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The Rattles - The Rattles 50 (2010)

2009-12-21T17:00:00.002+03:00

One of the most successful, and certainly one of the most prolific, German rock groups of the '60s, the Rattles enjoyed reasonable success in their native land without making much of an impression elsewhere (though some of their material was released in other countries). Starting out in the same Star Club-based Hamburg scene as the Liverpool groups of the early '60s, their early repertoire was built upon a similar base of '50s rock and soul/R&B. They released about 30 singles during the '60s (some on the Star-Club label itself), as well as almost ten albums, eventually making the transition to original material, and marching on well into the 1970s.

The Rattles - немецкая бит-группа. Самая первая и наиболее известная бит-группа 1960-х годов. Была образована в Гамбурге осенью 1960.

The Rattles собрались, чтобы играть в местных клубах кавер-версии текущих хитов из американских и британских чартов. Первоначальный состав: Ахим Райхель (Achim Reichel; соло-гитара и вокал), Фолькер Райнгольд (Volker Reinhold; ритм-гитара и вокал), Герберт Хильдебрандт (Herbert Hildebrandt; бас, орган) и Дитер Садловски (Dieter Sadlowski; барабаны).

Райнгольд и Садловски вскоре ушли, а их места заняли Герман «Руги» Ругенштейн (Herman Rugy Rugenstein; гитара, вокал) и Райнхард «Дики» Таррах (Reinhard Dickie Tarrach; барабаны, вокал). До конца 1962 в биографии группы The Rattles отсутствовали яркие события: менялись разве что названия чужих песен в репертуаре, да вывески на пивных, в которых они зарабатывали хлеб насущный. Дела улучшились в феврале 1963, когда группу усилил новый ритм-гитарист Хайо Кройцфельд (Hajo Kreuzfeld), а первую строку британских чартов заняла «Please Please Me» The Beatles. Группа моментально стала «немецкими битлами», а их репертуар радикально обновился за счет стандартов мерси-бита и множества номеров Леннона и Маккартни.

Это были их лучшие дни: группа регулярно играла в гамбургских Star Club и Top Ten, появлялась на обложках поп-журналов, а ее музыка непрерывно звучала по радио. К 1965 The Rattles набрались мужества и отказались от кавер-версий, чтобы петь собственные (написанные по-английски) песни. В 1965—67 в официальных чартах ФРГ были их «Come On And Sing», «Stoppin’ Las Vegas», «La La La», «Love Of My Life», «Cauliflower» и другие песни.

Пик их карьеры пришелся на июнь 1966, когда группа разогревала зал во время западногерманских концертов The Beatles их последнего мирового турне.

В том же году они снялись в фильме «Hurra! Die Rattles kommen», а также стали спонсорами нового журнала «Bravo» (который существует и до сих пор). В ноябре 1966 Ахим Райхель получил повестку и отбыл для прохождения службы в Бундесвер. Его место занял гитарист Фрэнк Досталь (Frank Dostal), но Райхель был для группы больше, чем одним из музыкантов. Популярность группы сразу пошла на спад и когда год спустя Райхель демобилизовался, он решил не возвращаться, а собрал новую группу Wonderland, в которой с ним играли Таррах, Досталь и известный позднее клавишник и аранжировщик Лес Хамфри.

Хильдебрандт и Кройцфельд набрали новую группу The Rattles: Бернд Шульц (Bernd Schulz; клавишные) и Герберт Борнхольд (Herbert Bornhold; барабаны), оба бывшие участники групп второго эшелона, но лучше от этого не стало, и тогда решил уйти Кройцфельд, место которого занял гитарист Фрэнк Милле (Frank Mille).

К 1968 из группы ушли Шульц с Хильдебрандтом, тем самым разорвав последнюю связь текущего состава группы с оригинальным. Новые The Rattles, в составе: Милле, Борнхольд, певица Эдна Бержарано (Edna Berjarano) и басист Заппо Лунген (Zappo Lungen) — записали оставшуюся незамеченной в ФРГ «сорокапятку» «The Witch», но благодаря активной поддержке радио, принесла группе неожиданный успех в США и в Англии, где в 1970 достигла 2-й отметки в списках и стала миллион-селлером! В конце 1971 Шульц, Хильдебрандт и Таррах снова встретились в составе популярной хард-рок группы Randy Pie. В 1972 ушла, чтобы выступать соло, Эдна, и место у микрофона занял гитарист и певец Lucifer’s Friend Петер Хессляйн (Peter Hesslein). Он решил реставрировать Lucifer’s Friend и тоже ушел — заодно взяв с собой и Борнхольда. Последнюю, лишь символически продолжавшую называться The Rattles версию группы в 1975 составляли Милле, Лунген, бывший соло-гитарист Randy Pie и Atlantis Клаус-Георг Мейер (Klaus Georg Meyer), новая певица Линда Филдс (Linda Fields), клавишник Люд Лафайетт (Lude Lafayette) и барабанщик Эл Брок (Al Brock).

Формально группа распалась в 1976, но сказать, кто играл там в тот момент, трудно. Интерес к ним после 1970 угас окончательно, и группа влачила жалкое существование, исполняя песни, сочиненные совсем другими The Rattles… Как и у большинства их современников, дискография The Rattles не слишком велика, но изрядно запутана и включает примерно полтора десятка альбомов и EP, выходивших с 1964 по 1974 в Германии и Британии. В 1994 архивистская гамбургская фирма IMS переиздала значительную часть записей оригинальных The Rattles (плюс концертный альбом и сборник поздних работ группы) на пяти компакт-дисках.

Дискография: Teenbeat (ARIOLA, EP, 1964) Teenbeat From The Star Club, Hamburg (DECCA, EP, 1964) Twist At The Star Club (PHILIPS, 1964) Rattles (PHILIPS, EP, 1964) The Searchers Meet The Rattles (MERCURY, 1965) The Rattles (FONTANA, 1965) Hurra! Die Rattles kommen (FONTANA, 1966) Rattles (FONTANA, EP, 1966) Greatest Hits (MERCURY, 1967) Greatest Hits (FONTANA, 1969) Rattles (DECCA, 1971) Tonight, Starring Edna (PHILIPS, 1972) Attention! The Rattles (FONTANA, 1972) Ginn Mill (RCA, 1974) Twist Im Star Club (IMS, 1994) Star Club Show 1 (IMS, 1994) Hurra! Die Rattles kommen (IMS, 1994) The Rattles Remember: Finale Ligure (IMS, 1994) Greatest Hits: New Recording (IMS, 1994)

The Rattles - 16 Tons (1992)

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JANCY

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1. Rattles - 16 Tons (3:54)
2. Rattles - That´ll Be The Day (3:23)
3. Rattles - Running Bear (3:54)
4. Rattles - American Woman (3:32)
5. Rattles - Singing The Blues (3:45)
6. Rattles - She´s So Fine (4:18)
7. Rattles - Stagger Lee (3:24)
8. Rattles - Young Love (4:29)
9. Rattles - Runaway (4:16)
10. Rattles - The Great Pretender (3:57)
11. Rattles - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (3:58)
12. Rattles - Wake Up Little Susie (3:32)
13. Rattles - 96 Tears (3:00)

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The Rattles - Live 1997

2009-12-21T15:56:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

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1. Rattles - Intro A Dore (1:29)
2. Rattles - Shimmy Shimmy (3:09)
3. Rattles - La La La (3:26)
4. Rattles - Lucille (2:53)
5. Rattles - Hippy Hippy Shake (1:50)
6. Rattles - Send Me Some Loving (1:52)
7. Rattles - Dicky's Theme (6:35)
8. Rattles - Las Vegas (1:17)
9. Rattles - Come On And Sing (3:21)
10. Rattles - Bye bye Johnny Be Good (3:29)
11. Rattles - The Witch (6:52)
12. Rattles - Love Of My Life (2:32)
13. Rattles - Twist And Shout (1:55)
14. Rattles - Mashed Potatoes (1:43)
15. Rattles - Hey Mona (2:00)
16. Rattles - Hot Wheels (3:45)
17. Rattles - Cauliflower (2:11)
18. Rattles - Sha La La La Lee (3:48)
19. Rattles - Hoochie Coochie Man (4:23)

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The Rattles - Rattles'91

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Continuation of theme of The Rattles

by JANCY

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1. The Rattles - Love Of My Life,LaLaLa (5:42)
2. The Rattles - Hippy Hippy Shake,Hey Mona,Twist And Shout (5:37)
3. The Rattles - Mashed Potaoes (3:02)
4. The Rattles - Come On And Sing, Zip-A Dee Doo Dah (4:21)
5. The Rattles - Hello (4:23)
6. The Rattles - Is It Love (2:57)
7. The Rattles - Always Stay Your Friend (3:08)
8. The Rattles - After Tea (3:14)
9. The Rattles - Fought The Law (2:42)
10. The Rattles - You Can't Have Sunshine Everyday (2:39)
11. The Rattles - Cauliflower (3:01)
12. The Rattles - Mister (3:16)
13. The Rattles - (Stopping In) Las Vegas (2:44)
14. The Rattles - Devil's On The Loose (3:03)
15. The Rattles - Hot Wheels (4:02)
16. The Rattles - The Witch (2:28)
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Samson - Are You Samson? (1969)

2009-12-21T15:35:00.000+03:00

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Samson was one of the more obscure outfits signed to Andrew Oldham's Immediate label, considering that they got to cut an entire concept album, Are You Samson?, which was released by the label in 1969. They played the Marquee Club, and were known around London, but never caught on. Keyboard man and singer Ian Kewley later worked with Strider and Limey, before hooking up with Paul Young. This Samson had no relationship to an early '70s English band of the same name.

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Are You Samson? [UK Bonus Track]

Originally released in November 1969 on Andrew Loog Oldham's subsidiary to his failing Immediate, Samson sank without trace, which was about as much as could be expected. Oldham's seemingly careless attitude of not even releasing a single to wet the record buyer's appetite however is now easier understood: Immediate was at its end; within weeks of Samson's debut release Oldham's empire went bankrupt! As the band were eagerly recording their carefully calculated work, Oldham had a lot more to worry about than whether the next album released on his subsidiary would be a big seller. With little assistance from the label, and practically no promotion, it's not surprising that the album had such low sales figures. But the poor turnover of this admittedly tackily sleeved album is by no means an indicator of the music contained within. Samson brought into their music a successful blend of harmonies which sound akin to the Gregorian psych-era choral vocal parts of the Pretty Things and the Zombies, a touch of Deep Purple circa Shades of Purple, and a hint of the increasingly popular concept album. For sake of classification, their blending of Kinks-ish psych-pop with more progressive elements is befitting of the title progressive pop -- a contemporary handle used to describe everything from the Fox's For Fox Sake, Caravan's early work, and fellow north country lads the Koobas' 1969 album. If the later songs compiled on the superb Rubbles series appeal to you, Samson are well worth investigating. [The 2002 British re-release includes one bonus track, "Wool and Water."]

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1. Samson - 1. Traffic (3:26)
2. Samson - 2. Sleep (2:20)
3. Samson - 3. Journey (3:10)
4. Samson - 4. Fair (8:44)
5. Samson - 5. The End Song (4:44)
6. Samson - 6. Mars (4:46)
7. Samson - 7. Venus (2:56)
8. Samson - 8. Saturn (3:49)
9. Samson - 9. Poet For Sam (4:23)
10. Samson - 10.Wool & Water (Bonus) (4:24)

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Ora - Ora (1969)

2009-12-21T15:02:00.000+03:00

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Ora:
Mark Barakan: guitar
Julian Diggle: drums
James Rubenstein: vocals, acoustic guitar
Robin Sylvester: bass, keyboards, guitar
Chloe Walters: guitar
Jon Weiss: lead guitar

It is an album of incredible beauty, recorded by some talented young artists, Here is an extract from the original 1969 press release:

Jamie Rubinstein, 18, leader, lead vocalist and guitarist with the group called ORA, wrote all the songs on their new LP. He arranged most of them. While making the album Jamie was studing for his GCE A Levels. This is the group's first release, a single is being planned.

Jamie and Robin Sylvester, 18, who plays bass guitar, piano, organ, and is co-arranger, are the main-stays of the four-piece group. The others, lead guitarist Jon Weiss and drummer Julian Diggle, are "floating" members. Jamie, Robin, and Julian had met at UCS (University College School) in Hampstead.

The Wah Wah edition will be housed in a gatefold sleeve that will respect the original artwork concept, graphically adapted to this new issue following the directions of Ora leader James Rubinstein. James himself signs the inner notes so you get an accurate first person told history of the band who would later become the legendary progressive rock group Byzantium.

This sensational band performed a most unique mixture of folk, jazz and pop sounds and recorded one of the most beautiful LPs coming from the UK in 1969. The original Tangerine issue was valued with four circles on Hans Pokora's "1001 Record Collector Dreams" book and an R3 "extremely rare" qualification on Vernon Joyston's "The Tapestry Of Delights", which means the Wah Wah 2LP set is definetely a very good chance to get the great recordings of this fab band into your vinyl collection and yet save some money for the university of your children! But you'll have to hurry for your copy since only 900 numbered copies are on sale and we do believe these should sell like hot bread! Otherwise expect To pay 500 sterling for an original UK Mint copy without the pressing defect (some original copies have a pressing defect on one song)

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01.Seashore
02.About You
03.Deborah
04.Whitch
05.Venetia II
06.You
07.Fly
08.Ladyfriend
09.Are You Seeing
10.Emma's Saga
11.The Morning After The Night Before
12.The Seagull And The Sailor
13.Seashore
14.No More Love
15.Pomme
16.Deborah
17.It Was An Easy Legend
18.Fly
19.Thank God

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Fapardokly - Fapardokly (1966)

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Though they were considered an enigma in the world of '60s rock collectibles, there was never a group called Fapardokly; the 12 songs on their self-titled album were recorded by Merrell & the Exiles, a Southern California group headed by legendary cult folk-rocker Merrell Fankhauser. That group cut several singles for the tiny Glenn label before heading off in a psychedelic direction and mutating into H.M.S. Bounty. The equally tiny UIP label decided to gather a few of the Glenn singles, add a few more psychedelically oriented tracks that Merrill and his group had recorded, and release the package as the work of a group called Fapardokly. Although it was not recorded or intended as a unified work, it stands as one of the great lost folk-rock classics of the '60s. Fankhauser went on to make more excellent obscure recordings with H.M.S. Bounty in the late '60s and Mu in the early '70s.

Merrell Fankhauser (guitar, vocals)
Bill Dood (guitar)
Dick Lee (drums)
Dan Parrish (bass)
John Oliver (bass)

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One of the most sought-after rock rarities of the '60s, this album was stylistically uneven, as can be expected from an LP cobbled together from recordings spanning a few years. About half, however, is sparkling psychedelic folk-rock, recalling Fifth Dimension Byrds with its shimmering twelve-string guitars, multipart harmonies, and occasional trippy lyrics. Although the early material is more pop-oriented and doesn't fit in as well, it's pretty solid, recalling the Zombies and (in the very earliest tracks) Ricky Nelson. "Lila," "Tomorrow's Girl," and "Super Market" are genuine lost '60s treasures, and much of the rest of the album isn't far behind.

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1 Lila
2 The Music Scene
3 Sorry For Yourself
4 Glass Chandelier
5 Tomorrow's Girl
6 Suzie Cryin'
7 Mr Clock
8 Gone To Pot
9 No Retreat
10 Too Many Heartbreaks
11 When I Get Home
12 Super Market
bonus cd tracks
13 The War
14 Yes, I Love You
15 Run Baby Run

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Fapardokly were Merrell Fankhauser guitar, Bill Dodd lead guitar, John Oliver bass, and Dick Lee drums. The odd name being a combination of their surnames - or rather three of them plus that of Don Parrish, the original bass player.

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The Baronets — The complete 1966-68

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1. 01 Hold On I`M Comin (2:54)
2. 02 Please Do Something (3:11)
3. 03 Treat Me Right (2:50)
4. 04 Jeg Vil Bygge En Verden (3:16)
5. 05 Min Amande Var Fra Kerteminde (3:04)
6. 06 I Can Make It With You (2:03)
7. 07 Treat Me Right (2:30)
8. 08 Superstitious Guy (3:07)
9. 09 You Won`t Believe Me (2:49)
10. 10 Little Boy (3:08)
11. 11 I`ve Got To Get Away (2:36)
12. 12 Wonderful Day (2:46)
13. 13 Here Comes The Sun (3:25)
14. 14 Wonderful Day (3:39)
15. 15 Goodbye Baby Bye Bye (2:33)
16. 16 I Can`t Tel (2:39)
17. 17 She Didn`t Know (3:08)
18. 18 Try To Live Your Life (2:33)
19. 19 Gone For Good (2:01)
20. 20 Who Are You (2:16)
21. 21 Can You Hear The Music Play- (2:48)
22. 22 What Would People Say (1:47)
23. 23 Down The Road Apiece (2:23)
24. 24 Treat Me Right (3:38)
25. 25 A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
26. 26 Show Mw
27. 27 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

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THANKS kubinec63 (NNM.RU)

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Spirit - Son of Spirit (1975)

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"..Other than "Holy Man" , I'd say Son Of Spirit is a perfect Randy California/Ed Cassidy album to follow Spirit of 76 with... Personally , I loved "Farther Along" , ....there's not a flawed piece in there with many songwriting highlights and very clean production. Definitely a first rate comeback...why oh why couldn't it have lasted ??? Even without Ferguson , Matt Andes was a great addition , as he is on the posthumous Randy California/Spirit CD's Matt , where are you hiding ? You're a fantastic guitar player in your own right !Submitted by starman (Time Coast , USA) "...Son of Spirit and Spirit of 76 are my two favorite post-Jay Ferguson Spirit albums, but they are very different. Spirit of 76 is totally overdone while Son of Spirit pleasure lies in its simplicity. Some might say that it's slight, and some of Randy's lyrics are really quite horrible. But Son of Spirit is definitely the most emotional album that Randy ever put out. His sweet multitracked guitar is all over the place. Highlights are Don't go Away and Magic Fairy Princess (the steel drums make the sSpirit - Son of Spirit (1975)ong). Family is a low point. I give SOS 4 stars I absolutely hated Farther Along when it first came out, but it has improved a bit with time. Many of the songs are half-written and the horns seem out of place. This was a reunion with most of the original Spirit (excepting Jay) but it sounds nothing like the old stuff. Colossus and Pineapple are high points. Mega Star is good too. Don't Lock up Your Door is wretched, as are some of the instrumentals. It ends with a muzak version of Nature's Way. Uh-huh. I give it two stars Average the albums and you get 3 stars.Submitted by gershbec (Skokie, IL)

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Spirit - Son of Spirit (1975)

01-Holy Man

02-Looking Into Darkness

03-Maybe You'll Find

04-Don't Go Away

05-Family

06-Magic Fairy Princess

07-Circle

08-The Other Song

09-Yesterday10-It's Time Now

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The Thunderbirds - The Thunderbirds featuring Paul Würges

2009-12-21T03:01:00.000+03:00

FROM JANCY !!!

Paul Würges – Wikipedia

Paul Würges and his Rocking Allstars

Paul Würges – Eine Rock’n’Roll-Legende

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01 - African Guitars
02 - Crazy Mood
03 - The Twistin' Hillbilly
04 - The Way You Dance Tonight
05 - The Birth Of The Slop
06 - Come On Let's Rock Again
07 - Everybody Dance Twist
08 - Nights At The Eden-Saloon
09 - Rhythm Is Our Business
10 - Thunderbirds
11 - For Twisters Only
12 - Twistin' Safari

45'
13 - Sleep Walk
14 - Red River Rock

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The Lords - The Lords 50

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The Lords - The Lords 50 (2009)

1. The Lords - Raindreams (2:51)
2. The Lords - Fire (3:11)
3. The Lords - Shakin all over (3:12)
4. The Lords - Spitfire Lace (3:17)
5. The Lords - Grennsleeves (3:44)
6. The Lords - Cut my hair (3:16)
7. The Lords - Seven Daffodils (4:13)
8. The Lords - Late last sunday evening (2:18)
9. The Lords - Have a drink on me (4:01)
10. The Lords - Que sera (3:11)
11. The Lords - Peter Gunn (15:21)
12. The Lords - Michael (5:09)
13. The Lords - Gloryland (6:06)
14. The Lords - Poor Boy (3:02)
15. The Lords - You really got me (2:24)
16. The Lords - Rock'n Roll Medley (7:49)
17. The Lords - Dance with the Devil (3:30)

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The Lords - Spitfire Lace (2002)

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Spitfire Lace

CD Release 2006

01. Spitfire Lace (3:15)
02. Poor Boy (2:50)
03. And at Night (3:04)
04. Shakin all over (2:38)
05. Greensleeves (2:52)
06. Michael (3:47)
07. Gloryland (3:03)
08. Poison Ivy (1:59)
09. Fire (3:05)
10. Seven Daffodils (4:08)
11. Cut my Hair (3:20)
12. Don't mince matters (4:03)
13. Boom Boom (3:49)
14. Have a drink on me (3:18)
15. Que Sera (2:23)
16. Peter Gunn live (10:45)
Bonus
17.Rock'n'Roll Medley(6:55)
18.Hey,Baby,las den andren(2:35)
19.Shakin All Over(No Guitar Mix)(2:28)

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The Lords - The Very Best Of The Lords (2001)

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1. The Lords - poor boy (2:47)
2. The Lords - poison ivy (1:55)
3. The Lords - have a drink on me (3:28)
4. The Lords - que sera, sera (2:32)
5. The Lords - boom boom (out goes the light) (3:48)
6. The Lords - michael (3:52)
7. The Lords - gloryland / john brown's body (5:23)
8. The Lords - let's get together (3:20)
9. The Lords - greensleeves (3:08)
10. The Lords - shakin' all over (2:45)
11. The Lords - fire (2:55)
12. The Lords - don't mince matter (3:48)
13. The Lords - and at night (3:20)
14. The Lords - stormy (3:30)

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The Lords - Live 1986

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from Jancy !

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Ulli Günther * 24. Juli 1942, † 13. Oktober 1999

Ulli Günther said 1986 , to stop the show - never, because you must take me already died from the stage.

13 years later:
On 9 October 1999 broke together for years suddenly of heart failure suffering Ulli Günther at an anniversary concert in Potsdam because of cardiac arrhythmias. He struck on the back and pulled out a skull fracture with cerebral hemorrhage in. On 13 October 1999 death of the founders of Lords, in a Potsdam hospital.

