Artist: The First Class Title: Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings Year Of Release: 2023 Label: Grapefruit Genre: Sunshine Pop Quality: Quality: FLAC (tracks+scans) Total Time: 03:55:11 The First Class were a British pop music studio-based group, put together by songwriter and record producer John Carter. Compared by critics to the Beach Boys, they are best known for their hit song "Beach Baby," a top 20 hit in both the US and UK, and number one in Canada. wiki Track Listing: Disc 1 1: Beach Baby 2: Won't Somebody Help Me 3: What Became of Me 4: Surfer Queen 5: The First Day of Your Life 6: Long Time Gone 7: Funny How Love Can Be 8: Dreams Are Ten a Penny 9: Bobby Dazzler 10: The Disco Kid 11: I Was Always a Joker 12: Beach Baby (Single Version, Full-length) 13: Both Sides of the Story 14: Lavender Man 15: One Good Time 16: Born to Be a Rebel 17: Baby Doll Love 18: Chinese Christmas 19: Going On 20: A Quiet Life 21: Loving 22: Beach Baby (Single Version, Edit) Disc 2 1: I Was a Star 2: Ain't No Love 3: Child's Play 4: Old Time Love 5: Baby Blue 6: Life Is Whatever You Want It to Be 7: Carry On Singing My Song 8: Smiles On a Summer Night 9: Seven Ten to Nowhere 10: Autumn Love 11: And She Cried 12: Brook Street Jingle 13: Too Many Golden Oldies (Single Version) 14: Make It On My Own 15: Broken Toy 16: Lisa (I Always Loved You) 17: Birds Dream Topping Jingle 18: Song On the Wind 19: The Saddest Word 20: Ocean of Glass 21: Bienvenido 22: Sunlight Detergent Jingle 23: Gimme Little Sign 24: Average Rainfall 25: Please Yourself (Rowntrees Tots) Jingle Disc 3 1: We Like to Dance (Milk Is Our Way) Jingle 2: Disco Kid (As Magic) 3: Midnite Music (As Magic) 4: Singer Sewing Machines Jingle 5: Oh California (As Magic) 6: I'm in Love Again (As Magic) 7: Kit-E-Kat Munchies Jingle 8: The Sound of Summer (As Starbreaker) 9: Let's Go British Caledonian Jingle 10: Sidewalk Johnny (As South Bank Wheels) 11: Midnite Music (As South Bank Wheels) 12: Vauxhall Chevette (Whatever You Want It to Be) #1 Jingle 13: Crawfords Cheddars Jingle 14: If I Don't Have You 15: Birds Eye Cod Jingle 16: Sunday Child 17: Greasy Dollar Bill 18: Ever Ready Batteries Jingle 19: Top Forty Angel 20: Typhoo 1 Jingle 21: Typhoo 2 Jingle 22: Silver Surfer 23: Silvikrin Jingle 24: Coney Island 25: Malibu Jingle 26: I Can't Believe My Eyes 27: Wake Up America 28: Right Guard Deodorant Jingle 29: The Song Was Wrong 30: Woman Magazine Jingle 31: Shine On Me Woman (As Kincade) 32: One More Mile to Freedom (As John Carter) 33: Cracker Jack Popcorn Jingle 34: Vauxhall Chevette (Whatever You Want It to Be) #2 Jingle 35: Too Many Golden Oldies (Full-length Version) • First-ever complete 3CD anthology of ‘Beach Baby’ harmony pop hitmakers. • Featuring both First Class LPs, all singles, pseudonymous releases and numerous previously unreleased tracks including advertising jingles and songs from an aborted 1974 musical. There weren’t too many classic British pop singles issued in 1974, but harmony pop epic ‘Beach Baby’ bucked the trend, reaching the UK Top 20 and becoming an even bigger hit in America, peaking at the No. 4 spot. Arguably the ultimate Beach Boys tribute, ‘Beach Baby’ introduced a new name, The First Class – actually veteran pop hitmaker and songwriter John Carter with the aid of Chas Mills and lead singer Tony Burrows. While other singers and musicians adopted the name to front their music in public, the Carter/Burrows/Mills combination continued to record new First Class material, including a self-titled LP that is quite possibly the finest, most ambitious British harmony pop album of the 70s. The First Class had a couple of follow-up minor hit singles in America that failed to attract the same attention at home, where second album ‘SST’ (not even released in the US) sank without trace. By the end of the 70s, Carter had effectively laid the name to rest. A 3CD set in a lavish digipak package featuring a new 5000 word essay, ‘Beach Baby: The Complete Recordings’ is the definitive document of both The First Class and John Carter’s myriad overlapping activities during the second half of the 70s. It contains an embarrassment of riches: both albums, all singles, out-takes, pseudonymous releases, a huge number of previously unissued TV/radio advertising jingles and, most fascinatingly of all, seven previously-unheard 1974 demos for the musical Bobby Dazzler, abandoned when the single of the same name unfathomably failed to chart