MR XXX Presents .. Ayshea Brough, Beat Girls and another K-Tel ..

Hi Les,

I realise you've taken a step back from the blog, and don't expect you to put these up, but last year Samapplepie requested Ayshea Brough.

At the time I had a few random tracks which I posted for him all from vinyl as at that point only two tracks had been officially released on CD.

Since then her debut album has been released as a digital download, plus a few other single tracks from Polydor. I've also recently purchased 

her hard to find second album in mint condition.

Known to many, Ayshea Brough was the much loved TV presenter of Granada Television's 'Lift Off with Ayshea',

which ran for 144 editions, spanning 8 series and broadcast to millions of kids across the UK from 1969-1974.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvWcaRw_MM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Off_with_Ayshea

Ayshea was also an accomplished singer and often performed on her weekly pop show. She recorded two albums and

numerous singles across a two decade career.

• Ayshea Brough - Ayshea (2021 Remaster) (1970)

Her first album has been absolutely impossible to find for the past 50 years, since very few copies were initially pressed in 1970.

I've never once seen a copy in a shop or for sale online.

Luckily, and to my great surprise, Universal just issued a digital download of the album earlier this month (April 2021) for sale on

Amazon and other sites.

https://www.discogs.com/Ayshea-Ayshea/release/6576756

• Ayshea Brough - Lift Off with Ayshea (2021 Remaster) (1974)

Her second album from 1974 has never been released on CD and has become quite rare and hard to find.

This is my rip from my own personal mint condition vinyl LP. Digitally edited and cleaned up, plus artwork scans.

https://www.discogs.com/Ayshea-Lift-Off-With-Ayshea/release/4183743

• Ayshea Brough - Lift Off... The Very Best of Ayshea (2021)

My own 25 track, 79:49 minute CD length compilation featuring her best singles, B-sides and album tracks.

First ever 'best of' compiled of her 60s and 70s recordings for Fontana, Polydor, MAM, Harvest, and DJM.

Also included are a number of the excellent Pye and Decca Beat Girls compilation series CDs from Ace Records, of which Ayshea's debut 1965 Fontana single 'Eeny Meeny' is featured on Live It Up! Bayswater Beat Girls 1964-1967 (2019):

Don't Blow Your Cool! More 60s Girls from UK Decca (2020)

Live It Up! Bayswater Beat Girls 1964-1967 (2019)

Love Hit Me! Decca Beat Girls 1962-1970 (2016)

Marylebone Beat Girls 1964-1967 (2017)

Scratch My Back! Pye Beat Girls 1963-1968 (2016)

She Came from Liverpool! Merseyside Girl-Pop 1962-1968 (2019)

She Wants You! Pye Records' Feminine Side 1964-1970 (2021)

The Pye Girls Coloured My World - 32 Brit Girl Tunes of the Swinging Sixties (2020)

and another 2CD K-Tel comp:

• 44 Superstars - 44 Original Hits - 44 Original Stars (K-Tel NE 939 UK) (2021 Remaster) (2CD) (1976)

44 UK smash hits, including 9 number 1's! Featuring quite a few tracks not featured on previous (1972-1976) K-Tel compilations.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-44-Superstars/release/327

Download all

http://www.filefactory.com/folder/52d0d04ff993708b