Live 1986

01 - Route 66
02 - Shakin All Over
03 - Be Bop A Lu La
04 - Greensleeves
05 - One Fine Day
06 - Rolling Back To Paradise
07 - Walkin The Dog
08 - And At Night
09 - Poison Ivy
10 - Wishin And Hopin
11 - Fire
12 - Boom Boom
13 - Poor Boy
14 - break
15 - Summertime Blues
16 - Late Last Sunday Evening
17 - Peter Gun
18 - Que Sera
19 - Have A Drink On Me
20 - Gloryland / John Brown's Body
21 - encore
22 - You Really Got Me

01 - Michael
02 - Poison Ivy
03 - Shakin All Over
04 - Poor Boy
05 - encore with guest Derv Gordon (The Equals)
06 - Dizzy Miss Lizzy
07 - Bye Bye Johnny

Part 1

Part 2

The Lords - Stormy (1984)

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by JANCY

01 - Stormy
02 - 1992 - Let's Get Together
03 - Come On Move
04 - Live Your Life
05 - Dark And Windy Night
06 - Easy Way Out
07 - Walking To The Moon
08 - Train Of Emotion
09 - Linda
10 - Tobacco Road
11 - Shakin All Over
12 - Poor Boy

2002 - without Ulli Günther

13 - Spitfire Lace
14 - Poor Boy
15 - Hey Baby lass doch den andern
16 - Greensleeves
17 - Rock And Roll Medley

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The Lords - Back To The Roots ' 88

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FROM JANCY

01 - Shakin All Over
02 - Route 66
03 - Greensleeves
04 - Sady
05 - Poor Boy
06 - Michael
07 - And At Night
08 - Que Sera
09 - Bad bad Boy
10 - Have A Drink On Me
11 - Gloryland - John Brown's Body

bonus
12 - Poison Ivy
13 - Boom Boom
14 - 1992 - Let's Get Together
15 - Fire
16 - Don't Mince Matter

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The Lords - 15 Years - Birthday Album (1979)

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JANCY

01 - Now I Feel Good
02 - Rolling Back To Paradise
03 - I Wish You Well
04 - One Fine Day
05 - Dr. Gun
06 - Rock And Roll Monster
07 - Let's Live It Up
08 - I Hear Music
09 - Call Me Up
10 - I'm Coming
11 - It's Not Over
12 - Alamo

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The Lords - Singls 1974 - 1980

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By JANCY

01 - Die schwarze Lady (orig. Uriah Heep)
02 - Sweet Memories (orig. Hot Chocolate)
03 - Ruf doch die Jungs mal an
04 - Do You Remember
05 - Naked Man
06 - Teenage Love
07 - Baby You're Mean
08 - Poor Boy 79'
09 - People World
10 - Jezebel
11 - Jezebel Return
12 - Calaba
13 - Walk On

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The Lords - New Lords (1971)

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by Jancy

01 - Twilight
02 - We Go Out In The Sunshine
03 - Power
04 - Rooster
05 - Fly Little Jeannie
06 - Country Fever
07 - World Of Emotions
08 - Timerage
09 - Linda
10 - Goodby Groupie Girl

45'
11 - Look Up In The Sky
12 - Radio
13 - T.V.

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The Lords - Inside Out (1971)

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from Jancy

*****

01 - Walk On By
02 - My Dream
03 - So Long
04 - Country Dancing
05 - Hello Ma'm
06 - I'm Gonna Get You
07 - Frisco Annie
08 - That Day Will Come
09 - Question
10 - Suspicious
11 - Big Boss Man
12 - Inside Out

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The Lords - Shakin All Over 70

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JANCY NEWS

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01 - Shakin All Over 70'
02 - Blue Horizon
03 - Lilacs In My Hair
04 - People World
05 - Manchester England
06 - The World Is Falling Down
07 - Fire
08 - Three-Five-Zero-Zero
09 - Mad Mad World
10 - Perkinson's Ride
11 - And At Night
12 - Tomorrow
13 - Feeling Chicago
14 - When I Was Young

45'
15 - Four O'Clock In New York
16 - Talk About Love

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The Lords - Ulleogamaxbe (1969)

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from Jancy !!!

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Pepsi Cola commercials
01 - Five Or Six

45'

02 - No One knows
03 - Gipsy Boy
04 - Coca-Cat-Love
05 - John Browns Body
06 - Something Else

Ulleogamaxbe

07 - And At Night
08 - Perkinson's Ride
09 - Feeling Chicago
10 - Thank You
11 - Tomorrow
12 - The World Is Falling Down
13 - Fire
14 - Philadelphia
15 - Poor Chin-Lee
16 - Good Time Music
17 - Lilacs In May
18 - Cut My Hair

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The Lords - Good Side Of June (1968)

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FROM JANCY

In 1964 their bassist Knud Kuntze ("Lord Knud") (*18 March 1944) had to leave the band due to an accident. He then started a career as a prominent German radio DJ. In 1965, the classic line-up of The Lords consisted of Ulli Günther (vocals), Bernd Zamulo (bass), Leo Lietz (guitar), Rainer Petry (guitar) and Max Donath (drums). This classic line-up existed until 1971, which marks the end of the classic and most successful period of the band.... MORE..

Discography (albums)
1965 In Black and White - In Beat and Sweet
1966 The Lords II - Shakin' All Over
1967 Some Folks by the Lords
1968 Good side of June
1969 Ulleogamaxbe
1970 Shakin' all over '70
1971 Inside out
1972 The LORDS 1964-1971
1979 Birthday Album - 15 years
1984 20 Jahre Lords
1988 The LORDS ‘88
1989 Stormy
1992 The Lords - The Very Best
1999 The Original Singles-Collection/The A & B-Sides
1999 LIVE 1999
2002 Spitfire Lace
2009 LORDS 50
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01 - Good Side Of June
02 - Stand By Me
03 - What They Gonna Do ?
04 - Raindreams
05 - Late Last Sunday Evening
06 - Gloryland
07 - Foolish Gamble
08 - Rockin´ Pneumonia
09 - Papa Gene
10 - Please Don´t Bring Me Down
11 - Don´t Mince Matter
12 - Have A Drink On Me

45' in italiano
13 - Gloryland
14 - Greensleeves

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The Lords - Shakin All Over II (1966)

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from JANCY !

Группа The Lords была сформирована в 1965 году пятью немецкими музыкантами, успевшими к этому времени поиграть в других немецких группах. Вообще же, корни группы уходят в 1959 год, когда кто-то из этой пятерки основал в Берлине скиффл-коллектив (к сожалению, его название мне не известно). В первой половине шестидесятых группа промышляла концертными выступлениями, в том числе на сцене знаменитого гамбургского Star Club, где и была в сентябре 1964 года признана лучшей немецкой бит-группой. The Lords, которую не замечали совершенно в англоязычных странах, была бешено популярна у себя на родине. Только спустя двадцать лет, когда у слушателей вновь появился интерес к музыке шестидесятых, о The Lords заговорили не только в Германии.В 1965 году группа сменила свое название и отправилась в турне по Германии вместе с гостями из Англии - группами The Kinks и The Who. Материал, который исполняли The Lords, на две трети состоял из кавер-версий песен английских и американских коллективов, но им придавалось более жесткое звучание и более быстрый темп. Среди кавер-версий, игравшихся группой, можно было услышать: Shakin' All Over, Que Sera, Poison Ivy, Tobacco Road и многие другие. Еще одну треть песен составляли песни собственного сочинения. Однако к концу шестидесятых ситуация в корне поменялась - The Lords стали записывать свой собственный материал (так, например, альбом 1969 года полностью состоит из материала, написанного гитаристами группы Литцем и Петри).

Дебютный альбом группы увидел свет в 1965 году; следующий - в 1966. The Lords становились все популярнее и популярнее в Германии. Уместным будет сказать, что 11 песен группы в период с 1965 по 1969 заняли первое место в национальном хит-параде (сингл Poorboy был просто безумно популярен). Невзирая на все эти успехи, в 1971 году группа объявила о своем распаде. В 1999 году в Потсдаме трагически погиб вокалист группы Улли Гюнтер.

В настоящее время группа возрождена и выступает с концертами в Германии.

Дискография:

Альбомы (LP) The Lords:
1965 In Black and White - In Beat and Sweet
1966 The Lords II - Shakin’ All Over
1967 Some Folks by the Lords
1968 Good side of June
1969 Ulleogamaxbe
1970 Shakin’ all over ‘70
1971 Inside out
1988 The Lords ‘88
1989 Stormy
1999 Live 1999
2002 Spitfire Lace

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Consisting entirely of covers, this is their most rock-oriented album, the German hit cover of "Shakin' All Over" leading the way. No great points for originality here, but this offers good evidence of the group's skills in bending a fairly wide variety of rock and R&B standards to their own means. "Shot of Rhythm & Blues, " "Doctor Feelgood, " "I Can Tell, " and "I'm a Hog for You Baby" are some of the tunes churned through their inimitable double-time Mersey bastardizations.

01 - Shakin' All Over
02 - Que Sera
03 - Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
04 - Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
05 - I'm A Hog For Your Baby
06 - Boom Boom
07 - Poor Boy
08 - Dr. Feelgood
09 - Everybody Loves A Lover
10 - I'm Going Home
11 - I Can tell
12 - Betty Betty Betty

45'
13 - Poison Ivy
14 - Poor Boy - live

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The Lords - In Black And White In Beat And Sweet (1965)

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NEW TOPIC FROM JANCY

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Although Germany had its place in rock & roll's evolution in the 1960s, it was primarily as an incubator for British bands playing grueling stints in Hamburg, not for homegrown talent.

LINE UP :

Ulli Gunther - vocals
Leo Lietz - guitars
Bernd Zamulo - bass
Rainer Petry - guitars
Max Donath - drums

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Although Germany had its place in rock & roll's evolution in the 1960s, it was primarily as an incubator for British bands playing grueling stints in Hamburg, not for homegrown talent. The Lords were about the best of a weak scene, populated by bands that could never seem to shake themselves free of stodgy Central European oom-pah folk traditions. Quite popular in their own country, the Lords made no impression in the English-speaking world until a couple of decades later, when reappreciation of '60s beat and garage music became so intense that collectors began to investigate the strange and wonderful world of Continental '60s rock.

The Lords are one of those groups that have to be heard to be believed. Although they had the requisite moptop haircuts, their repertoire was surprisingly anachronistic at times, drawing heavily from not only German drinking songs, but American folk tunes, Lonnie Donegan's skiffle, and the pre-Beatle British rock of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. Whatever they covered -- "Greensleeves," "Shakin' All Over," "Poison Ivy," "Tobacco Road," "Que Sera," "Sing Hallelujah" -- they made their own with frantically fast tempos, heavily accented Teutonic vocals (virtually all of their material was in English), and heavy overuse of tremelo guitar lines with mucho reverb, whammy bar, and Lesley organ-like effects. They also wrote some interesting material of their own that drew from the more contemporary influences of Merseybeat and English mod pop. The Lords were not brilliant musicians or composers, but they were fun, and they had the hearts of true rockers, although some modern listeners will find their approach too hammy and sloppy.

Between 1964 and 1968, the Lords were very prolific, issuing five albums and over a dozen singles. Unfortunately, there has yet to be a Lords compilation that truly focuses upon their best material, although a couple of their later albums have been reissued in Germany. As the group was pretty erratic (nobody wants to hear their singalong drinking tunes these days), a well-chosen anthology is necessary to appreciate their virtues; the North American listeners lucky enough to hear the group's best stuff have usually done so via tapes made by other collectors.

*****

In Black And White In Beat And Sweet

The Lords' first album laid out the essentials of both what made them one of Germany's most distinctive '60s bands, and what made them seem antiquated in some respects. Unlike almost any other group from around the Western world, much of their repertoire was devoted to folk songs that had been popularized by Lonnie Donegan, with some rock & roll oldies covers thrown in. That's what you get almost without exception on this debut LP, though these covers are so eccentric, done as they are with heavy German accents and a hepped-up Merseybeat-like rhythm, that it's a lot better and more interesting than most such cover-dominated albums of the time. Straying a little more afield, they also throw in a cover of Bacharach/David's "Wishin' and Hopin'," as well as a pretty good early British Invasion-styled original, "Hey Baby, Lass Den Andern," which had been their first single in 1964 (and is the only track sung in their native German).

*****

01 - Shakin' All Over
02 - Ain't She Sweet
03 - Midnight Special - great song - great guitar works
04 - Seven Daffodils
05 - Lost John
06 - Tobacco Road
07 - Lonesome Traveller
08 - Kevin Berry
09 - Memphis Tennessee
10 - Wedding Bells
11 - Wishin' And Hopin'
12 - Hey baby Lass den andern

Live Beat-Club
13 - I'm A Hog For Your Baby
14 - Greensleeves
15 - Que Sera
16 - Poor Boy
17 - Boom Boom

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The Troggs - Black Bottom (1982)

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FROM JANCY

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The Troggs: Information from Answers.com

Remembered chiefly as proto-punkers who reached the top of the charts with the "caveman rock" of "Wild Thing" (1966), the Troggs were also adept at crafting power pop and ballads. Hearkening back to a somewhat simpler, more basic British Invasion approach as psychedelia began to explode in the late '60s, the group also reached the Top Five with their flower-power ballad "Love Is All Around" in 1968. While more popular in their native England than the U.S., the band also fashioned memorable, insistently riffing hit singles like "With a Girl Like You," "Night of the Long Grass," and the notoriously salacious "I Can't Control Myself" between 1966 and 1968. Paced by Reg Presley's lusting vocals, the group -- which composed most of their own material -- could crunch with the best of them, but were also capable of quite a bit more range and melodic invention than they've been given credit for.

Hailing from the relatively unknown British town of Andover, the Troggs hooked up with manager/producer Larry Page (who was involved in the Kinks' early affairs) in the mid-'60s. After a flop debut single, they were fortunate enough to come across a demo of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing" (which had already been unsuccessfully recorded by the Wild Ones). In the hands of the Troggs, "Wild Thing" -- with its grungy chords and off-the-wall ocarina solo -- became a primeval three-chord monster, famous not only in its original hit Troggs version, but in its psychedelic revamping by Jimi Hendrix, who used it to close his famous set at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

"Wild Thing" made number one in the States, but the Troggs' momentum there was impeded by a strange legal dispute which saw their early records simultaneously released on two different labels. Nor did it help that the band didn't tour the U.S. for a couple of years. As a consequence, the fine follow-up singles "With a Girl Like You" and "I Can't Control Myself" didn't do as well as they might have. In Britain, it was a different story -- they were smashes, although "I Can't Control Myself" had such an open-hearted lust that it encountered resistance from conservative radio programmers all over the globe.

The Troggs tempered their image on subsequent ballads, which utilized a sort of pre-"power ballad" approach. These weren't bad, and a few of them were British hits, but they weren't as fine as the initial blast of singles which established the band's image. "Love Is All Around," which restored them to the American Top Ten in 1968, was their finest effort in this vein. It was also their final big hit on either side of the Atlantic.

But the Troggs would keep going for a long, long time. In a sense they were handicapped by their image -- they were not intellectuals, certainly, but they weren't dumb either. They wrote most of their songs, and their albums were reasonably accomplished, if hardly up to the level of the Kinks or Traffic, containing some nifty surprises like the gothic ballad "Cousin Jane," or the tongue-in-cheek psychedelia of "Maybe the Madman." By 1970, though, they were struggling. They continued to release a stream of singles, most of which had a straightforward simplicity that was out of step with the progressive rock of the time, all of which flopped, though some were fairly good.

The Troggs' image as lunkheads couldn't have been helped by the notorious Troggs Tapes, a 12-minute studio argument that was captured on tape while the band were unawares. The Spinal Tap-like dialog helped keep their cult alive, though, and as punk gained momentum in the mid-'70s, they gained belated appreciation as an important influence on bands like the Ramones and (earlier) the MC5. They found enough live work (sometimes on the punk/new wave circuit) to keep going, although their intermittent records generally came to naught. In 1992, they rose to their highest profile in ages when three members of R.E.M., which had covered "Love Is All Around," backed the Troggs on the comeback album Athens Andover. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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This was only the fourth release on Patrick Mathe's legendary New Rose record label when it was distributed by RCA in Europe. This prototype punk music licensed from Stage Coach Records in England garnered interest in America from A&M, Arista, and Atlantic, specifically, when this writer brought the import album to those labels, but it was probably more curiosity from A&R (and in one instance, a label president), as the Troggs had settled into a definite cult niche. The earlier The Trogg Tapes on Private Stock and eventual Troggs on 45 on New Rose, with the infamous "Troggs Tapes" as a hidden track, were all more commercial than this fine underground disc. The title track, "Black Bottom," is cool with a nifty hook, and the entire project has as much authenticity to the primal Troggs urge as any Ramones album has to their relentless style. "Last Night" is not "Love Is All Around," but it is trademark Reg Presley and it is great, with '50s guitar riffs updated somewhat and reflective of the entire Black Bottom sparse sound permeating "Hot Days" and ringing through "Widge You" and "I Love You Baby." There's no commander Mike Chapman here to embellish the brittle sound, nor is there a Phil Spector to do what he did for Joey Ramone and crew. It's just a band playing minimal with familiar sound and a recognizable frontman, and it shows rock & roll integrity that is hard to match. "I Don't" creeps with personality, spurts of rhythmic guitar, and drums, with Presley teaching how to get a point across without resorting to rap music. A gem for those who appreciate good rock & roll minus the frills. The inverted Chuck Berry riffs of "Widge You" here should have propelled this band to a second level T. Rex.

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01 - Black Bottom
02 - Strange Movies
03 - Bass For My Birthday
04 - Little Pretty Thing
05 - Last Night
06 - Hot Days
07 - I Don't
08 - Widge You
09 - Feels Like A Woman
10 - I Love You Baby
&
11 - Save The Last Dance For Me
12 - I Do Do
13 - Troggs Medley

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The Moody Blues - The Singles plus (2000)

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Although they're best known today for their lush, lyrically and musically profound (some would say bombastic) psychedelic-era albums, the Moody Blues started out as one of the better R&B-based combos of the British Invasion. The group's history began in Birmingham, England with Ray Thomas (harmonica, vocals) and Mike Pinder (keyboards, vocals), who had played together in El Riot & the Rebels and the Krew Cats. They began recruiting members of some of the best rival groups working in Birmingham, including Denny Laine (vocals, guitar), Graeme Edge (drums), and Clint Warwick (bass, vocals). The Moody Blues, as they came to be known, made their debut in Birmingham in May of 1964, ... Read More...

The Moody Blues From Wikipedia

The Moody Blues on Sixties.ru

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SP Moody Blues:
1964 Steal Your Heart Away
1964 Go Now!
1965 I Don't Want To Go On Without You
1965 From The Bottom Of My Heart
1965 Everyday
1966 Stop!
1966 Boulevard De La Madeleine
1967 Life's Not Life
1967 Fly Me High
1967 Love And Beauty
1967 Nights In White Satin/Cities
1967 Tuesday Afternoon/Another Morning
1968 Voices In The Sky/Ride My See-Saw

*****

CD1:
01. Steal Your Heart Away
02. Go Now!
03. I Don't Want to Go on Without You
04. From the Bottom of My Heart (I Love You)
05. Everyday
06. Stop!
07. Bye Bye Bird
08. Boulevard de la Madeleine
09. This Is My House (But Nobody Calls)
10. Life's Not Life
11. Fly Me High
12. Love and Beauty
13. Nights in White Satin
14. Cities
15. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)
16. Voices in the Sky
17. Ride My See-Saw
18. Lovely to See You
19. Dear Diary
20. Never Comes the Day
21. Eyes of a Child
22. Watching and Waiting
23. Question
24. Candle of Life

CD2:
01. Melancholy Man
02. Story in Your Eyes
03. Isn't Life Strange
04. I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band)
05. For My Lady
06. Remember Me, My Friend
07. Blue Guitar
08. Forever Autumn
09. Had to Fall in Love
10. Steppin' in a Slide Zone
11. Driftwood
12. Gemini Dream
13. Voice
14. Talking Out of Turn
15. Sitting at the Wheel
16. Blue World
17. Your Wildest Dreams
18. Other Side of Life
19. I Know You're Out There Somewhere

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - The Best Of.. (1994)

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Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders first emerged out of apprentice telephone engineer Glyn Geoffrey Ellis' daydreams of becoming a successful pop performer. Rechristening himself Wayne Fontana after Elvis Presley's drummer, DJ Fontana, Fontana's first band was the Jets, a staple on the Manchester circuit through 1961-1962, but one which was doomed to failure.

According to legend, the original Jets broke up when Fontana and bassist Bob Lang alone turned up for the most important audition of their young career, at the famed Oasis club. Hurriedly, Fontana press-ganged a couple of other local musicians, bystanders in the bar, into service -- drummer Ric Rothwell... Read More...

***

Well-chosen 20-track anthology, covering the hits and the best of their rare 1964-1968 singles, as well as a couple rare cuts from U.K. LPs and EPs. It's actually a distinct improvement upon its U.K. counterpart Hit Single Anthology, as it includes the fine "It's Getting Harder All of the Time"/"Off and Running" single from the To Sir With Love soundtrack, and eliminates some of the weak covers and Wayne Fontana solo singles.

1. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Game Of Love (2:07)
2. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Stop Look And Listen (2:03)
3. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (2:32)
4. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Since You've Been Gone (1:59)
5. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Where Have You Been? (2:45)
6. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Just A Little Bit Too Late (2:22)
7. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Remind My Baby Of Me (2:19)
8. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - She Needs Love (2:29)
9. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Groovy Kind Of Love (2:02)
10. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Can't Live Without You (Can't Live Without You) (2:37)
11. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Ashes To Ashes (2:30)
12. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Pamela, Pamela (2:13)
13. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - I Want Her, She Wants Me (2:30)
14. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Off And Running (2:01)
15. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - It;s Getting Harder All Of The Time (2:15)
16. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - We'll Talk About It Tomorrow (2:19)
17. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Far Across Town (2:30)
18. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - My New Day And Age (3:14)
19. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Schoolgirl (2:12)
20. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Uncle Joe The Ice Cream Man (2:22)

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The Smoke - My Friend Jack (1967)

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LINE UP

Mick Rowley (vocals)
Mal Luker (guitar)
Zeke Lund (bass)
Geoff Gill (drums)

More than any other band, the Smoke epitomized the groove of Swinging London -- which was especially ironic when one considers that, at the height of their success, they sold more records in Europe than England. Their sound fell somewhere between mod and the Beatles -- their instrumental attack was somewhat Who/Small Faces-like, yet they delighted in cheerful vocals and infectious harmonies and melodies. Only slightly popular on their home turf, and unknown in the U.S., their biggest success was in Germany (oddly enough, for such a British-sounding group). The band hailed from York, where bassist Zeke Lund and lead guitarist Mal Luker began playing together in a band called Tony Adams & the Viceroys, whose lineup eventually ... Read More...

