Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent - "Don't Stop Now"

"The British Bacharach, they called him. It is an epithet he surely deserves. Like his great American contemporary, Tony Hatch was also a recording artist in his own right, as well as a highly skilled arranger, conductor, musician and record producer. Bacharach might have had Dionne Warwick but Tony Hatch had Petula Clark. Together they were a perfect team, ruling the world of international pop music for many years with a series of million-selling singles and albums."
-- Mick Patrick, Spectropop

Tony is also responsible for some albums of easy-listening music, such as these:


Tony Hatch is certainly best known, on this side of the Atlantic, anyway, as having written and produced many hits for Petula Clark, such as "Downtown," "I Know a Place," "Round Every Corner," "My Love," and "Sign of the Times." He also collaborated with lyricist Jackie Trent, with whom he wrote "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "Who Am I?" "Colour My World," and "Don't Sleep in the Subway," all also hits for Petula. In 1967, Hatch and Trent married, and also released this album, "The Two of Us."

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One blogger has described the album thus:

Whilst looking like a couple of newly-weds waiting for an appointment outside the bank manager's office, Tony & Jackie show why they are the inscrutable groove gurus.

Well, if they approached me for a loan to build a house of smooth, they could certainly use this album as collateral.

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