The Peddlers - How Cool Is Cool (CD)

Details: Two CD 42 track set featuring their complete CBS recordings. Once derided as three blokes in matching shirts playing easy listening interpretations of pop hits, they now have a certain retro cool for what keyboardist/ vocalist Roy Phillips describes as 'a sort of pop-art-jazz' and can be seen as an influence on acts as diverse as Air & Lemon Jelly. This double CD compilation gathers the group's three late-60s albums they cut for CBS (Freewheelers, Three in a Cell and Birthday) as well as singles and rare recordings. Unbelievably tight, The Peddlers could swing with the best of them and their rich organ and funky rhythms recall both Ramsay Lewis & Booker T & the MG's. Although The Peddlers did not split up until 1976, the group (and their fans) consider these recordings the finest recordings Peddlers available and listening to them is a pleasure. Imaginative interpretations of 'Little Red Rooster' and 'Stormy Weather' alongside brooding originals make this a definitive set of a seriously underrated '60s act who truly embody the pop-art-jazz thing like no other. Sony Jazz. 2002.

Tracklist:

1. Time After Time
2. Girl Talk
3. Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)
4. Stormy Weather
5. Smile
6. Empty Club Blues
7. You're the Reason I'm Living
8. It Ain't No Big Thing
9. Sneakin Up on You
10. Pentathalon
11. What Now My Love
12. Lover
13. Say No More (Previously Unreleased Track)
14. Irresistable You
15. Murrays Mood
16. Nine Miles High
17. Comin Home Baby
18. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
19. Basin Street Blues
20. Nobody Likes Me
21. I'm a Boy in Love
22. People
23. In the Still of the Night
24. Ebb Tide
25. Just a Pretty Song
26. Lost Continent
27. Prime of My Life
28. Some of This Some of That (Previously Unreleased Track)
29. Handle with Care
30. Horses Collar
31. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
32. Little Red Rooster
33. Southern Women
34. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
35. Girlie PS I Love You
36. Day in Day Out
37. City Living
38. Lockshen Pudding
39. Birth
40. That's Life
41. Steel Mill
42. Wasting My Time