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Motorway City - The Golden Age Of Car Travel 1966-82 - Compiled by Bob Stanley
Motorway City - The Golden Age Of Car Travel 1966-82 - Compiled by Bob Stanley
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Motorway City is a superb, driving-based collection of library music. The tracks on this album were all written between the mid-60s and the early 80s to hymn car travel, back when the petrol-operated motor car was seen as the transport mode of the future, when motorways were new and thrilling. It was car travel’s golden age.
The tracks are highly collectable rarities from the libraries of De Wolfe, Chappell and Hudson. It has been compiled by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne who has also written the informative sleevenotes. It stretches from mod movers to proto-ambient, something for every car journey.
Library music soundtracked the many short films that extolled the virtues of TopTray restaurant at Watford Gap or the comfortable leather seats in an Alpine Sunbeam. These tunes illuminated the joys of motor travel, and were given titles such as ‘Fast Lane’, ‘Super City’ and ‘Clearway’.
Many of these tracks seem time specific. The sun peeks over the horizon for Basil Kirchin’s ‘Through New Territory’; Reg Tilsley’s ‘Hold The Road’ is so bright at midday that you’ll need to wear shades to stop the sun getting in your eyes; John Fiddy’s ‘City Skyline’ has to be seen (and heard) at dusk.
Ex-Soft Machine Karl Jenkins provides the tense ‘Wheeling’, and Peter Reno’s thunderous ‘Convoy’ shifts the mood up a gear. Maybe you should risk nudging the speed up, 80-plus, to the soundtrack of Alan Hawkshaw’s ‘Fuel Injection’ or Simon Park’s mellow-but-dynamic ‘Big Road’.
Beautifully packaged in a gatefold sleeve, Motorway City could be the soundtrack to your summer holiday.
01 Wire Wheels - International Studio Orchestra
02 On The Move - Johnny Hawksworth
03 Motorway - Cliff Johns
04 Through New Territory - Basil Kirchin
05 Super-Travel - James Clark
06 Driving Force - Herbert Chappell
07 Town Beat - Jack Trombey
08 Hold The Road - Reg Tilsley
09 Convoy - Peter Reno
10 Motordown - John Scott
11 Soul City Drive - Soul City Orchestra
12 Big Road - Simon Park
13 Wheeling - Karl Jenkins
14 Nevada Junction - Steve Gray
15 Highway Song - The Cool
16 Silver Thrust - Peter Reno
17 Lorry Load - Frank McDonald
18 Fast Lane - Mike Gillingham & Roy Stone
19 Walk the White Line - Peter Reno, Reg Tilsley
20 Fuel Injection - Alan Hawkshaw
21 Super City - John Fiddy
22 Take a Break - Reg Tilsley
23 Clearway - Frank Ricotti
24 Soft Throttle - Alan Hawkshaw
25 Night Moves - Patchwork
26 City Skyline - John Fiddy
27 Freeway - Roger Webb
28 Hometown - Alan Parker
