Gerry & The Pacemakers - Youll Never Walk Alone (The EMI Years 1963-1966) '2008

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
01. How Do You Do It? (Mono)
02. Away from You
03. Its Happened to Me (2002 Remaster)
04. I Like It (Main)
05. Pretend (2002 Remaster)
06. Jambalaya (2002 Remaster)
07. Summertime (2002 Remaster)
08. The Wrong Yoyo (2002 Remaster)
09. Ill Be There (First Version)
10. Slow Down (2002 Remaster)
11. Heres Hoping (2002 Remaster)
12. Where Have You Been All My Life? (2002 Remaster)
13. Maybellene (2002 Remaster)
14. Youll Never Walk Alone (Mono) [2002 Remaster]
15. Dont Ever Stray
16. Hello Little Girl
17. Dont You Ever (2002 Remaster)
18. Its All Right (2002 Remaster)
19. You Cant Fool Me (2002 Remaster)
20. A Shot of Rhythm and Blues (2002 Remaster)
21. Youre the Reason (2002 Remaster)
22. Chills (2002 Remaster)
23. Im the One
24. Youve Got What I Like
25. Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Mono) [Main]
26. Show Me That You Care
27. Shes the Only Girl for Me (2002 Remaster)
28. Why Oh Why
29. Think About Love (2002 Remaster)
30. Ill Be There (Second Version Without Strings) [2008 Remaster]
31. Give Me All Your Love (No Strings) [2008 Remaster]
32. Come Back to Me (No Strings) [2008 Remaster]

CD2
01. Ferry Cross the Mersey (Mono) [2002 Remaster]
02. Its Gonna Be Alright (Mono) [2002 Remaster]
03. Ill Wait for You (2002 Remaster)
04. Fall in Love (2002 Remaster)
05. Baby Youre so Good to Me (2002 Remaster)
06. This Thing Called Love (Mono) [2002 Remaster]
07. My Love Forever
08. Its Just Because
09. Rip It Up
10. Whole Lotta Shakin Going On
11. When Oh When (2002 Remaster)
12. Whatd I Say (2008 Remaster)
13. Ill Be There (Mono)
14. My Babe (2008 Remaster)
15. Skinny Minnie (2008 Remaster)
16. Itll Be Me
17. Reelin and Rockin
18. You Win Again
19. I Count the Tears (2008 Remaster)
20. You You You (2008 Remaster)
21. Now Im Alone (2008 Remaster)
22. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Live) [2008 Remaster]
23. My Babe (Live) [2008 Remaster]
24. Away from You (Live) [2008 Remaster]
25. Whatd I Say (Live) [2008 Remaster]
26. Give Me All Your Love (With Strings) [2008 Remaster]
27. Come Back to Me (With Strings)
28. Dreams (Mono) [2008 Remaster]

CD3
01. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
02. Tomorrow
03. Ill Make It up All up to You (Mono)
04. Walk Hand in Hand
05. Today Im in Love (Mono)
06. La La La
07. Without You (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
08. Girl on a Swing
09. The Way You Look Tonight (2008 Remaster)
10. Fool to Myself (2002 Remaster)
11. Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
12. On a Wonderful Day Like Today (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
13. Tonight (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
14. Strangers in the Night (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
15. Who Can I Turn To (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
16. See You in September (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
17. Pretty Flamingo (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
18. The End of the Rainbow (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
19. Guantanamera (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
20. Looking for My Life (Mono) [2008 Remaster]
21. Anyone at All
22. Introduction
23. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
24. I Like It (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
25. My Babe (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
26. Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
27. Slow Down (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
28. Im the One (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
29. Away from You (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
30. A Shot of Rhythm and Blues (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
31. How Do You Do It (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)
32. Whatd I Say (Recorded Live at Oakland Auditorium)

