Mountain Fire & Beyond The Mountains

Geoff Love was a British easy listening and disco orchestra leader. He played with Jan Ralfini's band and then embarked on a solo career before military service during World War II in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Under his own name, he recorded many albums for EMI's Music For Pleasure label, often featuring film or television themes or other instrumental and disco music. Love worked as a director and arranger on many hit singles by 1950s and 1960s British recording artists including Peter and Gordon and Frankie Vaughan, plus American artists such as Johnny Mathis and Connie Francis. Love also was a prolific composer, writing the theme music for the ITV sitcom Bless This House. Love also recorded under the name Manuel & The Music of The Mountains, in which guise he released several works on EMI's Studio 2 Stereo record label including an interpretation of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez that reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in 1976. This Dutton recording collects two of Love's 'Manuel' albums on one disc.