The London American Label: Year By Year 1967

• London
• Various
• American

After a lengthy hiatus, just when you had all given up hope of ever seeing another volume, Ace's chronicling of London American resumes this month with an overview of the label's output from 1967. By the mid-60s, while it was no longer the only outlet for the release of hot new American hits, London was still a name that commanded maximum respect among record buyers all over the UK, and the label was still bringing some of the most interesting (and very best) of what was currently happening in the USA over to our side of the Atlantic. 1967 was a watershed year in popular music, and the eclectically enjoyable nature of previous volumes is upheld by the 28 tracks in Ace's latest compilation, which just as the US Hot 100 charts of the time did, embraces soul, country, folk-rock, psychedelia, adult contemporary and much more besides. Legendary names many of them with lengthy London American associations rub shoulders here with terminally obscure one-record wonders, just as they had always done from the label's earliest days. All tracks have been mastered from original mono sources, just as they appeared on London, with many coming to you from the original tapes used to manufacture those London 45s. Copiously annotated and generously illustrated including a label scan of every featured track it's a package that brings many of these tracks to UK CD for the first time, and one that all aficionados of the London American label will be delighted to file next to the previous volumes in this series.