First Class Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings CD

Three CD set. First-ever complete anthology by the 'Beach Baby' harmony pop hitmakers. Featuring both First Class LPs, all singles, pseudonymous releases and numerous previously unreleased tracks including advertising jingles and songs from an aborted 1974 musical. Arguably the ultimate Beach Boys tribute, 'Beach Baby' introduced a new name, The First Class - actually veteran pop hitmaker and songwriter John Carter with the aid of Chas Mills and lead singer Tony Burrows. While other singers and musicians adopted the name to front their music in public, the Carter/Burrows/Mills combination continued to record new First Class material, including a self-titled LP that is quite possibly the finest, most ambitious British harmony pop album of the 70s. Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings is the definitive document of both The First Class and John Carter's myriad overlapping activities during the second half of the 70s. It contains an embarrassment of riches: both albums, all singles, out-takes, pseudonymous releases, a huge number of previously unissued TV/radio advertising jingles and, most fascinatingly of all, seven previously unheard 1974 demos for the musical Bobby Dazzler, abandoned when the single of the same name unfathomably failed to chart.

1. Beach Baby 2. Won't Somebody Help Me 3. What Became of Me 4. Surfer Queen 5. The First Day of Your Life 6. Long Time Gone 7. Funny How Love Can Be 8. Dreams Are Ten a Penny 9. Bobby Dazzler 10. The Disco Kid 11. I Was Always a Joker 12. Beach Baby (Single Version, Full-Length) 13. Both Sides of the Story 14. Lavender Man 15. One Good Time 16. Born to Be a Rebel 17. Baby Doll Love 18. Chinese Christmas 19. Going on 20. A Quiet Life 21. Loving 22. Beach Baby (Single Version, Edit) 23. I Was a Star 24. Ain't No Love 25. Child's Play 26. Old Time Love 27. Baby Blue 28. Life Is Whatever You Want It to Be 29. Carry on Singing My Song 30. Smiles on a Summer Night 31. Seven Ten to Nowhere 32. Autumn Love 33. And She Cried 34. Brook Street* (Jingle) 35. Too Many Golden Oldies (Single Version) 36. Make It on My Own 37. Broken Toy 38. Lisa (I Always Loved You) 39. Birds Dream Topping (Jingle) 40. Song on the Wind 41. The Saddest Word 42. Ocean of Glass 43. Bienvenido 44. Sunlight Detergent (Jingle) 45. Gimme Little Sign 46. Average Rainfall 47. Please Yourself (Rowntrees Tots) (Jingle) 48. We Like to Dance (Milk Is Our Way) (Jingle) 49. Disco Kid 50. Midnite Music 51. Singer Sewing Machines (Jingle) 52. Oh California 53. I'm in Love Again 54. Kit-E-Kat Munchies (Jingle) 55. The Sound of Summer 56. Let's Go British 57. Caledonian (Jingle) 58. Sidewalk Johnny 59. Midnite Music 60. Vauxhall Chevette 61. (Whatever You Want It to Be) #1 (Jingle) 62. Crawfords Cheddars (Jingle) 63. If I Don't Have You 64. Birds Eye Cod (Jingle) 65. Sunday Child 66. Greasy Dollar Bill 67. Ever Ready Batteries (Jingle) 68. Top Forty Angel 69. Typhoo 1 (Jingle) 70. Typhoo 2 (Jingle) 71. Silver Surfer 72. Silvikrin (Jingle) 73. Coney Island 74. Malibu (Jingle) 75. I Can't Believe My Eyes 76. Wake Up America 77. Right Guard Deodorant (Jingle) 78. The Song Was Wrong 79. Woman Magazine (Jingle) 80. Shine on Me Woman 81. One More Mile to Freedom 82. Cracker Jack Popcorn (Jingle) 83. Vauxhall Chevette 84. (Whatever You Want It to Be) #2 (Jingle) 85. Too Many Golden Oldies (Full-Length Version)