LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Come Outside Come Inside Dodgy Lookin' Bird Slow twistin' Round The Totem Pole Now You've Moved Castle Of Dracula Will I What? Just For Kicks My Baby's Crazy About Elvis Just Like Eddie The Waitress Song On Lover's Hill He Knows, Y'Know Bird, You Know I love You Don't You Phone Me, I'll Phone You Are You Satisfied? Hello, Lover Boy! Baby, I'm On My Way Code Of Love Dear Little Soul Please Don't Stay Fountain Of Love Out An' About (from the film A Place To Go) A Place To Go (from the film A Place To Go) You've Got Somethin' Love Me Please (from the film Everyday's A Holiday ) Indubitably Me (from the film Everyday's A Holiday) Bonus CDRom ( 'Love Me Please ' film clip) In June this year it is the 40th anniversary of the hit Come Outside reaching No.1. The record that propelled Mike Sarne to fame and began Wendy Richard on her long show biz career. It is still an unusual record and one that is played regularly by a great many radio stations. The Essay included on the inlay relates the story of this remarkable man's career, his satirists view of the world which shone through his recorded work. The music was arranged and directed by the wunderkind producer Charles Blackwell, still only 22 at the time and the man behind John Leyton's hit records. Leyton and Sarne were stable mates in Robert Stigwood's organisation both combining modelling, acting with singing and performing. Sarne later turned to photography, providing shots for the likes of Vogue and Cosmopolitan before reinventing himself again as a movie director and making Johanna (from which Scott Walkers hit of the same name sprang) and the Hollywood cult classic Myra Breckinridge. Highlights of this definitive collection include the No.1 single Come Outside, the response number Will I What (with Billie Davis - also a hit), the motor- bikers parody Just For Kicks, the first version of Just Like Eddie, songs from his early films 'A Place To Go' and 'Every Day's A Holiday'. As a bonus we have a CDrom film clip from the latter movie where Sarne is backed by the R&B group The Leroys singing Love Me Please. Lastly it is worth noting that whilst Come Outside is still played on the radio it hasn't been available even on compilations for many years because EMI lost rights a long time ago and no-one told Mike Sarne. Consequently Mike has only just had the masters returned to him and this collection is born.