Imaginary Test Card

The soundtrack to an early 70’s August afternoon during the school summer holiday when rain’s stopped play at Old Trafford, Trent Bridge or Edgebaston. Boredom recollected in tranquillity. The raw material of psychedelia (congas, fuzz bass, Fender Rhodes pianos, guitars adapted to sound like sitars) refracted through a middle-aged swinging suburban prism. Sounds of summer… 1 enoch light & brass menagerie-season of the witch 2 syd dale-portobello market 3 johnny pearson-delhi discotheque 4 gunter noras-gemini 5 the ted heath orchestra-light my fire 6 bert kaempfert-never my love 7 ken woodman & his piccadilly brass-town talk 8 john schroeder-the main chance 9 the keith mansfield orchestra-soul thing 10 the mike cotton sound-soul serenade 11 houston person-soul dance 12 tony osbourne’s three brass buttons-brass ’n’ ivory 13 dick welter-hacienda happening 14 tony hatch-spanish charade 15 bama winds-spanish grease 16 xylos inc-walk on by 17 julius rechter & the baja marimba band-flyin’ high 18 alan tee-light flight 19 the fontana concert orchestra-too much of nothing 20 james clarke-double take 21 sounds orchestral-image 22 brian bennett-chameleon