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Mike Batt's The Hunting Of The Snark (Various Artists) Album 5"
CD Label - Epic/Adventure
Catalog number: CD SNARK 1 (CDEPC 57023)
Producer: Mike Batt
Jacket: Standard international design in jewel box
Inserts: 12 page CD booklet
Recording: CTS,
Location: London & FPSHOT (Friar Park Studio, Henley-on-Thames), U.K.
Date: 26 Jan 85t
Release date: 24 Nov 86
Country: U.K.
Composer: M. Batt
(Spoken Verse by Lewis Carroll)
Mike Batt: Lead Vocals, Piano, Arrangement & Conductor;
Tom Nicholl: Drums;
Frank McDonald: Bass;
Chris Spedding: Guitar;
Alan Parker: Guitar;
Ray Cooper: Percussion;
Sir John Gielgud: Narration;
John Hurt: Narration;
The London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestrations;
George Harrison: Guitar
Mike Batt was born on February 6, 1949 in Southampton, England. He began his career in music at the age of eighteen as a producer for Liberty / United Artists Records but left two years later to form his own publishing company. In 1969, towards the end of his stay with Liberty, he released a cover of The Beatles' song Your Mother Should Know. Today he works in the classi¬cal and popular music fields as a producer, arranger, composer and conductor. He has conducted The London Symphony Orchestra*, The London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He has served in the positions of director¬ship of The Performing Rights Society Ltd. and vice president of the British Academy Of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
Mike Batt, photo courtesy of Mike Batt
Batt began working in the popular music field producing the groups Hapshash And The Coloured Coat and Groundhogs. He first saw success in 1974 with the TV show The Wombles and the group of the same name with whom he had eight hit singles and four gold albums. He has since worked with or written for a wide range of artists, including Steeleye Span (All Around My Hat), Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom Of The Opera), Cliff Richard {Please Don't Fall In Love and the album Cover Shot), Art Garfunkel (Bright Eyes) (see Paul Simon) and David Essex (A Winter's Tale), among others. He is the first composer to ever win the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Film Music" two years in a row, first for Watership Down and then Caravans. Besides his work with other artists, he has managed a successful solo career. He had a hit with the song Summertime City in 1975. His albums Schizophonia and Tarot Suite, recorded with The London Symphony Orchestra, produced
the European hit songs Railway Hotel, Lady Of The Dawn, The Winds Of Change and The Ride To Agadir. Batt made some recordings around 1971 at The Beatles'Apple Studios in London but none of The Beatles participated. Batt made a three-year sail around the world that included a visit to the Caribbean island of Montserrat in February 1981. While there he met Paul McCartney, who was an admirer of his work, and the two began to socialize. McCartney invited Batt to his recording sessions at George Martin's* AIR Studios on the island.
Batt composed and scored the musical, The Hunting of The Snark that was based on Lewis Carroll's 1874 poem "Snark." The recordings contained musical contributions from a number of artists, including Julian Lennon*. Batt told his friend and percussionist, Ray Cooper, that he wanted to have George Harrison overdub some guitar on his song Children Of The Sky. Cooper offered to take the tapes to Harrison, who in turn invited Batt to his Friar Park (FPSHOT) home studios for the overdub session. Batt recalled "As he was doing the overdub I'd be sort of pointing to the next fret as if to say move your finger up to there. I thought to myself, I don't even play guitar and here I am pointing to George Harrison's frets during a live overdub! That was crazy, and yet he was very tol¬erant of my presence; we had a good time doing it. George suggested I come over to do some jam¬ming and writing together, which we later did, but nothing ever came of it. Later I said, 'When are we going to get together and write this masterpiece?' He said, 'Well actually something crap would do to start with.' It's a great quote; he has such a dry sense of humor. It was a lovely experience working with him." Batt said Harrison did not sing backing vocals on Children Of The Sky as had been reported.
Book: Beatles Undercover
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