"Best known for unusual chart songs like You're A Lady and a string of immaculate Fred Astaire covers, Peter Skellern never quite fitted in, even during a 70s stuffed with oddball singers performing nostalgia-fuelled songs. Perhaps that's why his back catalogue has been so criminally neglected, a situation this new collection (...) has begun to rectify. Here are all of Peter Skellern's recordings for Decca; albums, singles and B-sides (and one unreleased track, Revolution). Covering the period before Skellern's career sidestepped into covers collections ... And it's glorious. Right from the start, the listener is aware that an original talent is at work. You're A Lady - the opening track on Skellern's 1972 debut of the same name - has it all: Cole Porter class, brass band Northernism, and a quirky wit all of its own. The album is full of inventiveness and Skellern's many voices, from the seaside postcard melancholy of A Sad Affair to the ragtime fun of Now I've Seen It All"