{"product_id":"various-bob-stanley-chip-shop-pop-sound-denmark-street-cd","title":"Various Artists: Bob Stanley Presents Chip Shop Pop - The Sound Of Denmark Street 1970-1975 (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5yXzAFJ74U?si=4WmBdF8WNgN7Karh\" height=\"300\" width=\"full\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the 70s, songwriters like Tony Macaulay (‘Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes’), Cook and Greenaway (‘Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart’), Lynsey De Paul and Barry Blue (‘Storm In A Teacup’) and John Carter (‘Beach Baby’) were bossing the singles charts and Radio 1 while more serious acts such as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd concentrated on album sales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChip Shop Pop\u003c\/em\u003e is a stellar collection of super-melodic, expertly crafted songs; it gathers two dozen of the songs that got away, all potential hits written by these Denmark Street-schooled songwriters. You might have only heard these records once or twice before, coming out of a passing kid's transistor radio, or in the background in a cafe, or a chippie, and then they disappeared into the ether never to be heard again - until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAside from the Fortunes, Marty Wilde and Candlewick Green, very few of these names will be at all familiar but the harmonies, the string and brass arrangements and top session musician playing will all be familiar to anyone who loves the sound of ‘My Baby Loves Lovin'’, ‘Silver Lady’ or ‘(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice’. They are all incredibly catchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled by Bob Stanley from his sizeable collection of 70s 7\" singles, \u003cem\u003eChip Shop Pop\u003c\/em\u003e revives records on Bell, UK, Young Blood and Bradley's, labels that were home to these unabashed radio-friendly sounds that would disappear when first disco, then punk, came along later in the 70s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDormant for decades, many unavailable for more than fifty years, here is a perfect collection of sunshine-friendly pop with a capital P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHello Hello Hello - Stormy Petrel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMelanie Makes Me Smile - Tony Burrows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTip Of My Tongue - Brotherly Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLost And Found - Whiskey Mac\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn A Plane To Nowhere - Barracade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeave A Little Love - Candlewick Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLady Pearl - Currant Kraze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn The Run - Scorched Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Want To Be Where You Are - Scarecrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTelltale - Patches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRusty Hands Of Time - Peter Doyle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Little Thing Like Love - River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDreams Are Ten A Penny - Kincade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn The Morning - Bitter Almond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery Little Move She Makes - White Plains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchoolgirl Notion - Janie \u0026amp; The Marlettes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again - Fortunes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYellow Bird (Have You No Home) - Design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClovelly - Roger Holman \u0026amp; Simon May\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Need Your Everlasting Love - Liberty Helm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBye Goodbye - Silver Lining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt's Getting Sweeter All The Time - Shorty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaterpillar - Cold Fly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Is My Life - Wei Wei Wong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Ace Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751634436442,"sku":"CDTOP1663","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/various-chip-shop-pop.jpg?v=1753356465","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/various-bob-stanley-chip-shop-pop-sound-denmark-street-cd","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}