Shel Talmy: "British records lacked feeling"

THE INTERNATIONAL boom in British pop music produced few stories as strange as that of the independent record producer Shel Talmy. He's a 26-year-old American who came to England 2½ years ago — before the boom began. He wanted to see the world and, having worked as a recording engineer in Los Angeles (on session with such artistes as the Checkmates, Marquettes, Little Richard and Billy Eckstine), he figured he stood a fair chance of getting a job in London.