Sound of 65/There's a Bond Between Us [Import]

Sound of 65/There's a Bond Between Us [Import]

ASIN: B00002MP7R

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Both 1965 LPs by this British blues rock group together on one disc. Robert Stigwood produced both records. The band featured pre-Cream members Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. The full title of each album is 'The Sound Of 65' and 'There's A Bond Between Us'. Remastered from original master tapes, additional sleeve notes with faithfully restored artwork.1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Tracks:

Hoochie Coochie Man
Baby Make Love To Me
Neighbour Neighbour
Early In The Morning
Spanish Blues
Oh Baby
Little Girl
I Want You
Wade In The Water
Got My Mojo Working
Train Time
Baby Be Good To Me
Half A Man
Tammy
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Hear Me Calling Your Name
The Night Time Is The Right Time
Walkin' In The Park
Last Night
Baby Can It Be True?
What'd I Say?
Dick's Instrumental
Don't Let Go
Keep A'Drivin'
Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
Camels And Elephants

Album Description

Both 1965 LPs by this British blues rock group together on one disc. Robert Stigwood produced both records. The band featured pre-Cream members Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. The full title of each album is 'The Sound Of 65' and 'There's A Bond Between Us'. Remastered from original master tapes, additional sleeve notes with faithfully restored artwork.1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Exciting, raw, and the real deal.......2006-08-31

The Graham Bond Organization is famous more for spawning two-thirds of Cream, than for their own accomplishments, at least in the US where it has been virtually impossible to get their recordings until recently. This disc shows them to be great musicians with absoultely no talent for playing it safe or going commercial. Their hard-driving, r&b sound is truly unique. Some have complained about Bond's singing being awful. Well, that's a matter of opinion. Captain Beefheart was an acquired taste, too. Although the vocal on "Tammy" is truly so surreally bad that it does defy description. Not all of the material is great but what comes through consistently is the sheer energy of this group and the virtuosity of the players. Bond, himself, is a true whiz on the organ - it's some of the most powerful and nimble keyboard playing you will ever hear on a pop music recording. And Baker's presence is very much in evidence throughout. Dick Heckstall-Smith, who went on to a long career playing with Jack Bruce and Colleseum, throws jazz licks into a rock environment with inspired results. And Jack, who is quite prominent on back-up vocals, plays a steady and imaginatvie bass. I bought this CD as a Cream fan, just to complete my collection - but I've been playing it constantly, enjoying about 2/3 of the material very much.

Great music, but sadly not great sound quality!.......2006-08-10

The GBO were one of the great British R&B bands, being and off-shoot from Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. Enjoyable music throughout is sadly marred by indifferent rather 'flat' sound quality. Whatever the packaging says, I am told the set was actually dubbed from disc rather than taken from the master tapes; that would explain the odd 'tick' here and there.

good but no john mayall.......2004-01-26

i just wanted to say this is some pretty cool music if you let it grow on you.for the review that says people dont like the singing,i can understand at first listen you might quistion but bond does have his own cool sound.now for the record dont listen to everything people say sometimes you must be the judge.now to slip john mayall in as an example of singing that isnt that good is just wrong.first of i think he is a great vocalist.he can rock,sound like a soulman,get psychedelic,hit smooth notes that sound like the yound dude he is{like on the "barewires":suite intro for example}and dont forget he is white.overall there is no comparison in vocals and or tunes,especially when we start in on Barewires.i mean the first track alone is worth buying the record.its one of those trk1.-pts-a,b,c,d,e,f type tune and it is completly amazing without the 6 other killer tunes including one of my favorites SANDY".im not saying dont buy this record but unless you own it allready get BARewIRES' so you wont be going around thinking youve got the oldschool music thing figured out when youve yet to start your journey.

A Lost Classic of British Blues.......2002-07-23

Few people - other than obsessive Cream fans - have heard of the Graham Bond Organisation, and that's a shame. The group is historically significant because it represents the earliest recordings of Cream's rhythm section - bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. However, the leaders of this group were singer/organist Bond and sax-man Dick Heckstall-Smith. Quite simply, the Organisation cut some of the grooviest blues- and jazz-rock of the early 1960s. The absence of guitar makes for an unusually "cool" British blues sound. And (hold onto your hats!) Ginger Baker's drum work is understated and tasteful, providing a swinging foundation for the other members' improvisation. Some have mentioned that Bond is not much of a singer and, while that may be true, he's certainly no worse than John Mayall. In short, this is an underrated and underappreciated classic that is a must-have for the fan of early British R&B.

The Organization Live.......2002-06-21

This was another band that never got their true impact down on record. I have this collection on reissue vinyl. There are some excellent tracks (Walking In The Park, Wade In The Water, Night Time Is The Right Time, even if he ain't Ray Charles) but I saw this band live and close up many times in places like the Flamingo, Klooks Kleek, Friars etc. They were always good and on a really good night, they were awesome! The well documented differences in the band seemed to produce something that on paper looked as if it should never have happened. Definitely one for afficionados of British RnB.

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