Mixtape: A Dram of Deram

Deram Records, a subsidiary of Decca, was one of the strangest popular music labels in mainstream pop history. Here, of course, strange=good. In the 1960s Deram pushed multiple styles simultaneously: ornately arranged orchestral pop, nervous music hall, unfiltered psychedelic rock, spiked bubblegum and hyped-up British soul. This mix features 41 songs the label put out between 1966 and 1970. This includes a Cat Stevens tune that's one of the weirdest pop singles of all time, the Move, Denny Laine, The Amen Corner, Giles Giles & Fripp, Ten Years After, Galliard, David Bowie, and a bunch of people I didn't know existed until recently.

Tracklist:

Whistling Jack Smith - The British Grin and Bear

Beverley - Happy New Year

Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun

The Eyes of Blue - Supermarket Full of Cans

The Move - Night of Fear

John Gunn - I Don't Want to Get Hung Up on You Babe

The Amen Corner - The World of Broken Hearts

Bill Fay - Some Good Advice

The Syn - Flowerman

The West Coast Delegation - Mister Personality Man

Honeybus - The Breaking Up Scene

Human Instinct - A Day in My Mind's Mind

The Flirtations - Someone Out There

Lionel Bart - May a Man Be Merry?

Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Maxine's Parlour

Anvil Flutes & Capricorn Voices - Something's Coming

The Web - Harold Dubbleyew

Denny Laine - Say You Don't Mind

Granny's Intentions - Sandy's On the Phone Again

Giles, Giles & Fripp - One In a Million

Grisby Dyke - The Adventures of Miss Rosemary La Page

Ten Years After - Portable People

Cuppa T - Miss Pinkerton

Garden Odyssy Enterprise - Sad and Lonely

Jacques Loussier - Poursuite Jaguar

East of Eden - Moth

The Johnny Almond Music Machine - Solar Level

Kathe Green - Primrose Hill

The Alan Bown - Still As Stone

William R. Strickland - Computer Lover

U.K. Jones - Let Me Tell Ya

Touch - Miss Teach

Egg - Seven Is a Jolly Good Time

Bulldog Breed - Folder Men

The Hawaiians - Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Aardvark - Very Nice of You to Call

Currant Kraze - Breaking the Heart of a Good Man

Galliard - Skillet

Paper Bubble - Tomorrow Never Comes Like a Silver Spoon

Naked Truths - Two LIttle Rooms

David Bowie - When I Live My Dream