Can you identify instrumental album please ?

[The Midnight Special]

Hi folks,
When I was a kid, I once owned an album which after a while disappeared. Maybe it was too scratched (probable) or maybe it just got lost some other way. I remember it fondly and, since the advent of the internet, I've often tried to look it up online but never seen any reference to it. I wonder if any of you lads and lasses remember the name of it.

It was an album of guitar instrumentals, all covers of (I think) contemporary mid-1970s vocal hits, such as 'Lost in France' or 'Mississippi' or The Stylistics' arrangement of 'I can't help falling in love'. I think it was probably by uncredited session musicians, or maybe session musicians under a generic band name. I think it was a triple (maybe a quadruple or even double) album with a gatefold sleeve. I believe the cover was yellow or gold in colour (I could be wrong though) and definitely had dozens of little drawings of an electric guitar all over it. It was on a budget label like Hallmark or Ronco or Pickwick.

Thanks !

[MartcasterJunior]

Is it this? http://www.discogs.com/Bruce-Baxter-Orc ... se/3230531

[The Midnight Special]

Yes it is that one. Thanks very much indeed. That was almost instantaneous.

Sorry Bruce Baxter for writing you out of history. (if you are real.)

[George Geddes]

Bruce Baxter is indeed real. If my memory serves me right, he was a member of the Terry Young Six which included John Rostill.

However, he's probably best known for replacing Bo Winberg in the Spotnicks for a number of concerts in 1964.

George

[dobroman]

Hi Brian,

There are a number of these for sale on Ebay!!

Regards

Brian

[The Midnight Special]

Thanks Brian, I would snap one up if I still had a record player. Unfortunately space issues in my flat meant getting rid of it. I did see one track from it on youtube earlier today and it wasn't quite as good as I remember it, although it was only one track (Can't help falling in love). I'm a CD man only these days, though I'm gradually getting into MP3s.

[George Geddes]

I have a feeling that some of the tracks were released on CD. I will see if I can ferret it out of my collection...

George

[StuartD]

He's widely quoted in Rob Bradford's excellent book on John Rostill.

Regards

Stu

[Keith Bateman]

The cd of 24 tracks was released on Hallmark in 1997 and called The Guitar Album. Here is an ebay link to it http://www.ebay.co.uk/ctg/Bruce-Baxter-Orchestra-Guitar-Album-CD-1997-/4058916

Keith

[The Midnight Special]

Thanks Keith I will keep that cd in my "notify me when listed" settings. I never knew you could look at items on ebay that aren't even available yet. I am learning a lot on this site.