Various: Fairytales Can Come True - Volume 2: Fairy Cakes For Tea 2007

 

THE CRACKERS ( MERSEYS)

Psychic Circle are proud to present another 20 sparkling, icing-covered, popsike confections previously uncomped on CD. Our Fairytales Can Come True collection visited the melodic, Pop side of British and European Psych, and met with a really positive response, so what could we do but offer up another trayful of sweet refreshment.

RESCUE CO. No. 1

Delve into the troth and you will find The Merseys operating under a pseudonym, an obscure Cat Stevens weird-out, beat legend Sean Buckley with a new name, an unknown version of a Dream classic, plus a host of similar pleasures, This is Fairy Cakes For Tea. Let it work its magic upon you.

COMPILED BY NICK SALOMAN (THE BEVIS FROND)
MASTERED BY DAVE BLACKMAN
AT HILTONGROVE MASTERING STUDIOS, LONDON
PRODUCED BY STEVEN CARR AND JUDE HOLMES

ROEK'S FAMILY

[Like its predecessor, Fairytales Can Come True: UK Popsike from the Late '60s, Fairy Cakes for Tea lays on a bunch of rarities selected with an eye for what hasn't been reissued before, also mixing in some non-U.K. European acts among the mostly British tracks.

SASPERELLA

Just one well-known artist (Peter & Gordon, represented by a 1968 single) is included, though the 1969 single by Crackers was actually done by the Merseys operating under a pseudonym, and Oliver Norman's 1968 single "People People" is a Cat Stevens song never released by the composer.

THE FACTOTUMS

It might be the natural consequence of diminishing returns the deeper the well drills, but it isn't as good as the previous volume, though it's OK.
Your affection for this material -- even if you're a die-hard British '60s rock enthusiast -- is going to depend a great deal upon your enjoyment of, or tolerance for, songs with an upbeat lilt that often draw from rather fanciful imagery and lyrics that frequently straddle the line between the precious and pretentious.

THE STARLITES

More pop than psychedelia, the arrangements -- often delicate and ornate, and always carefully planned -- are more impressive than the songs, which are a long way from the territory inhabited by the likes of Odessey and Oracle, the early Bee Gees, and other prime exponents of this general territory.

PETER & GORDON

It's not dull, and there's some variety, some acts showing lingering mod, Merseybeat, sunshine pop, and folk-rock influences. It's no accident, though, that the most memorable cuts are covers of songs previously given a high profile by American acts (Classics IV's "Spooky" and the Grass Roots' "Look Out Girl"), though Peter's "Values" stands out for its uncommonly moody melody, sounding a little like the Zombies might have if they'd held together until 1970.
by Richie Unterberger]

Various – Fairy Cakes For Tea (Fairytales Can Come True Volume 2)
Label: Psychic Circle – PCCD7015
Series: Fairytales Can Come True – Volume 2
Format:    CD, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Vocal

TRACKS

                                                  

01. The  Crackers – Honey Do
Written-By – Jeff Barry, Marty Sanders
02. The Foresters – Mr. Smith
Written-By – Holland
03. The Youth – Meadow Of My Love
Producer – Tony Visconti
Written-By – Carson
04. The Starlites – Good Morning Mr. Milkman
Written-By –Curtis
05. Lloyd Banks – Look Out Girl
Written-By – Sloan, Barri
06. Roek's Family – Never An Everyday Thing
Written-By – Findon, Shelley
07. Scott Henderson – Saturday Night People
Written-By – MacRae-Brown, Cox
08. Dave Andrews  & The Sugar – I'm On My Way
Written-By – Martin, Coulter
09. Sasperella – Spooky
Written-By – Middlebrooks, Shapiro
10. The Factotums – Driftwood
Written-By – Veal, Marsh
11. The Bats – Listen To My Heart
Written-By – Jarman, Eckstein, Dunnning, Ditchfield
12. 14 – Umbrella
Written-By – Olle Nilsson
13. The Guards – Fantastic Fair
Producer – Mark Wirtz/Written-By – Bigsby , Mills, Lambert Fleming
14. Fluff – Holly Golightly
Written-By – Gray
15. Peter – Values
Written-By – Mansfield, Gosling
16. Mike Quinn  & The Breadcrumbs – Fairy Cakes (For Tea)
Written-By – Sheehan, Buckley
17. Peter & Gordon – I Feel Like Going On
Written-By – Asher
18. The Chuckles – I Thought You Thought
Written-By – O'Neill
19. Oliver Norman – People People
Written-By – Cat Stevens
20. Rescue Co. No. 1 – Gotta Find You
Written-By – Arnold, Martin, Morrow

MP3 @ 320 Size: 144 MB
Flac  Size: 351 MB