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Drop the name Barbara Moore casually into pop conversation and you will likely be met with blank incomprehension. And yet for the last 60 years or so her music, in some way, has been familiar to all of us. The Pick of the Pops theme! The Saint! Duetting with Peter Cook on the theme from Bedazzled!
“Bedazzled!” is the first time the highlights of Barbara Moore’s career, and all of her best-known pieces of music, have been assembled in one place. It has been compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley with Bradford University film lecturer Mark Goodall, and has been put together with the blessing of Moore’s estate.
Barbara Moore was an outstanding composer, arranger, vocalist and pianist working across jazz, pop, easy listening and library or production music in film, television and commercials. She broke ground as a female working in the almost exclusively male world of the above domains.
Her 1972 library music LP “Vocal Shades and Tones” recorded for de Wolfe is considered a 10-out-of-10 classic of the genre. Her contributions to the Roger Webb Sound’s 1971 de Wolfe albums, “Vocal Patterns” and “Moonshade” were equally beautiful.
The superb artwork and Bob Stanley and Mark Goodall’s informative sleevenotes are up to Ace’s usual high standard.
Highlights include:
*Pick Of The Pops theme – first time it has ever been reissued, unavailable since 1970
*Bedazzled – with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
*’Just Like That’ – Terry Wogan’s BBC Radio 2 theme, first reissue ever
*The Saint – with Moore’s distinctive high voice
*In demand library music – from De Wolfe, Chappell, Southern and Hudson.
Much of this music is familiar to millions in Britain, while Moore’s name remains barely known.
Barbara Moore died in August 2021 at the age of 89. She never found the acclaim she so richly deserved; her grand-daughter Clare described her as “a pioneer of females in the music industry”.
This compilation is designed to prove that point once and for all.
Tracklist
2LP
SIDE ONE
1. AT THE SIGN OF THE SWINGING CYMBAL - BRASS INCORPORATED
2. IF ILLUSION MET FANTASY - MOOD MOSAIC
3. BEDAZZLED - PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE
4. HIDEAWAY - VOICES IN LATIN
5. FLY PARADISE - BARBARA MOORE
6. COUNTRY MORNING - OLE JENSEN AND HIS MUSIC
7. DON'T DO IT BABY - MARK WIRTZ ORCHESTRA
SIDE TWO
1. THE SAINT (MAIN THEME) - SINGLE VERSION - EDWIN ASTLEY & HIS ORCHESTRA
2. STEAM HEAT - BARBARA MOORE
3. GIVE A DAMN - PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
4. SOON SOON SOON - KEVIN AYERS
5. BRIGHT AND SHINING - BARBARA MOORE
6. TIME OUT OF MIND - STAN BUTCHER
7. TIMES REMEMBERED - BARBARA MOORE
SIDE THREE
1. A TOUCH OF VELVET, A STING OF BRASS - MOOD MOSAIC
2. JUST LIKE THAT - BRASS INCORPORATED
3. THE ELF - BARBARA MOORE SINGERS
4. ORANGE GIRL - ROGER WEBB AKA MARK DUVAL & HIS MUSIC
5. BUSY - VOICES IN LATIN
6. MOON BIRD - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND
7. WORK OUT - BARBARA MOORE
SIDE FOUR
8. LEAVING THE GHETTO - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
1. SHADOWS OF FEAR (SHORT VERSION) - ROGER WEBB
2. SCARBOROUGH FAIR - DEENA WEBSTER
3. NATURE GIRL - MARK DUVAL & HIS MUSIC
4. GOING ON HOLIDAY - BARBARA MOORE
5. LINSEY'S SONG - LINSEY MOORE
6. SWEET THING - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND
7. UP WEST - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND
CD
1. AT THE SIGN OF THE SWINGING CYMBAL - BRASS INCORPORATED
2. IF ILLUSION MET FANTASY - MOOD MOSAIC
3. BEDAZZLED - PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE
4. HIDEAWAY - VOICES IN LATIN
5. FLY PARADISE - BARBARA MOORE
6. COUNTRY MORNING - OLE JENSEN AND HIS MUSIC
7. DON'T DO IT BABY - MARK WIRTZ ORCHESTRA
8. THE SAINT (MAIN THEME) - SINGLE VERSION - EDWIN ASTLEY & HIS ORCHESTRA
9. STEAM HEAT - BARBARA MOORE
10. GIVE A DAMN - PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
11. SOON SOON SOON - KEVIN AYERS
12. BRIGHT AND SHINING - BARBARA MOORE
13. TIME OUT OF MIND - STAN BUTCHER
14. TIMES REMEMBERED - BARBARA MOORE
15. A TOUCH OF VELVET, A STING OF BRASS - MOOD MOSAIC
16. JUST LIKE THAT - BRASS INCORPORATED
17. THE ELF - BARBARA MOORE SINGERS
18. ORANGE GIRL - ROGER WEBB AKA MARK DUVAL & HIS MUSIC
19. BUSY - VOICES IN LATIN
20. MOON BIRD - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND
21. WORK OUT - BARBARA MOORE
22. SHADOWS OF FEAR (SHORT VERSION) - ROGER WEBB
23. SCARBOROUGH FAIR - DEENA WEBSTER
24. NATURE GIRL - MARK DUVAL & HIS MUSIC
25. GOING ON HOLIDAY - BARBARA MOORE
26. LINSEY'S SONG - LINSEY MOORE
27. SWEET THING - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND
28. UP WEST - THE ROGER WEBB SOUND