Schroeder, John - The Dolly Catcher
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15-RADIOACTIVE107
Last chance to pick this up, as Radioactive have gone bust. Last copies!
"The Dolly Catcher is a highly original little effort from the British answer to Burt Bacharach, this '60s "easy" legend is probably best known for his production work, producing the Eurovision runner-up by Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson's Sing Little Birdie.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 wrote for and produced artists such as Status Quo, Geno Washington and renewed his association with Helen Shapiro. In The Dolly Catcher, (the curious title probably has something to do with pulling "dolly birds", or girls) which is widely recognised as an "easy" classic, Schroeder managed to merge fuzz guitar and organ with sweeping strings and brass producing an album that is al ways interesting, and at times, genuinely ground breaking, particularly in the form of his legendary take on Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds which he covered in such an original way."