IN A NUT SHELL

Talmy at the controls.

Various

Shel’s Girls (ACE, 2019)

One of four Ace compilations covering Talmy’s lesser-known ’60s work, Shel’s Girls salutes the British girl-group scene. Marvel at the wonderful Grave Digger, credited here to ‘Unknown Beat Girls’. See also Making Time, Planet Mod and Planet Beat.

The Creation

We Are Paintermen (HIT-TON, 1967)

For Talmy, art-Mod magi The Creation are the ’60s band that got away. “I’d made a deal for them with [Atlantic Records’] Ahmet Ertegun and he would have made them superstars,” he says. “But they broke up.”

The Kinks

Something Else ByÉ (PYE, 1967)

Together with The Who’s My Generation, The Kinks’ fifth album showcased Talmy’s mastery at capturing a band on the longform format. Timeless album closer Waterloo Sunset arguably marks the producer’s studio zenith.