5013929189720

Grandfather - The Dear Mr. Time Anthology: 3CD Digipak

Dear Mr.time

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEG097T

Release Date:  23 July 2021

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929189720

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    • Coming together at the end of the Sixties, Essex band Dear Mr. Time were a five-piece progressive rock outfit influenced by the likes of King Crimson and The Moody Blues.
    • Having built up their act while touring in France and Germany, Dear Mr. Time returned to England, signing a deal with the independent Square label. Square released the band's seven-ages-of-man concept album “Grandfather” in early 1971, but although it attracted good reviews, the LP failed to reach many shops and duly sank without trace.
    • With Vertigo's interest in signing Dear Mr. Time scuppered by the fact that Square had signed them to an exclusive three-year deal, the band decided to split before a second album could be recorded.
    • By the early Nineties, original copies of “Grandfather” were selling for large sums of money, and the album was counterfeited several times before finally being legally reissued in 2010.
    • Buoyed by the reception that the official reissue received, the core members of Dear Mr. Time reconvened, recording two further albums - “Brontosaurs And Bling” and “Time” - as well as recording tracks for a proposed fourth album.
    • Our new anthology of the band's work assembles all three Dear Mr. Time albums and adds that proposed fourth album.
    • We also add some fascinating early Seventies home demos from guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Baker, performing a batch of songs that would have formed the basis of that aborted follow-up to “Grandfather”.
    • With a booklet that illustrates the band's story with rare photos and new quotes, our expanded 3-CD release of “Grandfather” - which includes around two dozen previously unissued tracks - is the final word on a progressive rock band who, although they made a limited impression at the time, have now attracted collector interest for more than three decades.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Birth – The Beginning
      • 2. Out Of Time
      • 3. Make Your Peace
      • 4. Yours Claudia
      • 5. Prelude (To Your Country Needs You?)
      • 6. Your Country Needs You?
      • 7. A Dawning Moonshine
      • 8. Years And Fortunes
      • 9. A Prayer For Her
      • 10. Light Up A Light
      • 11. On A Lonely Night
      • 12. Grandfather
      • 13. Only Fooling
      • 14. Henrietta Hall
      • 15. Not Now At All
      • 16. Victorian Blue
      • 17. This Place Was Us Was Home
      • 18. When Baby Comes*
      • 19. A Song Of Fairgrounds*
      • 20. Gold And Silver*
      • 21. True Blue*
      • 22. When You Move*
      • 23. All I Have To Give*
      • 24. August Lights*
      • 25. Naked Fingers*

      Disc 2

      • 1. Pig Heaven
      • 2. In '67
      • 3. I Don't Understand (Peru)
      • 4. Like The First Time Again
      • 5. On Hallowed Ground
      • 6. It's Only Love/Tomorrow Is Another Day
      • 7. Sitting In An English Garden
      • 8. Pigs In Outer Space
      • 9. Butterflies Are Free
      • 10. The Universe In My Heart
      • 11. Streetwise
      • 12. Songbird In The Rain
      • 13. Peru (Reprise)
      • 14. Full Circle*
      • 15. We're Only Human*
      • 16. Maisie Grey*
      • 17. Don't Go Holding On To Me*
      • 18. Kifissia Sunrise*
      • 19. All The Same*

      Disc 3

      • 1. Acid Rain
      • 2. Today Is Such A Lovely Day
      • 3. The One Who Saved The Sun
      • 4. Elephants Dump
      • 5. Summer Days With You
      • 6. Einstein In The Sun
      • 7. Mr. Towers' Hours
      • 8. Gimme Jam
      • 9. I Will Be With You
      • 10. Never Done Godspell
      • 11. Home Again
      • 12. We Always Knew
      • 13. The Houses In Between
      • 14. Archie Vine*
      • 15. When We Were Young*
      • 16. Lonely Eyes*
      • 17. The Sentimentalist*
      • 18. The One*
      • 19. Walk The World*
      • 20. What Will Be*
      • 21. There Is No More (You Do It All)*