BEAT-CLUB APPEARANCE

01. My Friend Jack
02. I Wanna Make It With You
03. High In A Room
04. Keep A Hold Of What You've Got
05. She's A Liar
06. It's Getting Closer
07. You Won't Catch Me
08. It's Just Your Way Of loving
09. Don't Lead On Me
10. She Put The Hurt On Me
11. Wake Up Cherylina
12. Magic
13. Have Some More Tea
14. Victor Henry's Cool Book
15. I'm Only Dreaming
16. Universal Vagrant
17. Sydney Gill
18. It Could Be Wonderful
19. That's What I want
20. Like A Good Man Should

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VA - Born On The Road : Easy Rider

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FROM JANCY

01 - Born To Be Wild
02 - I'll Try
03 - Lay Down
04 - Hey Little Girl
05 - Your Whole Life Through
06 - Lana
07 - Up Around The Bend
08 - Tavern
09 The House Of The Rising Sun
10 - Mockinbird
11 - My Little Heart
12 - Get It

1, 2, 7, 8 - Electric Food aka German Bonds / Lucifer's Friend
3 - Black Kids aka The Tonics
4, 10 - Ten O'clock Bubble Gum Train aka The Tonics
5 - John Deen And The Trakk
6, 14 - The Automatic Blues Inc. aka The Tonics
9 - (missprint) Electric Food aka The Tonics
11 - The Petards

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VA - Music For Wild Angels

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FROM JANCY

01 - See See Rider
02 - A Deeper Blue
03 - 900 Miles From My Home
04 - Baa-Ba-Ba-Baa
05 - She Doesn't Love Me
06 - Sun Came Out At Seven
07 - Lovin' You
08 - John Brwon's Body
09 - Firetree
10 - Gonna Get Me A New Girl
11 - When The Saints
12 - The House Of The Rising Sun
13 - I Wonna Spend My Life
14 - Confusion All Day

1 - Tony Tornado aka Herbert Hildebrandt (The Rattles)
2, 7, 9, 14 - The Petards, from Lp A Deeper Blue
http://onwingsdream.blogspot.com/2009/06/petards-deeper-blue-1968.html
3, 4, 6 - The Lippsticks
5, 8, 10, 11, 12 - The Spots / Herb Ellen aka The Tonics
http://onwingsdream.blogspot.com/2009/07/spots-aka-tonics-beat-beat-beat-1967.html
13 - The Peers
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Trogg People - Troggs Rarities

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Chris Britton

Ronnie Bond

TEN FEET FIVE

Reg Presley

Interview With Reg Presley

Reg Presley Discography

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1. Chris Britton - Sit Down Beside Me (3:24)
2. Chris Britton - Will It Last (3:05)
3. Chris Britton - That Was The Time (2:55)
4. Chris Britton - No Sense In Fighting (3:59)
5. Chris Britton - Maybe Time Will Change You (2:58)
6. Chris Britton - Fly With Me (3:31)
7. Chris Britton - If You Really Care (3:20)
8. Chris Britton - Run And Hide (3:54)
9. Chris Britton - How Do You Say Goodbye (2:52)
10. Chris Britton - Sleep My Love (2:50)
11. Chris Britton - Why Did I Let You Go (3:45)
12. Chris Britton - Evil Woman (3:16)
13. Chris Britton - Learn To Love Life (2:52)
14. Ten Feet Five - Baby's Back In Town (2:53)
15. Ten Feet Five - Send Me No More Lovin' (2:43)
16. Ronnie Bond - Carolyn (2:31)
17. Ronnie Bond - Anything For You (2:35)
18. Reg Presley - Lucinda Lee (3:05)
19. Reg Presley - Wichita Lineman (3:03)
20. Reg Presley - Let's Pull Together (2:56)
21. Reg Presley - Young And Beautiful (2:54)
22. Reg Presley - 'S Down To You Marianne (3:10)
23. Reg Presley - Hey Little Girl (2:49)
24. The Troggs - Just A Little Too Much (2:41)

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The Troggs - Good Vibrations 1975

2009-12-16T23:11:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

Будущие участники THE TROGGS учились в одной школе в Эндовере, Хэмпшир. В выпускном классе Тони Мэнсфилд (Tony Mansfield; гитара и вокал), Дэйв Райт (Dave Wright; соло-гитара) и Редж Болл (Reg Ball, p. 12 июня 1943, Эндовер; бас) приняли участие в футбольном матче против соседней школы. В ходе общения выяснилось, что Ронни Бонд (Ronnie Bond, p. 4 мая 1943, Эндовер; настоящее имя Роналд Буллис (Bullis)) — вратарь соперников — умеет держать не только мячи, но и барабанные палочки, а их школьной группе как раз нужен был барабанщик. Годом позже, осенью 1964 Редж бросил работу подсобника каменщика и вывел группу на профессиональный уровень. Они решили назвать себя THE TROGGLODYTES, в честь древних обитателей находившейся неподалеку пещеры Чеддар Гордж.

В 1965 Мэнсфилд и Райт решили бросить музыку. Болл пригласил на их место двух музыкантов из конкурирующей группы TEN FOOT FIVE, уже успевшей сделать «сорокапятку» Send Me No More Lovin / Baby's Back in Town на фирме Fontana. Крис Бриттон (Chris Britton, p. 21 июня 1945, Уотфорд) играл на гитаре, а Пит Стейплз (Pete Staples, p. 3 мая 1944, Эндовер) — на басу, поэтому Реджу пришлось вставать к микрофону.

Ближе к осени на какой-то танцплощадке менеджер THE KINKS Ларри Пэйдж услышал, как THE TROGGLODYTES поют You Really Got Me в собственной, довольно своеобразной аранжировке. Он пришел в восторг от их агрессивной манеры и тут же предложил группе подписать контракт. Уже в феврале 1966 CBS выпустила «сорокапятку» с Lost Girl Болла под сокращенным для простоты именем THE TROGGS. Она провалилась, и для следующего сингла Пэйдж решил взять чей-нибудь чужой номер. После недолгих сомнений выбор был сделан в пользу Wild Thing Чипа Тэйлора, ранее неудачно сделанного американской группой THE WILD ONES. Поначалу Редж пришел в ужас, прочитав текст этой песни. Утяжелив звучание и заменив оригинальный свист на необычное соло Болла на окарине, THE TROGGS записали песню и предложили ее Fontana.

Не вполне пристойный по меркам того времени текст создал вокруг группы ореол скандала, а своевременное появление в телепрограммах Thank Your Lucky Star и Top Of The Pops помогло добиться национальной известности, также Болл заявил о том, что он официально меняет свою фамилию на Пресли (Presley). В мае Wild Thing вышла на второе место в британском списке, а месяцем позже на две недели возглавила американские чарты. Еще один скандал произошел, когда выяснилось, что в США песня издана одновременно двумя фирмами — Fontana и Atco.
В июле первый альбом THE TROGGS вышел в Англии, в сентябре — в США, а в конце осени — в Германии, гда популярность группы сразу приобрела эпидемический характер.
Следующий сингл, With A Girl Like You был первым в Англии, но только 29-м в США, а I Can't Control Myself — 2-м и 43-м соответственно. Автором обоих, ныне ставших классическими, номеров был Редж Пресли. Пэйдж к этому времени организовал собственную компанию Page One, первым продуктом которой стал второй альбом THE TROGGS Trogglodynamite.

В начале 1967 группа сделала хитом еще одну песню Чипа Тэйлора Any Way That You Love Me (№ 8), а затем выпустила чуть менее удачную Give It To Me (№ 12). Весной с должности менеджера был уволен Пэйдж, безуспешно изменить имидж THE TROGGS. Довольно неожиданная для стиля группы хиппистская Night Of The Long Grass (№ 17) стала их вкладом в атмосферу «Психоделического Лета». В ноябре THE TROGGS добились последнего серьезного успеха в США с еще одним хиппистским гимном Love Is All Around (№7, №5 дома). Сразу после этого дела группы резко пошли на спад.

В марте 1969 из группы ушел Пит Стэйплз. На его место был взят Тони Мюррей (Tony Murray) из THE PLASTIC PENNY. Они продолжали выступать теперь уже не в больших залах, а по театрам варьете и т. п., а к концу года совсем было распались (Пресли в 1969-70 записал соло-синглы Lucinda Lee и Let's Pull Together, Бонд — Anything For You, а Бриттон — целый альбом As I Am), но сумели удержаться на грани и в 1972; Бриттона к этому времени сменил Ричард Мур (Richard Moore); вернулись к активной работе в колледжах и клубах Англии, Франции, Голландии и Германии.

Успех пиратской кассеты The Troggs Tapes c записями, сделанными группой в конце ее работы с Page One, стимулировал переиздание старых работ и помог THE TROGGS подписать новый контракт с DJM. Рост интереса к ним побудил Дэвида Боуи пригласить группу в свою первую американскую телепрограмму The 1980 Floor Show (ноябрь 1973), что вызвало в США новый взрыв ее популярности.

В 1975, примирившись с Пэйджем, THE TROGGS выпустили под его новым лэйблом Penny Farthing специфические переделки Good Vibration THE BEACH BOYS и (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction STONES. На следующий год было предпринято большое ностальгическое турне по США, оказавшее колоссальное воздействие на только зарождавшуюся тогда новую волну.
В 1976 состав THE TROGGS пополнил второй гитарист Колин «Дилл» Флетчер (Colin Dill Fletcher). На FM-радио постоянно звучал их новый сингл Summertime.

В конце десятилетия состав еще несколько раз подвергался изменениям: Маррей ушел и бас взял в свои руки Пит Лукас (Pete Lucas), затем его место занял Джо Берт (Jo Burt), позднее игравший в SECTOR 27, появлялся и исчезал Бриттон и т. п. В 1979 THE TROGGS опять выступали в США, а запись концерта в знаменитом кафе Max's Kansas City была позднее издана на пластинке.

На протяжении 80-х годов они периодически всплывали на поверхность, время от времени что-то издавали, хотя это уже была остаточная активность. Осенью 1991 их разыскали музыканты R.E.M., давние почитатели THE TROGGS. Результатом общения стал записанный совместными усилиями (и даже с Пэйджем в качестве продюсера) альбом, вышедший в конце 1991 и содержавший оригинальный материал (песни Пресли, Питера Холсэппла, Чипа Тэйлора и других). В записи участвовали Пресли, Бриттон, Лукас, новый барабанщик Дэйв Мэгз (Dave Mags), а также трое из четверых членов R. E. M.

13 ноября 1992 расставшийся с группой в середине 80-х годов Ронни Бойд умер от алкоголизма

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The Troggs were signed by the manager of The Kinks in 1966 and recorded on Larry Page's Page One Records. Their most famous hit was the single "Wild Thing" (written by Chip Taylor), which reached #1 in the United States in June 1966. Its combination of a simple heavy guitar riff and flirtatious lyrics helped it to quickly become a garage rock standard.

They also had a number of other hits, including "With a Girl Like You" (a UK #1 in July 1966, U.S. #25), "I Can't Control Myself" (a UK #2 in September 1966), "Anyway That You Want Me" (UK #10 in December 1966), "Night of the Long Grass" (UK #17 in May 1967), and "Love Is All Around" (UK #5 in October 1967 and US #7 in February 1968). In the early 1970s, in an attempt to re-create their 1960s successes, the Troggs re-united with Larry Page, now running Penny Farthing Records, but the resulting cover version of the Beach Boys hit Good Vibrations did not capture the public's imagination. The Troggs still exist and still play gigs. Their original drummer Ronnie Bond died in 1992.
OFFICIAL TROGGS WEBSITE: www.my-generation.org.uk...

01 - Satisfaction
02 - Good Vibrations
03 - No Particular Place To Go
04 - Jenny Comes Down
05 - Get You Tonight
06 - I'll Buy You On Island
07 - Walking The Dog
08 - Memphis Tennessee
09 - Summertime
10 - Full Blooded Band
11 - I Got Lovin' If You Want It

12 - Peggy Sue
13 - Wild Thing
14 - Satisfaction - long version

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Blues Company - Same&Down On The Corner 2LP

2009-12-16T20:51:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

Blues Company - one of more group 60s years maked record under pseudonyms

like German Bonds/Luzifer's Friend's = Electric Food or people from The
Rattles and German Bonds = Seven Soldiers, .... and same Ken Hensley= Weed/Ken Leslie... -

a big amateur of the disguise
Blues Company this is also unknown studio members from Hamburg.

But they had very know producer - Herbert Hildebrandt.

And this already other history ------>http://www.rattles.de/

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01 - Down On The Corner
02 - Green River
03 - Everybody Is Doing Something
04 - Suzie Q
05 - Proud Mary
06 - Bad Moon Rising
07 - Fortunate Son
08 - Born On The Bayou
09 - 1-2-3 Count On Me
10 - Bootleg

11 - Bad Moon Rising - version
12 - Banana Nana
13 - Face Three
14 - Hanging Tree
15 - Remember
16 - Proud Mary - version
17 - Get Your Bag Packed
18 - Company Blues
19 - The Wind, The Rain
20 - I've Tried Susan

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The Move - Omnibus: The 60s Singles As and Bs

2009-12-16T18:42:00.000+03:00

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The Move were the best and most important British group of the late '60s that never made a significant dent in the American market. Through the band's several phases (which were sometimes dictated more by image than musical direction), their chief asset was guitarist and songwriter Roy Wood, who combined a knack for Beatlesque pop with a peculiarly British, and occasionally morbid, sense of humor. On their final albums (with considerable input from Jeff Lynne), the band became artier and more ambitious, hinting at the orchestral rock that Wood and Lynne would devise for the Electric Light Orchestra. The Move, however, always placed more emphasis on the pop than the art, and never lost sight of their hardcore rock & ... Read More..

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Ace Kefford vocal, bass guitar (left 1968)

Carl Wayne lead vocal (left 1970)
Roy Wood vocal, lead guitar, bass, cello, oboe
Trevor Burton vocal, guitar/bass (left 1969)
Bev Bevan drums and vocal
Rick Price vocal, bass guitar (joined 1969 - left 1971)
Jeff Lynne vocal, piano, guitar (joined 1970)
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Subtitled "The 60s Singles As and Bs," here's almost all the Move you'll ever need. If you're a fan of '60s British pop with alternating heavy dashes of pyschedelia and '50s retro-rock thrown in, the Move were the perfect embodiment of that odd blend. For newcomers, this is the group that Jeff Lynne later joined which permutated into the Electric Light Orchestra after scoring one last hit as the Move with the two-sided killer "Do Ya" b/w "California Man," both outside the timeline of this package, thus making it sadly incomplete. But the 20 tracks aboard are the original group with Carl Wayne and deliver all the other hits, B-sides, and even include two bonus tracks, an Italian version of "Something" and the withdrawn B-side "Vote for Me." Fans of the early Who will go bonkers for this one, solid Brit-pop all the way.

1. Night of Fear
2. Disturbance
3. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
4. Wave Your Flag and Stop the Train
5. Flowers in the Rain
6. (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree
7. Fire Brigade
8. Walk Upon the Water
9. Wild Tiger Woman
10. Omnibus
11. Blackberry Way
12. Something
13. Curly
14. This Time Tomorrow
15. Brontosaurus
16. Lightning Never Strikes Twice
17. When Alice Comes Back to the Farm
18. What?
19. Something [Italian Version]
20. Vote for Me [Withdrawn Single B-Side]

Not so well known as The Beatles, The Stones, Small Faces, Pretty Things, Led Zep or even Black Sabbath, The Move was a great British rock band at the late sixties. OMNIBUS is a good example of their musical force. Not only rock and roll, not only rhythm and blues, not quite hard rock, The Move is the natural link between the flower power age and the hard and heavy decade of the seveties. As other good bands which didn't really reach the "Hall Of Fame" (I can mention Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, even the Moody Blues) The Move hepled a lot the developpment of rock music whithout getting the proper recognicion. OMNIBUS proves all the above. This album suffer from a miss of coherent vision, but some tracks are really nice: I Can Hear The Grass Grow, Lemon Tree, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman. Being a collection of A's and B's singles (as it was fasionable to edit in the sixties) Omnibus is a good example of what The Move's music was at that time. However, if you wanna buy it, better check out with other titles, as some collection may include many of those tracks. If you really are a Move fan or you love very much the sound of the sixties (as is my case) you should get this album. If you enjoy the Electric Light Orchestra, is good to know how everything has started.

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The Troggs - Live At The Whisky A Go Go

2009-12-16T15:55:00.000+03:00

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Whisky A GO GO.com

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As long as there has been a Los Angeles rock scene, there has been the Whisky A Go-Go.
An anchor on the Sunset Strip since it's opening in 1964, the Whisky A Go-Go has played host to rock 'n' roll's most important bands, from the Doors,The Troggs, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin to today's up and coming new artists

The Whisky A Go-Go, 8901 Sunset Blvd at Clark, West Hollywood, CA

WHISKY A-GO-GO SHOW LIST 1966-1970

Whisky-A-Go-Go Show List 1971-1975

Whisky a Go Go
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MORE INFORMATION

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The Troggs Live At "The Whisky A Go Go" Los Angeles

Label: Bootleg British release 1980

01 - Got Love If You Want It
02 - Satisfaction
03 - Love Is All Around
04 - Give It To Me
05 - Feels Like A Woman
06 - Strange Movie
07 - Summertime
08 - Walking The Dog
09 - Memphis
10 - No Particular Place To Go
11 - Wild Thing
12 - Gonna Make You

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Amen Corner - The Best of

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Amen Corner was a Welsh R&B-tinged pop band of the '60s featuring singer Andy Fairweather Low, organist Blue Weaver, guitarist Neil Jones, bassist Clive Taylor, saxophonists Allen Jones and Mike Smith, and drummer Dennis Bryon. They scored the first of their six British chart hits with "Gin House" in the summer of 1967. "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" went to number one in early 1969. By then, Fairweather Low had become a teenage heartthrob and the band had switched management and record companies, but they split up by the end of the year.

Amen Corner (band)

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Andy Fairweather-Low - vocals, guitars
Neil Jones - lead guitars
Blue (Derek) Weaver - organ (позднее - в The Strawbs, Mott The Hoople и Bee Gees)
Allen Jones - sax
Mike Smith - sax
Clive Taylor - bass (later Bee Gees)
Dennis Byron - drums (later Bee Gees)

Английская группа из Южного Уэльса была сформирована гитаристом и певцом Энди Фейрвезер-Лоу (Andy Fairweather-Low) из музыкантов нескольких рок-коллективов города Кардифф. Первое публичное выступление группы состоялось во время рождественских праздников 1966 года. Вскоре группа переехала в Лондон, где в 1967 привлекла внимание компании Decca, главными звездами которой были Rolling Stones (и которая, кстати говоря, не рассмотрела в 1962 году ничего интересного в музыкантах группы Beatles), и подписала с ней контракт. Первый сингл группы Gin House Blues/I Know добрался до 12-го места в национальном хит-параде. Второй сингл World Of Broken Hearts занял 24-е место. Популярность группы росла очень быстро: музыканта давали множество концертов (в том числе в Альберт Холле), а вокалист Фейрвезер-Лоу стал кумиром английской молодежи. Дебютный альбом группы появился на прилавках британских музыкальных магазинов в 1968 году, назывался он Round Amen Corner и занял 26-е место в хит-параде.

В том же 1968 году, пока группа находилась в турне, в результате весьма темной сделки права на записи группы перешли от компании Decca (вернее - от ее филиала Deram) к компании Immediate. Компания Immediate, под патронажем которой находились такие исполнители, как Small Faces и Крис Фарлоу (Chris Farlowe), в этот самый момент испытывала серьезные финансовые затруднения, о чем участники Amen Corner и не догадывались. Несмотря на все это, был выпущен очередной сингл - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice - один из лучших в дискографии группы. Он занял первое место в национальном хит-параде. Следом появился второй, концертный, альбом - Explosive Company. Он не имел такого же успеха, как дебютный альбом.

В сентябре 1969 года группа объявила о своем распаде. Однако в октябре компания Immediate без ведома самих музыкантов, выпустила еще один сингл - Get Back/Farewell To The Real Magnificent Seven, который даже не попал в хит-парады.

Группа Amen Corner стала первой в истории группой из Уэльса, которой удалось занять первое место в национальном британском хит-параде.

Синглы (SP) Amen Corner:
1967 Gin House Blues/ I Know
1967 The World Of Broken Hearts/ Nema
1968 Bend Me Shape Me/ Satisnek The Job's Worth
1968 High In The Sky/ Run Run Run
1969 (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice/ Hey Hey Girl
1969 Hello Suzie/ Evil Man's Gonna Win
1969 Get Back/ Farewell To The Real Magnificent Seven

Альбомы (LP) Amen Corner:
1968 Round Amen Corner
1969 Explosive Company

Альбомы (LP) Andy Fairweather-Low:
1971 Beginning From an End
1974 Spider Jiving
1975 La Booga Rooga
1976 Andy Fairweather Low
1976 Be Bop & Holla
1980 Mega Shebang
2006 Sweet Soulful Music

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The Gestures - The Gestures (1964)

2009-12-14T19:38:00.000+03:00

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One of the first American garage bands to write and perform British Invasion-derived material, the Gestures only recorded two singles in the mid-'60s. But one of those, "Run, Run, Run," was an excellent effort indeed, with its blend of surf-styled guitar, terrific pummeling drums, and Beatlesque harmonies. It made #44 nationally in late 1964, and made the Top Ten in several cities, but the Minnesota group only made one follow-up before disbanding. Recording for a tiny regional label, there wasn't enough of a support network to build the Gestures into a bigger act, although some strong original songs — which employed pleasing harmonies and unusual, almost jazzy chord structures — indicated that the group had considerable potential. As it was, they're just another in a line of young groups whose prospects were short-circuited by limited opportunities, although "Run, Run, Run" is now acknowledged as one of the earliest and best garage 45s, especially after it was reissued on Pebbles, Vol. 9.
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01 - Hi-Heel Sneakers
02 - I'm Not Mad
03 - Don't Mess Around
04 - Run Run Run
05 - Things We Said Today
06 - Can I Get a Witness
07 - Long Tall Texan
08 - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
09 - It Seems to Me
10 - She Cried
11 - When Does Linda Cry
12 - Savage World [instrumental]
13 - Candlelight
14 - Things We Said Today [Alternate Backing Track]
15 - I'm Not Mad [Alternate Version]
16 - Stand by
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The Gestures never released an album during their brief existence. This 16-track disc was patched together by combining all four songs from their two singles with 12 previously unreleased cuts that were recorded for a projected (but unreleased album). "Run, Run, Run" is a stone classic, from its opening rush of ascending chords to its final chorus. Gestures songwriter Dale Menten penned a couple of other neat, more subdued tunes that bridged surf-frat rock with British Invasion styles. Most of the unreleased stuff, though, is competent, but not overly stunning, covers of mid-'60s hits from both the U.K. and the U.S. As such, it's more a testament to what might have been than a notable document, although garageheads will find it entertaining.

От себя...

Не очень-то она и гаражная эта группа. На мой взгляд в основном музыка без острых "гаражных"углов, без "...растерянности и злобы..", как говорит психоделический Медведев ,но с характерным ритмом и подпевочками больше похожа на хороший бит.И хотя определённая жёсткость уже присутствует в некоторых композициях,определить конкретный стиль в данном случае не легко,во всяком случае для меня. Скорее всего,это где-то на стыке - раннее утро в гараже... Да и так ли это важно ?.Главное,что музыка The Gestures потрясающе передаёт неповторимые оттенки саунда 60х.

Я надеюсь,что альбом понравится не только моим сверстникам, музыкальные пристрастия которых формировались в 60е-70е/в этом я уверен/,но и всем ,кто интересуется истоками современной рок музыки и кому нравится музыка того времени

ENJOY !!! как говорят у нас в Митино...

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Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - It Should've Been Me (1965)

2009-12-14T19:12:00.000+03:00

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Zoot Money was one of British rock 'n' roll's homebound heroes -- admired, respected and sought after by his colleagues, and able to fill halls nightly in England, he never managed to sell lots of records, even in England. Born in Bournemouth in 1942 with the name George Bruno Money, he grew up in an Italian-immigrant (but, on his father's side, English-descended) family. He was musically inclined from an early age and his first instrument, taken up at school, was the French horn -- he also sang in the choir as a boy. During the mid-1950's, he discovered rhythm-and-blues and its younger offshoot, rock 'n' roll, which quickly consumed his interest in music -- he switched to the keyboard under the inspiration of Jerry Lee Lewis and ... Read More...

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Zoot Money's debut LP, released on EMI's Columbia label in 1965, represents a side of the British Invasion that never quite took hold on U.S. shores -- steeped in American R&B but offering a sextet's attack on saxes and organ, theirs wasn't enough of a guitar-oriented sound to get a fair hearing in the U.S., though the guitarist here is Andy Somers (aka Andy Summers, who takes a hot solo on "Along Came John"). That doesn't mean it's not worth hearing, even 40 years later -- the renditions of numbers written by or associated with James Brown ("I'll Go Crazy"), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson ("Back Door Blues"), et al., knocked off in a single day's recording, is superb R&B regardless of its point of origin, and might even (and might still) turn a head or two. The big surprise, however, may be the gently swinging reinterpretation of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Rock and Roller," which manages to successfully straddle a couple of major music stylistic eras. And the Paul Williams-sung "Rags and Old Iron" is a dark, brilliant blues showcase for saxman Clive Burrows and Money's organ, as well as Williams' pipes.

