Frank Chacksfield - Limelight: The Singles Collection 1953-62 - This easy-on-the-ear collection is an enjoyable showcase for a particular and fondly-remembered strand of British popular music.. - Frank Chacksfield was an English pianist, composer, arranger and conductor of light orchestral easy listening music, who was one of the British band leaders that led the development of the market for stereo long-playing albums of this style of music in the late 1950s and into the '60s and '70s. Having joined the BBC after serving in WWII, working as musical director for Henry Hall and Geraldo, he began recording under his own name in 1951 before the dawn of the vinyl LP era. This 57-track 2-CD collection comprises selected A&B sides of his singles on the Parlophone, Decca and London labels from this era as Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra and as Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths, and it includes at least one side of just about all his releases from these years. It features all his UK and US chart entries, including the No. 2 hits "Terry's Theme From Limelight" and "Ebb Tide", and the Top 20 hits "Little Red Monkey" and "In Old Lisbon", along with "Donkey Cart" and "On The Beach". His style of music was hugely popular with the British public for many years and his fame spread across the Atlantic as well. This easy-on-the-ear collection is an enjoyable showcase for a particular and fondly-remembered strand of British popular music.

Tracklist:

Little Red Monkey
Roundabouts and Swings
Terry's Theme from Limelight
Limelight 'Incidental Music from the Film (Ballet Introduction, Reunion, the Waltz)'
Ebb Tide
Waltzing Bugle Boy
A Girl Called Linda
Golden Violins
Golden Tango
Dancing Princess
Song of Canterbury
The Pied Piper
Flirtation Waltz
Prelude to a Memory
Misty Valley
Black Velvet
Smile
Piper in the Heather
Fiddlers' Boogie
Picnic for Strings
Sur Le Pave de Paris (Pavements of Paris)
Lonely Nightingale
Blue Mirage
Lady from Luxembourg
My Barcarolle
A Kid for Two Farthings
Song of the Trees
Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing
The Shifting, Whispering Sands
Cockleshell Heroes
Mademoiselle de Paris
In Old Lisbon (Lisboa Antigua)
Memories of You
The Donkey Cart
The Banks of the Seine
Fanagalo
Soft Summer Breeze
Your Love Is My Love
Catalan Sunshine
Voyage of the Mayflower
Sahara
Katsumi Theme
Rodeo
Luxembourg Waltz
Love By Starlight
Take a Giant Step
On the Beach
Love Is Like a Violin
Angelique
Caroline
The Theme from the Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Madeleine
Theme from "King of Kings"
Theme from "Francis of Assisi"
Face to Face
The Sky at Night (At the Castle Gate Op. 46)
Roman Tango

UPC: 824046353520
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 12.6.24
Format: CD

Frank Chacksfield - Limelight: The Singles Collection 1953-62 (CD)