Matt Monro - The Singles Collection

EMI will be releasing a 5 CD set of the complete Matt Munro singles on January 18th.

A prodigious amount of hard work and care has been put into it to ensure that the correct versions have been used every time. And you will be unlikely to find anything to criticise about the mastering.

You'll find the correct versions of From Russia With Love and Softly As I Leave You being used for the first time on CD.

HMV.COM are doing it at the unbelievable price of £8.99 including free p&p to the UK.

Remastered from the original UK & US master tapes by Richard Moore

Stereo except * Mono

Booklet with full recording details for all tracks included



Disc 1 – 1956 to 1962
1. Ev’rybody Falls In Love With Someone*
2. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind*
3. Gone With The Wind*
4. My Old Flame *
5. The Garden of Eden *
6. Love Me Do*
7. My House Is Your House (Mi Casa Su Casa) *
8. Which Way to Boston (The Bean Song) *
9. The Golden Age * - First CD release
10. I’ll Never Have a Sweetheart * - First CD release
11. A Story of Ireland * - First CD release
12. Another Time Another Place *- First CD release
13. Prisoner of Love * - First CD release
14. Have Guitar Will Travel * - First CD release
15. Love Walked In *
16. I’ll Know Her * - First CD Release
17. Portrait Of My Love
18. You’re The Top Of My Hit Parade - First CD and Stereo release
19. My Kind Of Girl
20. This Time – First Stereo CD release
21. Why Not Now
22. Can This Be Love – First Stereo CD release
23. Love Is The Same Anywhere
24. Gonna Build A Mountain
25. I’ll Dream Of You
26. Softly As I Leave You * - First CD release of Original Single Version
27. Is There Anything I Can Do
28. When Love Comes Along *
29. Tahiti * - First CD release

Disc 2 - 1962 to 1966
1. My Love And Devotion
2. By The Way – First Stereo release
3. One Day – First Stereo release of Single version – New Mix
4. I’ve Got Love
5. The Girl I Love
6. Leave Me Now - First CD release
7. From Russia With Love *- First CD release of Original Single Version
8. Here And Now
9. I Love The Little Things - Rare on CD
10. It’s Funny How You Know - First CD and Stereo release
11. Somewhere
12. I Love You Too*
13. Walk Away
14. Around The World
15. Charade
16. April Fool*
17. For Mama
18. Going Places – First UK CD release
19. Without You
20. Start Living – First Stereo release of Single version – New Mix
21. And Roses And Roses
22. Before You Go
23. Yesterday
24. Just Yesterday – Rare on CD
25. Beyond The Hill
26. How Do You Do - First CD and Stereo release of Original Single Version
27. Till Then My Love

Disc 3 – 1966 to 1969
1. Born Free
2. Other People – First Stereo release
3. Honey On The Vine – First Stereo CD release
4. My Best Girl – First Stereo CD release
5. Merci Cherie – First Stereo CD release
6. Wednesday’s Child
7. When You Become A Man
8. Where In The World – First Stereo release
9. The Lady Smiles – First Stereo release
10. What To Do
11. These Years
12. Only The Night Wind Knows – First Stereo release
13. Fourth Blue Monday – First Stereo release

14. Don’t Answer Me – First Stereo release
15. When Joanna Loved Me
16. Real Live Girl
17. Pretty Polly – First Stereo CD release
18. Release Me
19. One Day Soon *
20. Yours Alone *
21. The Music Played *
22. All That Remains
23. The Impossible Dream
24. Come Back To Me
25. Try To Remember
26. Love Song – First CD release of single edit
27. Alguien Canto
28. De Repente Un Dia – First UK, CD & Stereo release

Disc 4 – 1969 to 1971
1. All Of A Sudden
2. That’s The Way It Goes – First CD & Stereo release
3. The Southern Star *
4. When I Fall In Love
5. People
6. No Puedo Quitar Mis Ojos De Ti
7. On Days Like These
8. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
9. Lily M’Lady – Rare on CD
10. Just A Heartbreak Ago – First CD release
11. Picking Up The Pieces
12. A Mi Manera – First CD release
13. Ven Mi Amour *– First CD release
14. We’re Gonna Change The World
15. You’re Closer To Me – First Stereo release
16. If There Ever Is A Next Time
17. You Made Me So Very Happy
18. Isn’t It A Pity – First CD release
19. Mama Packed A Picnic Tea
20. This Way Mary
21. Wish Now Was Then
22. Todo Pasara
23. L’Etoile du Sud *

