Top Cat, White Tie & Tails - Guide Cats for the Blind Volume 3_音乐专辑
Top Cat, White Tie & Tails - Guide Cats for the Blind Volume 3
表演者: Various Artists
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2007-11-06
唱片数: 1
出版者: Osmosys Records
条形码: 5016700120226
专辑简介
Four years ago Clive Lever had a eureka moment. He suddenly conceived of a CD on which stars would recite verse by one particular poet for one particular charity. He had no idea whether it would work. After all, as a blind diversity officer for Kent County Council, living and working in Maidstone, whom did he know in the world of showbiz? And how many people had ever heard of the poet, the Mancunian wordsmith who defected to Wales, Les Barker, let alone the British Computer Association of the Blind?
Yet Clive's extraordinary persistence, courtesy and vision won over Sir Terry Wogan, Sir Jimmy Young, Charlotte Green and many more. Their collective efforts in 2003, have raised ￡29,000 for the BCAB on the initial album Guide Cats for the Blind, which is still adding to the funds. That paved the way for the likes of John Humphrys, Emma Chambers and Tom Paxton to read, or sing, more of Barker's remarkable comic verse on the sequel album, The Missing Persians File, in 2005.
To date that has made a further ￡7,000 for the BCAB, which turns e-mails into speech and does so much else to change people's lives. Tracks from both albums have been played regularly on Radio 2, BBC, local radio and the digital station Oneword, giving these gems of performance and verbal dexterity a very much wider audience.
Another two years have elapsed and here is the third in the series. Although the title Top Cat, White Tie and Tails clearly nods in the direction of musicals, this is in fact an all-spoken album, apart from some soft musical background sound effects.
曲目
The Secret - Edward de Souza
