This may seem a little strange for someone who's not too fond of the monarchy, but Tracey is going to be covering the Royal Wedding of William and Kate for Canada's CTV network.  She ought to have some pretty interesting insights on the monarchy, the fashion, the spectacle, the what-have-you.  And for those of us not in Canada, the coverage is going to be online.

 Although Tracey Ullman hasn't recorded any music intended for an album or single in some 25 years, she does have a "new" 2-CD set coming out in Britain in September.  Move Over Darling: The Complete Stiff Recordings (on Salvo Records) brings together into one package the tracks she recorded for her two albums You Broke My Heart in Seventeen Places and You Caught Me Out, as well as a track never before released.

CD1 covers the tracks from You Broke My Heart in Seventeen Places and the single "My Guy" (a.k.a. "My Guy's Mad At Me"), as well as the B-sides that didn't make the album and the extended version of "Move Over Darling".  Here is where you'll find her biggest hit (and for North America, her only hit) "They Don't Know".  CD2 covers the tracks from You Caught Me Out, including the B-sides and several more extended versions that originally appeared on 12-inch singles.  The songs seem to have been mastered more hotly (at a higher level) than on previous CD's.

Contrary to what the title says, this set is not absolutely complete; remixes of "Bobby's Girl" and "Breakaway" are not included here, nor is an extended version of "My Guy".  However, those two remixes weren't all that significant, in my opinion, and it's no great loss to not have them here.  For all intents and purposes, it's complete enough.

Perhaps as a incentive to entice collectors who already have Tracey's CD's to spring for this set, there is a previously unreleased track, "Little Red Riding Hood."  But don't be deceived, for this track merely samples the soundtrack from a sketch from the BBC series Three of a Kind, where mother Tracey is reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to her children, and plays it over generic mid-80s dance music.  It's interesting to hear once, but I doubt you'll want to hear it more than once.

Included with the set is a 20-page booklet that includes pictures of her singles and a writeup on her recording career.  For those who don't have her CD's, this is a good way to get everything she recorded for Stiff.  I hesitate to say "a good way to get everything," for there were many wonderful musical performances of hers on her various TV programs.  Now a compilation of those would make a great album…

Review was based on a purchased copy of the CD set.