Disc 5 - 1971 to 1984
1. Sarah’s Coming Home
2. Only Friends
3. Curiouser And Curiouser
4. The Me I Never Knew
5. I Am
6. I Am In Life – First CD release
7. Amour Habla Me Dulcemente – First UK & CD release
8. And You Smiled
9. There Ya Go – First CD release
10. How Could I Ever Leave You
11. Darling Come Home Soon – First CD release
12. You And Me Against The World
13. So Little Time – First CD release
14. All The Wishing In The World – First CD release
15. You’re Sensational
16. The Little Things – First CD release
17. By Her Side – First CD release
18. If I Never Sing Another Song
19. The Precious Moments
20. May Each Day – First CD release
21. Diana
22. You Bring Out The Best In Me – Rare on CD
23. I Don’t Want To Run Your Life – First Stereo CD release

 

Many many thanks for the heads-up on this one. What a terrific price too. I've just preordered my copy.

Best Wishes
David

 

Thank you for the listing. I'm on this. Just ordered it from HMV.com since I couldn't order it yet from sources here in the States. HMV now lists the release date as Jan 25.

Now if we can just get Steve Hoffman to remaster the 1962 Parlophone Matt Monro Sings Hoagy Carmichael, I would be delighted. It is a combination of wonderful sound plus great arrangements and a voice in its prime.

 

Was this set compiled by the same team at EMI responsible for the Gerry & The Pacemakers' You'll Never Walk Alone: The EMI Years 1963-1966 4 CD box set in 2008?

 

I'm with you on that.

Best Wishes
David

 

Great, I've been wanting to hear his version of 'Isn't It A Pity' for years.

And by the way, it's Monro not Munro

 

That's terrific news too - I've just gone over to that site and registered. God knows why I had never thought of doing that before. Looks a pretty good site.

Best Wishes
David

 

A truly great singer that even Sinatra liked.

 

Monro was an excellent vocalist. I had many of his hit singles on Parlophone, way back in the early 1960s.

 

Having had a little time now to explore the site run by Michelle Monro, I would really recommend anyone with any interest in Matt Monro's work to go to the site and have a good look at what is on offer.

Of particular interest is the 'Ask Richard' section, where Richard Moore, whoi, as mentioned above, doe the MM releases, will answer questions put to him.

Span some Matt this afternoon - what a terrific voice and delivery the man had.

Best Wishes
David

 

While we're on the subject of MM, this has always been a favourite since it came out.

Anyone work out the meaning behind it - I read it as either a 60s revolutionary call to arms (which is a little unlikely I admit) or something to do with spreading religion.

Any thoughts?

 

MM used to introduce it as his 'only protest song' - I think 'call to arms' hits the mark rather than anything to do with religion.

The lyrics hint at a possible 'feminist' protest but suggest confusion on the part of at least one of the three named protagonists.

Great song, splendidly performed.

Best Wishes
David

 

Thanks!

 

Ox, thanks for posting the details.

Click on Richard Moore's site and navigate to the Complete Singles Collection for all the info you need!

 

A great voice. I've always liked his version of "All My Loving".

 

Just had an email from hmv.com that it's on its way to me - £8.99 including postage - so it should be with me by the end of the week.

 

+2

 

Very cool. Remember that his early EMI work was produced by George Martin, much of it concurrently with The Beatles' productions.

 

+3
My copy may take a few more days, since it is being shipped across the Atlantic.

 

After somebody gets this new set, please post if it has that dreaded computer copy guard on it, like his last 'collection" had. I'm not about to lose a good computer over a Matt Monro CD.

Chris C

 

I think EMI have given up on that.

 

That's great, if true? I play my CD's in a machine, usually my Marantz Universal player or my new Oppo upgraded BDP-83, but I will eventually add some of this music into my i-Tunes library in my computer, for playback in my computer and on my i-Pod's. Just seeing that side-triangle copy protected logo, scares the you-know-what, out of me.

Chris C