Magpie [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 2003)
• Original Release Date: June 3, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rpm Records UK
• ASIN: B00008RH9T
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #481,978 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro: Come In

2. Magpie (TV Theme to Magpie)

3. Whole Lotta Love (TV Theme to Top of the Pops)

4. Belfast Boy (Documentary World of Georgie Best)

5. Hot Pants

6. The Good Word (TV Theme to Nationwide)/Ad Break: Things Go Better

7. TC Theme I (Advert for Ford Cars)

8. Another Love [Take a Girl Like You]

9. Man of Action (TV Theme to Man of Action)

10. Whatever Happened to You (TV Theme to Whatever Happened to the ...)

11. Chopper

12. Loot's the Root

13. Thank You Baby

14. Waiter

15. Laughing Sam/Ad Break: It's the Real Thing

16. The Family Theme (TV Theme to the Family)

17. The First Time /Ad Break: South American Getaway... [Take a Girl Like You]

18. Tarot (TV Theme to Ace of Wands)

19. Rumplestiltskin

20. Spirit in the Sky

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The second in RPM/Cherry Red's series of early 1970's music collections. Magpie is a collection of music from a variety of sources that made up the background to those times, roughly 1970-1973. TV themes, film music, adverts, junkshop pop, the incidental music to the period. Focus is on the contemporary discotheque grooves & the light harmony vocal mood pieces. 21 tracks and a fold-out sleeve with liner notes & memorabilia. RPM. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, January 11, 2012

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magpie (Audio CD)

The world going digital has made the transitory permanent. There is a whole universe of "program music:--stuff recorded for TV shows and adds, gone with the 1960's and '70s screen wind-- available, and what do you know: it works as art.

Who would think in '12 that universal love and sunshine pop could sell soda, but in the early 1970's, even air conditioners went pasley. One track on Magpie is The 5th Dimension singing to sell Coke. Released here, it is a great snapshot: Madison Av gone very mildly hip, and using safe Ed Sullivan rock acts to push their product.

But perhaps the surprise is, the track is great, and could have worked as well as most of the 5ds singles. As does the orchestral jet set Euro music, filled with horns and fuzz guitar, or the female back up singers and sexy narration an on the French advert music. There is even a version of "Whole Lotta Love," complete with flute solo, and if you ask, yeah--it rocks.

Of course no one likes having their counter culture co-opted by the "man," so no rocker of hippie or digger of FM radio would admit this stuff was any good at the time of release. But I haven't seen many of these people using rotary phones lately, either. Thar was a long, long time ago; just as we can now admit to liking Herb Albert and Burt Bacharach, listening with no cultural divide, we can appreciate the warmth and elegance, and, yes, wonderful cheese of this music. Listen as art, as nostalgia, as beautifully aged funny limberger. But listen and enjoy.

And fess up. You ARE! the man, now. Kind of groovy, no?