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The Fantastic Story Of The Teenage Opera (Import) (CD)

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DISC 1 for The Fantastic Story Of The Teenage Opera (Import) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Yours Sincerely - Panter, Jan  
2   Tell Me - Tro, Marcus  
3   When Your Heart Is Broken - Loader, Russ & The Breakaways Orchestra  
4   Count The Stars - Loader, Russ & The Ladybirds  
5   Lying Awake - Chandelle, Dany & The Ladybirds  
6   Even The Bravest Cry - Crane, Tony  
7   I'm Waiting For The Day - Peanut  
8   Watermelon Man - Wirtz, Mark Orchestra  
9   Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass - Mood Mosiac & The Ladybirds  
10   Bond St PM - Mood Mosaic  
11   So Bad - Howe, Steve  
12   You Never Can Stay In One Place - Howe, Steve  
13   I Didn't Love Him Anyway - Peanut  
14   Teenage Opera (theme) - Mood Mosaic  
15   Teenage Opera (excerpt) - West, Keith  
16   Sam - West, Keith  
17   He's Our Dear Old Weatherman (Teenage Opera)  
18   Love Will Always Find A Way - Mood Mosaic  
19   Sad Story Of Simon The Bugle  
 
DISC 2 for The Fantastic Story Of The Teenage Opera (Import) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Incredible Journey Of Timothy Chase - Tomorrow  
2   Parents Sha La La La Lee - Hockett, Elmer  
3   Love Is A Happening Thing - Hockett, Elmer  
4   Mrs Raven  
5   Good Guys In The White Hats - Sedgewick, Mike  
6   10000 Words In A Cardboard Box - Aquarian Age  
7   Rumours - Kippington Lodge  
8   What's Good For The Goose  
9   Barefoot And Tiptoe - Sweetshop  
10   Imagination - Ife, Kris  
11   Today Without You - Jones, Samantha  
12   Feeling Better - Krimson Kake  
13   Snarling Mama Lion - Judd  
14   Something Wonderful - James, Roger  
15   To Pegasus With Love - Philwit & Pegasus  
16   My What A Lovely Day It's Been - Philwit & Pegasus  
17   Satan Took A Tram Ride  
18   American Sundae  
19   Song I Sing  
20   Swan (Ballerina)  
21   Chug A Lug Song  
 

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Review

Mojo (8/02, p.108) - "...Documents how the boy genius arrived at his 'magnum opus'..."

Review

Mojo (Publisher) (8/02, p.108) - "...Documents how the boy genius arrived at his 'magnum opus'..."

Title Note

Liner Note Authors: Lee Connolly; Michael Sinclair.

The title might be taken by some to imply that this double CD is producer Wirtz's never-issued-in-completed-form Teenage Opera (excerpted on Keith West's hit single "Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera'"). Actually, it's really a collection of Wirtz's more ambitious and enduring productions from 1964 to 1972 (with one Wirtz recording from 1996), sometimes featuring Wirtz himself as the artist, though some of the songs would have been used had the opera taken final shape. It's a wildly inconsistent collection that doesn't quite make the case for Wirtz as a genius on the order of Phil Spector, or even Joe Meek. Still, there's interesting British pop and rock here, traversing quite a gamut of styles, from British psychedelia (with Tomorrow) and relatively straight pop to Gene Pitney-esque balladeers, go-go background music (sometimes played by a young Steve Howe), and American-style arrangements for female vocalists and pseudo-Spector-ian sides. Unlike, say, Meek or Spector, Wirtz didn't have immediately identifiable signature sounds, other than being prone to lush, sometimes orchestral density that sometimes bore similarities to Californian sunshine pop. Some of these songs are superficial trifles or unmemorable pop tunes, yet others are good matches of offbeat, melodic pop/rock with imaginative production. Elmer Hockett's contemporary calypso of "Love Is Happening to Me," the very early David Bowie-ism of Mike Sedgewick's "The Good Guys in the White Hats," the Abbey Road-on-sugar textures of Philwit & Pegasus, even the early-'70s ambitious Muzak of Wirtz's early-'70s tracks: All have something to recommend them. Keith West's two singles from the Teenage Opera concept, "Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera'" and "Sam," are both here too, though they've been reissued elsewhere. ~ Richie Unterberger

Album Description

The title might be taken by some to imply that this double CD is producer Wirtz's never-issued-in-completed-form Teenage Opera (excerpted on Keith West's hit single "Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera'"). Actually, it's really a collection of Wirtz's more ambitious and enduring productions from 1964 to 1972 (with one Wirtz recording from 1996), sometimes featuring Wirtz himself as the artist, though some of the songs would have been used had the opera taken final shape. It's a wildly inconsistent collection that doesn't quite make the case for Wirtz as a genius on the order of Phil Spector, or even Joe Meek. Still, there's interesting British pop and rock here, traversing quite a gamut of styles, from British psychedelia (with Tomorrow) and relatively straight pop to Gene Pitney-esque balladeers, go-go background music (sometimes played by a young Steve Howe), and American-style arrangements for female vocalists and pseudo-Spector-ian sides. Unlike, say, Meek or Spector, Wirtz didn't have immediately identifiable signature sounds, other than being prone to lush, sometimes orchestral density that sometimes bore similarities to Californian sunshine pop. Some of these songs are superficial trifles or unmemorable pop tunes, yet others are good matches of offbeat, melodic pop/rock with imaginative production. Elmer Hockett's contemporary calypso of "Love Is Happening to Me," the very early David Bowie-ism of Mike Sedgewick's "The Good Guys in the White Hats," the Abbey Road-on-sugar textures of Philwit & Pegasus, even the early-'70s ambitious Muzak of Wirtz's early-'70s tracks: All have something to recommend them. Keith West's two singles from the Teenage Opera concept, "Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera'" and "Sam," are both here too, though they've been reissued elsewhere. ~ Richie Unterberger

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