2015 two CD set. First time on CD for the debut LP of The Temperance Seven a Top 20 LP hit in 1961 in an edition that is also a wider celebration of the music of the Edwardian era and inter-war years. The set includes music from Ken Russell s precocious loving dramatized documentaries and short films for Huw Wheldon s long running cultural television show Monitor and for Humphrey Burton s Omnibus that followed later in the 60s along and song selections from John Betjeman s still heart-warming 1973 documentary Metro-land in which Betjeman with very characteristic eloquence and good humor describes the rise of Suburbia. Formed in the mid-fifties The Temperance Seven were at first part of the quot;trad jazzquot; scene that had flourished in post-war Britain. As the movement matured into the early 1960s the group took a highly entertaining and for a time hugely successful left hand turn to have fun with the music of the 20s and 30 s applying light-hearted art school attitudes involving period costumes and whimsical names; sending up the whole era with impeccable style and tremendous irony.