NOTE: I first posted this album in February 2022. Since then, I found more songs, enough to split this album in two. Because most of the newly discovered songs are from 1969 to 1971, I split that album off and named it "Volume 1." This one has been renamed from just "BBC Sessions" to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2." If you're interested in this one, I highly recommend you get "Volume 1" as well.
Here's the link for that:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/alan-price-georgie-fame-bbc-sessions.html
Everything here is officially unreleased. There actually are only four songs from proper BBC sessions, tracks 10, 11, 13, and 14. But most of the rest, tracks one through eight come from a BBC TV show called "The Two Ronnies." This was mostly a comedy show, but they played one song a week for each of the eight episodes. It wasn't easy, but I managed to find all eight, sometimes by finding them in full length videos of the shows.
The remaining two songs, tracks nine and 12, come from another British TV show called "The Morecambe and Wise Show." Those are from 1973. It seems the Price and Fame partnership quietly came to an end shortly after that.
They only put out on single as a duo in 1973, but their solo music careers continued. Price in particular had big success in 1973 with the "O Lucky Man" single and movie soundtrack. Two of the actual BBC studio sessions tracks, the last two songs here, feature just Price are are from his "O Lucky Man" project.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any more BBC sessions from Price or Fame in the years after this, either together or solo, so the series ends here.
It seems that most of the songs on this album were never put out on singles or albums by the Price and Fame duo. A few were done here and there during their solo careers, but I think most are unique to these versions.
Note that when I split the album, as mentioned above, most of the songs I had prior to the split ended up on this album. But four of the songs here are new: "Don't Hit Me When I'm Down," "Street Lights," "Poor People," and "Sell, Sell, Sell." I also moved four songs to "Volume 1," where they fit chronologically.
This album is 38 minutes long.
01 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
02 Fool's Paradise (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
03 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
04 Bony Maronie (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
05 Bye Bye Love (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
06 Matrimony (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
07 Delilah (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
08 Listen to the Melody (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
09 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
10 Don't Hit Me When I'm Down (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
11 Street Lights (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
12 You Are My Sunshine (Alan Price & Georgie Fame)
13 Poor People (Alan Price)
14 Sell, Sell, Sell (Alan Price)
https://www.upload.ee/files/16373059/ALANPRCEGEORGFM1972-1973BBSssionsVolum2_atse.zip.html
The cover photo is from an appearance on the "It's Lulu" TV show in 1973.
Huh, I never knew these two teamed up! Should be interesting, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThey did come together for a final single, 1973's "Don't Hit Me When I'm Down" b/w "Street Lights" (Reprise, UK)
ReplyDeleteYour track #3, "Rosetta," was, of course, their "big hit" single.
ReplyDelete"Rosetta" reached #11 in the UK charts in April 1971.
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