Three years ago, Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint saluted the career of singer and songwriter John Carter (“Beach Baby,” “Little Bit o’ Soul,” “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat,” “Winchester Cathedral”) on the 4CD set My World Fell Down: The John Carter Story. Now, the label is turning to one of Carter’s studio outfits, The Flower Pot Men, for the comprehensive, new 3CD collection Midsummer Dreaming: An Anthology 1967-1970. Naturally, the set opens with “Let’s Go to San Francisco,” the Summer of Love homage written and produced by Carter and Ken Lewis which went…
A Walk in the Sky: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collect Flower Pot Men’s Psych-Pop on “Midsummer Dreaming”
Cherry Red Round-Up: SoulMusic Celebrates Randy Crawford, Grapefruit Collects The Complete First Class
In today’s Cherry Red Round-Up: titles from the SoulMusic, Grapefruit, and Cherry Pop labels! Throughout a recording career spanning, roughly, 1972-2008, Randy Crawford refused to be pigeonholed. Gifted with a versatile, expressive voice, Randy straddled the worlds of jazz and soul while dipping her toes into funk, pop, dance, and rock; her collaborators include George Benson, Al Jarreau, Steve Hackett, Rick Springfield, David Sanborn, and Joe Sample and The Crusaders. SoulMusic Records recently explored a major chapter of her discography on the 3-CD anthology You Might Need Somebody: The Warner Bros. Recordings…
Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Anthologize Songwriter John Carter’s Career on “My World Fell Down”
Though John Carter isn’t a household name, many of his songs are. “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat,” “Beach Baby,” and “Little Bit O’ Soul” are just a handful of Carter’s timeless pop confections. His is also the familiar voice of The New Vaudeville Band’s chart-topping “Winchester Cathedral.” Sunshine pop aficionados might know him best for “My World Fell Down,” the spellbinding song he wrote for The Ivy League which was covered by Sagittarius (featuring Glen Campbell, Bruce Johnston, Gary Usher, and Terry Melcher). It’s now lent its title to a 4-CD anthology…
