The John Schroeder Orchestra - The Dolly Catcher (1967)
Tracklist:
01 - The Dolly Catcher
02 - San Francisco (Flowers In Your Hair
03 - Explosive Corrosive Joseph
04 - To Wendy With Love
05 - Epistle To Dippy
06 - She'd Rather Be With Me
07 - Softly Softly Catchee Dolly
08 - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
09 - I Was Made To Love Her
10 - Up, Up And Away
11 - But She Ran The Other Way
12 - Things I Should Have Said
Moviegrooves.com: “Yes! At last! This is the CD reissue of the much sought-after 1967 LP from The John Schroeder Orchestra; The Dolly Catcher!
Arranged by John Cameron, The Dolly Catcher, (the title refering to pulling "dolly birds", or girls) is widely recognised as an "easy" classic and Schroeder manages to merge fuzz guitar and organ with sweeping strings and brass producing an album that is always interesting, and at times, genuinely ground breaking.
We get some great covers versions (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, San Francisco, Up, Up and Away) along with some storming original tunes.
John Schroeder ("the British answer to Burt Bacharach") is probably best known for his production work, becoming assistant to Columbia Records label chief Norrie Paramor in 1958 and producing the Eurovision runner-up in the same year, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson's Sing Little Birdie. During his time at Columbia Schroeder discovered the 14 year-old Helen Shapiro, writing her first hit, Please Don't Treat Me Like A Child and sharing an Ivor Novello award with co-writer Mike Hawker for another Shapiro hit, Walkin' Back To Happiness. After a short stint with Columbia, Schroeder spent 2 productive years at Oriole, at the time the UK's only truly independent label, before departing for Pye, where he enjoyed immediate success with the Rockin' Berries, the Ivy League and Sounds Orchestral, an instrumental orchestra that enjoyed commercial success with the song, Cast Your Fate To The Wind. During his Pye years, Schroeder wrote for and produced artists such as Status Quo, Geno Washington and renewed his association with Helen Shapiro.”
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