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1. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - I'll Go Crazy (3:44)
2. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Jump Back (2:18)
3. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Alone Came John (4:56)
4. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Back Door Blues (6:13)
5. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - It Should've Been Me (2:56)
6. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller (2:59)
7. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - My Wife Can't Cook (4:52)
8. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Rags And Old Iron (3:34)
9. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Cat (3:34)
10. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Feelin' Sad (6:22)
11. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Bright Lights Big City (4:59)
12. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Fina (2:50)
13. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Uncle Willie (2:54)
14. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Good (2:25)
15. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Bring It Home To Me (3:42)
16. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Please Stay (3:40)
17. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - You Know You'll Cry (3:13)
18. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Something Is Worrying Me (2:56)
19. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (2:19)
20. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Big Time Operator (2:42)
21. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Zoot's Sermon (3:52)
22. Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - It Should've Been Me (alternate take) (2:48)

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The Rocking Ghosts - 16 HITS Denmark

2009-12-14T13:24:00.000+03:00

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The Rocking Ghosts as far as i can tell were a fairly popular Danish group that actually charted in Denmark with the A side to this single Belinda. They released records in a lot of countries, Germany , Japan, U.S.A., Mexico, etc. Originally started as a school band early 1962 witha trumpet as leading instrument! But changed style and instruments in the middle of the same year. They were heavily inspired by Cliff Richards & The Shadows, so naturally the first recordings were instrumentals.
In 1967 they tried to chance their image to the new flower powerstyle. But the change didn't give them any new fans and they lost a lot of the older fans and the group decided to split up.

The Rocking Ghosts - official homepage

1. Rocking Ghosts - Shaking All Over (2:14)
2. Rocking Ghosts - In The Mood (1:59)
3. Rocking Ghosts - Belinda (2:47)
4. Rocking Ghosts - Vilja, Oh Vilja (2:28)
5. Rocking Ghosts - Oh, Oh What A Kiss (3:23)
6. Rocking Ghosts - Annie Is Back (2:00)
7. Rocking Ghosts - Ghost Walk (2:01)
8. Rocking Ghosts - Jambalaya (2:18)
9. Rocking Ghosts - Lady Of Spain (2:05)
10. Rocking Ghosts - Djengis Kahn (2:47)
11. Rocking Ghosts - Scotland The Brave (2:55)
12. Rocking Ghosts - Whole Lotta Shaking Going On (2:47)
13. Rocking Ghosts - Under The Bridges Of Paris (3:00)
14. Rocking Ghosts - Maria Elena (2:48)
15. Rocking Ghosts - Ya Ya Twist (2:33)
16. Rocking Ghosts - Dance On (2:14)

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The Rocking Ghosts - The Complete Story 2 CD (1962-1970) Denmark

The Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today (1967)

2009-12-14T13:17:00.000+03:00

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From Jancy

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Released in the spring of 1967, Let's Live for Today was almost a musical throwback, steeped in folk-rock, which was fairly passé at the time, rather than psychedelia, but that's what makes it so appealing to listeners today. Listeners in 1967 were probably disappointed that there was nothing on the album as dramatic or memorable as the title track, but everything else is solid folk-rock with a pretty hard edge, which allows it to stand quite well alongside rival releases by the Beau Brummels, the Cryan Shames, the Blue Things, et al. Most of the music here is derived from the P.F. Sloan/Steve Barri songwriting and production team, spiced with four surprisingly strong originals — mostly drawn from the original demo tape that they submitted as the 13th Floor — by the band members themselves. The Sloan-Barri numbers are smooth, hook-laden folk-rock "Things I Should Have Said," "Is It Any Wonder," some of it with a garage band edge, and with elements of mild pop psychedelia ("Wake Up, Wake Up") occasionally manifesting themselves. Sloan and Barri's production gave the music a polish that made it thoroughly commercial without entirely losing sight of the band's fervor; the Grass Roots, only a few months out of playing bowling alleys, rose to the occasion in the singing and the basic playing, but they were also in the hands of two producers who knew how to add such embellishments as an unobtrusive harpsichord or flute over a garage band workout like "Tip of My Tongue," and who also took full advantage of stereo separation. The latter made this album a real treat for the fans, who bought it and got to hear the playing by Sloan (who contributed some guitar), Creed Bratton, and Warren Entner, and the singing by all of them (especially on "Is It Any Wonder") in vivid detail. Also surprising are the group originals, such as Entner and Bratton's "Beatin' Round the Bush" and Bratton's rocking "House of Stone," each of which is a match musically for most of the Sloan-Barri numbers. Admittedly, the lyrics on Sloan and Barri's songs are somewhat more sophisticated than those on most of the group originals, but the simpler words on the latter firm up this album's rock & roll credentials. The CD reissue has decent sound and is worth tracking down as one of the last examples of 1960s commercial folk-rock.

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01 - Let's Live For Today
02 - Depressed Feeling
03 - Things I Should Have Said
04 - Wake Up, Wake Up
05 - Is It Any Wonder
06 - Let's Live For Today
07 - Beatin Around The Bush
08 - Out Of Touch
09 - This Precious Time
10 - House Of Stone
11 - Days Of Pearly Spencer
12 - Feelings
13 - Here's Where You Belong
14 - Midnight Confessions

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The Grass Roots - Where Were You When I Needed You (1966)

2009-12-14T13:09:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

The Grass Roots had a series of major hits -- most notably "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Temptation Eyes," and "Two Divided by Love" -- that help define the essence of the era's best AM radio. Although the group's members weren't even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold. The group's history is also fairly complicated, because there were at least three different groups involved in the making of the songs identified as being by "the Grass Roots."

The Grass Roots was originated by the writer/producer team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri... Read More...

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Before the Grass Roots reached the peak of their pop/rock popularity, they were a much more folk-rock-oriented outfit. Indeed, this debut album is a matter of much confusion; apparently the original Grass Roots were pretty much a front for the songwriting team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, who ended up performing on much of the album themselves. In any case, this is decent, though not top-of-the-line, early folk-rock, falling about halfway between the Byrds and more pop-oriented peers like the Turtles and the Mamas & the Papas. Highlights include the hit title track and other Sloan-Barri originals like "Lollipop Train," "Look Out Girl," "This Is What I Was Made For," and "You Baby," which was a hit for the Turtles.

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1. The Grass Roots - Eve Of Destruction (3:34)
2. The Grass Roots - Only When You're Lonely (3:11)
3. The Grass Roots - Look Out Girl (2:18)
4. The Grass Roots - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (2:50)
5. The Grass Roots - I've Got No More To Say (2:50)
6. The Grass Roots - I Am A Rock (3:04)
7. The Grass Roots - Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good) (3:12)
8. The Grass Roots - Where Were You When I Needed You (3:03)
9. The Grass Roots - You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (2:22)
10. The Grass Roots - Tell Me (You're Coming Back) (3:27)
11. The Grass Roots - You Baby (2:23)
12. The Grass Roots - This Is What I Was Made For (2:24)
13. The Grass Roots - Mr. Jones (Ballad Of A Thin Man) (2:56)
14. The Grass Roots - You're A Lonely Girl (2:24)
15. The Grass Roots - (These Are) Bad Times (3:06)
16. The Grass Roots - Tip Of My Tongue (2:34)
17. The Grass Roots - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (2:53)
18. The Grass Roots - Hitch Hike (2:40)

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The Grapefruit - Around Grapefruit (1968)

2009-12-14T12:36:00.000+03:00

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From Jancy

Grapefruit were one of the better Beatlesque late-'60s British pop-rock bands. In 1968 they seemed on the way to stardom, with a couple of small hit British singles and, more importantly, some help from the Beatles themselves. Led by George Alexander, brother of the Easybeats' George Young, the group were at the outset cheerful harmony pop/rockers with similarities to the Easybeats, Bee Gees, and some Paul McCartney-penned tunes from the Beatles' own psych-pop era. Not quite as incessantly chipper as the Easybeats, not as melodramatic as the Bee Gees, and certainly not as inventive as the Beatles... Read More...

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Like the fruit after it was named, Grapefruit's debut album was at times too sweet, but was on the whole a promising and worthy effort. Devoted almost wholly to songs written by leader George Alexander, the record featured tuneful, upbeat mid-tempo late-'60s British rock with good harmonies, creative ornate arrangements, and a very slight and very sunny psychedelic tinge. Certainly similarities to the Paul McCartney-penned tracks from the Beatles' own psych-pop era are evident, and if George Alexander's songs weren't in nearly the same league as McCartney's, well, no one working the style was in McCartney's league. Grapefruit was at their best on the occasional songs in which they reached into slightly darker and more melancholy territory, particularly when they made creative use of strings, organ, baroque keyboards, and Mellotron, as on "This Little Man" and "Dear Delilah" and the instrumental "Theme for Twiggy." The latter tune sounds like something that could have been killer had words been devised; as it is, it seems like something that wasn't quite seen through to completion. There's also the Four Seasons cover "C'mon Marianne," which, although it wasn't one of their better tracks, was (along with "Dear Delilah") one of their two small U.K. hits. The CD reissue on Repertoire adds "Dead Boot," the non-LP B-side of "Dear Delilah."

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The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967)

2009-12-14T12:28:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

The Lemon Pipers included singer Ivan Browne, guitarist William Bartlett, keyboardist R.G. Nave, bassist Steve Walmsley, and drummer William Albaugh. The group is best known for their number-one bubblegum hit "Green Tambourine" and several followups, all written by the team of Paul Leka and Shelley Pinz. The group actually wanted to play more psychedelic music; they only recorded "Green Tambourine" because their label would have dropped them had they refused. They eventually got the artistic control they wanted and ended up dropping off the charts for good with their first self-produced album. They broke up in 1969, with Bartlett joining Ram Jam.

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Unlike the majority of bubblegum bands, the Lemon Pipers' albums are actually quite good, not least because they were one of the few bubblegum bands who were a proper band with their own songwriters (although outside writer/producers did provide the two hits, the inescapable "Green Tambourine" and the actually even better "Rice Is Nice," a sweet, harp-laden depiction of a wedding day). Even the album tracks are pretty groovy, like the Cat Stevens-like character sketches "Shoeshine Boy" and "The Shoemaker of Leatherwood Square," which effectively use trippy string sections and playful harmonies. The snottier folk-rock of "Ask Me if I Care" and the far-out "Fifty Year Void," to say nothing of the nine-minute freakout "Through With You," give Green Tambourine a harder edge than most bubblegum albums, though it's still closer to, say, the Cyrkle than Cream. Seek it out, bubblegum snobs: you'll find yourself pleasantly surprised.

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1. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (2:27)
2. The Lemon Pipers - Rice Is Nice (2:12)
3. The Lemon Pipers - Shoe Shine Boy (3:30)
4. The Lemon Pipers - No Help From Me (2:41)
5. The Lemon Pipers - Rainbow Tree (2:23)
6. The Lemon Pipers - Ask Me If I Care (3:12)
7. The Lemon Pipers - Straglin' Behind (2:36)
8. The Lemon Pipers - Blueberry Blue (2:30)
9. The Lemon Pipers - The Shoemaker Of Leatherwear Square (2:05)
10. The Lemon Pipers - Fifty Year Void (5:48)
11. The Lemon Pipers - Through With You (9:09)
12. The Lemon Pipers - Jelly Jungle (2:26)
13. The Lemon Pipers - I Was Not Born To Follow (2:35)
14. The Lemon Pipers - Everything Is You (2:48)
15. The Lemon Pipers - Catch Me Falling (5:19)
16. The Lemon Pipers - Love Beads And Meditation (2:50)
17. The Lemon Pipers - I Need Someone (The Painter) (2:42)
18. The Lemon Pipers - Lonely Atmosphere (2:56)
19. The Lemon Pipers - Wine And Violet (3:08)
20. The Lemon Pipers - Dead End Street / Half Light (11:42)

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Golden Earrings - Singles 1965-1967

2009-12-14T11:47:00.000+03:00

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1965 was a crucial year for the Golden Earrings. During one of their gigs they are discovered by Fred Haayen, a student who works in the depot of record company Polydor. Haayen manages to get them a record deal with Polydor and will later becomes the band's producer. The group releases its full-length debut Just Earrings. The first single is Please Go, which shoots straight to number 10. The release of the next single, Lonely Everyday, is being postponed when it is discovered that the title of the single's b-side, Not To Find, is grammatically incorrect.

The next year starts with a Top 3 hit for the single That Day. The Golden Earrings now spearhead the blooming beat scene in their hometown The Hague, also known as Liverpool by the North Sea, because of the many Dutch beat groups (Q65, Shocking Blue, the Motions) the city has brought forward. Other hits for the Earrings this year include If You Leave Me, Daddy Buy Me A Girl and Don't Run Too Far. Shortly before the release of the album Winter Harvest guitarist De Ronde leaves the band. Shortly after the release of Winter Harvest Frans Krassenburg leaves the band. He is replaced by Barry Hay (formerly the Haigs) who had shortly before that turned down an offer to join Shocking Blue. Sound Of The Screaming Day is another big hit in 1967.

1. Please Go - (studio)
2. Chunk of Steel - (studio)
3. Lonely Everyday - (studio)
4. That Day - (studio)
5. Words I Need - (studio)
6. If You Leave Me - (studio)
7. Waiting For You - (studio)
8. Daddy Buy Me a Girl - (studio)
9. What You Gonna Tell - (studio)
10. Don't Run Too Far - (studio)
11. Wings - (studio)
12. In My House - (studio)
13. Smoking Cigarettes - (studio)
14. Dream - (studio)
15. There Will Be a Tomorrow - (studio)
16. Call Me - (studio)
17. Sound of the Screaming Da - (studio)
18. She Won't Come to Me - (studio)
19. Together We Live, Together - (studio)
20. I Wonder- Preview (Togeth - (studio)

Before they embraced the prog-informed arena rock sound that led to their international hit "Radar Love" in 1974, Netherlands-based Golden Earring was a Beatlesque pop outfit with a jangly sound and songs that turned on harmonies and pure melody. This generous 20-song set collects their early singles (1965 to 1967) and for those only familiar with "Radar Love," it will no doubt be quite revelatory. Songs here like their first Dutch hit, "Please Go," "That Day," "Words I Need," the gorgeous "If You Leave Me," the equally gorgeous "Call Me," and the lively "Dream" sound like harder rocking versions of the Help!-era Beatles, and this early portion of Golden Earring's legacy stands quite nicely on its own merits. ~ Steve Leggett

Import exclusive compilation featuring 20 tracks, 'Please Go', 'Chunk Of Steel', 'Lonely Everyday', 'That Day', 'The Words I Need', 'If You Leave Me', 'Waiting For You', 'Daddy Buy Me A Girl', 'What You Gonna Tell', 'Don't Run Too Far', 'Wings', 'In My House', 'Smoking Cigarettes', 'Dream', 'There Will Be A Tomorrow', 'Call Me', 'Sound Of The Screaming Day', 'She Won't Come To Me', 'Together We Live, Together We Love' & 'I Wonder'.

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Golden Earring - Buddy Joe

2009-12-14T11:39:00.000+03:00

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FROM JANCY

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1. Golden Earring - Radar Love (6:25)
2. Golden Earring - Buddy Joe (3:50)
3. Golden Earring - Candy's Going Bad (6:13)
4. Golden Earring - Angelina (3:11)
5. Golden Earring - She Flies On Strange Wings, Part I (4:30)
6. Golden Earring - Kill Me Ce Soir (6:18)
7. Golden Earring - Gipsy Rhapsody (3:17)
8. Golden Earring - Everyday's Torture (5:19)
9. Golden Earring - Back Home (3:50)
10. Golden Earring - I'm Going To Send My Pigeons To The Sky (5:57)
11. Golden Earring - The Vanilla Queen (9:17)
12. 12 - Golden Earring - Eight Miles High (Buddy Joe) (18:57)

Sorry,but this cover is not original

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Golden Earring - Golden Earring 1970/ Seven Tears 1971

2009-12-14T10:31:00.000+03:00

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*****

From Jancy

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Golden Earring (aka Wall of Dolls)

Golden Earring found the titular Dutch quartet forging the unique style that would later pay off in successful albums like Moontan and Cut. At this point, the group's sound is best described as post-psychedelic FM rock with a pronounced hard rock element (strong, gutsy guitar riffs about on this record -- just check out "The Loner" or "Back Home"). A lot of the songs have the atmosphere and elaborate arrangements associated with prog rock, but the group keeps the arrangements and the running times tight (the album's lengthiest song is just a little over six minutes). The most overtly artsy track on the album is "Big Tree, Blue Sea," an energetic and complex rock tune that includes Jethro Tull-style flute and packs a dizzying array of tempo and stylistic changes into a tune only half as long as the average prog tune. Other highlights on Golden Earring include "This Is the Time of the Year," a song whose effect arrangement juxtaposes quiet verses with spare instrumentation with dramatic chorus powered by a powerful guitar riff and "Back Home," a solid example of the kind of good-time rocker that would dominate Golden Earring's late-'70s albums. The big problem for the group at this juncture is the lyrics: "I'm Gonna Send My Pigeons to the Sky" is an earnest but muddled stab at protest music whose lyrics fail to say much of anything and the powerful riffing of "The Loner" is undone by cartoonish, melodramatic lyrics. However, the strong music and the band's tight musicianship make up for this problem and Golden Earring remains a tight, tuneful effort that is well worth a listen for Golden Earring's fans.

Seven Tears 2 in 1

Seven Tears finds Golden Earring continuing to develop its distinctive blend of hard rock and prog elements, but the end result is not as consistent as 1970's Golden Earring. The big problem this time out is that the group's adventurous genre-hopping tendencies don't always result in strong songs: "Silver Ships" is a soft, science fiction-influenced song that generates a potent atmosphere but lacks the strong arrangement and sense of dynamics that would allow it to take flight, and "You're Better Off Free" loses sight of its catchy tune with a lengthy midsection guitar jam that derails an otherwise interesting song. Despite these problems, Seven Tears shows a band willing to take big risks to transform its combination of elements into a totally unique style. When this alchemy works, the results are quite good: "The Road Swallowed Her Name" effectively blends a heavy guitar riff worthy of Black Sabbath with psychedelic lyrics and percussion, and "Hope" generates the down-and-out feeling of its lyrics with a descending saxophone riff guaranteed to stick in the listener's head. The album's highlight is "She Flies on Strange Wings," an art rock epic that combines verses done in a stomping, heavy metal style with spacy choruses and a slow, dreamy midsection that is strongly reminiscent of Pink Floyd. Overall, Seven Tears is more like a collection of songs than a fully realized album, but there are enough strong moments to make it worthwhile for hardcore Golden Earring fans.

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01 - Golden Earring - Yellow And Blue
02 - Golden Earring - The Loner
03 - Golden Earring - This Is The Time Of The Year
04 - Golden Earring - Big Tree Blue Sea
05 - Golden Earring - The Wall Of Dolls
06 - Golden Earring - Back Home
07 - Golden Earring - See See
08 - Golden Earring - I'm Going To Send My Pigeons To The Sky
09 - Golden Earring - As Long As The Wind Blows

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10 - Golden Earring - Silver Ships
11 - Golden Earring - The Road Swallowed Her Names
12 - Golden Earring - Hope
13 - Golden Earring - Don't Worry
14 - Golden Earring - She Flies On The Strange Wing
15 - Golden Earring - This Is The Orther Side Of Life
16 - Golden Earring - You're Better Off Free

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Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - Into Our Lives : The EMI Years 1961-1969

2009-12-13T16:33:00.000+03:00

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Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers formed in early 1961 in Hayes, Middlesex, borrowing their name from Duane Edward's hit 'Rebel Rouser'. Honing their skills playing popular Rock 'N' Roll covers, their local popularity drew the attention of legendary producer Joe Meek whose influence got them a contract with Parlophone. Into Our Lives (The Joe Meek & EMI Years 1961-1969), comprehensively collects together all Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers' UK hits, all the album and E.P. tracks, the b-sides, and a massive 18 previously unreleased performances - in all 117 tracks and over 4 « hours of music! Also included are 3 Cliff Bennett solo tracks (all of which are previously unreleased) and liner notes written by celebrated journalist Dave Lang for which Cliff himself has agreed to be interviewed. EMI.

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This is the last word in collections of Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers, with 117 songs spread over four CDs. That's probably 110 more songs than most listeners in 2009 know by Cliff Bennett and company, but that doesn't mean that this isn't a wonderful opportunity to discover the rest of that output, or that it all isn't highly worthwhile -- it is; in fact, Bennett's may well be the best undiscovered library in the EMI vaults. Bennett and his various bands recorded a massive amount of material and endured for years, consistently rated by their fellow musicians as among the finest R&B-based outfits working in England in the early '60s, without ever breaking through to major stardom. Even if you're familiar with much of their output before this set, you'll be truly amazed by the consistency of this set -- from the early '60s, doing some surprisingly authentic-sounding covers of Atlantic-style R&B and into the mid-'60s, covering Beatles material successfully, and right to the end of the decade with a harder sound, this was a first-rate outfit that boasted such luminaries as Frank Allen (later -- and still, in 2009 -- the bassist for the Searchers) in their lineup. The programming may seem a little strange, as the group's earliest singles, produced by Joe Meek, are relegated to the last disc; but those recordings (never mind the actual records) are so rare that people should take them anyway they can get them.

