Various: The Summit 1979 compilation LP with Dire Straits, Thin Lizzy, Yes, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin. Bad Company. Free for 12″ vinyl orders of £60+

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Various: The Summit 1979 compilation LP with: Dire Straits, Thin Lizzy, Yes, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin.

SIDE 1:
1. Shine A Little Love – Electric Light Orchestra 4:27 J. Lynne (Jet Music)
2. Jet – Wings 4:06 Paul and Linda McCartney (McCartney Music Ltd / ATV Music)
3. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty 6:10 G. Rafferty (Belfern / lsland Music)
4. Sultans Of Swing – Dire Straits 5:36 Knopfler (Rondor / Straight Jacket Songs)
5. Let It Grow – Eric Clapton 4:15 E. Clapton (Throat Music)
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word – Elton John 3:48 E. John / B. Taupin (Big Pig Music)
7. Devil Woman – Cliff Richard 3:35 Britten / Authors (Chappell / Sparkle Music)

SIDE 2:
1. Give A Little Bit – Supertramp 4:11 R. Davies / R. Hodgeson (Almo / Dellcate Music)
2. Boys Are back In Town – Thin Lizzy 4:22 Lynott (Pippin The Friendly Ranger Music Co.)
3. Dont Kill The Whale – Yes 3:58 J. Anderson / C. Squire (Topographic / Warner Bros. Music)
4. Welcome To The Machine – Pink Floyd 7:31 Roger Walters (Pink Floyd Music Publishers)
5. Rock & Roll Fantasy – Bad Company 3:19 Paul Rodgers (Badco Music)
6. Candy Store Rock – Led Zeppelin 4:07 Robert Plant / Jimmy Page (Flames Of Albion Music Inc.)

Text on sleeve, back side:

ALL PROFITS FROM THIS ALBUM ARE CONTRIBUTED BY THE ARTISTS & K-TEL TO THE YEAR OF THE CHILD.
A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MEMBERS OF LED ZEPPELIN FOR THEIR HELP IN COMPILING THIS ALBUM.
COMPILED BY: NIGEL MASON, RICHARD STANLEY, PHIL CARSON, IN ASSOCIATION WITH JET, EMI, LIBERTY-UNITED, PHONOGRAM,
RSO, ROCKET, A&M, ATLANTIC, SWAN SONG.
®1979 K-TEL INTL. ©1979 K-TEL INTL.
DISTRIBUTED BY K-TEL INTERNATIONAL (UK) LTD., 620 WESTERN AVENUE, LONDON W3.
K-TEL INTERNATIONAL (IRL)., 31 BALLSBRIDGE TERRACE, DUBLIN 4
CUT BY DENIS BLACKHAM AT TAPE ONE STUDIOs.
SLEEVE DESIGN BY SPIRAL GRAPHICS LTD.

NOTE:

K-Tel sampler that includes the WINGS song Jet (side 1, track 2).

Proceeds from the album were contributed to “The Year of the Child” to help sick and handicapped children (it is indicated on front cover).

The record is in standard inner sleeve [See Pic. 1]. In left lower corner is written PATENT Nos. 1,125,555. In right lower corner MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN.


Led Zeppelin once released a song on K-Tel: the result was one of the great all-star photosDire Straits, Thin Lizzy, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company and Electric Light Orchestra at the launch of The Summit

It’s quite the photograph. Robert Plant. Eric Clapton. Phil Lynott. Mark Knopfler. Members of Bad Company and Electric Light Orchestra. And they’ve all gathered together to celebrate the release of The Summit, a compilation released on the most famously budget of all budget labels, K-Tel.

What’s more, they’re all on the album, including Led Zeppelin, a band whose commitment to not giving tracks to compilation albums released by record labels other than their own was only matched by their refusal to issue UK singles.

So what’s the story behind the album?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s charity that’s brought the stars out to play. More specifically, it’s UNESCO’s International Year Of The Child, an initiative set up by UN secretary General Kurt Waldheim in early 1979 to highlight issues faced by poor children around the world: lack of education, malnutrition, homelessness.

Waldheim also offered high-profile support to the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, a series of shows held late the same year starring QueenThe Clash, The Pretenders, The WhoElvis Costello and Wings, and his involvement with rock royalty proved invaluable in luring the big names to the compilation, with Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label doing the organising while K-Tel looked after the manufacturing.

The Summit was released the following January, and included tracks from the musicians in the photo, as well as Pink FloydElton JohnSupertramp, Yes, Gerry Rafferty and even Cliff Richard (who donated his rockiest track, the great Devil Woman). Six of the songs had been UK Top 10 singles.

The release of The Summit was celebrated with a launch party in London on January 16, which is where the extraordinary all-star photo was taken.

Back row: Boz Burrel (Bad Company), Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy), Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, Mik Kaminski (ELO), Pick Withers and John Illsley (Dire Straits), Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy), Mark and David Knopfler (Dire Straits).

Front row: Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Mick Ralphs (Bad Company), Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy).


B2: The Boys Are Back In Town

Everything that’s great about Thin Lizzy is in this song: the hard rocking swagger, the twin-guitar harmonies, Lynott’s innate sense of melody, and a wonderfully evocative lyric about boys and girls, drinking and fighting. Incredibly, when the band recorded The Boys Are Back In Town in 1976, they didn’t think it was anything special. But after US radio jumped on it, the song was a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic. And over time it became something even bigger: one of the all-time classic rock anthems, and the song for which Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy will always be remembered.



Rafferty (NAZARETH singer R.I.P)

Note: Gerry RAFFERTY: Baker Street 7″ Free for vinyl orders of £24+

Gerry RAFFERTY: Baker Street 7″ Free for vinyl orders of £24+. NAZARETH singer. Check audio. The sexiest song w. lovely sax!


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