(JIMMY CAMPBELL-Half Baked)-gloriously subtle/artistic self expression-G7-LP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” LP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: JIMMY CAMPBELL
TITLE: Half Baked
COUNTRY PRINTED: USA
CAT No: VERTIGO (Swirl), VEL-1000 [ORIGINAL 1971]
COVER: Gatefold (Grade at EXCELLENT+) deletion hole top left cnr which goes all the way through the cvr
LABELS: (Grade at MINT)
VINYL: (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
TRACKS:
A1 Green Eyed American Actress 2:45
A2 Loving You Is All I Do 3:10
A3 So Lonely Without You 2:52
A4 In My Room 4:12
A5 That's Right, That's Me 3:46
A6 I Will Not Mind 3:10
B1 Dulcie (It's December) 2:45
B2 Forever Grateful 2:30
B3 Half Baked 4:35
B4 Closing Down The Shop 2:36
B5 Don't Leave Me Now 5:45
COMMENT #1: http://www.thisispipe.com/2012/11/jimmy-campbell-article.html
Jimmy Campbell Article
‘Half Baked’ is a gloriously subtle record. The art of Campbell’s music is that it seems blissfully unaware of its own artistry. It is refreshing today that someone is still able to, at least give the impression, that they take the craft of the songwriter as their primary objective and any notion of stardom as a secondary preoccupation – or a by-product of this chosen profession. --      The Custodian, Sept. 1970

Jimmy Campbell is now part of a select group of contemporary musicians who strive, and I would suggest have largely succeeded, in creating something more akin with artistic self-expression from the largely banal musical category known as ‘pop’. -- File Magazine, Dec. 1970

The ‘lo-fi’ nature of tracks like ‘Don’t leave me now’ and the deceptive lyrical majesty of ‘Michelangelo’ have helped make Mr Jimmy Campbell Liverpool’s second most talked about act of 1969. --LME, Jan. 1970

Our record of the week is ‘Half Baked’, its great!! 5/5 --Top Tunes, Oct. 1970

Jimmy Campbell is now officially bigger and better than Cliff Richard. --Tommy Whitestock; from Good Mornin’ with Tommy Whitestock, Jan. 1971

The Case of Jimmy Campbell
i) Preface
To my knowledge, other than me writing these opening comments in this moment, Jimmy Campbell’s music never managed to encourage such fulsome certified praise as is demonstrated by me here. To borrow the phrase and much of the sentiments used by Simon Reynolds in his 2011 book Retromania; I undoubtedly fashioned my fictional ‘recommendatory’ quotes and sources for many of the same reasons expressed in his book. These reasons are mainly western Pop Music’s unquestionable obsession with it’s own past. I would suggest this historicentric view goes beyond the realms of ‘pop’. It is endemic in human behaviour that one inherently looks back when possible. Because this tendency of ‘looking back’ is evidently possible a lot, I have not broken with this convention but embraced it here. As a ‘bygone age’ obsessed being, I have in fact wondered what might have been articulated about Jimmy’s music if, in my view, it had received some of the acclaim it so richly deserved. Consequently, for a brief moment, inspired by and occupying the mould of a fictionalised work; I have followed the trend of ‘looking back’ and imagined if his music had attracted critical admiration what this praise might appear as. The exact reasons for me attempting this are for another far lengthier piece and could only ever be largely subjectively commented on I suspect. So that particular thought process will remain under investigation for now. However, above all else, my momentary re-shaping of history is undeniably an act of wishful thinking and I freely admit - in the Marxist sense - is a somewhat fetitistic act on my part. As a result, this fanciful exercise aims to show just how simple and meaningless this kind of certified commendation is. It subsequently acts as a paradigmatic example of the totally random and often nonsensical way in which established notions of success, within the arts are often achieved, measured, interpreted and then conveyed.

COMMENT #2: Wikipedia
Jimmy Campbell (4 January 1944 – 12 February 2007) was a musician and songwriter from Liverpool.[1] He was a member of Merseybeat groups The Kirkbys, The 23rd Turnoff, Rockin' Horse as well as releasing three solo albums.[1] Campbell started in music at school, forming the band The Panthers. They supported The Beatles in January 1962. The band performed at The Cavern on numerous occasions, and one show, broadcast on Radio Luxembourg, saw them introduced as The Kirkbys by Bob Wooler, the presenter of the show, 'Sunday Night at the Cavern.' Bob felt that changing the name of the group to that of their home town would help expand its fan base. The name stuck, and the group released a single, "It's A Crime", in 1966, at the tail end of the merseybeat era.[2]

Campbell moved on from the mersey sound to the newly evolving psychedelic scene, renaming the band to The 23rd Turnoff. The name was taken from the motorway sign indicating the nearby M6 exit.[2] Here he found his Liverpool roots placed him at a disadvantage, with the scene establishing itself in London.[3] Described by Bob Stanley of The Times as "the era's lost songwriter",[3] Campbell wrote a number of songs recorded by other artists. Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Rolf Harris all covered songs of Campbell's.[2] Although Campbell did not achieve acclaim in the 60s and 70s, his work later came to be well regarded, with Will Sergeant naming Campbell's single "Michael Angelo", recorded with 23rd Turnoff among his top ten psychedelic records.[4] The Guardian included the 2004 compilation album "The Dream of Michelangelo" in its list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die.[5]

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