Check out the Bonus track Move It! featuring Hank, Bruce and Brian. Brian Bennett helped with the sleeve notes and adds a few words. 

One of the first generation of British rock’n’roll stars, Marty Wilde celebrates his 80th birthday (April 15th) with a UK tour and this very personal quartet of discs from across a musical career which spans over six decades.

• During the late 1950s, Marty was one of the biggest UK pop stars, with a string of Top 10 hits for Philips Records, on which he was often backed by The Wildcats: ‘Endless Sleep’ (No. 4), ‘Donna’ (No. 3), ‘A Teenager In Love’ (No. 2), ‘Sea Of Love’ (No. 3) and ‘Bad Boy’ (No. 7).

• As the Sixties dawned, Marty continued to enjoy chart success while evolving his sound away from American rock’n’roll: ‘Johnny Rocco’ (No. 30), ‘The Fight’ (No. 47), ‘Little Girl’ (No. 16), ‘Rubber Ball’ (No. 9), ‘Hide And Seek’ (No. 47), ‘Tomorrow’s Clown’ (No. 33), ‘Jezebel’ (No. 19) and ‘Ever Since You Said Goodbye’. In the mid-60s, he also recorded as folk-pop trio The Wilde Three with wife Joyce (ex-Vernons Girls) and future Moody Blue star Justin Hayward.

• During the late 1960s, Marty became a hit songwriter for other artists, penning originals for The Casuals (‘Jesamine’), Status Quo (‘Ice In The Sun’) and Lulu (‘I’m A Tiger’). While his own career continued apace throughout the 1970s, Marty was also heavily involved with the launch of daughter Kim’s career in the early 1980s. In recent years, Marty has fronted one of Britain’s most respected rock’n’roll bands.

• ‘MARTY’ is a unique celebration of Marty’s long and illustrious career. While Discs One and Two are devoted to all of his early A’s and B’s (including the aforementioned hits), Disc Three unveils a hitherto unissued Radio Luxembourg performance from 1959 while Disc Four boasts a whole CD’s worth of previously unheard demo recordings handpicked from Marty’s own archive.

• Beautifully presented with remastered sound, detailed sleeve-notes and a booklet awash with images from across the years, MARTY perfectly commemorates the musical legacy of one of Britain’s most enduring talents who was awarded an MBE for his achievements.

• FANTASTIC PACKAGE WITH 132 TRACKS
• ALL THE TOP 40 HITS
• 55 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS
• AND MANY TRACKS NEW TO CD

TRACKLIST 

DISC ONE 
MARTY WILDE AND HIS WILDCATS – 
SINGLES A’S AND B’S

1. HONEYCOMB
2. WILD CAT
3. LOVE BUG CRAWL
4. AFRAID OF LOVE
5. OH OH, I’M FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
6. SING, BOY, SING
7. ENDLESS SLEEP
8. HER HAIR WAS YELLOW
9. MY LUCKY LOVE
10. MISERY’S CHILD
MARTY WILDE – SINGLES A’S AND B’S
11. THE FIRE OF LOVE
12. NO-ONE KNOWS
13. DONNA
14. LOVE-A LOVE-A LOVE-A
15. A TEENAGER IN LOVE
16. DANNY
17. SEA OF LOVE
18. TEENAGE TEARS
19. BAD BOY
20. IT’S BEEN NICE
21. JOHNNY ROCCO
22. MY HEART AND I
23. THE FIGHT (STEREO)
24. JOHNNY AT THE CROSSROADS (STEREO)
25. I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU (STEREO)
26. ANGRY
27. LITTLE GIRL
28. YOUR SEVENTEENTH SPRING (STEREO)
29. MY BABY IS GONE (STOP THIS WORLD)
30. AMAPOLA (STEREO)
31. AUTUMN LEAVES (STEREO)
32. RUBBER BALL
33. LIKE MAKIN’ LOVE
34. WHEN DOES IT GET TO BE LOVE
35. YOUR LOVING TOUCH
36. JETSTREAM

