Alan Parker
One Summer: Original Score to the 1983 TV Series (7")
Format7"LabelFinders Keepers RecordsGenreLibrary & Soundtracks
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Temporary Super Offer! *2024 stock* Previously unreleased schizo post-punk/Moogy folk score for the 1983 British scouseploitation TV drama One Summer from the vault of guitarist and composer Alan Parker, best-kept secret session man for Kate Bush, Serge Gainsbourg, and David Bowie. Composed to cue for the five-part series (that TV commissioners were too scared to revisit), Parker's bursts of self-propelled small-screen scoring came in one-to-two-minute spells, allowing Finders Keepers to comfortably fit the entire soundtrack on one 7".
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Sleevenotes:
One Summer - Soundtrack by Alan Parker
Original score to the 1983 T.V. Series - Written and Played by Alan Parker
(Histoire De Melody Nelson / The Kick Inside)
Sleevenotes on sticker:
"Only just stopped sobbing since its 1983 debut. Billy & Icky's Theme takes us on a bittersweet journey from Lime Street to Ffestiniog with Kate Bush's guitarist as the chief conductor" - Jane Weaver (Liverpool)
"A theme so melodiously melancholy it's been sitting in my mind continually after one TV viewing 30 years ago" - Gruff Rhys (Bethesda)
[Timings not listed on record or sleeve]
Originally planned as a Record Store Day release 2016.
Release notes
Sleevenotes: One Summer - Soundtrack by Alan Parker Original score to the 1983 T.V. Series - Written and Played by Alan Parker (Histoire De Melody Nelson / The Kick Inside) Sleevenotes on sticker: "Only just stopped sobbing since its 1983 debut. Billy & Icky's Theme takes us on a bittersweet journey from Lime Street to Ffestiniog with Kate Bush's guitarist as the chief conductor" - Jane Weaver (Liverpool) "A theme so melodiously melancholy it's been sitting in my mind continually after one TV…
| A1 | One Summer | 1:53 | |
| A2 | Billy & Jo | 1:04 | |
| A3 | The Tollbooth | 1:20 | |
| A4 | Kidder's Cottage | 0:47 | |
| A5 | Benllech Mountain | 0:30 | |
| B1 | Icky | 0:41 | |
| B2 | Southport | 0:29 | |
| B3 | Rollercoaster | 0:58 | |
| B4 | Tension | 1:05 | |
| B5 | Lime Street (End Titles) | 1:20 | |
| B6 | Please Close The Gate | 0:52 |
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- Gruff Rhys
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- Jane Weaver
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