Motorway City: Golden Age of Car Travel 1966-82: Motorway City: The Golden Age Of Car Travel 1966-82 / Various - VINYL LP

Motorway City: Golden Age of Car Travel 1966-82: Motorway City: The Golden Age Of Car Travel 1966-82 / Various - VINYL LP

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Title:

Motorway City: The Golden Age Of Car Travel 1966-82 / Various

Artist:

Motorway City: Golden Age of Car Travel 1966-82

Label:

Ace Records Uk

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

029667030717

Genre:

Vocal

Release Date:

2026-08-07

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT, 180 GRAM VINYL

"Motorway City" is a superb, driving-based collection of library music. The tracks on this album were all written between the mid-60s and the early 80s to hymn car travel, back when the petrol-operated motor car was seen as the transport mode of the future, when motorways were new and thrilling. It was car travel's golden age. The tracks are highly collectable rarities from the libraries of de Wolfe, Chappell and Hudson. It has been compiled by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne who has also written the informative sleevenotes. It stretches from mod movers to proto-ambient, something for every car journey. Library music soundtracked the many short films that extolled the virtues of TopTray restaurant at Watford Gap or the comfortable leather seats in an Alpine Sunbeam. These tunes illuminated the joys of motor travel, and were given titles such as 'Fast Lane', 'Super City' and 'Clearway'. Many of these tracks seem time specific. The sun peeks over the horizon for Basil Kirchin's 'Through New Territory'; Reg Tilsley's 'Hold The Road' is so bright at midday that you'll need to wear shades to stop the sun getting in your eyes; John Fiddy's 'City Skyline' has to be seen (and heard) at dusk. Ex-Soft Machine Karl Jenkins provides the tense 'Wheeling', and Peter Reno's thunderous 'Convoy' shifts the mood up a gear. Maybe you should risk nudging the speed up, 80-plus, to the soundtrack of Alan Hawkshaw's 'Fuel Injection' or Simon Park's mellow-but-dynamic 'Big Road'.Beautifully packaged in a gatefold sleeve, "Motorway City" could be the soundtrack to your summer holiday.

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