collection of "Head Arrangement" (In other words not planned in great detail) recordings with a small group, made (we think) for a Winifred Atwell series on Radio Luxembourg. No plans for release of these as yet, but if the right project were to come along..........
