British Beat Girls - Live On Air 1965-1970 - 4CD Box Set

While Cliff Richard, Tom Jones, Adam Faith and Matt Monro were top on everybody's lips, there breathed a new lease of life for countless young women who would sing out and lay equal claim to the limelight. While Brigitte Bardot and Francoise Hardy flew the liberated flag for France, Dusty, Cilla and Sandie would hoist theirs higher. Innocence and elegance combined with a powerful pair of lungs would amply demonstrate their righteous presence in pop music, thereby creating a phenomenon that continues to endure with a captivating charm and magnetism.

Back in 1965, the BBC was eager to enlist the emerging homegrown talents of female stars, and fill the airwaves for eager listeners at home and abroad. Compiled here, is a compelling selection of the best of British, a tribute to the endearing sound of 'femme vox', that sweetly evocative, glamorous sound with powerful lungs and some killer lipstick. 

Track Listing

DISC ONE

Sandie Shaw
1 Girl Don't Come
2 I'll Stop At Nothing
3 I've Heard About Him
4 Long Live Loves You Can't
5 Blame Him
6 Love Letters
7 Reviewing The Situation
8 Coconut Grove
9 Love Me Do
Valerie Masters
10 It's Up To You
11 The Next Train Out
12 Round And Round
Billie Davis
13 Let The Sunshine In
14 No Other Baby
15 The Midnight Hour
Elkie Brooks
16. Getting Mighty Crowded
17. The Way You Do The Things You Do
18 Yeh Yeh
19 All My Life
20 Breaking Point
21. I Put A Spell On You
22 Love's Just A Broken Heart
23 Baby Let Me Love You
24 Bye Bye Blues

DISC TWO

Sue And Sunny
1 You Can't By-Pass Love
2 Leave A Little Love
3 Every Ounce Of Strength
4 You Can't By- Pass Love
5. I'll Try Anything
Helen Shapiro
6 You Only Live Twice
7 She Needs Company
8 Stop (And You Will Become Aware)
Susan Maughan
9 When She Walks Away
10. Blowin' In The Wind
11 That Other Place Julie Rogers
12 In My Room
13 Things We Said Today
Cilla Black
14 Going Out Of My Head
15 Heatwave
16 You're No Good
17 He Was Really Saying Something
18 Shotgun
19 Rainbow
20 Lover's Concerto
21 Alfie
22 Conversations
Sandra Brown
23 Knock On Any Door
24 Want Love Barbara Kay
25 I'll Stop At Nothing
26 In The Meantime

DISC THREE
The Mckinleys
1 Give Him My Love
2 Baby Whatchya Want Me To Do Nita Rossi
3 Here I Go Again
4 Untrue
5 Not Responsible
Truly Smith
6 Windows And Doors
7 Take A Broken Heart
8 I Wanna Go Back There Again
9 San Francisco
10 Window Cleaner
Friday Brown
11 Getting Nowhere
12 Careless Love
13 Before You Accuse Me
14 32nd Love Affair
15 Born A Woman
Tammy St. John
16 He's The One For Me
17 I'm Tired Just Looking At You
18 Hey Hey Hey Hey
19 Nobody Knows What's Going On In My Mind
20 Stay Together Young Lovers
Lulu
21 Uptight
22 Call Me
23 You'll Never Leave Him
24 To Sir With Love
25 Love Loves To Love Love
26 Higher And Higher Julie Grant
27 Stop
28 Hark

DISC FOUR
Stevie Lewis
1 Sometime When You're Lonely
2 Take Me For A Little While
Anita Harris
3 Eleanor Rigby
Clodagh Rogers
4 Stormy Weather
5 Tell Him
Nola York
6 Photographs
7 I Can Hear You Calling
Sharon Tandy
8 Perhaps Not Forever
9 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Jackie Trent
10. Don't Sleep In The Subway
Kiki Dee
11 If Loved You
12 She Was Really Saying Something
Jackie Lee
13 Know Know Know, I'll Never Love Anyone Else
Barry St. John
14 Everything I Touch Turns To Tears
15 6-3-4-5-7-8-9
Samantha Jones
16 Every Little Bit Hurts
17 Surrounded By A Ray Of Sunshine
Toni Daly
18 Like The Big Man Said
19 Why Don't Run Away From You
P.P.Amold
20 The First Cut Is The Deepest
21 Something Beautiful
22 The Time Has Come
23 Tin Soldier
24 (If You Think You're) Groovy (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Madeleine Bell
26. We're So Much In Love
Mary Hopkin
27 Plaisir D'amour

All tracks performed live for Top Of The Pops