Bennett and company are usually credited with introducing home-grown R&B to the clubs in England, and early on they show the influence of various Atlantic and Vee Jay artists -- the later material, officially the work of the Cliff Bennett Band (featuring ex- and future Pirates Mick Green and Frank Farley) or Cliff Bennett solo releases, also kept pace with the developments in soul on this side of the Atlantic, which makes disc three of this set every bit as satisfying -- and perhaps even more so -- than the first platter, as Bennett and company successfully assimilate the mid- to late-'60s Motown and Stax/Volt sounds. The last disc is given over to the group's Joe Meek sessions -- which present the group doing a leaner, more generic rock & roll sound, heavy on the guitars, which wasn't really what they were about -- and various oddities, such as stereo mixes of songs best known (and heard) in mono; but even this platter has its virtues, as a distillation of odd corners of Bennett's output that are every bit as rewarding as the rest of this set. In short, there's not a bad cut anywhere on this nearly 300 minutes of music, and the mastering is impeccable, making this the best airing that Bennett's work is likely ever to get. The only flaw, if there is one, is the relatively disappointing booklet, which features notes that could (and should) have gone a lot deeper into the group's history and recordings.
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Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - Into Our Lives :

The EMI Years 1961-1969 [Box set] 2009

Disc 1
1 Alright / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:35
2 Beautiful Dreamer / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:12
3 Love Is a Swinging Thing / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:41
4 Do It / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:02
5 Fortune Teller / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:07
6 Johnny B Goode / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:27
7 Lover Come Back to Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:48
8 Doctor Feelgood / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers New Mono Mix 2:42
9 You Make Me Happy / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:05
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:36
11 Stupidity / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
12 Come Closer / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:21
13 Slow Down / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:19
14 I Like It Like That / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:19
15 Got My Mojo Working / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:24
16 She Said 'Yeh' / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:50
17 Sha La La / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:09
18 Shoes / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:13
19 What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am?) / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased 2:32
20 One Way Love / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:21
21 I'll Take You Home / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:13
22 I Can't Stand It / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 4:08
23 Talking About My Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:34
24 The Pick-Up / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:11
25 Sweet and Lovely / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:43
26 Make Yourself at Home / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:01
27 Ain't That Lovin' You Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:47
28 Steal Your Heart Away / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:31
29 Mercy Mercy / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
30 It's All Right / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:48

Disc 2
1 Do You Love Him? / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:58
2 If Only You'd Reply / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:45
3 Another Saturday Night / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:20
4 Do It Right / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:48
5 Try It Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:56
6 I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:49
7 Three Rooms with Running Water / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
8 As Long as She Looks Like You / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:21
9 Sweet Sorrow / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:22
10 It's Drivin' Me Wild / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:24
11 I'll Be Doggone / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:54
12 Always / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:59
13 Something You've Got / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:08
14 Baby, Baby, Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:10
15 I Have Cried My Last Tear / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:04
16 (That's Why) I Love You So / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:00
17 Waitin' at the Station / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:05
18 My Sweet Woman / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:12
19 Strange Feeling / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:36
20 Need Your Lovin' Tonight / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:59
21 Whole Lotta Woman / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:33
22 Who's Cheatin' Who / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:36
23 You Can't Love 'Em All / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:55
24 We're Gonna Make It / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:19
25 Hold on I'm Coming / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:19
26 Ain't Love Good, Ain't Love Proud / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:56
27 Stop Her on Sight (S.O. S) / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:28
28 Eyes for You / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:57
29 Baby Each Day / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:55

Disc 3
1 Got to Get You into My Life / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
2 You Don't Know Like I Know / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:30
3 It's a Wonder / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:57
4 Don't Help Me Out / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:06
5 Never Knew Lovin' Could Be So Doggone Good / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:04
6 Barefootin' / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:32
7 Close the Door / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:04
8 I'm Not Tired / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:44
9 See-Saw / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:40
10 Roadrunner / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:36
11 C.C. Rider Blues / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
12 6345-789 / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:57
13 I'm Sorry / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:33
14 I'll Take Good Care of You / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:08
15 Ease Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:16
16 I Take What I Want / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:23
17 You're the One for Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:37
18 I Don't Need Nobody / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:58
19 I'll Be There / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:36
20 Use Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:24
21 House of a Thousand Dolls from House of a Thousand Dolls 2:26
22 Said I Weren't Gonna Tell Nobody / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:24
23 Ain't Nobody Home 2:25
24 Lonely Weekends / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:04
25 Good Times / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:03
26 You're Breaking Me Up (And I'm Wastin' Away) / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:37
27 When Something Is Wrong with My Baby / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:08
28 Taking Care of a Woman Is a Full Time Job / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 3:02

Disc 4
1 Take Your Time / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:48
2 I Hear Her Voice 2:09
3 Nobody Runs Forever 2:56
4 One More Heartache 2:31
5 Don't Knock It 2:34
6 Back in the Ussr 2:38
7 This Man 2:43
8 Somebody Help Me 3:24
9 Red Bus 2:10
10 Memphis Streets previously unreleased / Stereo Version 3:42
11 But I'm Wrong previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:12
12 Hey Western Union Man previously unreleased 3:18
13 You've Got What I Like / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 1:37
14 I'm in Love with You / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:20
15 That's What I Said / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:57
16 When I Get Paid / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:42
17 Poor Joe / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:10
18 Hurtin' Inside / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:24
19 Everybody Loves a Lover / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:37
20 My Old Stand-By / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers 2:28
21 Alright / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:34
22 Beautiful Dreamer / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:11
23 Love Is a Swinging Thing / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:42
24 Do It / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:02
25 Fortune Teller / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:08
26 Johnny B Goode / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:27
27 Lover Come Back to Me / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:48
28 Doctor Feelgood / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:44
29 One Way Love / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers previously unreleased / Stereo Version 2:22
30 Got to Get You into My Life / Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers Stereo Version

*****

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Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers - Cliff Bennett & Got To Get You Into Our Life (1965&1967)

The Buckinghams - Kind Of a Drag (1967)

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If everyone on the northwest side of Chicago who claims to have hung out with the Buckinghams during their heyday had faithfully bought all their releases, the rock group might have sold more records than the Beatles. Popular attractions while still in high school, the quintet changed its name from the Pulsations to the Buckinghams to reflect the British Invasion craze and signed with Chicago's USA Records in 1966. Backing Dennis Tufano's buoyant lead vocals with prominent harmonies and punchy soul-styled brass, the group came across the wistful "Kind of a Drag," and in short order, the Buckinghams had a million-selling pop chart-topper on their hands. They quickly graduated to recording for Columbia. As long as songwriter Jim Holvay supplied more material of the same high quality as "Kind of a Drag," the Buckinghams were sitting pretty. Holvay co-wrote "Don't You Care," "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," and the pseudo-psychedelic "Susan," and they all proved to be major hits for the band. The group's R&B roots surfaced on a vocal adaptation of Cannonball Adderley's jazz standard "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," their second-biggest hit.

But the Buckinghams' fortunes soon changed drastically -- one of the top-selling rock groups of 1967, they managed only one hit after early 1968. Two original members, guitarist Carl Giammarese and bassist Nick Fortuna, have since revived the Buckinghams and began touring full-time again in 1982.
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Producer James William Guercio took on such a major role in the Buckinghams' second album that he amounted to a more influential force, perhaps, than anyone in the band. He arranged, conducted, and wrote or co-wrote six of the ten selections. Most noticeably, there were orchestral arrangements, complete with tympanis and blaring horns, that wouldn't have been out of place in film scores, large jazz bands, or even (at their most dissonant) early Frank Zappa records. Obviously he and/or the band were trying to be more experimental than they could on their hit singles, and the inclusion of the hit pop singles "Don't You Care" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" made the LP all the more a strange affair. Not nearly as rock-oriented as their debut album, it was a quirky failure, as the Buckinghams were ultimately much more suited towards making AM singles than delving into somewhat strange orchestrated horn rock (although Guercio's songs were usually fairly hummable love songs when the arrangements were stripped away). In fact, the strongest cut other than the hit singles, "Remember," could have been a hit without the oddball horn charts. Sundazed combined Time & Changes with the group's third LP, Portraits, on a single-disc CD reissue.

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1. The Buckinghams - I'm a man (5:55)
2. The Buckinghams - I'll go crazy (2:09)
3. The Buckinghams - Don't want to cry (2:14)
4. The Buckinghams - Viginia Wolf (2:33)
5. The Buckinghams - Beginner's love (1:56)
6. The Buckinghams - Sweets for my sweet (2:10)
7. The Buckinghams - I've been wrong (1:57)
8. The Buckinghams - I call your name (2:13)
9. The Buckinghams - Makin' up & breakin' up (2:14)
10. The Buckinghams - You make me feel so good (2:40)
11. The Buckinghams - Summertime (3:57)
12. The Buckinghams - Love ain't enough (2:12)
13. The Buckinghams - Kind of a drag (2:09)
14. The Buckinghams - Lawdy miss Claudy (2:04)

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The Troggs - Singles A's & B's (3-CD Box)

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Members:

Reg Presley

Chris Britton
Pete Lucas
Dave Maggs

The Troggs Official Website

The Troggs Wiki

Fan Site for The Troggs

The Troggs Google

The Troggs Рок-энциклопедия.

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troggs' discography

SINGLES
TITLE LABEL RELEASED
Lost Girl/The Yella In Me CBS 1966
Wild Thing/From Home Fontana 1966
With A Girl Like You/I Want You Fontana 1966
I Can't Control Myself/Gonna Make You Page One 1966
Anyway That You Want Me/66-5-4-3-2-1 Page One 1966
Give It To Me/You're Lying Page One 1967
Night Of The Long Grass/Girl In Black Page One 1967
Hi Hi Hazel/As I Ride By Page One 1967
Love Is All Around/When Will The Rain Come Page One 1967
Little Girl/Maybe The Madman Page One 1968
Surprise, Surprise/Marbles And Some Gum Page One 1968
You Can Cry If You Want To/There's Something About You Page One 1968
Hip Hip Hooray/Say Darlin' Page One 1968
Evil Woman/Sweet Madelaine Page One 1970
Easy Livin'/Give Me Something Page One 1970
Lover/Come Now Page One 1970
The Raver/You Page One 1970
Lazy Weekend/Let's Pull Together DJM 1971
Wild Thing (new version)/With A Girl Like You/Love Is All Around Jam 1972
Everything's Funny/Feels Like A Woman Pye 1972
Listen To The Man/Queen Of Sorrow Pye 1973
Strange Movies/I'm On Fire Pye 1973
Good Vibrations/Push It Up To Me Penny Farthing 1974
Summertime/Jenny Come Down Penny Farthing 1975
I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)/Memphis Tennessee Penny Farthing 1975
I'll Buy You An Island/Supergirl Penny Farthing 1976
Feeling For Love/Summertime Penny Farthing 1977
Just A Little Too Much/The True Trogg Tapes Raw 1978
Black Bottom/With You Stagecoach 1982
Every Litt1e Thing/Black Jack & Poker/With A Girl Like You(Picture Disc) Ten Records 1984
Wild Thing/From Home(re-release) Fontana 1991
Don't You Know/Nowhere Road
(With members of REM) Page One 1992
Wild Thing/Wild Thing (With Oliver Reed
& Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins) Lifetime Records 1992
Wild Thing (The Troggs with Wolf)
War (Edwin Starr with Shadow) IMT Weekend 1993

12" SINGLES

Wild Thing/I Can't Control Myself!/Love Is All Around/The Troggs Tapes DJM 1981
Every Little Thing (extended mix)/Every Little Thing/Black Jack & Poker Ten Records 1984
Wild Thing/+ Wild Thing re-mix x 2 (with Oliver Reed & Alex Hurricane Higgins) Lifetime Records 1992

This is the best compilation of the Troggs' singles available. It contains all their single A sides and a few B sides from their first single release in 1965, Lost Girl, to the mid 70s. Another positive is that all the songs are the original recordings, not re-recordings or remixes.All the hits, including Wild Thing, With A Girl Like You and Love Is All Around, are there along with the singles which failed to chart but some of which certainly deserved to be hits.This is recommended for all genuine Troggs fans.

Disc: 1
1. Lost Girl
2. Yella in Me
3. Wild Thing
4. From Home
5. With a Girl Like You
6. I Want You
7. I Can't Control Myself
8. Gonna Make You
9. Anyway That You Want Me
10. 66 5 4 3 2 1 ( I Know What You Want)
11. Give It to Me
12. You're Lyin'
13. Night of the Long Grass
14. Girl in Black
15. My Lady
16. Hi Hi Hazel
17. As I Ride By
18. Love Is All Around
19. When Will the Rain Come
20. Little Girl
21. Maybe the Madman
22. Surprise Surprise
23. Marble and Some Gum
24. You Can Cry If You Want
25. There's Something About You
26. Hip Hip Hooray
27. Say Darlin'
28. Evil Woman
29. Sweet Madelaine
Disc: 2
1. Jingle Jangle
2. No. 10 Downing Street
3. That's What You Get Girl
4. I Don't Know Why
5. Easy Lovin'
6. Give Me Something
7. Lover
8. Come Now
9. Raver
10. You
11. Lazy Weekend
12. Let's Pull Together
13. Everything's Funny
14. Feels Like a Woman
15. Listen to the Man
16. Queen of Sorrow
17. Strange Movies
18. I'm on Fire
19. Good Vibrations
20. Push It Up to Me
21. Wild Thing [Reggae Version]
22. Summertime [Single Version]
23. Jenny Come Down
24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
25. Memphis Tennessee
26. Peggy Sue
Disc: 3
1. I'll Buy You an Island
2. Gonna Make You
3. Supergirl
4. Get You Tonight
5. Feeling for Love
6. Just a Little Too Much
7. Coz We're Dancing
8. Fast Train
9. Black Bottom
10. I Love You Baby
11. Every Little Thing
12. Blackjack and Poker
13. Don't You Know
14. Nowhere Road
15. Every Little Thing [Extended Mix]
16. Baby's Back in Town [*]
17. Send Me No More Lovin' [*] - Chris Britton, Peter Staples, The Troggs
18. Carolyn [*] - Ronnie Bond
19. Anything for You [*] - Ronnie Bond
20. Lucinda Lee [*] - Reg Presley
21. Wichita Lineman [*] - Reg Presley
22. Young and Beautiful [*] - Reg Presley
23. 'S Down to You Marianne [*] - Reg Presley
24. Hey Little Girl [*] - Reg Presley

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The Outlaws - Dream of the West (1961)

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The first (and only) album by England's Outlaws is an enjoyable instrumental record of its time, a bit like the work of the Shadows -- indeed, "Husky Team" is about as overt an attempt to emulate "Apache" as this reviewer has heard -- but also very strange. The sound is supposedly a Western one, and the composer is credited as "Robert Duke," who was really producer Joe Meek. Meek's vision of Western music was as spacy as it was Western, and there's a sound here that does parallel the work of the Tornados, much more so than that of any Western outfit you'd care to name. The music is drenched in reverb and also has a slightly rawer edge than the Shadows' work of this era, without as much polish, but otherwise isn't terribly ambitious. The best moments recall "Tribute to Buddy Holly," and "Smoke Signals" has an element of Buddy Holly-style balladry in timbre, while "Ambush" calls to mind film music, as it might have been channeled through a Marty Robbins session of the period by way of Meek's weirdness. The lead guitarist here, incidentally, is Billy Kuy, not Ritchie Blackmore -- he wasn't to join the band (and show what it could really do) until long after the release of this album.

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Outlaws, английская рок-группа (Великобритания). «Группа, которую вы слушали чаще, чем можете предположить», — отозвался британский журналист и историк рока Питер Фрэйм о THE OUTLAWS, одной из первых и лучших рок-н-ролльных групп добитловской Британии, имея в виду, что записав под собственным именем сравнительно мало (альбом и десяток синглов), она на протяжении всей своей биографии успешно сотрудничала с известным продюсером Джо Миком и принимали участие в десятках (если не сотнях) сделанных им записей.

Весной 1960 до компании приятелей, которые в ту пору играли рок-н-ролл с различными любительскими группами, дошли слухи, что сезон в молодежном лагере отдыха компании Butlins — верный путь к славе. Решив, что слава — это то, чего им хочется больше всего, Билли Кай (Billy Kuy; соло-гитара), Редж Хокинс (Reg Hawkins; ритм-гитара), Чес Ходжес (Chas Hodges; бас) и Бобби Грэм (Bobby Graham; барабаны), объединились и, пригласив певца по имени Билли Грей (Billy Grey), устроились играть в батлинский лагерь в Файли под именем BILLY GREY AND THE STORMERS. Они работали там с мая по сентябрь, однако осенью Грей решил жениться и покинул группу, а с ней и весь шоу-бизнес.

Остальные четверо, тем не менее, почувствовали вкус успеха и решили, что хотят продолжения. Они записались на прослушивание к первому британскому независимому продюсеру Джо Мику, который только что построил у себя дома студию RGM Sound и добился первого успеха с синглом певца Майкла Кокса. Мику группа понравилась, и он с ходу взял ее на работу: аккомпанировать своим многочисленным клиентам-вокалистам, однако, с присущей ему манерой манипулировать своими артистами, переименовал их в THE OUTLAWS, придумав имидж разбойников-«аутло» (буквально — «вне закона»), позаимствованный из американских вестернов. Они записывались с протеже Мика — Джоном Лейтоном, Майком Сарном, Майклом Коксом, с весны 1961 их постоянным партнером стал певец Майк Берри (Mike Berry), а в том же марте THE OUTLAWS дебютировали в грамзаписи под своим именем с инструментальным синглом Swinging Low на HMV, который попал в британские чарты (№ 46). Скромный успех имела и их вторая «сорокапятка» Ambush (№ 43 в июне 1961). В декабре 1961 свет увидел их единственный альбом Dream Of The West, который состоял, в основном, из номеров на ковбойско-пионерскую тематику, сочиненных Миком под псевдонимом Роберт Дюк, однако в том же сентябре оригинальный состав группы развалился: Хокинс покинул музыку, Кай стал сессионным музыкантом, а Грэм перебрался в JOE BROWN AND THE BRUVVERS, потом возглавлял THE JOHN BARRY SEVEN, а к концу 60-х годов приобрел репутацию опытного сессионера и продюсера (он, в частности, помог начать карьеру молодым SLADE!).

Тем не менее, за несколько недель Ходжес и Берри собрали новых THE OUTLAWS: в их состав вошли Роджер Мингэй (Roger Mingay; соло-гитара), Кен Ландгрен (Ken Lundgren; ритм-гитара) и Дон Грум (Don Groom; барабаны). Эта версия группы просуществовала год (с сентября 1961 до октября 162), записала еще три «сорокапятки» (Valley Of The Sioux в 1961, Ku Pow и Sioux Serenade в 1962), много выступала и записывалась с другими артистами, но успехов в списках более не добивалась. Весной 1962 Мингэй решил эмигрировать в Австралию, и его место занял гитарист Лорн Грин (Lorne Greene).

В октябре 1962 Берри, призвав Грума и Кая, организовал новую группу THE INNOCENTS, которая сопровождала его следующие два года, в то время, как Ходжес и Ландгрен реогранизовали THE OUTLAWS. Их партнерами на этот раз стали семнадцатилетний гитарист Ричи Блэкмор (Ritchie Blackmore), который до этого сменил несколько самодеятельных групп, безрезультатно прослушивался в THE OUTLAWS осенью 1961 (тогда предпочтение было отдано более взрослому Мингэю) и дебютировавшему на профессиональной сцене в рядах SAVAGES «Вопящего» Лорда Стача, а также барабанщик экс-басиста THE SHADOWS Джета Харриса Мик Андервуд (Mick Underwood).

Этот состав THE OUTLAWS оказался наиболее стабильным: Ходжес, Ландгрен, Блэкмор и Андервуд продержались вместе девятнадцать месяцев, работали на записях Джона Лейтона и первых хитах Хайнца, гастролировали по Британии как бэк-группа Джерри Ли Льюиса и Джина Винсента и записали еще четыре сингла (Return Of The Outlaws и That Set The Wild West Free в 1963, Law And Order и Keep A Knockin" в 1964) под собственным именем. Они также успели засветиться в фильмах «Live It Up» (где исполнили Law And Order) и «News Of The World».

В апреле 1964 Блэкмор, уже тогда известный своим тяжелым характером, ушел к Хайнцу. Позднее он аккомпанировал Нилу Крисчену и Лорду Сатчу, пытался организовать собственную группу, а на рубеже 70-х годов прославился как лидер DEEP PURPLE. Его место занял гитарист Харви Хинсли (Harvey Hinsley), но это была медленная агония — в Британию уже пришли битломания и бум групп из Мерси-сайда, которые отняли аудиторию у инструментального рока. Мик тоже переживал не лучшие времена: его хиты были в прошлом, а новые проекты не вызывали у публики интереса. THE OUTLAWS этого периода не записывались, изредка выступали и окончательно прекратили существование в июне 1965, когда Ходжес и Хинсли ушли в CLIFF BENNETT AND THE REBEL ROUSERS. Позже Ходжес играл с экс-пианистом Беннетта Роем Янгом, в BLACK CLAW (опять с Хинсли) и HEADS, HANDS AND FEET, а в 1975 стал половиной популярного дуэта CHAS AND DAVE. Хинсли нашел себя в составе продуктивных хитмэйкеров HOT CHOCOLATE, а Андервуд оставил следы в THE HERD, EPISODE SIX, QUATERMASS, SAMMY, STRAPPS и дождался лучших дней как барабанщик Яна Гиллана.

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01.Dream of the West
02.The Outlaws
03.Husky team
04.Rodeo
05.Smoke Signals
06.Ambush
07.Barbecue
08.Spring is near
09.Indian Brave
10.Homeward bound
11.Western Sunset
12.Tune for short cowboys

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The Outlaws - Ride Again Singles A's & B's (1961-64)

2009-12-13T12:45:00.000+03:00

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The Outlaws -- not to be confused with the American country act of the same name -- were one of a wave of instrumental groups that came along in British pop/rock music during the late 1950's and early 1960's. At the time, Cliff Richard's backing band the Shadows, were selling hundreds of thousands of records on their own, separate from the singer, and enjoying the kind of star status that guitarists of just a generation earlier could only have dreamt about. The Outlaws were distinguished by the unique sound of their records, courtesy of producer Joe Meek, and the presence of three top-flight players, one near-legend (Bobby Graham), and one future guitar god, Ritchie Blackmore... Read More...

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The Outlaws - Ride Again (Singles)
All 18 of the songs from their singles are included on this collection. It's all quite dated decades later, but not without its period charm, and the production was actually quite innovative for its period.
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1. Swingin' Low
2. Spring Is Near
3. Ambush
4. Indian Brave
5. Valley Of The Sioux
6. Crazy Drums
7. Last Stage West
8. Ku-Pow
9. Sioux Serenade
10. Fort Knox
11. Return Of The Outlaws
12. Texan Spiritual
13. That Set The Wild West Fr
14. Hobo
15. Law & Order
16. Do-Da-Day
17. Keep A Knockin'
18. Shake With Me

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - Move It! vol.11

2009-12-13T12:41:00.000+03:00

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From the countless garage band collections that threw a great variety of eras and styles onto one LP, the late '90s, led by the leading Teenage Shutdown series, have laid that method to rest by focusing on a particular style with each compilation. On the 11th high-quality volume, a selection of bands who paid little, or no, attention to the British Invasion are featured: all are raucous and a few downright inept. Move It! traces the four-year period of 1964 to 1968 when the Chuck Berry and soul influences of the band's homeland were accidentally adapted to a form of white-trash rock. As a collective, this subgenre of garage is classified as "frat," or in the words of Tim Warren, "frat-stomp," which describe the music's beer-fuelled, teen punk take on R&B totally devoid of any intricacies. This brief era disregarded meaningful lyrics or quality instrumentation in favor of the key elements of R&R: fun and volume. This is music solely for delinquents (which in the '90s are usually media employees of 30-plus with five-figure salaries). Opening with the im-"peck"-able Peck's Bad Boys' "Crazy World," a shouted soul-rap on life's problems, the remaining 18 tracks race along without putting a cog in the works with any hint of vocal harmonies or musical expertise. Out of the hefty weight in cover versions, Dylan's "On the Road Again" (the Deadlys) and Berry's "Johnny Be Goode" (the Retreds) are given a pounding punk rock treatment. While the Buccanneers take on Jesse Hill's "Oop Poo Pah Doo," which a third of the way cuts to the Isley Brothers' "Nobody but You," displays rough and tough white boys mastering the soul basics. In writing originals, a simplistic chord structure akin to "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," a catchy refrain, and stomp, stomp drums were all that was needed; "One More Time" (the Reasons Why) is a perfect example. And proving that a loud vocal, three chords, and the exemplary solo half way through in songs weren't entirely wiped out by the Grateful Dead, "True Love" by Bobby Runnel's Faux Pas, the latest offering, recorded in 1968, is clear evidence. As with all teenagers, a rude joke never has gone amiss and the Customs Five's "Let's Go in '69," which wasn't about the year, and "Lollipop" by the Royal Coachmen with its lyric rather obsessed by sucking again hint at the juvenile wonders of the "frat-stomp" genre. Yet again, another essential addition to the Teenage Shutdown series that will surely please each and every garage fanatic.

