Two CD 42 track set featuring their complete CBS recordings. Once derided as three blokes in matching shirts playing easy listening interpretations of pop hits, they now have a certain retro cool for what keyboardist/ vocalist Roy Phillips describes as 'a sort of pop-art-jazz' and can be seen as an influence on acts as diverse as Air & Lemon Jelly. This double CD compilation gathers the group's three late-60s albums they cut for CBS (Freewheelers, Three in a Cell and Birthday) as well as singles and rare recordings. Unbelievably tight, The Peddlers could swing with the best of them and their rich organ and funky rhythms recall both Ramsay Lewis & Booker T & the MG's. Although The Peddlers did not split up until 1976, the group (and their fans) consider these recordings the finest recordings Peddlers available and listening to them is a pleasure. Imaginative interpretations of 'Little Red Rooster' and 'Stormy Weather' alongside brooding originals make this a definitive set of a seriously underrated '60s act who truly embody the pop-art-jazz thing like no other. Sony Jazz. 2002.

Tracklist:

Time After Time
Girl Talk (From The Motion Picture "Harlow")
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (From "The Roar Of The Greasepaint")
Stormy Weather
Smile
Empty Club Blues
You're The Reason I'm Living
It Ain't No Big Thing
Sneakin' Up On You
Pentathalon (Instrumental)
What Now My Love
Lover
Say No More
Irresistable You
Murrays Mood (Instrumental)
Nine Miles High
Comin' Home Baby
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Basin Street Blues
Nobody Likes Me
I'm A Boy In Love
People (From The Musical Production "Funny Girl")
In The Still Of The Night
Ebb Tide
Just A Pretty Song
Lost Continent
Prime Of My Life
Some Of This Some Of That
Handle With Care
Horses Collar
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Little Red Rooster
Southern Women
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Girlie P. S. I Love You
Day In Day Out
City Living
Lockshen Pudding (Instrumental)
Birth
That's Life
Steel MILL
Wasting My Time

UPC: 5099750974025
Label: Columbia Europe
Release Date: 11.4.02
Format: CD

Peddlers - How Cool Is Cool (2 CD)