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soulpope Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 3 hours ago, HutchFan said: Good one .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EKE BBB Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) 21 hours ago, soulpope said: Fun platter .... 18 hours ago, felser said: "I Think of You" is one of the British Invasion era UK hits that I never understood why it didn't make it big in the USA. May be third behind the Searchers' "When You Walk in the Room" (which at least scraped the bottom of the top 40, but should have been huge) and the Hollies' "I'm Alive" (which didn't even make the top 100 here). "It's Love That Really Counts" and "Wishin' and Hopin'" are also pretty wonderful. Every time I revisit the British Invasion/Mersey Beat recordings I have lots of fun. Some groups were one-hit projects, some did not even make it into the Top-20 charts, but you can always find quite a few nice tunes to enjoy. And some are enjoyable in spite of the cheesy arrangements... Beatles, Hollies, Merseybeats, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Honeycombs, Herman Hermits, Dave Clark Five, Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Mindbenders... and I am still missing a few! And one of my favourites from Australia, the Easybeats! Edited October 15, 2019 by EKE BBB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) Mine may be a Brit-centric view of that segment of the music (and brings me back to my early days of collecting) but from all I have heard and read bands like the Hollies and Hermans Hermits were very much on the outermost fringe of actual Merseybeat. Not really comparable (except from the angle of "British Invasion" to the US, of course). Merseybeat purists would cringe, I guess. Like they would cringe at the Merseybeats platter you chose, EKE BBB: Did you notice the fine print in the upper corner? "Re-Recorded in Stereo 1977" OUCH!! And what about that "This record contains previously recorded material" disclaimer at the bottom? Another way of saying "No, you are not getting the real thing here"? I'd hate to hear what kind of rehash this really is (compared to the original recordings). At any rate these do look like none of these are the originals. I remember being fooled in the same way in my very early collecting days at age 15 (at a time when Merseybeat reissues were exceedingly thin on the ground) when I was glad to find an LP by the Swinging Blue Jeans at a local record store, only to find out at home it was all rerecordings with heavy-handedly modernized sounds and some tunes that actually had never been part of their original repertoire (I had not noticed that a cover of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" could hardly have been a Merseybeat era recording ... served me right for my lack of detail knowledge at that time ...) Unfortunately such re-recording practices were not uncommon in the 70s. And the clueless songwriter's credits of "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" on THAT Merseybeats LP should make any blues fan throw up in disgust ... At least the German release of that copycat record was a bit more forthright, spilling the beans to the wary with its cover photo (but still retaining the songwriter credit nonsense): https://www.discogs.com/de/The-Merseybeats-Greatest-Hits/release/5080266 Edited October 15, 2019 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 1 hour ago, EKE BBB said: Every time I revisit the British Invasion/Mersey Beat recordings I have lots of fun. Some groups were one-hit projects, some did not even make it into the Top-20 charts, but you can always find quite a few nice tunes to enjoy. And some are enjoyable in spite of the cheesy arrangements... Beatles, Hollies, Merseybeats, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Honeycombs, Herman Hermits, Dave Clark Five, Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Mindbenders... and I am still missing a few! And one of my favourites from Australia, the Easybeats! Some of Gerry And The Pacemakers material lingered even towards "Blue Eyed Soul" .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 7 minutes ago, soulpope said: Some of Gerry And The Pacemakers material lingered even towards "Blue Eyed Soul" .... "Ferry Cross The Mersey"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said: "Ferry Cross The Mersey"? 😁 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 33 minutes ago, soulpope said: 😁 .... 1 hour ago, soulpope said: Some of Gerry And The Pacemakers material lingered even towards "Blue Eyed Soul" .... Remember that "You'll Never Walk Alone"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 1 hour ago, EKE BBB said: Remember that "You'll Never Walk Alone"... Which is another one that never charted in the USA (their version). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brad Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) Started to listen to this today, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. Edited October 15, 2019 by Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ghost of miles Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 The Replacements binge continues: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BFrank Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 One of my favorite bands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted October 16, 2019 Report Share Posted October 16, 2019 C.P. Love „I Found All These Things“ (Chimneyville CH-438) 1971 …. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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