CD4
01. Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying (2008 Remaster)
02. Ferry Cross the Mersey (Stereo) [2002 Remaster]
03. Its Gonna Be Alright (Stereo) [2002 Remaster]
04. This Thing Called Love (Stereo) [2002 Remaster]
05. Reelin and a Rockin (2008 Remaster)
06. Whole Lot of Shakin Goin On (2008 Remaster)
07. Rip It Up (2008 Remaster)
08. You Win Again (2008 Remaster)
09. Ill Be There (Second Version with Strings) [2008 Remaster]
10. You You You (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
11. Give Me All Your Love (New Mix)
12. Dreams (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
13. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
14. Ill Make It up All up to You (Stereo)
15. Walk Hand in Hand (2008 Remaster)
16. Today Im in Love (Stereo)
17. La La La (2008 Remaster)
18. Without You (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
19. Girl on a Swing (2008 Remaster)
20. The Way You Look Tonight (2008 Remaster)
21. A Fool to Myself (2008 Remaster)
22. Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine (2008 Remaster)
23. On a Wonderful Day Like Today (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
24. Tonight (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
25. Strangers in the Night (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
26. Who Can I Turn To (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
27. See You in September (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
28. Pretty Flamingo (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
29. The End of the Rainbow (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
30. Guantanamera (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]
31. Looking for My Life (Stereo) [2008 Remaster]

Gerry & the Pacemakers are fated to eternal comparisons to the Beatles, their
onetime Merseybeat rivals who rapidly eclipsed the quartet in popularity and
accomplishment, leaving them as something of a pop culture punchline. In the
wake of the Beatles, it was hard to look back at Gerry Marsden and his
irrepressibly cheerful music and think it was in the same league as the Fab
Four, or any of the British Invasion groups that followed. That may be true, but
Gerry & the Pacemakers shouldnt be judged against such R&B-schooled rockers as
the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks but rather against the stiff,
starched rock & roll of pre-Beatles Britain. Compared to this prim, proper pop,
the skiffle beats and bouncy melodies of Gerry & the Pacemakers seem fresh,
almost serving as a bridge between formative English rock and the bright blast
of the Beatles - who were contemporaries of Gerry & the Pacemakers, so this
doesnt quite parse exactly, but seen this way the band doesnt seem like a joke,
so its easier to enjoy what the group had to offer. Even armed with this
perspective, sitting through the four-disc, 123-track set Youll Never Walk
Alone: The EMI Years 1963-1966 can be a bit of a long slog, and not just because
this contains a full disc of stereo mixes in addition to some songs showing up
sans strings or in other variations. Discounting these variations, Youll Never
Walk Alone still serves up far too much too Gerry & the Pacemakers for anybody
but the dedicated, but that doesnt mean this isnt instructive. First, this does
confirm that they were a good singles band with the best of their hits - the
quite lovely Dont Let the Sun Catch You Crying and Ferry Cross the Mersey, the
infectious Its Gonna Be All Right, and depending on mood, maybe How Do You Do It
- holding up quite well. Outside of the singles, there arent too many hidden
treasures. Every once in a while theres a surprise like Marsdens delightful
Beatlesque rocker Think About Love or a chirpy cover of the early
Lennon-McCartney trifle Hello Little Girl, and the group shows some aptitude on
covers of Jerry Lee Lewis and Hank Williams, but for the most part this is
pleasantly cheerful Merseybeat and not much more. The exception is the live
Gerry in California EP; culled from a concert at Oakland in October 1964, the
complete show of which is released here for the first time, this live
performance shows the band to be more energetic on-stage than on record, turning
in a fun performance showcasing a band thats eager to please. That eagerness
translated into politeness in the studio, where they were only too happy to
follow the lead of their producers and create polite, well-scrubbed pop whether
they were happily singing Merseybeat or singing middlebrow pop like Strangers in
the Night just when their peers were branching out. Gerry dipped his toe into
folk-rock with a not-bad version of Paul Simons The Big Bright Green Pleasure
Machine, but that was an anomaly -- by the end of his run at EMI, soft pop like
Guantanamera was more his speed, which may explain why Gerry & the Pacemakers
faded from the view just when their peers got psychedelic. Youll Never Walk
Alone proves that the band just wasnt made for those times. Nevertheless, theres
an enduring innocence to their music that does make this a pleasant nostalgia
trip (or piece of pop archeology, depending on your point of view), at least in
small doses.

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