WEST COAST CONSORTIUM

Complete 3CD anthology of harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with ‘All The Love In The World’.

Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue.

After being signed by producer and songwriter Tony Macaulay, North London harmony pop group West Coast Consortium issued a handful of sophisticated, lushly-orchestrated late Sixties singles for Pye.

In the spring of 1969, they reached the No. 22 spot in the UK singles chart with the ballad ‘All The Love In The World’, issued under the abbreviated name Consortium.

Unable to build on that success, the band splintered in 1972, although lead singer Robbie Fair would put together an entirely new Consortium line-up a few years later.

A 3CD set, ‘All The Love In The World’ features all of their Pye releases as well as subsequent recordings for the short-lived Trend label and no less than four acetate-only 1967-1969 albums recorded in the band’s home studio.

These demo recordings reveal them to have been a garage psychedelic pop band at heart, utilising Mellotron, fuzz guitar and Vox Continental organ while also suggesting a parallel debt to the lo-fi, DIY approach of ‘Smiley Smile’/’Friends’-era Beach Boys.

While some of these recordings have been issued before, this package sees the first-ever release of twenty additional tracks to provide the first-ever complete anthology of a band that deserve better than to be remembered as one-hit wonders.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 SOME OTHER SOMEDAY
2 LOOKING BACK
3 INDIGO SPRING
4 LISTEN TO THE MAN
5 COLOUR SERGEANT LILLYWHITE
6 LADY FROM BALTIMORE
7 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD
8 SPENDING MY LIFE SAYING GOODBYE
9 WHEN THE DAY BREAKS
10 THE DAY THE TRAIN NEVER CAME
11 BEGGAR MAN
12 CYNTHIA SERENITY
13 I DON’T WANT HER ANY MORE
14 THE HOUSE UPON THE HILL
15 MELANIE CRIES ALONE
16 COPPER COLOURED YEARS
17 ANNABELLA (aka ANNABELLA UMBRELLA)
18 TELL ME, MY FRIEND
19 SUNDAY IN THE PARK
20 TO PLEASE LOUISE (Tony Macaulay production version)
21 WE ALL LOVE YOU BABY
22 GINNY STOP (DON’T GO ‘WAY) (alternative version)
23 NEVER LOOK BACK
24 TIME WILL TELL ON YOU
1-2 Single, Pye 7N 17352, released July 1967
3-4 Single, Pye 7N 17370, released September 1967 as Robbie
5-6 Single, Pye 7N 17482, released March 1968
7-8 Single, Pye 7N 17635, released January 1969 as Consortium
9-10 Single, Pye 7N 17725, released May 1969 as Consortium
11-12 Single, Pye 7N 17797, released July 1969 as Consortium
13-14 Single, Pye 7N 17841, released November 1969 as Consortium
15-16 Single, Trend TNT 52, released January 1970 as Consortium
17-18 Single, Trend 6099 004, released March 1971 as Consortium
19 Portuguese-only single, Trend 6099
011, released 1972 as Consortium
20-23 Acetates, recorded 1967
24 Acetate, recorded 1964 as Group 66

DISC TWO
1 ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD (demo version)
2 WILLOW WOOD
3 WHEN THE DAY BREAKS (demo version)
4 CYNTHIA SERENITY (demo version)
5 SPENDING MY LIFE SAYING GOODBYE (demo version) 6 GINNY STOP (DON’T GO ‘WAY)
7 THE ELASTIC BAND
8 COPPER COLOURED YEARS (demo version)
9 OH! WHAT A FEELING
10 TO PLEASE LOUISE
11 LADY FROM BALTIMORE (demo version)
12 REST OF YOUR LIFE (DOWN LONELY STREET)
13 ONE SIX TWO
14 ONE DAY THE TRAIN NEVER CAME (demo version)
15 SOLDIERS IN THE RAIN
16 THIS POOR MAN
17 LIVE AND LET LIVE
18 AMANDA JANE
19 HOUSE ON A HILL (demo version)
20 ONCE UPON A TIME
21 WHAT ARE THEY ALL SINGING ABOUT TODAY?
22 CAN’T WAIT TO WAIT FOR THE EVENING
23 I DON’T WANT HER ANYMORE (demo version)
24 I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
25 SCARLET RIVER
26 CINDY IN LOVE
1-13 Demo album acetate, recorded early 1968
14-26 Demo album acetate, recorded late 1968