Gathered From Coincidence: British Folk-Pop Sound Gathered From Coincidence: British Folk-Pop Sound CD

Prior to the early Sixties, folk and pop musicians inhabited largely different worlds. There were folk records that had become crossover pop hits, but in essence there was little or no common ground in terms of instrumentation or ideologies. But in the wake of the British beat/R&B boom (or, if you were in America, the British Invasion) and the emergence of Bob Dylan, such barriers were broken down for good. With British acts making music that, for the first time in nascent pop history, matched the quality of their American counterparts, suddenly everything was grist to the mill and musical cross-pollination was almost de rigueur. Dylan and The Beatles impacted heavily on each other, while The Byrds were pitched midway between the two - although their combination of jingle-jangle guitars and world-weary harmonies was heavily indebted to folk-pop pioneers The Searchers. By 1965, the folk-pop nexus was at it's glorious peak. That was particularly true in Britain, which saw many variations on the basic pop-meets-folk theme (in America, folk-rock had a relatively homogenised sound). Across three CDs and 79 tracks, Gathered From Coincidence examines every aspect of the British mid-Sixties folk-pop boom, incorporating Dylan-inspired singer/songwriters with a commercial pop sensibility, the more introverted beat groups, Marianne Faithfull-inspired female chanteuses and R&B hoodlums in newly-pensive mode, all bound together by the 6 or 12-string thrum or Rickenbacker clang. Ranging from massive chart hits to records that barely sold in double figures, Gathered From Coincidence includes the true believers, the musical dilettantes, the young wannabes, the cash-in merchants, the old guard looking to resuscitate a fading career and, of course, the earnest protest singers - and, just for good measure, we've also rounded up a handful of folksploitation discs from those positioning themselves for roughly three minutes as anti-protest protesters. With a significant number of tracks making their CD debut and even a couple of previously unissued cuts, Gathered From Coincidence is a fascinating, even revelatory overview of a still largely-neglected stitch in pop's unending tapestry: that curiously downbeat two-year period between the dying embers of the beat boom's irresistible exuberance and the arrival of psychedelia's swirling multi-coloured hues.

1. Take Me for What I'm Worth - the Searchers 2. Morning's Calling - Peter ; Gordon 3. Come and Stay with Me - Marianne Faithfull 4. Follow Me - the Tony Jackson Group 5. It's Your Turn to Cry - Terry Kennedy ; John Carter 6. Rejected - the Fenmen 7. I Love Her Still - the Poets 8. Frosted Panes - the Kytes 9. Golden Lights - Twinkle 10. I Won't Be Round You Anymore - the Chosen Few 11. Absolutely Sweet Marie - the Factotums 12. Hey Woman - Kenny Bernard 13. Hey Mama You've Been on My Mind - the Caravelles 14. Don't Go Away - the Zombies 15. Now the Sun Has Gone - the Beatmen 16. Think About the Times - the Times 17. Penny Arcade - Michael Leslie 18. Beyond the Risin' Sun - Marc Bolan 19. Till You Say You'll Be Mine - Olivia Newton-John 20. Go Away - the Mirage Featuring Graham Nash 21. It's All Leading Up to Saturday Night - the Knack 22. You've Cooled - Five Steps Beyond 23. There's Just No Pleasing You - the Epics 24. Splendor in the Grass -Gullivers People 25. Mr. Smith - the Foresters 26. It's All Over Now Baby Blue - the Cops 'N Robbers 27. Like a Rolling Stone - the Other Side 28. Well, How Does It Feel? - Barbara Ruskin 29. Lovers of the World Unite - David ; Jonathan 30. Catch the Wind - Donovan 31. Age of Corruption - Alan Klein 32. Blessed - Guy Darrell 33. That Man's Got No Luck - Gary Benson 34. It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous 35. Bells - Dave Helling 36. Very Last Day - the Hollies 37. Sometime Never Day - Bill Fay 38. Don't You Cry Over Me - the Slade Brothers 39. When the Ship Comes in - Folk Blues Incorporated 40. Wake Up My Mind - the Uglys 41. Please Don't Switch Off the Moon Mr. Spaceman - Nicholas Hammond 42. The Protest Singer - Micha 43. Square Peg - the Four Pennies 44. Gotta Make Their Future Bright - First Gear 45. The Bells of Rhymney - Murray Head 46. Don't Talk to Me of Protest - Jonathan King 47. Dejection (Demo Version) - Five's Company 48. That's Not My Kind of Love - Mick Softley with the Summer Suns 49. Don't Sing No Sad Songs for Me - the Sorrows 50. Rattle of a Toy - Tommy Yates 51. Talkin' Denmark Street - John Cassidie 52. The Times They Are A-Changin' - the Ian Campbell Folk Group 53. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - the Silkie 54. Wait Till the Summer Comes Along - the Kinks 55. Don't Make Promises (You Can't Keep) - Peter Nelson 56. Cheryl's Going Home - Adam Faith 57. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Manfred Mann 58. I'm Looking Through You - Davey Graham 59. Night Comes Down - Jon-Mark 60. Early Morning Rain - the Settlers 61. Sadness Hides the Sun - Greta Ann 62. Thank You Boy - Dana Gillespie 63. Love Minus Zero No Limit - the Compromise 64. Day Must Come - Justin Hayward 65. The Clown in the Alley - Meic Stevens 66. I'm on Your Side - the Frugal Sound 67. London Town - the Pretty Things 68. Picking Up the Sunshine (Aka Bert's Blues) - Beverley 69. Corrina Corrina - the Nightshift 70. Listen People - Sarah Jane 71. Four Strong Winds - Chad ; Jeremy 72. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - the Greenbeats 73. Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Heinz with the Wild Boys 74. Today Is the Highway - the Ramblers 75. Love Is Strange - the Overlanders 76. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Chas McDevitt ; Shirley Douglas 77. Mary Anne - the Shadows 78. The Carnival Is Over - the Seekers