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With All You Need Is Keith Mansfield, RPM Retrodisc brings us twenty glorious tracks of the 'Mansfield sound' from 1968-1972.
Famed arranger, music director, producer Keith Mansfield has arranged top tunes for the likes of Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Georgie Fame, Gilbert O'Sullivan and Robert Plant.
He has also been a star of UK TV for 40 years. Wimbledon tennis, Grandstand, Athletics, The Big Match, The Sweeney all enhanced by Mansfield s impact on their soundtrack. The Big Match theme was recorded as The Young Scene for KPM in 1968, the same year as Mansfield also turned in the seminal arrangement for the Love Affair s break-through hit Everlasting Love. Also released then was his own solo record Soul Confusion, an organ led groove with a storming fuzz guitar break in the middle. So too the All You Need Is LP for CBS, where Mansfield was a staff producer for a time.
The original 'All You Need Is' LP, presented here in its 12-track entirety, forms the backbone of this fantastic release to highlight the Mansfield sound, following on from RPM's previous excursions in to the sounds of Brian Bennett and Alan Hawkshaw. In fact keyboard maestro Alan Hawkshaw is the provider of the extra-funky piano and Hammond organ work on All You Need Is. The other regular contributors are backing vocals from Sue & Sunny. In addition there's top picks from other CBS LPs Mansfield worked on.
Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard jewel case.