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Move It! [2000]

01. Peck's Bad Boys - Crazy World [2:37]
02. The Deadlys - On The Road Again [1:53]
03. The Stompers - I Know [2:49]
04. The Buccaneers - Oop Poo Pah Doo [2:06]
05. Dave & The Stone Hearts - Slow Down [2:40]
06. The Individuals - I Want Love [2:35]
07. The Chevrons Five - Niat Pac Lavram [1:46]
08. The Retreds - Johnny Be Good [3:05]
09. The Twiliters - Move It [2:47]
10. The Shondells - Something's Got A Hold Of Me [2:41]
11. The Reason Why - One More Time [2:16]
12. The Excels - Let's Dance [2:09]
13. The Creations - Don't Be Mean [2:08]
14. Bobby Runnel's Faux Pas - True Love-Heartaches [1:51]
15. Bill Tatman & The Rampagers - What's Wrong With You [2:20]
16. The Galaxies - Gitchy-Gitchy-Goo [2:11]
17. The Banshees - Take A Ride With Me [2:23]
18. The Customs Five - Let's Go In '69 [2:05]
19. The Royal Coachmen - Lollipop [2:37]

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - The World Ain’t Round, It’s Square! vol.10

2009-12-13T12:30:00.000+03:00

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The liner notes for Teenage Shutdown: The World Ain't Round, It's Square!, subtitled "17 Paint-Peeling Garage-Punk Monsters," begin with these words: "Get set for 17 blasts of ravin' bashers! A 42-minute barrage of killer teenage punksters resurrected from out-of-print and inferior-soundin' comps, with a few makin' their compilation debut." This disclaimer of sorts -- penned by Mike "Moptop" Markesich, who wrote the liners for the entire series -- states right upfront that some of the tracks are repeats from other comps. The difference, however, is the sound quality. These vinyl-to-digital transfers were made, with minimal EQing, by Crypt Records' Tim Warren. Warren was able to keep the warmth of the original analog sound of the singles, boosting the volume and making the CD sound as good as possible. Many of these 45s came directly from Markesich's own colossal 45 rpm collection. The CD booklet -- which features a half-dozen band photos (all but one are black and white) and colorful scans of the original single labels -- features a lot of in-depth commentary, more than previous liner notes in this series have. Hunting down information on any one of these obscure bands would require a lot of out-of-pocket expenses, and so much of what you find here is mostly still shrouded in mystery. Other times, there's info. that you wouldn't find elsewhere. The collection kicks off with the mighty roar of Albany, OR's Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen, who are depicted on the cover destroying their instruments. Their frantic drums-bass-organ-guitar combination on "I've Been Thinking" pushes the song forward with an intensity you don't usually find in '60s garage rock. This is primeval R&B-soaked garage punk, the real deal, and the rest of the album continues the frenetic pace. Larry & the Blue Notes' harmonica-and-fuzz guitar-powered "In and Out" is great, an energetic workout that recalls the Count Five's post-chorus freakout in "Psychotic Reaction." Other highlights include tracks by the Shepherd's Heard ("I Know"), the Deepest Blues' "Pretty Little Thing" (from Ontario, CA), and the last track, by Pasadena, TX's Destiny's Children. As with most of the Teenage Shutdown collections, the track selection and sequencing here are excellent. This CD is reportedly Warren's personal favorite.

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The World Ain’t Round, It’s Square! [1998]

01. Paul Bearer & The Hearsemen - I've Been Thinking [2:42]
02. Shepherd's Heard - I Know [2:48]
03. The Stoics - Hate [2:27]
04. Larry & The Blue Notes - In And Out [2:00]
05. Nomads - From Zero Down [2:36]
06. The Triumphs - Lovin' Cup [2:15]
07. The Oxfords - I Ain't Done Wrong [3:31]
08. The Deepest Blue - Pretty Little Things [2:49]
09. The Heathens - Problems [2:11]
10. The Chessmen - I Need You There [2:25]
11. The Bards - Alibis [2:08]
12. Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion - She's The One [2:11]
13. The Sound Barrier - Hey Hey [2:35]
14. The Mods - I Give You An Inch [2:49]
15. The Savages - The World Ain't Round, It's Square [2:52]
16. The Wrong Numbers - I'm Gonna Go Now [1:39]
17. Destiny's Children - Fall Of The Queen [2:01]

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Golden Earring - 3 Originals (2CD) 2003

2009-12-12T20:24:00.000+03:00

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*****

FROM JANCY !

Best known in the U.S. for its hard rock material, Golden Earring has been the most popular homegrown band in the Netherlands since the mid-'60s, when they were primarily a pop group. The group was founded by guitarist/vocalist George Kooymans and bassist/vocalist Rinus Gerritsen, then schoolboys, in 1961; several years and personnel shifts later, they had their first Dutch hit, "Please Go," and in 1968 hit the top of the Dutch charts for the first of many times with "Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong," a song that broadened their European appeal. By 1969, the rest of the lineup had stabilized, with lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Barry Hay and drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk. They experimented with their style for several years before settling on straightforward hard rock initially much like that of the Who, who invited them to open their 1972 European tour. Golden Earring signed to the Who's Track label, which released a compilation of Dutch singles, Hearing Earring, helping the group break through in England. 1974's Moontan LP spawned the single "Radar Love," a Dutch number one, U.K. Top Ten, and U.S. number thirteen hit. The group toured America opening for the Doobie Brothers and Santana, but the lack of a follow-up ensured that their popularity remained short-lived in America, even though they remained a top draw in Europe over the rest of the 1970s. 1982 saw a brief American comeback with the album Cut and the Top Ten single "Twilight Zone," but as before, Golden Earring could not sustain its momentum and faded away in the U.S. marketplace. All of Golden Earring's basic lineup has recorded as solo artists in Europe. "Radar Love" enjoyed a second round of popularity when pop-metal band White Lion covered the song in 1989.

Golden Earring — рок-группа, образованная в 1961 году в Гааге, Голландия, первончально (и до 1969 года) под названием The Golden Earrings. Golden Earring начинали как бит- и поп-группа, но постепенно ужесточали и усложняли звучание; в годы наибольшего успеха ансамбль исполнял хард-рок с элементами прогрессив. Международный успех Golden Earring принесли хиты Radar Love (1973), Twilight Zone (1982) и When The Lady Smiles (1984). [1] Группа, выпустившая у себя на родине более 40 хит-синглов и более 30 альбомов с платиновым статусом, существует по сей день в составе: Барри Хэй (вокал, гитара, флейта, саксофон), Джордж Куйманс (вокал и гитара, основатель группы), Ринус Герритсен (бас-гитара и клавишные) и Сезар Зюйдервийк (ударные).

Barry Hay (vocals, guitar, flute, saxophone, 1967-present),

George Kooymans (vocals, guitars),

Rinus Gerritsen (bass, synthesizer, keyboards),

Cesar Zuiderwijk (drums, percussion, 1970-present),

Eelco Gelling (guitar, 1976-78),

Frans Krassenburg (vocals, 1964-67),

Fred van der Hilst (drums, 1961-64),

Hans van Herwerden (guitar, 1961-63),

Jaap Eggermont (drums, 1964-69),

Peter de Ronde (guitar, 1963-66),

Robert-Jan Stips (keyboards, 1975-76),

Sieb Warner (drums,

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Golden Earring History

Golden Earring Discography

Golden Earring on Google

Discography and review on AllMusic

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Golden Earring 3 Originals CD - Import:

Just Earrings - 1965

Winter Harvest - 1967

Miracle Mirro - 1968

Dutch import. 13 bonus tracks.

Long before they gained popularity in the States with pop rock hits like 1983's "Twilight Zone" (under their later name, Golden Earring), the Golden Earrings had years of chart success in their native Holland. The extensive 3 ORIGINALS is a compilation of their first three full-length releases, JUST EARRINGS, WINTER HARVEST, and MIRACLE MIRROR, and includes 13 bonus tracks.

Specially-priced release featuring the veteran Dutch rockers' first three albums together on two CDs, their 1965 debut 'Just Earrings', 1967's 'Winter Harvest' and 1968's 'Miracle Mirror', plus 13 bonus tracks! Bonus tracks are 'Chunk Of Steel', 'That Day', 'The Words I Need', 'If You Leave Me', 'Waiting For You', 'Daddy Buy Me A Girl', 'What You Gonna Tell', 'Don't Run Too Far', 'Wings', 'Sound Of The Screaming Day', 'She Won't Come To Me', 'Together We Live Together We Love' and 'I Wonder Preview Together We Live And Love'. A grand total of 51 tracks. Double jewelcase.

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1. Nobody But You
2. I Hate Saying These Words
3. She May Be
4. Holy Witness
5. No Need To Worry
6. Please Go
7. Sticks And Stones
8. Iam A Fool
9. Don't Saty Away
10. Lonely Everyday
11. When People Talk
12. Now I Have
13. Another Man In Town
14. Smoking Cigarettes
15. In My House
16. Don't Wanna Loose That Girl
17. Impeccable Girl
18. Tears And Lies
19. You've Got The Intention To Hurt Me
20. Dream
21. You Break My Heart
22. Baby Don't Make Me Nervous
23. Call Me
24. Happy And Young Together
25. Lionel The Miser
26. There Will Be A Tomorrow
27. The Truth About Arthur
28. Circus Will Be In Town In Time
29. Crystal Heaven
30. Sam And Sue
31. I've Just Lost Somebody
32. Mr. Fortune's Wife
33. Who Cares?
34. Born A Second Time
35. Magnificent Magistral
36. Must I Cry?
37. Nothing Can Change This World Of Mine
38. Gipsy Rhapsody
39. Chunk Of Steel
40. That Day
41. The Words I Need
42. If You Leave Me
43. Waiting For You
44. Daddy Buy Me A Girl
45. What You Gonna Tell
46. Don't Run Too Far
47. Wings
48. Sound Of The Screaming Day
49. She Won't Come To Me
50. "Together We Live, Together We Love
51. I Wonder Preview Together We Live And Love

PART 1

PART 2

The Iguanas - Jumpin' With The Iguanas (1963-64)

2009-12-12T01:25:00.000+03:00

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The Iguanas earned their place in rock and roll history as the launching pad for a teenaged drummer named Jim Osterberg, better known today as the influential punk pioneer Iggy Pop.

BAND INFO:
Jim McLoughin - Guitar and Vocal
Nick Kolokithas - Guitar and Vocal
Sam Swisher - Sax and Percussion
Don Swickerath - Bass
Iggy(Jim Osterberg) - Drums

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Formed in Ann Arbor, MI in 1963, the Iguanas originally comprised Osterberg and guitarist Jim McLaughlin, who together made their public debut at a junior high school talent show; upon entering high school that fall, they recruited saxophonist Sam Swisher, soon after landing their first paid gig at a local school dance. The trio then recorded an instrumental demo at McLaughlin's father's home studio before swelling to a five-piece with the additions of guitarist Nick Kolokithas and bassist Don Swickerath. By 1964 they were a major attraction on the Ann Arbor rock scene, regularly playing local dances, teen clubs and frat parties; a second demo session followed later that year.

In the spring of 1965, the Iguanas entered Detroit's United Sound Recording Studio to cut three more tracks, among them a cover of Bo Diddley's "Mona" (issued as a single on the group's own Forte label) and "Again and Again" (the first-ever Osterberg original). That summer they were tapped as the house band at the Club Ponytail, a nightspot located in the Harbor Springs resort area; there the Iguanas opened for acts including the Four Tops, the Shangri-Las and the Kingsmen, frequently backing the headliners onstage as well. Osterberg exited the line-up in 1966 to join the Prime Movers; the remaining Iguanas hired a new drummer and played club dates in Boston and New York, but when a deal with Columbia Records failed to materialize the band dissolved in 1967. Decades later, McLauglin, Kolokithas and Swickerath announced their intentions to revive the group in the wake of the 1996 release of the retrospective Jumpin' with the Iguanas.

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1963-1964 Ann Arbor, Detroit -

Studio and demo tracks (Jumpin with the Iguana)

1. The Iguanas - Walk Don't Run
2. The Iguanas - Tequila
3. The Iguanas - Wipe Out
4. The Iguanas - If I Had A Hammer
5. The Iguanas - Mona
6. The Iguanas - I Don't Know Why
7. The Iguanas - Again & Again
8. The Iguanas - Twist & Shout
9. The Iguanas - California Sun
10. The Iguanas - Slow Down
11. The Iguanas - I Feel Fine
12. The Iguanas - Blue Moon
13. The Iguanas - Things We Said Today
14. The Iguanas - Louie Louie
15. The Iguanas - Wild Weekend
16. The Iguanas - Tell Me
17. The Iguanas - Summertime
18. The Iguanas - Outer Limits
19. The Iguanas - Johnny B Goode
20. The Iguanas - Perfidia
21. The Iguanas - Travelin' Man
22. The Iguanas - Louie Louie
23. The Iguanas - Wild Weekend
24. The Iguanas - Surfin' Bird

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49th Parallel - 49th Parallel (1969) Canada

2009-12-12T01:18:00.000+03:00

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Forty Ninth Parallel

Formed: 1966, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Disbanded: 1970

Group Members:
Mick Woodhouse, Dave Petch,

Denny Abbott, Bob Carlson,

Danny Lowe, Terry Bare

49th Parallel was one of an unusual breed of garage punk bands to come out of Canada in the mid-'60s. Originally known as the Shades of Blond when they were formed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the band featured Dennis Abbott on vocals, Dan Lowe and Bob Carlson on guitars, Dave Petch at the organ, Mick Woodhouse on bass, and Terry Bare on drums.

The band was signed to Gaiety Records and made their debut in mid-1967 with "Labourer," a piece of hard-edged garage punk, laden with fuzz-tone guitar and a defiant sneer, that sold moderately well in Canada. Their second single, "Blue Bonnie Blue" (co-written by a then-unknown Delaney Bramlett about the equally unknown Bonnie Bramlett, no less) had more of a lyrical folk-rock feel, though it kept its sharp edge in the singing and lyrics. Around this time, Woodhouse exited the lineup and was succeeded by Dave Downey on bass; he was later replaced by Alf Cook, and Dennis Mundy (and later Jack Velker) succeeded Petch on organ. In the spring of 1969, they finally had a national hit in Canada with "Twilight Woman," which charted in parts of the United States as well, and sounded like a poppier, slightly folkier version of the sound that bands like Tomorrow were generating in England.

The group was never able to capitalize on the success of "Twilight Woman" and its follow-up, "Now That I'm a Man," however, in part because they were unable to hold their lineup together. Lead singer Dennis Abbott quit after their release, and in the course of changing personnel -- with Doran Beattie replacing him -- their sound changed. By 1970, the group had changed its name to Painter. The latter group scored a modest hit with "West Coast Woman" and its follow-up, "Crazy Feeling," before the band was renamed Hammersmith in the early to mid-'70s. They, in turn, issued a pair of singles, "Feelin' Better" and "Late Night Lovin' Man."

At their best, 49th Parallel had a hard, cutting sound that could have put them in the front ranks of garage punk bands, their slashing guitars and swirling organ around Abbott's lead vocals making a compelling and memorable sound, which was easily adaptable to psychedelic punk. Their slow ballads were suitably spacey in a pop/rock vein, but it was their harder numbers that hold up best. Like a lot of '60s bands, they outlived their era and metamorphosed into new shapes and directions. Guitarist Dan Lowe later made a fortune in the field of multimedia sound design, as the inventor of Q-Sound.
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1 Now That I'm a Man
2 Get Away
3 Eye to Eye
4 Missouri
5 Lazerander Filchy
6 (Come on Little Child &) Talk to Me
7 (The) Magician
8 Twilight Woman Abbott 2:32
9 Close the Barn Door
10 The People
11 All Your Love [*]
12 Laborer [*]
13 You Do Things [*]
14 She Says [*]
15 Citizen Freak [*]
16 Blue Bonnie Blue [*]
17 Up to No Good [*]
18 I Need You [*]
19 Goodtime Baby
20 Missouri [*]
21 Blue Bonnie Blue

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The Ugly Ducklings - Selftitled (Compilation ) Canada

2009-12-12T01:01:00.000+03:00

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This self-titled album by legendary '60s rockers The Ugly Ducklings gathers together album tracks from the band's only album, Somewhere Outside, original singles, previously unreleased material, and alternate versions of original singles. The material on this compilation was recorded between 1966-1968 with more than half never available in album form before now. The set contains the band's biggest singles: "Nothin'" from 1966 and "Gaslight" from 1967. Although most of the 14 songs on this album have found their way to various compilations by the band over the years, this is the most comprehensive collection available of the band's earliest and best material. The Ugly Ducklings broke up in the early '70s, but re-formed later in the '80s to cash in on the popularity and collectability of Somewhere Outside with collectors. The band still gets together even today to do the occasional gig in the Toronto area. The only drawback on this album is the lack of liner notes and band history. This reissue by Unidisc has been digitally mastered for superb sound quality and is available at a budget price

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1 Just in Case You Wonder
2 I Wish You Would
3 I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore
4 Gaslight
5 My Little Red Book
6 Hey Mama (Keep Your Big Mouth Shut)
7 Nothin'
8 10-30 Train
9 I Need Your Love
10 She Ain't Used to Me
11 Rimb Nugget
12 I Can Tell
13 Epilogue
14 I Know What to Say

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The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside (GARAGE CANADA 1967)

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The Ugly Ducklings - Toomuch too soon (1966-67 ) Canada

2009-12-11T19:42:00.000+03:00

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*****

Coming from Toronto, Ontario in the mid Sixties (1965), Ugly Ducklings were a garage rock band. The band mixed elements of The Kinks, Yardbirds, The Who, and The Rolling Stones into their music, but were know for delivering some songs with a high energetic punk delivery. The band consisted of Dave Bingham (vocals/guitar), Rodger Mayne (Lead Guitar), Glynn Bell (Rhythm Guitar), John Read (bass), and Robin Boers on drums. The five piece garage outfit scored some success with their debut single "Nothin'" on CHUM- AM radio in Canada. The song itself was a distorted, fast energetic song with punk elements. The bands second hit for CHUM-AM was "Gaslight" a more psychedelic number. The band even opened for the Rolling Stones at Maple Leaf Gardens.

In 1967 the band released Somewhere Outside their first full length album. The album contained the bands first three singles and other songs such as the dirty garage riff filled "Just In Case You Wonder", and the instrumental "Windy City". By 1968, the band split up. It was ironic that at this time Mick Jagger had said that Ugly Ducklings were his favourite Canadian band, but they were no more. In the 70's Rodger Mayne would manage the Canadian punk act The Viletones. In 1980, the band reformed for another album Off The Wall. The band would get a new drummer former Diode member John Hamilton. In 1982, the band released another album this time it was self titled.

Ugly Ducklings have been featured on countless garage rock compilations. In 1998, the bands material got released on CD with bonus tracks. Ugly Ducklings have been said to have been an influence on Canadian punk and rock acts.
*****

01 — gaslight
02 — nothin'
03 — she ain't n use to me
04 — 1030 train
05 — wish you would
06 — mama keep your big mouth shut
07 — i ain't gonna eat out my heart anymore
08 — just in case you wonder
09 — i know what to say
10 — do what you want
11 — not for long
12 — just a thought
13 — postman's fancy
14 — windy city

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The Ugly Ducklings - Somewhere Outside (GARAGE CANADA 1967)

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The Gants - Gants Galore 1966 & Road Runner 1965

2009-12-11T16:56:00.000+03:00

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1. The Gants - Road Runner
2. The Gants - Stormy Weather
3. The Gants - Gloria
4. The Gants - Six Days In May
5. The Gants - You've Got To Hide You Love
6. The Gants - The House Of The Rising Sun
7. The Gants - Bad Boy
8. The Gants - My Baby Don't Care
9. The Gants - Never Got Right
10. The Gants - Out Of Sight
11. The Gants - Don't Think Twice It's All Right
12. The Gants - I Don't Want To See Her Again
13. The Gants - Crackin' Up
14. The Gants - Shapes Of Things
15. The Gants - Peter Rabbit
16. The Gants - Summertime Blues
17. The Gants - One Track Mind
18. The Gants - Good Lovin'
19. The Gants - Little Latin Lupe Lu
20. The Gants - Kicks
21. The Gants - Try To Hard
22. The Gants - C'mon Everybody
23. The Gants - Dirty Water
24. The Gants - Dr. Feelgood
25. The Gants - I Wonder
26. The Gants - Somebody Please
27. The Gants - Oh Yeah
28. The Gants - Dance Last Night
29. The Gants - Drifters Sunrise
30. The Gants - Greene Days
31. The Gants - Just A Good Show

*****

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The Gants - I Wonder (Compilation )

2009-12-11T14:46:00.000+03:00

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An identically titled compilation of Gants material, with identical liner notes, appeared as an 18-track LP on Bam Caruso in 1988. This is essentially a CD expansion of that album, retaining all 18 songs from the LP and adding a further dozen for a total of thirty. Hence it's a preferable makeover from every vantage point, particularly as it includes three vital tracks that were somehow omitted from the LP configuration: "Roadrunner" (their sole national hit), their 1966 single "Little Boy Sad" (a crunching cover of a song previously done by Johnny Burnette), and the Rolling Stones-like original "(You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings." As with the 1988 Bam Caruso LP, star tracks include the country-rock beat ballad "Spoonful of Sugar" (which recalls the material on Beatles for Sale), the Merseybeat imitation "I Don't Want to See Her Again," and the poignant folk-rocker "I Wonder." A few tracks with strings produced by future Bread leader David Gates in 1967 are okay, but don't fit the group's best qualities. On the other hand, it has to be noted that most of the covers of rock and R&B hits (like "Kicks," "Out of Sight," "Rain," and "Good Lovin'") that comprise most of the newly added cuts are inessential, and that the original "I'm a Snake" is nothing more than a clumsy rewrite of "Roadrunner."

*****

One of the relatively few garage bands from the Deep South to make a national impression in the mid-'60s, the Gants hit the Top 50 in 1965 with their cover of "Roadrunner." Liberty Records then preceded to bleed the band dry by issuing three cover-heavy albums and five more singles in the next year and a half. They deserved better, because lead singer and guitarist Sid Herring was a performer and songwriter of some talent. Too Beatlesque to be considered a garage band in the usual mold, their original material approximated elements of the Fab Four's sound circa 1965 with a blend of mid-tempo acoustic and electric guitars, close harmonies, and a slight country feel. Herring himself sounded like Lennon, and he wasn't above reworking melodic phrases from "In My Life" and "From Me to You." The strong material tended to be dwarfed by their rushed, cover-heavy albums, and the group never had another hit after "Roadrunner."

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1. I Wonder
2. Just a Good Show
3. I Don't Want to See Her Again
4. I Want Your Lovin'
5. Drifter's Sunrise
6. Little Boy Sad
7. Six Days in May
8. Somebody Please
9. (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings
10. Greener Days
11. My Baby Don't Care
12. Never Go Right
13. Please Tell Me Why
14. Hungry
15. Bad Boy
16. Summertime Blues
17. You Better Run
18. Spoonful of Sugar
19. One Track Mind
20. Try Too Hard
21. Good Lovin'
22. Rain
23. Crackin' Up
24. Dance Last Night
25. Dr. Feelgood
26. I'm a Snake
27. Oh Yeah
28. Kicks
29. Out of Sight
30. Roadrunner

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THE GANTS - ROAD RUNNER ! (THE BEST OF)

THE GANTS- Introducing (1965-1967)

VA-Teenage Shutdown - Teen Jangler Blowout! vol.9

2009-12-11T14:39:00.000+03:00

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Teenage Shutdown: Teen Jangler Blowout!, subtitled "Cool Teen Clang N' Jangle Lowdown," collects tuneful jangle rock and garage punk from 1966 and 1967. According to the liner notes by Mike "Moptop" Markesich (whose singles collection provided many of the 45s used by Crypt Records' honcho, Tim Warren, for the entire Teenage Shutdown compilation series), this disc contains "100 percent teenage clang 'n' jangle that swings from start to finish, resurrecting a lotta killers from out-of-print and inferior-soundin' comps, with a few makin' their compilation debut." Markesich mentions this, no doubt, because there are a lot of repeats from the previously issued Highs in the Mid-Sixties series. However, as he points out, the Teenage Shutdown collections have a sound quality far superior to previous releases with the same tracks. Warren reportedly transferred the tunes, with minimal EQing, from the original mono vinyl slabs onto analog reels by using a "30,000 dollar turntable sporting a 3,500 dollar needle." The CD booklet -- which features just three black-and-white band photos, including the cover cats the JuJus -- has minimal information on these regional groups, but there's well-researched info. here that you wouldn't expect to read anywhere else. The CD begins with a band called Berkeley, CA's the Answer, who waxed this single for the White Whale label in 1965 (a gig with the Turtles had led to them signing to the label). The Burgundy Runn are one of many groups in the Teenage Shutdown series hailing from the Southwest garage capitol of the U.S., Albuquerque, NM. "Just Won't Leave" was written by the youngest member of Stamford, CT's the Mad Hatters (he was 13 years old at the time). This band toured the New England area for a few years before splitting in the fall of 1966 as the members entered college. "Trip to New Orleans" is the B-side to the Bees' "Voices Green and Purple," which was released on the Liverpool label (Covina, CA) in October 1966, many, many years before the A-side would appear on Pebbles, Vol. 3 and Rhino's celebrated Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 box set many years later. The Jackson Investment Company came from Lakeland, FL, another locale that provided a lot of the source material for these comps. As you might expect, Markesich reveals that the band's name came from an uncle who invested time and money in his nephew's group. The Fab Four -- from Kansas City, MO, not Liverpool, England -- had originally appeared on the Monsters of the Midwest, Vol. 1 compilation, which was previously only available on cassette. Most of the tracks here come from glorious monaural slabs of vinyl, however, and the care used here makes this one of the best-sounding comps in the entire Teenage Shutdown series.

