Born Free - Matt Monro
This is a two disc set of material licensed by the Monro estate to One Media Publishing. They in turn have sub licensed to the Delta Music group who issued this CD.
Note: These tracks are also available on several download sites under several different titles.
Disc: 1
1. As Long As I m Singing
2. How Do You Do?
3. What To Do
4. My Kind Of Girl
5. Yesterday
6. You re Nobody Till Someone Loves You
7. Portrait Of My Love
8. Walk Away
9. In The Arms Of Love
10. From Russia With Love
11. Georgy Girl
12. Born Free
13. Softly As I Leave You
These tracks are directly from the soundtrack of the DVD – An Evening with Matt Monro and are live in Australia. These have not been remastered.
14. One Voice
15. I Write The Songs (Medley)
16. Birth Of The Blues
17. New York New York
18. For Mama
Disc: 2
1. My Way
2. Todo Pasara*
3. On A Clear Day*
4. Beautiful Noise*
Remastered from a 2nd generation cassette (ie: a cassette copy of another cassette). The soundboard mix was ok, but the tape it was recorded on was not new and the erase head on the tape was faulty and did not remove everything previously on the tape. The bass of the previously recorded music was not erased and remains ‘underneath’ the new recording (It is unclear if this fault was on the original tape or this copy). Three of these tracks* were used on the Night Owl release “Yesterday – The Legendary Manila Concert” plus a version of ‘Born Free’ not featured here. Another track (For Mama) was of sufficient quality for release but duplicated the 1966 concert so wasn’t used and it was thought that the other tracks were not able to be rescued, until a few months ago when another tape from the same concert appeared with complete versions of several songs previously incomplete or badly damaged on the first tape. This is by no mean the complete concert, there are several songs that are still incomplete or too badly damaged but the remaining six tracks have been remastered to the standard of the already issued recordings (See here for more details).
5. I Have Dreamed
6. Can This Be Love?
7. Why Not Now?
8. Sky Lark
9. Cheek To Cheek
10. Such Is My Love
11. Laura
12. It s Alright With Me
13. Let Me Sing
14. California Here I Come
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. Star Eyes
17. You My Love
18. All Through The Day.
These tracks come from the same tapes as those I remastered for ‘The Rare Monro’ see the article here about the restoration of these recordings.
Released 23rd November 2009