The tapes for the majority of these pop recordings have been squirreled away in the depths of the British Library where they were placed by the retiring owner of Saga some 15 years ago. None but the Five Day Week Straw people have been available for nigh on 40 years.
Thus Swinging London as a collection, is a fascinating glimpse of the late 60's sounds mirrored through a contemporary London production house. The sounds are not clearly of any one particular genre, as they blend elements of Pop ,Psych, Lounge and Rock into a late 60's groovy melange, and are all the more enjoyable for it. Vocal and instrumental, if these tracks had been released through Deram or Regal Zonophone at the time they would not have been out of place.
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