MARTY WILDE

Wilde About Marty / Marty Wilde Showcase

Catalogue no: BGOCD594 | 2 on 1 CD

NOTES:

  • Originally released in 1959 and 1960 respectively on the Philips record label Marty Wilde was born Leonard Reginald Smith in Greenwich, London, on April 15, 1939. He was a Larry Parnes discovery – he was spotted, aged 19, performing at the Condor Club, London. 
  • His first record, Honeycomb, was un-noticed, but his next, Endless Sleep(included here), was an instant success. Bad Boy, which he wrote, was another big hit in 1959, although like Billy Fury, Marty never had a Number One record. Most Billy Fury fans associate Marty with the package tour that played at the Birkenhead Essoldo on 1st October, 1958, when in an event that became show business legend, young Ron Wycherley called to play some of his songs for Marty and Larry Parnes and found himself thrust on stage.
  • Marty is one of the rock and roll era’s great survivors. Marty is (in case you didn’t know!!) Kim Wilde’s father

TRACKLIST

Wilde About Marty:

  1. Down The Line
  2. Love Of My Life
  3. Put Me Down
  4. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  5. Dream Lover
  6. You’ve Got Love
  7. I Flipped
  8. All American Boy
  9. Mean Woman Blues
  10. Are You Sincere?
  11. High School Confidential
  12. Don’t Pity Me
  13. Splish Splash
  14. So Glad You’re Mine

Showcase:

  1. Honeycomb
  2. No One Knows
  3. The Fire Of Love
  4. Endless Sleep
  5. A Teenager In Love
  6. My Heart And I
  7. Donna
  8. It’s Been Nice
  9. Sea Of Love
  10. Teenage Tears
  11. Bad Boy
  12. Johnny Rocco

About BGO Records…

Founded in 1987, BGO Records is an independent reissue label specialising in classic highly collectable recordings of groups, singers and instrumentalists from the fifties through to the eighties. Their main activity is digitally remastering albums previously only available on vinyl and issuing them on CD.