Matt Monro - The George Martin Years CD (& appreciation thread) *

So Matt had to record one version for the single, one for the soundtrack album and one for the movie, with numerous takes each time. And they call that being Born Free.

 

Yes apart from the re-recording of Southern Star on Soundtrack LP.

 

Three separate fees/royalties perhaps?

 

Invitation to the Movies seems hard to get hold of. I have ordered a second-hand import two-for from Amazon. I don't know if it was ever released in the UK.

All the tracks are on Matt at The Movies. Perhaps thats a better bet!

 

No Just one for the single - same as soundtrack album - and one for the soundtrack.

 

Possibly although i can't remember what is in Mono/Stereo as it's likely to be mixed.

This is a good way to go - which i assume is what you've ordered https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walk-Away-Invitation-Movies-Monro/dp/B00004YNF6

This uses the original Capitol masters (and the Liberty ones for Walk Away, but these will be 2nd gen copies of UK mixes. Occasionally there are slight edit differences on the Liberty albums, but I don't remember any on Walk Away.

 

Except Georgy Girl...

 

Walk Away is just a compilation? All the Invitation tracks are in Stereo on Matt at The Movies btw... Shame about Georgy Girl (Strange Omission?). Qobuz gave me the album because I had bought a few tracks already which was very nice of them. I have still ordered the CD - I can do a comparison...

 

Walk Away is as US album, but a compilation of (mainly) UK released material.

 

Matt Monro – Parlophone Years (1959 – 1965)

Albums





Love Is The Same Anywhere - Issued October 1961


Parlophone PMC 1151 (Mono)

PCS 3020 (Stereo)



Side A

1. Love Is The Same Anywhere (Donald Phillips)
2. Jeannie (Trevor Stanford/Norman Newell)
3. Let’s Face The Music And Dance (Irving Berlin)
4. Such Is My Love (Clive Westlake)
5. That’s The Thing About Love (David Dearlove/Donald Phillips)
6. Come Sta (Harry Gordon/Peter Vernon)

Side B

1. Cheek To Cheek (Irving Berlin)
2. I’ll Dream Of You (Terry Parsons/Dan Mark)
3. April Fool (Al Saxon/Shirley Berg)
4. Mirage (Alan Claire)
5. There Are No Words For Love (Leslie Bricusse)
6. No One Will Ever Know (George Martin/Jerry Lordan)

Produced By George Martin

Arranged and Conducted by Johnnie Spence

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios January – June 1961



Best CD Source – Love Is The Same Anywhere (EMI Digipack) except A 1, B 2 & 3 Complete Singles Collection, B4 Rarities,



Sings Hoagy Carmichael - Issued November 1962



Parlophone PMC 1185 (Mono)

PCS 3034 (Stereo)



Side A

1. Stardust (Mitchell Parish/Hoagy Carmichael)

2. Small Fry (Frank Loesser/Hoagy Carmichael)

3. How Little We Know (Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael)

4. The Nearness Of You (Ned Washington/Hoagy Carmichael)

5. Georgia On My Mind (Stuart Gorrell/Hoagy Carmichael)

6. Skylark (Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael)



Side B

1. One Morning In May (Mitchell Parish/Hoagy Carmichael)

2. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael)

3. Memphis In June (Paul Francis Webster/Hoagy Carmichael)

4. I Guess It Was You All The Time (Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael)

5. Blue Orchids (Hoagy Carmichael)

6. Rockin Chair (Hoagy Carmichael)



Produced By George Martin

Arranged and Conducted by Johnny Spence

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios June – August 1962



Best CD Source – Words and Music



I Have Dreamed - Issued June 1965



Parlophone PMC 1250 (Mono)

PCS 3067 (Stereo)



Side A

1. I Have Dreamed (Richard Rogers/Oscar Hammerstein II)

2. Who Can I Turn To (Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse)

3. My Friend, My Friend (Domenico Modungo/Hal Shaper)

4. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Sammy Fain/Paul Francis Webster)

5. It’s A Breeze (Joseph Kentridge)

6. Without The One I Love (Hamilton Dodds)

7. Once In Every Long and Lonely While (George Martin/Hal Shaper)



Side B

1. All My Loving (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

2. If This Should Be A Dream (George Martin/Dick James)

3. How Soon (Henry Mancini/Al Stillman)

4. Exodus (Ernest Gold/Charles Boone)

5. Here And Now (Denis King/John Junkin)

6. Friendly Persuasion (Dmitri Tiomkin/Paul Francis Webster)

7. Start Living (Joan Shakespeare/Don Black)



Produced By George Martin

Arranged and Conducted by Johnny Spence

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios April 1962 – January 1965



Best CD Source – Matt Monro Sings (EMI) Except A 1-4, B 4 – The Singer’s Singer,

B 5 – Complete Singles Collection (note Start Living single version is a different edit) A 6 & 7 and B2 George Martin Years




EPs (with exclusive material)


A Song For Europe – Parlophone GEP 8898



A1: Choose

A2: It's Funny How You Know

A3: I Love The Little Things

B1: I've Got The Moon On My Side

B2: Ten Out Of Ten

B3: Beautiful Beautiful



All songs edited to fit on EP. Edited versions not issued on CD except A1 & B2 on “This is Matt Monro”



Walk Away – Parlophone GEP 8926



A1: Walk Away (Warum Nur Warum)

A2: Around The World

B1: Fools Rush In

B2: Walk Into The Dawn



Side A previously released as single tracks.