****

Teen Jangler Blowout! [1998]

01. The Answer - I'll Be In [2:34]
02. The Burgundy Runn - Stop! [2:05]
03. Jack And The Beanstalks - So Many Times [2:25]
04. The Jackson Investment Co. - Not This Time [2:05]
05. The Kings Ransom - Shame [2:09]
06. The Mad Hatters - Just Won't Leave [3:25]
07. The JuJus - I'm Really Sorry [2:26]
08. The Fortune Seekers - Why I Cry [2:33]
09. The Bees - Trip To New Orleans [1:55]
10. The Sleepers - I Want A Love [2:34]
11. Young Aristocracy - Don't Lie [3:09]
12. Sir Michael And The Sounds - Can You [2:11]
13. Warden And His Fugitives - The World Ain't Changed [2:56]
14. The Jackson Investment Co. - What Can I Say [2:22]
15. The Zone 5 - I Cannot Lie [2:46]
16. Disillusioned Younger Generation - Who Do You Think You're Fooling [3:06]
17. The Fab Four - I'm Always Doing Something Wrong [3:01]

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - She’ll Hurt You In The End vol.8

2009-12-11T14:33:00.000+03:00

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Teenage Shutdown: She'll Hurt You in the End, subtitled "Teener Garage Explosion, Vol. 2," was, like the others in this series, compiled by Crypt Records' Tim Warren from mid-'60s garage rock/garage punk singles owned by collector "Moptop" Mike Markesich. As with the other compilations, this one focuses on carefully mastered sound; all of the analog-to-digital transfers were accomplished with a minimum of EQing. There isn't much here that seems to stand out from the rest of the pack, unfortunately. The playing on this one -- as on Teenage Shutdown: You Treated Me Bad!, which was subtitled "The Teener Side of the Mid 60s Garage Explosion" -- isn't very professional (not that's what you expect anyway), and the word "teener" seems to be somewhat interchangeable with "amateur." As usual, there aren't too many band photos to be found in the fold-out insert booklet; there are colorful scans of the single labels, but only two black-and-white photos of the groups, including the Dynamic Drifters, who appear on the cover but whose music isn't included on the CD. The liner notes -- penned by Markesich -- haven't much information on the bands either, but there probably wasn't much info on these "rockin' teenbeat sounds" to begin with. The first track -- 1966's "She'll Hurt You in the End" by the Manhattan-based the Four Fifths, who were aged 13-16 years at the time of this recording -- provided the title for this release, and as you might expect, it's one of the comp's better efforts. The song actually comes from Associated Studios Acetate, but it's also been available previously on other various-artists collections, so it's not exactly rare anymore. The IV Pak's "Whatzit?" from 1967 finds this band from South Boston, VA, borrowing the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction," but not really doing much new with it. The King Bees, from North Carolina, similarly take the Beatles' chorus hook "It Won't Be Long" and don't do much with it either. The Wee Four -- who were originally called the Dimensions prior to a name change in mid-1965 -- contribute "Weird," one of the better singles here. The Soothsayers (from Greely, CO) and the Nightcaps (from Manchester, MO) also contribute fine tracks, but this collection -- let's call it Nuggets-lite -- is slightly disappointing overall.

***

She’ll Hurt You In The End [1998]

01. The Four Fifths - She'll Hurt You In The End [2:42]
02. The Gee Tees - Dog [2:30]
03. Three From Three - That's What I Say [3:35]
04. The Nightcaps - Tell My Baby [2:35]
05. The Marauders - Nightmare [2:05]
06. The IV Pack - Whatzit? [2:40]
07. The King Bees - I Want My Baby [3:23]
08. The Few - Why Oh Why [2:06]
09. The Wee Four - Weird [2:00]
10. The Quests - I'm Tempted [1:41]
11. The Soothsayers - Black Nor Blue [1:52]
12. The Levis - That's Not The Way [2:29]
13. The Corals - Red Eye Glasses [2:02]
14. The Ascots - Who Will It Be [1:56]
15. The Sting Rays - Shaggy Dog [1:55]
16. The Weejuns - Way Down [2:05]
17. Actioneers - No One Wants Me [2:52]
18. The Chevrons Five - I Lost You Today [1:54]

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - Get A Move On!!! vol.7

2009-12-11T14:24:00.000+03:00

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Teenage Shutdown: You Better Get a Move On!, subtitled "Snarl & Stomp, Rave & Rant Teen Garage Hoot," is another fine collection of jangly pop and mid-'60s folk-punk. According to the CD booklet -- which features color photos and scans of the original single labels -- this collection dates from 1966 and 1967 and "serves up a solid batch of top-shelf Kinks-meets-Raiders-inspired oompf that flows like a mofo!" No argument there. The liner notes on this particular set are a bit skimpy compared with some of the others in this series. Things get off to a rollicking start with the single that provided the comp with its title, "You Better Get a Move On" by the Soul Inc., which was reportedly written by Niki Sullivan of the Crickets. The Spades (from Winter Park, FL) offer up a moody "I'm Alright." Swirling organ is more prominent on tracks by Yesterday's Children (from lower New York state) and the Missing Lynx (from Lawrenceburg, TN), who cover Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Louie Go Home." Unlike a lot of various-artists compilations, not all of the best tracks are front-loaded here; some of the better singles come midway or toward the end. These include the Rogues' heavy bass-propelled "Put You Down," the Vaqueros' fuzz-heavy "Growing Pains" (the drummer from this northern Minnesota-based band ended up being the last original member in the group's lineup, spanning from 1961-1967), and Houston, TX's the Dave Starkey V/Just Us' "Stand There." This group featured British singer Dave Starkey, who left the band with a dilemma when he left (a contest allowing fans to pick their new name resulted with Just Us). All in all, this is a solid collection, and like each of the others in this series, the track selection and sequencing by Warren are thoughtful and the sound quality is mostly superb, with minimal EQing.

****

Get A Move On!!! [1998]

01. Soul Inc. - You Better Get A Move On [2:15]
02. The Spades - I'm Alright [2:50]
03. The Bare Facts - Watch Your Step [2:26]
04. The Third Evolution - Don't Play With Me [2:20]
05. The Chessmen - You Can't Catch Me [2:22]
06. The Checkmates - Get It While You Can [2:35]
07. The Black Watch - Left Behind [2:31]
08. The Monarchs - You've Got Love [2:22]
09. Yesterday's Children - Feelings [2:09]
10. The Rogues - Put You Down [2:12]
11. The Missing Lynx - Louie Go Home [2:09]
12. The Roots - It's Been A Long Journey [2:19]
13. The Vaqueros - Growing Pains [2:29]
14. The Starlites - Wait For Me [2:47]
15. The Dave Starky Five/Just Us - Stand There [2:28]
16. The War-Babies - Jeanie's Pub [2:25]
17. The New Things - The Only Woman You Can Trust (Mom) [3:02]
18. The Zoo - Gonna Miss Me [2:04]

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The New Colony Six - Attacking a Straw Man (1969)

2009-12-09T22:02:00.000+03:00

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*****

The New Colony Six was an American rock band of the 1960s and early 1970s. They charted 14 Top 40 HITS Between 1965 to 1972. Original members were Ray Graffia (vocals), Chick James (drums), Pat McBride (harmonica), Craig Kemp (organ), Wally Kemp (bass), and Gerry Van Kollenburg (guitar). Ronnie Rice (vocals, keyboards, guitar) joined in 1966, replacing Craig Kemp. There were numerous changes in the lineup over the years. Nationally, the band's two biggest hits were "I Will Always Think About You" (#22 Billboard Hot 100, 1968) and "Things I'd Like to Say" (#16, 1969).
Formed in 1964, New Colony Six scored their first major local hit in Chicago in 1966 with "I Confess," featured on their debut album, Breakthrough. Their sound was characterized by Richie Unterberger as "a poppier American Them with their prominent organ, wobbly Lesley-fied guitar amplifications and rave-up tempos", later devolving into "a cabaret-ish band with minor national hits to their credit by the end of the 1960s."Like Paul Revere & the Raiders, they wore colonial outfits on stage.
Ellery Temple briefly joined in 1967, replacing Wally Kemp, and was replaced by Les Kummel. Billy Herman (vocals, drums) replaced James in 1969. Graffia left in 1969 and Bruce Gordon (guitar) and Chuck Jobes (keyboards) joined the band. Bruce Mattey (vocals, guitar) joined in the 1970s.
In 1987, the band played a reunion show at Chicago's Park West. As of 2009, the band continued to perform with founding member Graffia and Mattey in the lineup. New Colony Six was inducted into the Iowa Rockn'Roll Music Association Hall of Fame in 2002.

****

1. - Barbara, I Love You (2:41)
2. - Free (2:07)
3. - Love, That's The Best I Can D (1:58)
4. - Come And Give Your Love To Me (2:01)
5. - I Could Never Lie To You (2:40)
6. - Ride The Wicked Wind (2:41)
7. - I Want You To Know (2:36)
8. - Sun Within You (2:40)
9. - Blue Eyes (1:38)
10. - Come Away With You (2:39)
11. - Prairie Grey (2:41)

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THE NEW COLONY SIX - AT THE RIVER'S EDGE ( 1966 )

The New Colony Six - Colonization (1967)

The New Colony Six- Revelations (1968)

The New Colony Six - Sides

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - I’m Down Today vol.6

2009-12-09T15:42:00.000+03:00

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Teenage Shutdown: I'm Down Today, subtitled "Moody & Brooding Teen Misery Lowdown," is one of the better collections in the Teenage Shutdown series and will appeal to fans who are looking for more blues-based punk ballads and not screeching, foot-stomping garage rock. Like the others in this celebrated series, the compilation was produced by Crypt Records' Tim Warren, whose careful and considerate mastering job was accomplished with a minimum of EQing, keeping the sound raw but as loud and clean as possible. Many of these singles -- all but a few dating back to the mid-'60s -- came from the collection of "Moptop" Mike Markesich, who wrote the CD's scant liner notes. As usual, there aren't too many band photos to be found in the fold-out insert booklet; this one features five black-and-white photos, including cover cats the Chargers. There are also scans of the single labels, depicted in color. Teenage Shutdown: I'm Down Today focuses on the "she done me wrong" style of bluesy garage rock, or as Markesich writes in the notes: "Top tales of teenage trauma! Various shades and states of torture: moody, to miserable, to downright suicidal!" Cheery thoughts like these tumble forth throughout, starting right off with the title track by the Drones' "I'm Down Today," from Valley Center, CA. The Other Half, from Pottsdown, PA, contribute "A Lot to Live For," while the Iron Gate put everything in perspective with their song "Feelin' Bad." Its lyrics reveal what's actually going on in the singer's head: "Don't feel bad about the Vietnam War/Don't feel bad about the Civil Rights Bill/Don't feel bad about the sick and poor/Don't feel bad 'cause I'm missin' my thrill/But I do feel bad about losing you." The John Does' "One Kind Favor" finds the West Coast teen group transforming an old blues standard -- previously made famous by Texas blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson (but recorded as "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean") and later recorded by Howlin' Wolf and others -- into an Animals-style moody rocker with outstanding organ flourishes. The Worchester, MA-based Scepters -- not to be confused with the Chicago-based Sceptres, whose cover of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time" was collected on Teenage Shutdown: She's a Pest! -- have the final word here, a "goodbye cruel word" track called "Depression." The moody surf-style song, according to Markesich's liners, was written by the group's lead guitarist, who exaggerated the song lyrics to be "pro-suicide," even though he'd done it as a joke. Only 500 copies were released in the New Hampshire area on the Melbourne label.

***

Teenage Shutdown - I’m Down Today [1998]

01. The Drones - I'm Down Today [2:45]
02. The Nite Walkers - High Class [2:55]
03. John Brown's Bodies - Out Of My Mind [2:22]
04. The Other Half - A Lot To Live For [2:53]
05. The Iron Gate - Feelin' Bad [1:46]
06. The John Does - One Kind Favor [2:42]
07. The Zoo - Sometimes [2:14]
08. The Young Monkey Men - I Believed You [2:11]
09. The Shaynes - From My Window [2:43]
10. The Riots - I Can Go On [2:39]
11. The Jagged Edge - How Many Times [2:35]
12. The Sinders - Get Out Of My Life [1:33]
13. The Intruders - I'll Go On [2:37]
14. The New Breeds - Girl In Love [3:01]
15. The Chargers - I'm So Alone [3:22]
16. Three From Three - Sad Lovers (Live Today) [2:54]
17. The Amberjacks - Blue Jaunte [3:29]
18. The Specters - Depression [3:07]

***

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - Nobody To Love vol.5

2009-12-09T15:36:00.000+03:00

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Part of the Teenage Shutdown series of 1960s garage rarities, Nobody to Love is devoted to "mid-60s teen folk-punk: 18 tales of tension & trauma." Some of the bands sound as if the Byrds might have had that group's lyrics been far more self-pitying and juvenile-oriented; there are occasional words with a social consciousness, but not many. It's acceptable garage rock that puts more emphasis on folk-like guitar riffs and sad melodies than much of the form, though it's not going to make anyone forget the Byrds or the Beau Brummels. When the sleeve notes brag about having dug out obscure singles, they're not kidding: many of these have never or rarely surfaced on the stacks of previous '60s garage comps. Still, there's little to really grip the ear, save the Shandells' extremely catchy "Shades of Blue," with its accordion-like cordox; the Rogues' "You Better Look Now" is one of the more accurate early Byrds imitations, especially in the McGuinn-ish lead vocal. Collectors may want to note the appearance of steel guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell, later of the psychedelic cult band the Misunderstood, on the two cuts by the Answers, although these are neither that great nor too similar to the music of the Misunderstood.

***

Teenage Shutdown - Nobody To Love [1998]

01. The Intruders - Now That You Know [2:35]
02. The Illusions - Wait Till The Summer [2:09]
03. The Shandels - Shades Of Blue [2:05]
04. The Paradox - There's A Flower Shop [2:39]
05. The Lovin' Kind - I'm Free [2:33]
06. Mike's Messengers - Cause Of All Man-Kind [2:58]
07. Sonics Inc. - Nobody To Love [2:45]
08. The Answers - Fool Turn Around [2:37]
09. The Jades - Surface World [2:32]
10. The Twilights - It Couldn't Be True [3:10]
11. The Viscount V - She Doesn't Know [2:16]
12. The Paragons - Abba [3:10]
13. The Sounds Like Us - Outside Chance [2:01]
14. The Rogues - You Better Look Now [2:15]
15. The Go-Betweens - Have You For My Own [2:31]
16. The Answers - Please Go Away [2:30]
17. The Plagues - Tears From My Eyes [2:47]
18. The Lovin' Kind - Can't Explain [2:43]

****

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - I’m A No-Count vol.4

2009-12-09T15:29:00.000+03:00

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All of the snarling garage punk stompers on Teenage Shutdown: I'm a No-Count, subtitled "19 Top Teen Punk Stomp Classics," have previously appeared elsewhere on various-artist compilations. This time, however, the sound quality is mostly superb, with minimal EQing. The transfers were made by Crypt Records' honcho, Tim Warren, using something called a CEDAR system, which reportedly keeps the warmth of the original analog sound of the singles, many of them coming from the colossal 45 rpm collection of Mike "Moptop" Markesich. The CD booklet -- which features just three black-and-white photos and color scans of the original single labels -- features more in-depth commentary than some of the previous liner notes in this series have. (By the way, even though ? & the Mysterians are shown on the cover in the packaging's only color photo, they aren't featured on this disc.) Things start off here with "Bad Woman" by Fallen Angels, a track dating back to 1970, which was a little late in the day for this type of garage churner. As with all that follows, it's primal, raw, screamin' garage rock that doesn't let up. San Antonio, TX's the Outcasts' contribution, the intense "1523 Blair," may have later inspired the space rock group of the same name who released recordings in the '90s that were later compiled for the Voxx label by Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom. The title track, by Ty Wagner With the Scotchmen, falls about midway in the sequence. According to the liner notes, "I'm a No-Count"'s lead singer was from Santa Ana, CA. "I'm a Nothing" by the Magic Plants (from New York) featured a band lineup with a couple of members who later joined the Left Banke. "It's Trash" by the Cave Men (from Key West, FL) is one of the more experimental tracks here, dating back to July 1966, with blistering psych-fuzz guitar and echo-laden vocals. This band later changed their name to the 4th Generation. As with most of the remaining Teenage Shutdown collections, this one is somewhat hit and miss, but overall, it's a solid collection of snarling, rabid garage punk from the mid-'60s.

*****

Teenage Shutdown - I’m A No-Count [1998]

01. Fallen Angels - Bad Woman [2:10]
02. Jolly Green Giants - Caught You Red Handed [2:12]
03. Dale Gregory & The Shouters - Did Ya Need To Know [2:03]
04. Plague - Go Away [1:54]
05. The Heard - Stop It Baby [2:27]
06. The Continentals - I'm Gone [2:48]
07. Gents - If You Don't Come Back [2:13]
08. Byron & The Mortals - Do You Believe Me [2:14]
09. The Outcasts - 1523 Blair [1:48]
10. The Chob - We're Pretty Quick [2:24]
11. Al's Untouchables - Come On Baby [2:05]
12. Ty Wagner With The Scotchmen - I'm A No Count [2:32]
13. Magic Plants - I'm A Nothing [2:40]
14. M.G. & The Escorts - A Someday Fool [2:34]
15. Cavemen - It's Trash [2:04]
16. The Passions - Lively One [2:31]
17. The Opposite Six - I'll Be Gone [2:24]
18. The Reddlemen - I'm Gonna Get In That Girl's Mind [2:23]
19. Barking Spiders - I Want Your Love [2:38]

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Ronnie Singer and Keith Moffat & The 004's - The Clifton Beat - It's Alright (1966) S.Africa

2009-12-09T14:30:00.000+03:00

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*****

Ronnie Singer Sound

Band Members:

Ronnie Singer, organ and vocals
Keith Moffat, drums
Derek Marks, bass on last album
Anton Fig, drums
Keith Lentin, guitar
Brian Jones, guitar
George Wolfaardt, bass
James Marwick, drums
Neville Whitmill, vocals
Mike Faure, sax
Neville Green, guitar
Charlie Peterson, bass
Jeremy Dreyer, drums
Anton van Rooyen, bass
*******

The 004’s (Double O 4’s)

South African beat band formed in 1965. Pete Clifford had played with the Jesters and Georgie Fame and visited South Africa for the first time in 1964 while being a member of Dusty Springfield’s backing band. He also played with Tom Jones.
In 1965 he returned to South Africa and formed the 004’s. Brian Gibson and Jack Russell had been members of the Victors, who backed French artist Teddy Raye on tour. When the band broke up Gibson joined the Laurie Jay Combo and Russell got a job as production manager with Vox. Soon they joined the 004’s.
The band was signed by CBS and recorded some singles. They also backed Gene Vincent on his Durban performance.
Their only album was released in 1966.
Nick Doktor (ex-Leemen Limited) replaced Peter Stember in 1966.
Gibson left the band in 1967 and was replaced by Barry Mitchell (ex-In Crowd). The band recorded with Johnny Kongos’ groups Floribunda Rose and Scrugg in 1967.
The band broke up and Clifford joined the Bats in 1968 while Gibson joined Abstract Truth.

Band Members:

Pete Clifford (vocals, guitar),

Brian Gibson vocals, guitar),

Jack Russell (vocals, bass),

Peter Stember (vocals, drums),

Nick Doktor (drums),

Barry Mitchell (guitar)

The 004:/garagehangover.com/

South Africa

Clifton Beat
1. I Should Have Known Better
2. That Is What I Want
3. Hi Heel Sneakers
4. Magic Dream
5. Farmer John
6. Bikiniland
7. All I Want From You
8. You Have Come A Long Way From St. Louis
9. Pretty Girl
10. Faster & Faster
11. Leave Me Alone
12. I Want To Write A Song
13. Hard Day s Night
14. I Remember The Wind

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It's Allrigh
15. She Is Going Back Home Today
16. They Won t Open
17. You Have Got What It Takes
18. I Have Got News For You
19. On Brodway
20. Nobody But Me
21. Beverley
22. If You Love Me
23. It Is As Easy As That
24. Parchman Farm
25. I Have Found Her
26. It Is Alright

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - Things Been Bad Vol.3

2009-12-07T19:09:00.000+03:00

Mp3\87Mb

*****

Teenage Shutdown: Things Been Bad, subtitled "18 Prime Slabs of Mid-'60s Garage Punk Grunt," is another collection of snarling garage punk nuggets dating back to 1966 and 1967. The collection is similar to the others in this series, compiled by Crypt Records' honcho Tim Warren from the singles collection of Mike "Moptop Mike" Markesich, who penned all of the Teenage Shutdown compilation series liner notes. The CD booklet -- which features just four black-and-white band photos, including the cover cats Pink Finks -- doesn't have much information on these regional releases, but there's info. here that you wouldn't expect to read anywhere else. The Choab, for instance, were also known by a misspelling of their name, the Chob, and Ognir & the Nite People's moniker was derived by the Nite People after they decided the band needed a leader. Having none, they reversed the name of the Fab Four's drummer, Ringo, and tacked it onto their name. There are goofy, almost novelty numbers included here, like Thee Midniters' "I Found a Peanut," from February 1966. This band later found much success with a string of hits that weren't quite as silly. The Barracudas' "What I Want You to Say" was recorded at the tiny studios inside the Downey, CA, record store, Wenzels, the same location where the Chantays had recorded their big surf hit. The Talismen ("She Was Good") were reportedly from the "apple capitol of the U.S.," Wenatchee, WA, and reportedly inspired by the Pacific Northwest's triumvirate of garage heroes: the Sonics, the Wailers, and the Kingsmen. Peter & the Wolves cover Them's "Only Everything" here, while there is no information about the Lost Soles' track, which comes from an unreleased acetate with no writer credits of other info. Duluth, MN's Kama Del Sutra were previously known as We the People (not the same group from Florida, incidentally, according to Markesich). Their track, "She Taught Me Love," was written on the way to the studio, but later its suggestive lyrics kept it off the radio ("Whatta square," Markesich says of the local fuddy-duddy station manager who refused to play it). As with most of the remaining Teenage Shutdown collections, the track selection and sequencing by Warren are thoughtful, and even though this isn't the batch collection in the bunch, the sound quality is mostly superb, with minimal EQing.

