Beat, Ballad & Blues: complete Collect (2004)

Product Summary Label: Raven Records UPC: 00612657017623 Release Date: 7/13/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61010016 Item#: MMD4QJ Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Work Song ~ (live) ------ 2. Get On the Right Track, Baby ------ 3. Yeh Yeh ------ 4. In The Meantime ------ 5. Telegram ------ 6. Like We Used To Be ------ 7. Something ------ 8. Get Away ------ 9. Sunny ------ 10. Sitting In The Park ------ 11. Sweet Thing ------ 12. Bluesology ~ (live) ------ 13. Because I Love You ------ 14. Try My World ------ 15. Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The ------ 16. Bullets Laverne ------ 17. Kentucky Child ------ 18. Need Your Love So Bad ------ 19. Seventh Son ------ 20. Somebody Stole My Thunder ------ 21. Blossom ------ 22. Peaceful ------ 23. I'm a Drifter ------ 24. Down Along The Cove ------ 25. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight ------ 26. Stormy ------ 27. Happiness ------ 28. Rosetta ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Alan Price. Liner Note Author: Glenn A. Baker. There have been several Georgie Fame compilations over the past decade, but it is this one on Raven that boils all of it down to the essence of his contribution to the Brit R&B beat-crazy scene of the 1960s and early '70s. Here are the singles, the hits, the near misses, and the worthy album cuts compiled to show the audacity, imagination, and wild, swinging toughness of Fame. Fame's earliest influences were Fats Domino and Little Richard, but by the time he cut his first album, Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo, live at Great Britain's notorious jazz club, he was deeply under the sway of Mose Allison's Back Country Suite. And does that ever come across here. Fame was raw, in the moment, and always presenting his tracks with a slightly out of control feel. The 28 cuts here range from the jumping R&B of "Yeh Yeh" and Allison's classic "Work Song" to his stellar read of Titus Turner's "Get On the Right Track," a smoky version of Milt Jackson's "Bluesology," a deeply soulful take on the John Mayall/Jon Mark groover "Something," and the catchy pop ditty "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde," which reached number seven on the American charts. (It didn't hurt that the tune came out at the same time as the infamous movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.) All of these are in the first half of the set and recorded before 1967! But Fame could croon, too, as evidenced by this beautiful version of Little Willie John's "Need Your Love So Bad," with strings. The camped-up R&B move on Willie Dixon's "Seventh Son" takes Allison's version a step further, his horn-heavy rolling stroll on Bob Dylan's "Down Along the Cove," with a female backing chorus, completely reinvents the tune, and his jazzed-up New Orleans groove consciousness does the same on "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight." In all, this is an indispensable collection for anyone seeking to get acquainted with Fame outside of his work with Van Morrison or interested in the finger-poppin' beat madness of swinging London in the '60s. ~ Thom Jurek Producer: Martin "Nobby" Clarke; Denny Cordell; Mike Smith; Ian Samwell; Keith Mansfield; Bob Johnston; Tony Palmer Musical Guests Alan Price   Compilation Appearances Best Of Van Morrison Vol 3   Associated Artists and Works Morrison, Van Morrison, Van Van Morrison Van Morrison   Technical Info Release Date : 07/13/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 176 Label : Raven Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00612657017623    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray