London American Label: Year By Year 1967 / Various London American Label: Year By Year 1967 / Various CD

UK collection. After a lengthy hiatus, just when you had all given up hope of ever seeing another volume, Ace's chronicling of London American resumes this month with an overview of the label's output from 1967. By the mid-60s, while it was no longer the only outlet for the release of hot new American hits, London was still a name that commanded maximum respect among record buyers all over the UK, and the label was still bringing some of the most interesting (and very best) of what was currently happening in the USA over to our side of the Atlantic. 1967 was a watershed year in popular music, and the eclectically enjoyable nature of previous volumes is upheld by the 28 tracks in our latest compilation, which - just as the US Hot 100 charts of the time did - embraces soul, country, folk-rock, psychedelia, adult contemporary and much more besides. Legendary names - many of them with lengthy London American associations - rub shoulders here with terminally obscure one-record wonders, just as they had always done from the label's earliest days. All tracks have been mastered from original mono sources.

1. Love Is After Me - Charlie Rich 2. He Ain't Give You None - Freddie Scott 3. My Girl Josephine - Jerry Jaye 4. Cry Softly Lonely One - Roy Orbison 5. Humphrey Stomp - Earl Harrison 6. Four Days of Rain - the Raggamuffins 7. My Old Flame - Nino Tempo ; April Stevens 8. Life Turned Her That Way - Mel Tillis 9. Can You Help Me - the Knickerbockers 10. Eight Men, Four Women - O V Wright 11. Never My Love - the Association 12. Bob - the Willis Brothers 13. Huff Puff - Mickey Dolenz 14. Snap Your Fingers - Gail Wynters 15. The Little Black Egg - the Nightcrawlers 16. Billy the Kid - Wilson Pickett and the Falcons 17. Beautiful People - Kenny O'Dell 18. The Ferris Wheel - Sue Thompson 19. I Don't Want to Fall - the Fallen Angels 20. When You're Gone - Brenda and the Tabulations 21. You're the Love - the Sixpence 22. The River Is Wide (UK Edit) - the Forum 23. Boogaloo Down Broadway - the Fantastic Johnny C 24. Marryin' Kind of Love - the Critters 25. I'm Indestructible - Jack Jones 26. Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days - Donald Height 27. Traveling Shoes - Guy Mitchell 28. Big Boss Man - Erma Franklin