Best CD versions B1 – The Singer’s Singer, B2- Rarities

 

Singles


I’ll Know Her / Love Walked In Parlophone R 4638


Portrait Of My Love / You’re The Top Of My Hit Parade Parlophone R 4714


My Kind Of Girl / This Time Parlophone R 4755


Why Not Now / Can This Be Love Parlophone R 4775


I’ll Dream Of You / Gonna Build A Mountain Parlophone R 4819


Softly As I Leave You / Is There Anything I Can Do Parlophone R 4868


Tahiti / When Love Comes Along Parlophone R 4911


My Love And Devotion / By The Way Parlophone R 4954


One Day / I’ve Got Love Parlophone R 4995


The Girl I Love / Leave Me Now Parlophone R 5019


From Russia With Love / Here And Now Parlophone R 5068


I Love The Little Things / It’s Funny How You Know Parlophone R 5103

Somewhere / I Love You Too Parlophone R 5150


Walk Away / Around The World Parlophone R 5171


For Mama / Going Places Parlophone R 5215


Without You / Start Living Parlophone R 5251


Before You Go / And Roses And Roses Parlophone R 5307


Beyond The Hill / How Do You Do Parlophone R 5348


Yesterday / Just Yesterday Parlophone R 5397


Best CD release : Complete singles except Tahiti, My Love and Devotion – George Martin Years, From Russia (Stereo Remix) Singer’s Singer OR George Martin Years. I’ll Dream of You and Here and Now also released on LP



Other important contemporary releases


You Keep Me Swingin’

Songs For Swingin’ Sellers’ by Peter Sellers

Parlophone PMC 1111/PCS 3003



I Should Care

I’m A Fool To Want You

Parade of The Pops - Parlophone PMC 1134


From Russia With Love (Alt Vocal/Original stereo mix)

From Russia With Love (Soundtrack) - United Artists ULP 1052 (S)


Softly As I Leave You (Stereo Version) slight difference in edit to mono

Walk Away - Liberty ‎– LST 7402


Till The End Of Time

The Second Time Around

Charade

The Green Leaves Of Summer

Unchained Melody

From Russia With Love/From Hollywood With Love - Liberty LRP-3356/LST-7356(USA)



As Long As She Needs Me

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

Singing In The Rain

All My Loving - Liberty LRP-3423/LST-7423



Ebb Tide

As Long As I’m Singing

Spring Is Here

Till Then My Love

Yesterday - Liberty LRP-3437/LST-7437 (USA)



Best CD releases: all on Singers Singer except Unchained Melody - The Greatest, As Long As I’m Singing - George Martin Years, Till Then My Love - Complete Singles. From Russia With Love & Softly – The Greatest

 

Thank you very much for all the information Richard, but isn't Sings the source for the Blue and Sentimental tracks? Or is there more than one CD called Matt Monro Sings? - it is a rather generic title I bought The Magic of Matt Monro for the I Have Dreamed tracks because the songs sounded better than on other seemingly PD examples but I would be glad of a recommendation for a legit (even better sounding) release. 'Start Living' on The Magic is the same length as the one on Complete Singles - what is the nature of the edit?

 

Thanks again Richard. I am a bit confused about 'From Russia With Love & Softly'. These tracks are listed as "Mono Single Versions" on The Greatest. Aren't those versions on Complete Singles?

 

What we need is all the albums in a nice CD box set to spare us from all this hard work.

 

that would be nice but to be honest I like the 'hard work' ...mostly

 

Just a curiosity factor and a bit off topic, but apart from MM, what other artists do those who subscribe to this thread like and enjoy and of course collect. Some say that MM was the English Sinatra so does anyone appreciate FS.

 

Yes I like and have collected Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. I also have collected Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Captain Beefheart, Kate Bush, Katy Perry, Radiohead etc. etc.

There is no end to my depravity!

 

I'm with you on almost everything there.

However ... having worked for one day as part of the local roadcrew for Captain Beefheart, anyone who mentions the name in this household is likely to be ejected forceufully and instantly. Until 6 months or so back, this was the worst concert experience I have had in close on 50 years of regular concert-going.

To keep on topic - continued thanks to Richard for supplying us with this fantastic information.

Best Wishes,
David

 

There are two Matt Monro Sings, This one you already have:-https://www.discogs.com/Matt-Monro-Matt-Monro-Sings/release/10003157

And this one:- Matt Monro - Sings which had a CD release too which is basically Hoagy & I Have Dreamed.

Start Living shouldn't be on any PD releases as it's still in copyright. The difference between the two versions is that the single is an edit of two takes, the album version is the complete take used for the first half of the single.

 

Yes that's how they are labelled, but not what they are on the disc. I put Greatest together in tandem with Singles and purposely put the Stereo versions of From Russia & Softly on Greatest as they were different. However at EMI they got confused by two different versions. Is asked them to change it but it never happened. If the download is a copy of my master (and I can't see why it wouldn't be as I supplied the files!) then i'd ignore the "mono single" tag. From what I remember they even labelled my stereo remix of Russia as Mono Single version. Interestingly the download of "Singer's Singer is still the 2001 master, not the new one.

 

Agreed.

Though I dread to ask what happened 6 months ago...

 

Right - so this is yet another version Russia?

There was the single version
The stereo Soundtrack and other Stereo release versions prior to 2011
Then there is the single version mixed for stereo which first appeared on Singer's Singer
So what are these tracks? Are they taken from the actual film Soundtrack.

I am as confused as EMI

 

Thomas Truax is what happened 6 months ago!! If you ever have the opportunity, don't!

Best Wishes,
David

 

Two versions. 1. Single version in mono (singles collection) and remixed to stereo.
2. Stereo album version .

I'll write something up later, as I've been saying I would, that explains the story of "From Russia With Love" from recording to remix and hopefully this will then make sense.

 

Never heard of him! Hooray!