Mixtape: A Dram of Deram



Deram Records, a subsidiary of Decca, was one of the strangest popular music labels in mainstream pop history. Here, of course, strange=good. In the 1960s Deram pushed multiple styles simultaneously: ornately arranged orchestral pop, nervous music hall, unfiltered psychedelic rock, spiked bubblegum and hyped-up British soul. This mix features 41 songs the label put out between 1966 and 1970. This includes a Cat Stevens tune that's one of the weirdest pop singles of all time, the Move, Denny Laine, The Amen Corner, Giles Giles & Fripp, Ten Years After, Galliard, David Bowie, and a bunch of people I didn't know existed until recently.


Tracklist:
Whistling Jack Smith - The British Grin and Bear
Beverley - Happy New Year
Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun
The Eyes of Blue - Supermarket Full of Cans
The Move - Night of Fear
John Gunn - I Don't Want to Get Hung Up on You Babe
The Amen Corner - The World of Broken Hearts
Bill Fay - Some Good Advice
The Syn - Flowerman
The West Coast Delegation - Mister Personality Man
Honeybus - The Breaking Up Scene
Human Instinct - A Day in My Mind's Mind
The Flirtations - Someone Out There
Lionel Bart - May a Man Be Merry?
Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Maxine's Parlour
Anvil Flutes & Capricorn Voices - Something's Coming
The Web - Harold Dubbleyew
Denny Laine - Say You Don't Mind
Granny's Intentions - Sandy's On the Phone Again
Giles, Giles & Fripp - One In a Million
Grisby Dyke - The Adventures of Miss Rosemary La Page
Ten Years After - Portable People
Cuppa T - Miss Pinkerton
Garden Odyssy Enterprise - Sad and Lonely
Jacques Loussier - Poursuite Jaguar
East of Eden - Moth
The Johnny Almond Music Machine - Solar Level
Kathe Green - Primrose Hill
The Alan Bown - Still As Stone
William R. Strickland - Computer Lover
U.K. Jones - Let Me Tell Ya
Touch - Miss Teach
Egg - Seven Is a Jolly Good Time
Bulldog Breed - Folder Men
The Hawaiians - Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Aardvark - Very Nice of You to Call
Currant Kraze - Breaking the Heart of a Good Man
Galliard - Skillet
Paper Bubble - Tomorrow Never Comes Like a Silver Spoon
Naked Truths - Two LIttle Rooms
David Bowie - When I Live My Dream


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