'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 45's 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.
Disc: 1
1 Flowers In The Rain - Move, The
2 Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear - Price, Alan Set
3 You're All Things Bright And Beautiful - Christian, Neil
4 I Live For The Sun - Vanity Fare
5 Smokey Blue's Away - A New Generation
6 Baby Now That I've Found You - Foundations, The
7 Thanks - Edward, J. Vincent
8 Let's Live For Today - Living Daylights
9 Carrie Anne - Hollies, The
10 Round, Round - King, Jonathan
11 I'm A Box (Mum-Mum-Mum) - Hi-Fi's, The
12 Friends - Arrival
13 House For Sale - McKenna, Val
14 Slow Motion (Demo Version) - Sweetshop
15 Everything I Am - Plastic Penny
16 Shame, Shame - Magic Lanterns
17 Wonderboy - Kinks, The
18 Mr. Blue - Force West
19 The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian - Fardon, Don
20 A Walk In The Sunshine - Payne, Davey & The Medium Wave
21 Samantha's Mine - Spectrum, The
22 Little Bit O' Soul - Candy
23 Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A Tellin' Me No) - Paper Dolls, The
24 I Think I Need The Cash - Secrets, The
25 The Gloria Bosom Show - Sundowners, The
26 In A Moment Of Madness - Flower Pot Men, The
27 Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - West, Keith
Disc: 2
1 Bringing On Back The Good Times - Love Affair, The
2 The Boat That I Row - Lulu
3 Beautiful Dreams - Twiggy
4 Baby Come Back To Me - De Lacy, Simon
5 What's The Matter With Juliet - Wheels, The
6 Come Back And Shake Me - Rodgers, Clodagh
7 March - Lee, Cindy Ann
8 Sign On The Dotted Line - Latter, Gene
9 Please Let Me Hide - Skatalites, The
10 A Way Of Life - Family Dogg, The
11 Wide Smiles - Episode, The
12 Peanuts And Chewy Macs - Cymbaline, The
13 The Silent Sun - Genesis
14 And The Rains Came Down - U.K. Jones
15 Lovely Loretta - Merseys, The
16 I Thought You Thought - Chuckles
17 Lovin' Things - Marmalade, The
18 Cool It - Quotations, The
19 Baubles And Bangles - Span, Mike Stuart
20 Would You Believe What I Say - Unit (Unit Four Plus Two), The
21 Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Whichwhat
22 Hookey - Eggy, The
23 (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner
24 What's It To You - Chocolate Watch Band, The
25 Micky - Twinkle
26 Anybody At The Party Seen Jenny - Ritchie, Tony
27 Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday - Circus
28 Gentle People [Pts. 1 And 2] - Violent Thimble
Disc: 3
1 Eloise - Ryan, Barry
2 I Don't Want Our Loving To Die - Herd, The
3 Mystery Lady - Mirage, The
4 (Here We Go Round The) Lemon Tree - Crest, Jason
5 Penelope Breedlove - Christie, Dave
6 Jesamine - Casuals, The
7 Round Going Round - Grapefruit
8 Publicity Girl - Gnomes Of Zurich, The
9 Last Night In Soho - Dave / Dee / Dozy / Beaky / Mick / Tich
10 I Remember - Harmony Grass
11 Everything's Gone Wrong - Hazzard, Tony
12 Blueberry Blue - Sun Dragon
13 Great Train Robbery (Demo Version) - Outer Limits
14 I Can't Let Maggie Go - Honeybus, The
15 Let's Take A Trip Down The Rhine - Apple
16 Ding Dong Bell - Yellow Pages
17 Huma-Luma - Carlew Choir, The
18 Things You Do - Sons And Lovers
19 While We're Friends - Katch-22
20 The Turtle Tortoise And The Hare - Darrell, Guy Syndicate
21 I See Red - Rowland, Steve
22 Angeline - Warm Sounds
23 Drive, Drive, Drive - Henderson, Jimmy Set
24 Just One Thing - Roll Movement, The
25 Bright-Eyed Apples - Tuesday's Children
26 Evenings With Corrina (So Long Ago) - Picadilly Line, The
27 Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes, The