DISC TWO 
MARTY WILDE –
SINGLES A’S AND B’S

1. HIDE AND SEEK
2. CRAZY DREAMS
3. TOMORROW’S CLOWN
4. THE HELLIONS
5. COME RUNNING
6. EV’RYONE
7. JEZEBEL
8. DON’T RUN AWAY
9. EVER SINCE YOU SAID GOODBYE
10. SEND ME THE PILLOW YOU DREAM ON
11. HONESTLY SINCERE
12. ONE LAST KISS
13. A LOT OF LIVIN’ TO DO
14. LONELY AVENUE
15. BRAND NEW LOVE
16. SAVE YOUR LOVE FOR ME
17. BLESS MY BROKEN HEART
18. WHEN DAY IS DONE
19. I CAN’T HELP THE WAY THAT I FEEL
20. KISS ME (as Marty Wilde & The Wildcats)
21. MY, WHAT A WOMAN (as Marty Wilde & The Wildcats)
22. NOBODY BUT YOU (DEMO)
23. MONEY (LIVE TV PERFORMANCE)
THE WILDE THREE – SINGLES A’S AND B’S
24. SINCE YOU’VE GONE (as The Wilde Three)
25. JUST AS LONG (as The Wilde Three)
26. I CRIED (as The Wilde Three)
27. WELL WHO’S THAT (as The Wilde Three)
BONUS TRACKS
28. BORN TO ROCK AND ROLL (LIVE)
29. MOVE IT (with Brian Bennett, Hank Marvin & Bruce Welch) (LIVE)
30. MILK COW BLUES (with Albert Lee & His Band) (LIVE)
31. THE PRICE OF LOVE (with Kim & Roxanne Wilde) (LIVE)
32. I AM AN ASTRONAUT
33. LULLABY (RE-RECORDING)

DISC THREE 
RADIO LUXEMBOURG (1959)

1. MY BABE
2. BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY
3. A TEENAGER IN LOVE
4. GO GO GO (MOVE ON DOWN THE LINE)
5. MY HAPPINESS
6. I FORGOT TO REMEMBER
7. I’M IN LOVE AGAIN
8. FEVER
9. MY BABY LEFT ME
10. TROUBLE
11. INSTRUMENTAL
12. DANNY
13. HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU
14. BLUE SUEDE SHOES
15. HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
16. I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT
17. I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING
18. RIP IT UP
19. DONNA
20. OH BOY
21. MEAN WOMAN BLUES
The above tracks (in green) were aired from 22. July 1959 onwards and thus Marty is backed by the Wildcats with the Big Jim Sullivan / Tony Belcher / Brian Locking / Brian Bennett line-up.
BONUS TRACKS
22. CATERPILLAR (as Cold Fly)
23. YESTERDAY STARTED FOR JUDY (as Cold Fly)
24. ALL NIGHT GIRL
25. SHE’S A MOVER
26. I LOVE YOU
27. IN DREAMS
28. HARD TO FIND, EASY TO LOSE
29. SEA OF HEARTBREAK
30. DON’T WANNA BE THE ONE
31. ONE SUCH AS I (DEMO)

Tracks 1-21, 31 previously unissued

DISC FOUR 
PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED DEMO RECORDINGS

1. THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS
2. FEEL IN THE MOOD
3. SLAP BANG
4. A LAY-ABOUT’S LAMENT
5. WASN’T IT A HANDSOME PUNCH-UP
6. POLARIS
7. YOUR KIND OF LOVE
8. IS IT TRUE
9. MY, WHAT A WOMAN
10. SINCE YOU’VE GONE (as The Wilde Three)
11. JUST AS LONG (as The Wilde Three)
12. I JUST WANNA DANCE (as The Wilde Three)
13. HARMONICA
14. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
15. DADDY WHAT’LL HAPPEN TO ME
16. ALL I CAN SAY IS GOODBYE
17. JESAMINE
18. ELIZABETH DREAMS
19. THROUGH MY TELESCOPE
20. RIFLES AND FIREWATER
21. IT’S SO UNREAL
22. IT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
23. SANTA MARIE
24. HALFWAY TO WHERE
25. SUNNY ST LOUIS
26. A PLACE IN MY HEART
27. SHEY SHEY
28. LEAPING ABOUT
29. JUNGLE JIM
30. TRY
31. I’M A MOVER
32. IT’S A HANG UP WORLD (by Marty & Joyce Wilde)