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Test Card Classics: The Girl The Doll The Music

Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Introduction*
2 Royal Daffodil
3 Riga Road
4 Angry
5 Capability Brown
6 Waltz In Jazztime
7 Bella Samba
8 Holiday Highway
9 Cordoba*
10 My Guy's Come Back
11 The Lark in the Clear Air
12 Pandora*
13 Firecracker
14 Hebridean Hoedown
15 High Life
16 Samba Fiesta*
17 Stately Occasion
18 Chelsea Chick
19 Greenland Sleigh Dogs*
20 These Foolish Things (Feat. Helen Ward)
21 March From 'The Colour Suite'
22 Long Hot Summer
23 Going Places
24 440Hz Tone*

Product description

Tracks 1.Royal Daffodil2.Row Road3.Angry4.Capability Brown5.Waltz in JazzTime6.Beautiful Samba7.Holiday Highway8.Cordoba9.My Guy's as Back10.The lark in the clear air11.pandora12.firecracker13.hebridean Hoedown14.High Life15.samba Fiesta16.stately occasion17.chelsea chick18.greenland sleigh dogs19.thes foolish Things20.march21.long hot summer22.going places

Product details

  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.2 x 12.5 x 1.19 cm; 96.1 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Flyback/Chandos
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ unknown
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Flyback/Chandos
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003JGU
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

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  • Jennylou1961
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great CD- such a treat to hear some familiar tunes ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2016
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    A great CD- such a treat to hear some familiar tunes from childhood. Other, unfamiliar tunes were really high quality too. Great if you're into easy listening and if like me you grew up in the 1960s.
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  • Mike. Sarre
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Happy Music
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2014
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    Great selection of bright music to listen and relax to I used to repair TVs to heard a lot of this music in the 60s & 70s so I know how good it is and i am sure you will not be disappointed
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  • john pickett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2015
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    This is a good quality second user item,at a good price.Thank you seller.
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  • J. Murphy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2014
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    Quick delivery - brought back memories
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  • michael o'Brien
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, great music
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2014
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    Great CD,great music,A++++++
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  • Mr. C. F. Burton
    5.0 out of 5 stars It will rekindle some wonderful memories and thoroughly entertain as well
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018
    Of its kind very rare and exceedingly tuneful- yes, almost cheesy. For those of us who were around in the '60s and '70s this was the instrumental music that far too often was far more entertaining than most live instrumental music on BBC Radio. But we had to switch on the telly to get it! From the 3000+ recordings used during the lengthy era of test card transmissions this cd cuts no more than a sliver of the total, but what a superbly chosen and remastered selection it is. It will rekindle some wonderful memories and thoroughly entertain as well.
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  • mark gough
    1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2015
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    I took a gamble on this one, the songs are ok if your really old and death ,
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  • John Abbott
    4.0 out of 5 stars March from the Colour Suite
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2014
    The test card is a fading memory now that television is broadcast 24 hours a day. But on the occasional days that I was allowed sick time off from school (typically with very minor illnesses – and what a wonderful sense of freedom those days held) I remember that the afternoons were typically empty of any TV content but the test card – and the light orchestral music that accompanied it. Similar music was used to fill the gaps in between schools programming in the mornings, and as the start-up theme music for various independent television broadcasting companies around at the time. This was “production music”, recorded specially for the purpose and not available anywhere else. It was recognizably light music, but often with a more contemporary feel than classic light music on the radio. I remember in particular the optimistic, somewhat angular marches that seemed to me to exude “progress”.

    An example is Gordon Langford’s March from The Colour Suite (of which only one other movement out of a projected five was actually composed). Langford (born 1930) made his name as a versatile BBC arranger in the 1960s, but he has also been a regular composer of band, orchestral and film music as well. This March is one of at least three pieces Langford composed for production use, the others being Royal Daffodil and Hebridean Hoedown. All three were originally recorded by the Stuttgart Studio Orchestra, made up of German session musicians.

    The March starts with a fanfare, then moves into the forward-thrusting main theme, which is repeated four times with increasingly layered orchestration. There’s a bridge passage and two more repeats of the theme before a longer, more diverse bridge section leads back to a triumphant final statement of the theme and a short coda. It’s really the skillful building up of the orchestration and the parallel harmonic shadowing of the distinctive main melodic line that brings the piece to life.
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  • guild light music
    5.0 out of 5 stars 最高にグルーヴしてます！
    Reviewed in Japan on 17 June 2017
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    こんなにワクワク楽しいCDはありませんね!
    幻のheinz kiesslingが2曲入ってるのにぶっ飛びました
    イギリスはやっぱセンスがいいなあと思うとともに60年代の曲ってのは派手で豪華でお洒落でエネルギッシュだというのが改めてわかります

    自分の好みの音楽の集大成ですね！

    Test cardというのはテレビ放送のテストパターンです
    放送時間外にかかる曲なんでしょうけどこういうグルーヴなアルバムが他にもあったらぜひ買いたいですね
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  • Hoss C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Das ist nicht die Original-CD.
    Reviewed in Germany on 10 September 2016
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    Achtung! Das hier abgebildete COVER gehört nicht zur ORIGINAL-CD.
    Auf der hier abgebildeten CD befinden sich grundsätzlich die gleichen Titel, aber zu Beginn und am Ende überflüssige Synthesizerschnipsel...

    Die Original-CD "High Life, It's Easy!" "Volume One" enthält Musik von Spitzen-Orchestern (neben dem Stuttgarter Studio Orchester auch Oscar Brandenburg, Heinz Kießling und Gerhard Narholz... ) in TOP-Klangqualität..
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