Various Am I Dreaming? - 80 Brit Girl Sounds Of The 60s (3-CD)

A hidden universe of the British 60s – 80 Brit Girl singles, many new to CD, five previously unreleased, all freshly remastered and packed into a sturdy clamshell box with a 36-page booklet. This set reveals the Sixties far from London’s spotlight: no Carnaby Street glamour, but real voices from Nelson, Nuneaton, Northampton. Girls who stepped into Abbey Road, Decca or Pye for a few studio hours – and went straight back to school or the typing pool. That fragile gap between dream and routine is exactly what makes this collection unique.

You get Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews from Bradford), Rasa Davies – the uncredited voice behind the Kinks’ “Sunny Afternoon”, “Waterloo Sunset” and “Death Of A Clown” – alongside singers you would never hear again without this box. Lulu, Jackie Trent, Jackie Lee – and dozens of regional talents whose entire biography often boils down to one fact: the town they came from. That anonymity gives these recordings the quiet mystique Bob Stanley captures so precisely in his liner notes.

The songs don’t sound manufactured – they sound lived. The bleak streets in Jackie Trent’s “Where Are You Now”, the teenage longing of Lulu’s “Leave A Little Love”, the everyday melancholy of Jackie Lee’s “The Town I Live In”. Together it forms the soundtrack of the unseen Sixties.

Bottom line: one of the strongest, most historically valuable Brit-Girl anthologies ever assembled. Rare, honest, beautifully curated. Now at a special price – strictly limited. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

Various Artists – Vielfalt auf Vinyl & CD

Sammlungen, die Geschichte schreiben – von Greatest Hits über Themen-Compilations bis hin zu rare B-Seiten und Singles Collections. Hier findest du alles, was die Vielfalt der Musik ausmacht – auf CD, Vinyl und in besonderen Box-Sets.