*****

Teenage Shutdown - Things Been Bad (1998)

01. The Pagans - Baba Yaga [2:17]
02. Choab - Why Am I Alone? [1:57]
03. The Barracudas - What I Want You To Say [2:21]
04. Ognir And The Night People - I Found A New Love [2:14]
05. The Other Half - The Girl With The Long Black Hair [2:55]
06. Yo-Yo - Gotta Find A New Love [2:48]
07. Thee Midnighters - I Found A Peanut [2:41]
08. The Pilgrimmage - Bad Apple [2:25]
09. Debonaires - Never Mistaken [2:30]
10. Roamin' Togas - Bar The Door [2:21]
11. Peter & Wolves - Only Everything [2:40]
12. The Roots - Lost One [2:17]
13. The Inner Thoughts - 1000 Miles [2:54]
14. Talismen - She Was Good [2:13]
15. The Saxons - Things Have Been Bad [2:40]
16. Stains - Now & Then [1:59]
17. The Lost Soles - Do You Remember [2:19]
18. Kama-Del-Sutra - She Taught Me Love [2:12]

*****

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - You Treated Me Bad! Vol.2

2009-12-07T18:57:00.000+03:00

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Teenage Shutdown: You Treated Me Bad!, subtitled "The Teener Side of the Mid-'60s Garage Explosion," is another release in the Teenage Shutdown series, one that focuses primarily on mid-'60s garage rock/garage punk unknowns. Compiled by Crypt Records' Tim Warren and featuring highlights from "Moptop" Mike Markesich's 45 rpm collection, this CD features (as do all of the others) state-of-the-art sound quality, due to its thoughtful mastering; transfers were done all-analog, with a minimum of EQing before being transferred to digital. Unfortunately, there's not much about this collection to get excited about, musically. One reason is that the word "teener" seems to be interchangeable here with "amateur." This one really suffers when compared with more the more primeval, raw, and intense garage rock collections in the same series (Teenage Shutdown: The World Ain't Round, It's Square, for instance). As usual, there aren't too many band photos to be found in the fold-out insert booklet; only four black-and-white photos here, including the Jujus making their first of multiple appearances as the cover cats as well as providing the title track. The liner notes haven't much information on the bands either, but there probably wasn't much to begin with. Hands down, the most obnoxious song in the entire series has to be "Hurray for Hazel" by Terry Davidson & the Barracudas, a jangly teen rock act (they were apparently from Columbus, OH) whose off-tempo drumbeats, whacked-around guitars, and stupid lyrics rival only the Shaggs for sheer inanity. Other songs are more successful at bringing their inferior playing skills in line with the material. The Midknights' "Pain" fares much better before slipping into the ether. "It's Gonna Take a While" by the Morticians combines effective use of fuzz guitar and cool backing vocals, while the Sound Extraction offer up folk-pop with a novel twist: the singer "sings" the guitar solo, if you can believe that. Overall, if you prefer garage rock that falls on the harsher, rawer side of the spectrum, this one isn't for you. Conversely, if you like the more amateur-sounding teen rock/folk-pop side of garage music -- the kind where the lead singers seem to strain to hit what seems to be the most basic notes, or songs that seem to have little or no meter to them, and simplistic, repetitive "Louie Louie" or "96 Tears"-style riffs that go on, ad infinitum -- you might wanna check this one out. Otherwise, avoid it like acne.

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Teenage Shutdown - You Treated Me Bad! (1998)

01. Gremlins - Wait [2:06]
02. Moxies - Get A Move On [2:00]
03. I.D. Rogues - Why Did God Make Girls [2:08]
04. Monday's Mondos - I'm Cryin' [2:37]
05. Terry Davidson & The Barracudas - Hurray For Hazel [2:12]
06. Little John & The Sherwoods - Long Hair [2:16]
07. The Quests - Scream Loud [2:28]
08. Plagues - I've Been Through It Before [2:37]
09. The Twiliters - The Girl From Liverpool [2:06]
10. The Midknights - Pain [1:32]
11. Possums - She's Loving Me [3:05]
12. The Morticians - It's Gonna Take A While [2:34]
13. The Sound Extraction - I Feel Like Crying [2:46]
14. Messengers - I've Seen You Around [2:02]
15. The Saints - Leavin' You, Baby [2:16]
16. Dead Beats - She Don't Love Me [2:07]
17. Mysterymen - I've Got A Feeling [2:15]
18. The Shoremen - She's Bad [2:25]
19. The JuJus - You Treat Me Bad [1:51]

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VA-Teenage Shutdown - Jump, Jive & Harmonize Vol.1

2009-12-07T18:30:00.000+03:00

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New Topic with continuation ...

Teenage Shutdown Series :

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should construct a giant garage-shaped granite monument with the names of every group that ever decided to back Dad's Impala out and drag the amps in; The Tomb of the Unknown Garage Band, if you will.

The '60s were rife with do-it-yourself regional garage bands, snarling and whomping and sometimes even recording. We must never forget those brave Beatle-booted souls, whose only mission in life was to make a lot of noise and get a lot of girls.

Thankfully, a large sampling of these "pounding, pulverizing, all-out punk dance ravers" are captured in all their scratchy glory on the Teenage Shutdown series of CD's and vinyl(!). And Jump, Jive and Harmonize is the bossest of a boss bunch. The group names and the titles are provocative: The Us Four - "The Alligator," The Groupies - "Hog," The Shandells - "Gorilla," and every number lives up to its promise with a crunchy screaming three-chord wallop.

The compilers have even researched the artists: a monumental undertaking to be sure, given that these were local bands on tiny regional labels with names like Renco, Empire, GlenValley, and my favorite, Pa-Go-Go. J, J & H spans the years '64 to '67 - a time when recycling the "Louie Louie" riff was a noble undertaking. It was that precious moment in history before everything got all psychedelic and overbearing and just plain SERIOUS. Pop in this CD and smell the fumes.

By Edmundkaz@aol.com (Shell Pile New Jersey)

Teenage Shutdown - Jump, Jive & Harmonize (1998)

Teenage Shutdown: Jump, Jive and Harmonize, subtitled "Pounding, Pulverizing, All-Out Punk Dance Ravers," was the very first Teenage Shutdown collection to be compiled by Crypt Records' Tim Warren from mid-'60s garage rock/garage punk singles owned by collector Mike "Moptop" Markesich. As with the other compilations in this series, this one is lovingly prepared and features good mastering. There aren't too many band photos to be found in the foldout insert booklet; there are colorful scans of the single labels, but only a few black-and-white photos of the groups involved. The liner notes -- penned by Markesich -- go into a little bit of detail about the groups involved, many of which are more well-known, overall, than most of the groups which can be found included on CDs in this series. The first track, Thee Midniters' "Jump, Jive and Harmonize," is probably the hardest-rockin' single by the versatile East L.A. band. This 1967 single, recorded on two-track at a theater where the group rehearsed, is built around a crunchy guitar riff, singer Willie Garcia's raucous lead vocal, and a frenetic harmonica-organ duel. The Jolly Green Giants were clearly influenced by fellow Northwest rockers the Kingsmen (even taking their name from that band's Top Ten hit). Their song "Busy Body" (later covered by the Lyres) was the B-side of the band's Redcoat single from 1966. The Five Americans (from Dallas, TX) found success with their song "Western Union" before disbanding in 1970. Their single "Slippin' and Slidin'" was released early in their career, however, on the Jetstar label in 1964. The Shandells were from Eau Claire in northwest Wisconsin, and their track "Gorilla" (with its "go, go, go, go gorilla" chant) was released on Bangar in 1965; only 100 copies were reportedly pressed. "Come on, Come On" by the Esquires (from Irving, TX) was probably the band's best-known song, while Del Shannon's contribution here, "Move It on Over," was one of that artist's lesser-known songs, charting at 128 in the U.S. The Cobras, from Smyrna Mills, ME, are featured with "I Wanna Be Your Lover," the A-side to their Big Beat single from 1966 (incidentally, their producer, Bobby Herne, later produced and arranged various New England groups, including the Shaggs' infamous Philosophy of the World album). "I'm a Hog for You" by the Groupies, from New York City, has appeared on several compilations, as have the Human Beings, from Detroit, who are not to be confused with Ohio's Human Beinz.

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01. Thee Midniters - Jump Jive And Harmonize [2:31]
02. Jolly Green Giants - Busy Body [2:08]
03. The Five Americans - Slippin' And Slidin' [1:55]
04. The Four Of Us - The Alligator [2:48]
05. The In Crowd - Set Me Free [2:06]
06. Cobras - I Wanna Be Your Love [2:57]
07. Count & The Colony - Can't You See [2:43]
08. Del Shannon - Move It On Over [2:58]
09. Mark & The Escorts - Get Your Baby [2:02]
10. Jimmy Stokely And The Exiles - It's Alligator Time [2:19]
11. Los Shains - El Monstruo [2:20]
12. Baby Huey & The Babysitters - Monkey Man [2:33]
13. The Shandells - Gorilla [2:55]
14. The Centurys - 83 [2:30]
15. The Twiliters - (Everybody's Goin To) Rollerland [2:31]
16. The Esquires - Come On, Come On [1:46]
17. Preachers - Who Do You Love [2:18]
18. Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers - Take A Look At Me [2:52]
19. The Groupies - Hog (I'm A Hog For You Baby) [2:55]
20. The Human Beings - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby [2:37]

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The Crusin' Series - Complete

2009-12-07T14:55:00.000+03:00

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Specially for Luiz

CRUISIN' THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES, is a year-by-year recreation of pop music radio during the years 1955 through 1967.

Each album is not just a collection of the top pop music of a particular year, but a total recreation by a top disk jockey (of that year) doing his original program over a major pop music station. That means actual commercials, promotional jingles, sound effects, newscast simulations and even record hop announcements in addition to the original records themselves.

The series was produced with unprecedented attention to detail. One disk jockey, Dick Biondi of Chicago, called his old home town, Buffalo, New York, just to get an accurate ten-year-old weather report. Another, Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg of Boston, showed up in the studio carrying a suitcase full of chrome kazoos, cowbells, oogah horns and other noisemakers he'd used on the air in 1961. Then, after laying them out on a towel by the mike, much like a brain surgeon preparing to operate, "Woo Woo" wailed.

CRUISIN' producer Ron Jacobs monitored thousands of feet of tape, traveled over 10,000 miles and rooted through forgotten files and cluttered basements for old commercials, station promos and jingles. He also managed to get clearances for the different records, and all are from the Top 30 of their respective years.

When Ron Jacobs created the original CRUISIN' series of albums and tapes in 1971, there were seven, spanning 1956-1962.

Shortly after the success of the original seven, Jacobs produced six additional CRUISIN' albums, featuring 1955, and 1963 through 1967.

But before the second six, he recorded narration for a radio show, and released a promotional LP for radio stations featuring the opening segments of the original CRUISIN' Seven.

When Ron Jacobs created the original CRUISIN' series of albums and tapes in 1971, there were seven, spanning 1956-1962.

Shortly after the success of the original seven, Jacobs produced six additional CRUISIN' albums, featuring 1955, and 1963 through 1967.

But before the second six, he recorded narration for a radio show, and released a promotional LP for radio stations featuring the opening segments of the original CRUISIN' Seven.

This exhibit combines the original Ron Jacobs radio program narration with the original CRUISIN' Series Demo LP.

The disk jockeys who appear on the series were picked after a month of carefully researching a decade's issues of BILLBOARD, including tabulating all disk jockey mentions. The names were then cross checked with audience rating services and longtime radio expert Bill Gavin--all this just to determine with jocks on which stations represented each year most accurately.

Once all the material had been collected, weeks were spent in the studio carefully integrating almost 1,000 seperate cues, and timing each year's "radio program" so it could be mastered for tape in four exactly equal parts. This was done to eliminate any dead space on CRUISIN' cassettes and cartridges, making each "rebroadcast" as realistic as possible and similar to the "tracking" effects of records. CRUISIN' was, in fact, originally conceived as a tape project: the first major one in the industry. After all, cruisin' meant cars, and listening to rock stations on the car radio; not until the enormous growth of in-car tape equipment was anyone able to recreate not only the sound of yesterday but the environment where the sound was first heard. Says Jacobs: "The full impact of such originally American social, technological, artistic and economic influences as rock and roll and Top 40 radio may not be fully realized in this century. But regardless of what time will ultimately be required to allow full historic perspective, there is the obligation to preserve the material so the media itself, not just written reviews and descriptions, will exist for future analysis.

Also included in this set are Cruisin' 1968-1970, Cruisin With Porky Chedwick & The Cruisin' Years albums. Ron was NOT a part of these collections but they're part of the series. Also, I've included the original Cruisin' radio commercial.

Thanks for PC's Music: Ron Jacobs

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The Crusin' Series - Complete

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1. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1955 (39:14)
2. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1956 (44:41)
3. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1957 (40:40)
4. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1958 (42:51)
5. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1959 (44:53)
6. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1960 (42:14)
7. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1961 (41:10)
8. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1962 (42:29)
9. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1963 (38:33)
10. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1964 (42:05)
11. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1965 (45:19)
12. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1966 (42:14)
13. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1967 (42:58)
14. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1968 (33:53)
15. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1969 (37:33)
16. Increase Records - Cruisin: 1970 (41:21)
17. Increase Records - Cruisin: Series Demo (62:53)
18. Increase Records - Cruisin With Porky Chedwick (42:45)
19. Increase Records - The Cruisin Years (68:35)

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Liverpool Express - Once Upon A Time (2003)

2009-12-06T23:21:00.000+03:00

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Liverpool Express was a successful pop/rock quartet that formed out of the remnants of Rockin' Horse, a short-lived early-'70s oldies-oriented band organized by '60s Liverpool music veterans Jimmy Campbell and Billy Kinsley. Kinsley restarted Rockin' Horse in 1975 with Tony Coates on guitar and vocals, Roger Scott Craig on keyboards, and Derek Cashin on drums, while Kinsley played bass. Signed to British Warner Bros., they had a slow start with the abortive debut single "Smile," but scored with their second record, "You Are My Love," which reached number 11. They became fixtures in the mid-level of the U.K. charts for more than five years, with the occasional run up to the Top Ten, and in later years Cashin was succeeded by Pete Kircher and Coates was replaced by Kenny Parry. Their history came to an end when Kinsley rejoined his '60s outfit the Merseybeats in the early '90s.

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Карьера Билли Кинсли началась еще в 60-х годах с участия в популярной бит-группе "Merseybeats". Однако в 1968-м Билли рассорился со своим тогдашним партнером Тони Крэйном и покинул команду. Прошло целых семь лет, перед тем как Кинсли вместе со своими друзьями собрал новый проект. Группа, в которую также вошли Роджер Скотт Крэйг (клавишные, вокал), Тони Коатс (гитара, мандолина, вокал) и Дерек Кашин (ударные, вокал), получила название "Liverpool Express". Основной творческой силой коллектива стали Билли и Роджер, у которых сложился отличный авторский тандем. С помощью менеджера Хэла Картера парни заключили контракт с "Warner Bros.", где в 1976-м дебютировали с альбомом "Tracks". Спустя шесть месяцев за плечами у музыкантов было несколько еврохитов: "You Are My Love", "Every Man Must Have a Dream", "Smile", "Dreamin", "Hold Tight". Однако наибольший успех коллектив имел вовсе не в Европе, а в Южной Африке и Бразилии. В ЮАР "Liverpool Express" трижды подряд попадали в горячую десятку, а в Бразилии все их концерты прошли с бешеными аншлагами. В 1978-м "Ливерпульский экспресс" бороздил европейские просторы в компании с Родом Стюартом, а по возвращении домой был удостоен чести выступить перед самим принцем Чарльзом на королевском гала-концерте. В том же году вышел второй лонгплей, "Dreamin`", после чего место за ударными занял Пит Кирчер. Третий альбом ливерпульцев был отмечен продюсерской работой Томми Бойса и Ричарда Хартли, а также появлением на его обложке будущей жены Мика Джеггера, фотомодели Джерри Холл. Хотя в то время "Liverpool Express" продолжали выступать на больших площадках и регулярно появлялись на телевидении, кадровая ситуация была нестабильной. В 1979-м Кирчер сбежал в "Status Quo", а его место занял Джон Райан. В начале 80-х к команде вместо Коатса присоединился гитарист Кенни Пэрри, Роджер тем временем эмигрировал в Америку, а после австралийского тура Райан не стал возвращаться домой. Когда в 1983 году вышел сингл "So What", в компании с Кинсли и Пэрри работали клавишник Дэйв Голдберг и барабанщик Брайан Роулинг. Лихорадка в составе не могла не отразиться на деятельности коллектива и, в конце концов, привела к его распаду. Крэйг основал в Калифорнии собственную продюсерскую компанию и весьма преуспел на новом поприще. Кинсли последующие годы занимался сессионной работой, собирал битловскую меморабиллию, а также участвовал в реюнионе "Merseybeats". Между тем, композиции "Ливерпульского экспресса" продолжали звучать в эфире, а в 1991 году Пол МакКартни назвал "You Are My Love" одной из своих любимейших песен. В 90-х спрос на продукцию "Liverpool Express" был немного удовлетворен выпуском сборника "Best Of", однако поклонникам группы этого было явно мало и они требовали "продолжения банкета". Наконец в новом тысячелетии Кинсли и компания все же прислушались к их голосам и записали новый альбом, "Once Upon A Time". Таким образом, реюнион "Liverpool Express" все же состоялся, и фаны смогли не только ознакомиться со свежим материалом, но и впервые за долгие годы увидеть выступления своих кумиров

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Liverpool Express - Tracks (1977)

The Motions - Singles A's & B's (1966-1970 ) Holland

2009-12-06T22:16:00.000+03:00

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The Motions:

Sieb Warner (drums)
Henk Smitskamp (bass)
Rudy Bennett (vocals)
Robbie van Leeuwen (guitar)

Other Musicians:
Jan Vennik (flute, saxophone)
Paul van Melzen (bass)
Leo Bennink (guitar)
Gerard Romeyn (guitar, bass)
Han Gordinou de Gouberville (drums)
Bob van der Vaart (vocals, keyboards)

A pretty typical Dutch "beat" group of the 1960s, the Motions were pretty popular in their native land, releasing seven albums and over 27 singles in their eight-year career. Far from the best Dutch group, and far from the worst, most of their hits were fairly ordinary fare, ranging from dippy folkish ballads to tough mod rockers. Their best cut is the positively ferocious mod stomper "Everything That's Mine" (1966), with a searing feedback break worthy of the early Who. They're really most remembered for their lead guitarist and songwriter, Robby van Leeuwen, who left in 1967 to form Shocking Blue, and penned that group's international smash, "Venus."

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The Motions from The Hague were one of the bigger groups of the 1960s Dutch beat explosion. They were formed in 1964 from the remnants of Ritchie Clark and the Ricochets and went on to become hitmakers for the next several years.

The Walker Brothers even recorded "My Love Is Growing", a song The Motions' Robbie van Leeuwen had written (the Motions had recorded it as a flipside to "Why Don't You Take It") and the Walkers' manager John Stewart produced The Motions' second LP, "In Their Own Way".

The single, "Freedom", reached the lower regions of the American charts in 1969. This song was sampled in the 1990s by Japanese band Tokyo No.1 Soul Set on their track "Sunday". Although the group disbanded in 1971, the most important members have met each other again & again in new bands such as Crossroad, Greenhorn, Jupiter and Galaxy Lin.

From 1964 to 1967, the line-up was stable: Rudy Bennett (i.r.l. Ruud van de Berg - vocals, earlier as Ritchie Clark and the Ricochets), Robbie van Leeuwen (guitar, ex-Atmospheres & Ricochets, later the founder of both Shocking Blue and Galaxy Lin), Henk Smitskamp (bass, ex-Willy & Giants, later to Livin' Blues) & Sieb Warner (i.r.l. Siebolt Warntjes - drums, ex-Ricochets, later to Golden Earring).

This line-up had a string of hits in The Netherlands during 1965 and 1966 with singles like "Wasted Words" and "It's The Same Old Song". Their first album, "Introduction To The Motions", is considered one of the best albums of the era.

Early 1967, Robbie left to form Shocking Blue and was replaced by Gerard Romeyn (ex-Tee-Set, later with Nico Haak, Image).

Late 1967, Henk Smitskamp was ousted in favour of Leo Bennink (ex-Mack and Jay-Jays). A fifth member was found in multi-instrumentalist Jan Vennik (sax, flute & organ, also ex-Jay-Jays, later to Rob Hoeke & Ekseption).

When in mid-1968 Gerard Romeyn and Jan Vennik were busted for posession of marijuana and incarcerated, the band took in Paul van Melzen (ex-Haigs, later in the Mailer McKenzie Band) on bass and Bobby Green, (i.r.l. Bob van der Vaart - organ, ex-Bobby Green Selection, also to Fisher & Friends). Bennink switched to guitar

This line up recorded the album "Electric Baby" for Decca in 1969. The band then suffered another setback by the departure of drummer Sieb Warner to rivals Golden Earring (who'd by then just dropped the 's' off Earrings).

His replacement was Han Cooper (i.r.l. Han Gordinou de Gouberville). The last line-up of the group (up until 1971) was: Rudy, Leo, Paul, Bobby and Han. They did a few gigs in England and went on a trip to the USA (only playing at The Scene Club in New York), but international success eluded them.

They recorded one more album for the Simogram label of supermarket chain Simon de Wit, but split up soon afterwards .

(Thanks for info text PHROCK Blog)

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The Mojo Men - Whys Ain't Supossed To Be (1965-1966)

2009-12-06T22:10:00.000+03:00

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Jimmy Alaimo - bass and vocals
- Paul Curcio - guitar and vocals
Don Metchick - keyboards and vocals
Dennis DeCarr - drums and vocals

One of the earliest San Francisco rock bands, the Mojo Men had local hits on the Autumn label with "Dance With Me," "She's My Baby," and a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Off the Hook" in the mid-'60s. Their early sides displayed a raunchy but thin approach taken from the mold of British Invasion groups like the Stones and Them. In 1966, after female drummer Jan Errico joined from the San Francisco folk-rock group the Vejtables, they moved to Reprise and pursued folky psychedelic pop directions, and had a Top 40 hit with a Baroque arrangement of Buffalo Springfield's "Sit Down I Think I Love You" in 1967. In their later days, they developed more intricate arrangements and harmonies that reflected the influence of the Mamas & the Papas and Jefferson Airplane, although they weren't in the same league as those groups. Their many singles never fully displayed the band's considerable songwriting and vocal talents, and after changing their name to the Mojo and finally just Mojo, they disbanded in the late '60s.

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This 21-track disc covers the Mojo Men's first incarnation, when they were a pop-garage group, not the pop-folk-rock act they would evolve into when Jan Errico joined. "She's My Baby" and "Dance With Me" made some noise regionally, "Dance With Me" making the middle of the national charts, but Autumn Records folded before the group got the chance to do any albums. Assembled from a handful of Autumn 45s and many previously unissued recordings, this could be considered the Mojo Men's lost album. But it's really not worth getting excited about, even if you're a garage fan. The thumping, monotonous drums and rinky-dink organ patterns can grate, and worse, the material is often so thin as to be puerile. Juvenile lyrics are a mainstay of many garage recordings, but the Mojo Men's compositions could be downright annoying. Their emulations of the Rolling Stones, Kinks, and Animals were pale, though some promise could be heard in a few moodier, folk-rock influenced cuts.

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1. The Mojo Men - Oh Misery (2:13)
2. The Mojo Men - Lost Love (2:09)
3. The Mojo Men - Why Can't You Stay (2:27)
4. The Mojo Men - Girl Won't You Go On Home (1:43)
5. The Mojo Men - Cry Baby (2:43)
6. The Mojo Men - Everything I Need (2:47)
7. The Mojo Men - She Goes With Me (1:52)
8. The Mojo Men - Free As A Bird (2:24)
9. The Mojo Men - Loneliest Boy In Town (3:06)
10. The Mojo Men - Fire In My Heart (2:34)
11. The Mojo Men - Something Bad (2:14)
12. The Mojo Men - She's My Baby (3:35)
13. The Mojo Men - My Woman's Head (3:55)
14. The Mojo Men - The New Breed (3:37)
15. The Mojo Men - Dance With Me (2:41)
16. The Mojo Men - Off The Hook (2:45)
17. The Mojo Men - Why (2:20)
18. The Mojo Men - Fire In My Heart (2:53)
19. The Mojo Men - As I Get Older (3:13)
20. The Mojo Men - WMEX Radio Spot - Mojo Men Day! (0:58)
21. The Mojo Men - Mama's Little Baby (2:29)

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