THE BIG 4 / Various Artists:
Side 1:
Listen: Keep On Running / The Spencer Davis Group
Keep
Listen: You Make It Move / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
You
Side 2:
Listen: A Groovy Kind Of Love / The Mindbenders
A
Listen: Midnight To Six Man / The Pretty Things
Midnight
And so with the UK EP, given a possible restrictive higher price to the customer, often labels would package recent chart hits together making a purchase seemingly more attractive, musically convenient or both. Unlike Decca, Fontana weren’t regulars in the various artists EP game. But on this occasion, April 1966, THE BIG 4 hit the market to seemingly little response, given it’s absence from the RECORD RETAILER EP Chart.
Given the EP contained a recent #1 ‘Keep On Running’ and three current Top 50′s: #2 ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’, #26 ‘You Make It Move’ and #46 ‘Midnight To Six Man’, one would have expected a different result. Most likely the label did too.
Ultimately it’s hard to guess how many might have sold. I really would love to know. This one surfaces occasionally on eBay and doesn’t sell for much. Despite that, it still has value for the money as the pressing is superb, mastered loudly with great high and low end. Plus all the songs make for a great listen together.