Maximemories

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1981

Label: Celebrity Records

LINER NOTES:

It isn't widely known that Max Bygraves is a songwriter of some merit. He won the Ivor Novello Award for best composition of the year (1958) "You Need Hands". The following year he walked off with ITV's Award for the most meritorious song in a film ("Cry from the Streets"). Since then, he has written many of the songs he performs in his stage appearances and television shows. Earlier this year, he realised what a wealth of memories he'd gathered from some of the "greats" in show business and proceeded to write them down as songs. Celebrity Records heard them and requested him to come in to their studio - the result is here.
It is an unique album, it could only be made by somebody who has rubbed shoulders and performed alongside the people as Max has done. Somebody that has lived-eaten and breathed show business for a long time, and Max Bygraves is one of the few artists I can think of that could fill the bill - Chris Rennie, 1981.


SIde One and Two are titled 'Programme 1' and 'Programme 2', respectively.

An additional song, 'Peter Sellers', is listed between 'Bob Dixon' and 'Jack Benny', but doesn't actually appear on the cassette.