Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich followed up their self-titled debut LP with the tongue-in-cheek If Music Be the Food of Love…Then Prepare for Indigestion (1968). The quintet of Dave "Dee" Harman (guitar/vocals), Trevor "Dozy" Davies (bass), John "Beaky" Diamond (rhythm guitar), Michael "Mick" Wilson (drums), and Ian "Tich" Amey (lead guitar) return with another batch of strong Brit-pop compositions, including a pair of their most prolific sides, "Bend It" and "Hideaway." While all but unknown stateside, the combo became hugely popular throughout Europe - which may well account for the distinctly conspicuous Mediterranean flavor on the former. Their left-of-center sense of humor surfaces on the Noel Coward-esque potty platter "Loos of England"…

Whenever I went to Bruce Broughton's house high up in the Hollywood hills, to hear something he was working on, he would prepare me with all kinds of disclaimers about how it wasn't going to sound very good, that it was just a "sketch," that the orchestration would do so much to enhance it … then he would proceed to play me the most beautiful, romantic melody-always fabulous, and always exactly the tone and mood I needed for the movie.
Maybe the music did sound better with an orchestra, but Bruce is so talented, and his music is so lyrical and beautiful, to me it sounds just as great when I'm humming it to myself walking out of the theater.
In addition, Bruce is the nicest, most self-effacing gentleman I have met, and had a' calming influence that spread over a frantic movie-making process

Superlatives are inadequate for the box record company Universal Music recently released. Two hundred hits on ten CDs, hundreds of hits and a lot of TV and news clips on five DVDs and then another book as reference book. It can not be on. The disadvantage of the Testament of the sixties is that for a hundred euros a hefty investment. The advantage that you are now ready to be a hit with your sixties Collection.