Joe Brown - Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings '2007/2012
Artist | Joe Brown Related artists |
Album name | Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings |
Country | |
Date | 2007/2012 |
Genre | Pop |
Play time | 03:05:07 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
Media | CD |
Size | 440 mb / 1.02 gb |
Price | Download $8.95 |
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Tracklist CD1 01. Shine 02. The Switch 03. Crazy Mixed Up Kid 04. Stick Around 05. Im Henery the Eighth I Am 06. Good Luck and Goodbye 07. What a Crazy World Were Livin In 08. Popcorn 09. A Picture of You 10. A Layabouts Lament 11. Lonely Island Pearl 12. Talking Guitar 13. The Surrey With the Fringe On Top 14. English Country Garden 15. Put On a Happy Face 16. Your Tender Look 17. The Other Side of Town 18. It Only Took a Minute 19. All Things Bright and Beautiful 20. Thats What Love Will Doa 21. Hava Nagila (The Hora) 22. Whats the Name of the Game 23. Let Her Go 24. Please Dont Talk About Me When Im Gone 25. Whistle My Love 26. Natures Time for Love 27. The Spanish Bit 28. Sally Ann 29. Theres Only One of You CD2 01. Little Ukelele 02. Hercules Unchained 03. Moonglow 04. Walkin Tall 05. St. Louis Blues 06. The Holly and the Ivy 07. Silent Night 08. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 09. You Do Things to Me 10. Everybody Calls Me Joe 11. Dont 12. Just Like That 13. Teardrops in the Rain 14. Lonely Circus 15. Sicilian Tarantella 16. Thinkin That I Love You 17. Charlie Girl 18. My Favourite Occupation 19. Sea of Heartbreak 20. Mrs. Os Theme 21. Little Ray of Sunshine 22. Your Loving Touch 23. A Satisfied Mind 24. Stay a Little While 25. Th Wife 26. The Rich Mans Son and the Poor Mans Daughter 27. With a Little Help from My Friends 28. Show Me Around CD3 01. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live) 02. Some of These Days (Live) 03. Girls Girls Girls (Live) 04. El Relicario (Live) 05. Old Apache Squaw (Live) 06. Castin My Spell (Live) 07. What a Crazy World Were Livin In (Live) 08. Alley Oop (Live) 09. Hava Nagila (The Hora) (Live) 10. The Sheik of Araby (Live) 11. You Cant Lie to a Liar (Live) 12. Sweet Little Sixteen (Live) 13. What a Crazy World Were Livin In (Film Soundtrack) 14. A Layabouts Lament (Film Soundtrack) 15. I Sure Know a Lot About Love (Film Soundtrack) 16. Bruvvers (Film Soundtrack) 17. Oh What a Family (Film Soundtrack) 18. Alfred Hitchins (Film Soundtrack) 19. Sally Ann (Film Soundtrack) 20. Wasnt It a Handsome Punch Up (Film Soundtrack) 21. Please Give Me a Chance (Film Soundtrack) 22. Independence (Film Soundtrack) 23. I Feel the Same Way Too (Film Soundtrack) 24. Just You Wait and See (Film Soundtrack) 25. Medley: Things We Never Had / What a Crazy World Were Living In (Reprise) [Film Soundtrack] There were extensive compilations of Joe Browns early output prior to this release, but this three-CD, 82-track box is certainly the biggest one likely to be produced. Everything he released on the Pye and Piccadilly labels between 1961 and 1967 is here, including not only everything from his singles, EPs, and LPs, but also the entirety of the obscure 1964 soundtrack album What a Crazy World (on which Brown sang or co-sang the majority, but not all, of the numbers). As with any such retrospective of an artist whose output was uneven and whose significance wasnt monumental, such completeness of packaging is a mixed blessing. Brown was at his best when he leaned toward a mild country-rockabilly-influenced rock & roll sound, and on the best tracks -- A Picture of You, Your Tender Look, Sally Ann, Everybody Calls Me Joe, You Cant Lie to a Liar -- you can hear why he was admired by early-60s British rock & roll fans and musicians, including George Harrison (who sang on a couple of Brown covers the Beatles played live in the early 60s, A Picture of You and What a Crazy World Were Living In). The problem is, you also get an abundance -- some would say an excess -- of vaudevillian tunes playing up Browns Cockneyism, at times sounding like a somewhat more rock-oriented take on the most music hall-ish side of Lonnie Donegans repertoire. There are also quite a few slight early-60s pop/rock songs and ballads, along with standards and instrumentals (and even a faithful 1967 cover of the Beatles With a Little Help from My Friends, which made the British Top 40) that testified to his versatility, but often dont make for very satisfying listening. The music hall-like cuts in particular wont translate well to the relatively few American listeners likely to seek out Brown reissues (and its virtually impossible to imagine how the Beatles would have performed What a Crazy World Were Living In on-stage), though Im Henery the Eighth I Am at least demonstrates that Hermans Hermits werent the first British rockers to come up with the idea of updating that song. The What a Crazy World soundtrack material is only of interest to rabid completists, being far more oriented toward dippy theatrical musical fare than rock & roll, and it should be noted that Brown doesnt even sing on a few of those tracks. If you want to get even pickier, if this box were to be a truly complete survey of Browns early output, it should have licensed the six tracks he issued on three 1959-1960 Decca singles, as a prior anthology (Sequels two-CD The Joe Brown Story) did. A much more selective and shorter Brown anthology, then, is advised for listeners who want to focus on only the most noteworthy records he cut. For those who want to immerse themselves in virtually all of Browns early material, however, its well-packaged, with detailed historical liner notes. All publication of the user fantastik - IsraBox
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