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01. "Theme from "a teenage opera"" 02. "Festival of kings" 03. "Grocer Jack" 04. "The paranoiac woodcutter #1" 05. "Mr Rainbow" 06. "Glory's theme (All aboard!)" 07. "On a saturday" 08. "Possum's dance" 09. "Auntie Mary's dress shop" 10. "Love & occasional rain" 11. "Grocer Jack (Reprise)" 12. "Sam" 13. "Farewell to a broken doll" 14. "(He's our dear old) Weatherman" 15. "Shy boy" 16. "Grocer Jack's dream" 17. "Barefoot & Tiptoe" 18. "Knickerbocker glory" 19. "Dream dream dream" 20. "Colonel brown" 21. "Cellophane Mary-Jane" 22. "Paranoiac woodcutter #2" 23. "Theme from "a teenage opera" (End Titles)"
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Description: | Repressing. The Teenage Opera, one of the legendary long lost projects of the 60's, comes to life for the first time in as near a form to the original concept as possible - as it would have been had EMI not pulled the plug back in 1968. Producer Mark Wirtz began work on the Teenage Opera story idea in 1966 when contracted to EMI, and teamed up with a group of musicians including Steve Howe and Keith West plus engineer Geoff Emerick. After a few unsuccessful singles, his label pulled the plug on the project. Wirtz continued to use his musical ideas and a number of Teenage Opera characters and themes appeared over the years on a variety of singles by different bands or as solo releases. It is by using these singles and tracks which Mark Wirtz has collected together that we are at last able to present for the first time, after 30 years, a Teenage Opera. There are 24 tracks - most never reissued on any format prior to the original pressing of this CD, six previously unreleased. With the full cooperation of Wirtz, the Opera is presented as a Film Soundtrack and includes incidental music linking the tracks together, taken from Wirtz's own library of original demos.This original soundtrack (P)&(C) 1996 rpm records Ltd./Minerva Music. RPM is a division of Cherry Records Ltd., London.
All recordings (P)1968 except tracks 1, 3, 5, 12 & 15 (P)1967, tracks 4, 6, 11, 16 & 22 (P)1996.
Made in EEC
Mastered at SRT, Cambridge
Comes with special fold-out inlay with notes and photos
The individual artists are credited on the insert, but not on the inlay |
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Producer: |
Mark Wirtz |
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No. of tracks: |
23 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
0000165RPM |
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Warner Music Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH Alter Wandrahm 14, 20457 Hamburg, DE anfrage@warnermusic.com |
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