| Description | Geoffrey Reeves interviews Alan Freeman:
Track 1: Alan Freeman talks about trends in pop music, such as skiffle and traditional jazz, working with Kenny Ball and Lonnie Donegan, he talks about pop in 1948 and compares it with the scene today, 3.25 mins
Track 2: He talks about Ken Dodd's song 'Tears' and a German record 'Walk in the Black Forest', he says that the uncertainty of the business is a challenge, they talk about rhythm hitting British pop and Sandy Shaw, 2.57 mins
Track 3: He talks about starting in the record industry as an office boy, working in publishing and starting making records, he talks about the importance of getting on with people and making contacts, record making as teamwork, he talks about 'following his hunches' about records and artists, 3.44 mins
Track 4: Geoffrey Reeves asks whether he feels he is in the mainstream; he talks about the importance of contacts who will tell him when his records are not right and 'seeing the potential in records', 2.26 mins
Track 5: He talks about getting disc jockeys to play records, making the beginning of a pop record interesting, the length of records, 2.21 mins
Track 6: He talks about records and artists 'falling by the wayside', he talks about working with sound engineers and arrangers, the importance of teamwork, 1.40 mins
Total: 16.35 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0777780 |