Mop Top Pop: beat Vol 3 (2002)

Product Summary Label: Castle UPC: 00823107238424 Release Date: 9/14/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61704695 Item#: MTRDFL Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. How Do You Fix A Broken Heart? - Lance Harvey & The Kingpins ~ Various Artists 2. Please Don't Tell - The Greenbeats ~ Various Artists 3. Just You Wait And See - The Greenbeats ~ Various Artists 4. Write Me A Letter - The Eagles ~ Various Artists 5. Wishin' And Hopin' - The Eagles ~ Various Artists 6. I Only Care About You - Julie Grant ~ Various Artists 7. Blue Star - Donna Douglas ~ Various Artists 8. When She Comes To You - Daryl Quist ~ Various Artists 9. You Can't Sit Down - The Beatmen ~ Various Artists 10. Come On Pretty Baby - The Beatmen ~ Various Artists 11. Sally Go Round The Roses - The Beatmen ~ Various Artists 12. I Know A Girl - The Remo Four ~ Various Artists 13. I Just Wanna Make Love To You - The Soul Agents ~ Various Artists 14. Mean Woman Blues - The Soul Agents ~ Various Artists 15. Whistle Stop - Shane & The Shane Gang ~ Various Artists 16. Who Wrote This Song? - Shane & The Shane Gang ~ Various Artists 17. That's Allright - Jimmy Powell & The Five Dimensions ~ Various Artists 18. I'm Looking For A Woman - Jimmy Powell & The Five Dimensions ~ Various Artists 19. Donna Means Heartbreak - Johnny Sandon & The Remo Four ~ Various Artists 20. Some Kinda Wonderful - Johnny Sandon & The Remo Four ~ Various Artists 21. Husky - Jimmy Nicol ~ Various Artists 22. Don't Come Back - Jimmy Nicol ~ Various Artists 23. Someday We're Gonna Love Again - The Searchers ~ Various Artists 24. No One Else Could Love You - The Searchers ~ Various Artists 25. Land Of Love - The Blue Aces ~ Various Artists 26. Nobody Knows - Jason Ford & The Bulldogs ~ Various Artists 27. Am I The One - Jason Ford & The Bulldogs ~ Various Artists 28. Don't - Joe Brown & The Bruvvers ~ Various Artists 29. You Really Got Me - The Kinks ~ Various Artists 30. It's Alright - The Kinks ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info All tracks have been digitally remastered. The third entry (subtitled "Mop Top Pop") in this retrospective series of chronological reissues of Pye Records' releases covers the tail-end of the first wave of the British Invasion, from April through July of 1964. Interspersed with promising outfits like the Kinks and the label's one hugely successful act, the Searchers, are more great records by the likes of the Chants and the Trends, who never got the recognition they deserved, and a lot of acts that undeservedly barely made it out of the starting gate, most notably Shane & the Shane Gang, whose bluesy "Whistle Stop" is almost worth the price of admission. It's amazing to see performers like Johnny Sandon (best known in America as a footnote in the Searchers' history) still pushing their work at this relatively late date (and good work it was, too, albeit not really in a Brit beat style), and Beatles footnotes like Jimmy Nicol doing solid soul instrumentals -- "Husky" at least got recorded and pushed heavily on release, probably by virtue of the press Nicol received subbing for Ringo Starr early in 1964, but it was too different from the Beatles' sound to make the leap out of jukeboxes and onto the radio or the sales charts. As with the other parts of this series, the sound is phenomenally good, and the annotation is more thorough than one could ever ask for. ~ Bruce Eder   Technical Info Release Date : 10/08/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 72384 Label : Castle Music Ltd. (UK) Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00823107238424    Product Image