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Everybody's Talkin'  - Pete Moore - 1971
Label: Rediffusion ZS98 (UK)
Format: LP
From: UK
My rating: 5/10

Entered: 09/11/2004
Last updated: 09/11/2004

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Pete Moore was clearly a very solid arranger, but without meaning to sound fickle, nothing I've heard as ever quite matched up to the wonder that is 'Catwalk' from The Exciting Sounds of Tomorrow (featured on the legendary In-flight entertainment compilation).

This LP is quite nice, but even when it's upbeat and funky, it lacks the good taste and classy feel of 'catwalk. ‘Everybody’s talkin’ is a rather goofy arrangement that uses a bassline like the riff from ‘Day Tripper’. Fun, but not really my thing. ‘Honey come back’ is funky and a bit more straight ahead and appealing. ‘Downhill racer’ (the theme to the film, which I watched the beginning of the other dayl; nice photography; very slow moving; fell asleep after half an hour) is rather plain, slow and unmemorable. ‘Come Saturday Morning’ is a more memorable theme, but I’d rather hear it as a vocal. ‘Return to Montana’ is kind of cheesy without being that interesting. ‘Midnight Cowboy’ is always a banker for me, and I like this version, with its tasty electric piano and strings. There's nothing really remarkable about it though.

'True Grit' is a nice mid-tempo orchestral big band thing with a funky beat. ‘Leavin on a jet plane’ is quite fun too. Nice organ work, although I’m not sure this one was ever meant to be funked up; it sounds very ‘easy cheesy'...‘Bridge over troubled water’ gets a similar treatment. The beat is quieter, but it’s there in the background.

Overall I think this will take a few listens to get into.
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