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WILDEST DREAMS - MCSR 3049

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Oh! WILDEST DREAMS! From a vantage point of fity years, one may perhaps begin to fully appreciate this, the last of the Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds collaborations to reach London in the summer of 1961. The score is a long way from that of their greatest commercial success SALAD DAYS, with songs that have Slade writing in a very different vein. The piece exudes the feeling of a British summer, with its young lovers (one of them is indeed a schoolgirl - recently expelled for going for a ride in a sports car!) and its characters always dreaming of some romantic entanglement or other - sometimes involving Arabs on stallions ... As well as some of Slade's catchiest melodies, there is the wonderful lead song 'Girl on the Hill', a swipe at British folksongs a la Benjamin Britten, and some meltingly soft numbers. This original London recording comes up as fresh as paint in a superbly restored mastering by Alan Bunting. The bonus tracks include a laid-back piano selection from FOLLOW THAT GIRL, one of the best numbers from FREE AS AIR sung by Dickie Henderson, and the sketch 'A Resounding Tinkle', about Slade and Reynolds, from the West End revue ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE. We can thoroughly recommend this issue to anyone of taste and discernment, catching as it does the absolute flavour of the Slade era. Unmissable!

With: Anna Dawson, John Baddeley, Dorothy Reynolds, Angus Mackay