(Jazz-Pop) The Peddlers - How Cool Is Cool...: The Complete CBS Recordings (2CD) - 2002, MP3, 320 kbps

CD1:
01. Time After Time (2:21)
02. Girl Talk (3:44)
03. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (2:37)
04. Stormy Weather (2:40)
05. Smile (3:29)
06. Empty Club Blues (3:27)
07. You're the Reason I'm Living (2:31)
08. It Ain't No Big Thing (3:45)
09. Sneakin' Up on You (3:05)
10. Pentathalon (3:33)
11. What Now My Love (2:04)
12. Lover (6:09)
13. Say No More (2:30)
14. Irresistable You (2:39)
15. Murray's Mood (2:46)
16. Nine Miles High (1:45)
17. Comin' Home Baby (2:18)
18. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (3:41)
19. Basin Street Blues (3:15)
20. Nobody Likes Me (2:43)
21. I'm a Boy in Love (3:24)
CD2:
01. People (4:04)
02. In the Still of the Night (2:56)
03. Ebb Tide (2:52)
04. Just a Pretty Song (2:36)
05. Lost Continent (2:41)
06. Prime of My Life (4:37)
07. Some of This Some of That (3:23)
08. Handle with Care (2:47)
09. Horses Collar (2:07)
10. Where Have All the Flowers Gone (4:14)
11. Little Red Rooster (3:19)
12. Southern Women (2:25)
13. By the Time I Get to Phoenix (3:10)
14. Girlie P.S. I Love You (6:35)
15. Day In Day Out (2:24)
16. City Living (2:29)
17. Lockshen Pudding (10:45)
18. Birth (4:07)
19. That's Life (3:08)
20. Steel Mill (3:57)
21. Wasting My Time (2:51)

Two CD 42 track set featuring their complete CBS recordings. Once derided as three blokes in matching shirts playing easy listening interpretations of pop hits, they now have a certain retro cool for what keyboardist/ vocalist Roy Phillips describes as 'a sort of pop-art-jazz' and can be seen as an influence on acts as diverse as Air & Lemon Jelly. This double CD compilation gathers the group's three late-60s albums they cut for CBS (Freewheelers, Three In A Cell and Birthday) as well as singles and rare recordings. Unbelievably tight, The Peddlers could swing with the best of them and their rich organ and funky rhythms recall both Ramsay Lewis & Booker T & The MG's. Although The Peddlers did not split up until 1976, the group (and their fans) consider these recordings the finest recordings Peddlers available and listening to them is a pleasure. Imaginative interpretations of 'Little Red Rooster' and 'Stormy Weather' alongside brooding originals make this a definitive set of a seriously underrated '60s act who truly embody the pop-art-jazz thing like no other.