Al Manfredi, born to a musical family of Italian immigrants in the small SoCal beach town of San Clemente, found regional success with his garage rock band Lost & Found while he was still a teenager. The tragic deaths of two of the band’s members in the late 60s shook Manfredi to his core, and he gave up on the band scene completely, retreating to his family’s music store, and working on music in private, multi-tracking demos of growing prowess on primitive recording equipment.
Crimson Gold presents Village People 'Gold', the only compilation you'll ever need. The Village People were a phenomenon and one of the most successful pop groups of the late-1970s, selling tens of millions of Records worldwide, charting one of the all-time top 40 best-selling singles. They were known for their catchy tunes, on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics but they transcended all barriers. They simply released great pop Records! This 3CD 'Gold' Collection is a definitive career spanning set from 1977, containing 44 tracks, including the global multi-million selling monster hit 'y.M.C.A.'. CD1 includes their massive hits 'y.M.C.A.', 'In the navy', 'go West', 'can't Stop the music', along with popular album tracks. CD2 includes further international hits 'macho man', 'San Francisco (you got me)', 'ready for the 80s' And 'sex over the phone'. CD3 features extended versions, a megamix and later remixes.
19th April 2019 saw the release of Showaddywaddy Gold on heavyweight 180g gold colour vinyl and on a three CD set! This date also marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the band’s debut hit single ‘Hey Rock And Roll’! The 3-CD 61-track featuring all the songs on the vinyl, and some of the band’s best album tracks! The album has an introductory note from the Band's co-founder Dave Bartram. From their winning appearance on an edition of 'New Faces', the 'Britain's Got Talent' of the day, to become runners-up in the series' 'All Winners Final', it took just a matter of months until Showaddywaddy, 'Hey Rock And Roll'. The single reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart and Showaddywaddy eventually had more UK hits in the 1970s than any other act…including Abba!
Human Feel have been together 30 years now, with no personnel changes in almost as long. Chris Speed, Andrew D'Angelo, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jim Black had been developing individual and collective vocabularies in this very outfit, which went on to epitomize the '90s downtown scene. Through it all Human Feel has carried on, and whenever they reconvene they have new musical stories to tell, and old ways of relating, of honing musical structures that depend on precision in the details yet leave much to be determined in performance. Now Human Feel present 'Gold' 12 years after their last album.
Mungo Jerry Gold, features all 8 of the bands top forty 70s hits across 3CDs. It includes the international hit 'In The Summertime', which topped the charts in over 20 countries around the world, going on to sell over 30 million copies world wide. The track is still regularly used and featured in TV adverts and films. The 45 tracks also include the band's second chart topper "Baby Jump", along with "Lady Rose" (No.5), "You Don't Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War" (No.13), "Open Up" (No.21), "Alright Alright Alright" (No.3), "Wild Love" (No.32) and "Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black" (No.13).
Shalamar broke onto the disco scene in 1977, but 2019 marks the 40th Anniversary of the classic line-up formation of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel, who set the UK charts alight throughout the early 80’s with hits like ‘Dead Giveaway’ and ‘There It Is.’ From their debut discofied Motown medley, ‘Uptown Festival,’ Shalamar became constant hit-makers on both the US R&B charts and the UK pop charts, scoring with the dance-floor classics ‘Take That To The Bank,’ ‘The Second Time Around’ and ‘Make That Move.’ While promoting A Night To Remember’ on ‘Top of the Pops’ in 1982, Jeffrey Daniel introduced UK audiences to the moon walk and started a body popping craze across the country. Their top ten album ‘Friends’ subsequently spent over a year on the chart and achieved platinum sales. Shalamar’s current line-up of Howard, Jeffrey and Carolyn Griffey still tour regularly in the UK and have closed every year since 2010 with a sell-out show at London’s 02 Arena. This ‘Gold’ 3CD collection, features all 24 of Shalamar’s US and UK top 40 chart singles, all of which are included here in for the first time in their full-length versions and 12” disco mixes on this 41-track set.
Recognised by fans and fellow recording artists, as one of the World's most influential and best ever guitarists. This tribute is frequently confirmed when Hank regularly features high on the polls that determine the greatest guitarists of all time. Initially known as the lead guitarist of The Shadows, the band that evolved to become the UK's biggest ever selling instrumental group, Hank Marvin defined the sound of a generation. Hank was the very first guitarist in the UK to own an iconic Fender Stratocaster - when Cliff Richard imported the guitar from the US exclusively for Hank to play. As a solo Artist, Hank Marvin has released 16 albums, with Top 20 albums spanning almost 50 years; 1969-2017 (to date), in a long and successful career lasting more than 60 years.