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Treacle Toffee World
Various Artists
Treacle Toffee World
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
 
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'Treacle Toffee World' completes the exploration of the catalogue of the Beatles Apple Music Publishing company that began with RPM s release of '94 Baker Street' in 2004 and continued with 'An Apple A Day' from 2006. Eigh...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Treacle Toffee World
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: RPM-RETRO
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 11/18/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929598430

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'Treacle Toffee World' completes the exploration of the catalogue of the Beatles Apple Music Publishing company that began with RPM s release of '94 Baker Street' in 2004 and continued with 'An Apple A Day' from 2006. Eighteen new and very rare tracks appear on 'Treacle Toffee World'. George Alexander of Grapefruit, Pete Ham, Tom Evans and Ron Griffiths of Iveys/Badfinger, Dave Lambert of Fire/Strawbs and Gallagher & Lyle were but a few of the impressive stable of song writers under contract to Apple Music, and these are all represented here.

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CD Reviews

Great Material from Grapefruit and Fire
Morten Vindberg | Denmark | 11/19/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)

"This third and final volume of Apple Music Publishing company recordings contains some real gems bound to please fans of the pop-psych era. Especially two bands on the sampler stand out, Grapefruit and Fire.



Grapefruit , led by talented songwriter Alex Young who is the elder brother of George, Angus and Malcolm, did release two fine albums on RCA, but the band only obtained modest success. Here the band is represented with three songs that easily stand up with the songs on their albums. "Trying to Make it to Monday" was an early contender for their debut single, but eventually "Dear Delilah" was considered a better choice, A lot of Easybeats sound in this one. "Castle in the Sky" is just as strong, though quite different. It's a demo of a fine ballad, recorded by the band to present to other artists - never inted fro a Grapfruit record. Third Grapfruit track is an alternate version of "This Little Man" form their first album. This version is simpler arranged and much better than the album version. Great song.



Fire, led by Dave Lambert, later of the Strawbs, are given the honour to open the CD and to supply the title track "Treacle Toffee World" This is very well deserved. "Father's Name is Dad" is probably the strongest recording on the whole sampler. The song really deserved to be a hit, and with the great title track on the B-side it's big wonder it didn't happen. Great production and a great Easybeats-inspired guitar riff - I wonder if Black Sabbath knew this song.



The other two Fire tracks are also good, though not quite as memorable.



From the other artists there is good material too, though none really stand up with the two already mentioned. Rawlings and Huckstep's two contributions are both very good, and The Iveys' "Bittersweet Adieu" will please fans of Iveys and Badfinger - The other Iveys song is not very good - pretty lightweight.



Recommended for fans of the late 60's pop-pscyh sounds."