On the Right Track: Beat, Ballad and Blues 1964-1971

On the Right Track: Beat, Ballad and Blues 1964-1971 Artist: Georgie Fame
Label: Raven [Australia]
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 612657017623
EAN: 0612657017623
ASIN: B0002DB5LI


Release Date: 2004-07-15

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Listmania:

  1. 1960's male singers and groups (10 of 12)
  2. '60s Vanilla Soul

Tracks:

  1. Work Song [Live] - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  2. Get On the Right Track, Baby - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  3. Yeh Yeh - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  4. In the Meantime - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  5. Telegram - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  6. Like We Used to Be - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  7. Something - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  8. Get Away - The Blue Flames, Georgie Fame
  9. Sunny
  10. Sitting in the Park
  11. Sweet Thing
  12. Bluesology [Live]
  13. Because I Love You
  14. Try My World
  15. Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
  16. Bullets Laverne
  17. Kentucky Child
  18. Need Your Love So Bad
  19. Seventh Son
  20. Somebody Stole My Thunder
  21. Blossom
  22. Peaceful
  23. I'm a Drifter
  24. Down Along the Cove
  25. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  26. Stormy
  27. Happiness
  28. Rosetta - Georgie Fame, Alan Price

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Simply horrid.......2006-02-11

If you're any fan of Georgie Fame, avoid this at any cost. Yes, there are a lot of tracks, and yes, all the charting hits are here, but that's about all the nice thing I can say about it. Sound quality is all over the map, continuing Raven's propensity towards pulling the easiest-to-find master and using it instead of doing their homework. Things are mono that should be stereo, and things that should be mono are in abominable rechanneled (i.e. phony) stereo. Fame deserves better than this. Save your money and find a copy of "20 Beat Classics" plus any of the UK CBS collections still floating around.

5 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Fame Collection Available!.......2005-04-28

I had heard of Georgie Fame as a teenage Beatles fan back in the early 1980s, but hadn't heard him until a friend put Georgie's version of "Work Song" on a compilation disc for me almost 20 years later. The energy in that one recording made me feel as if I had in some small way experienced the fabled early 60s British R&B/Jazz scene that spawned The Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, and others. After that, I acquired more Georgie Fame's 60s recordings, including the spectacular pop nugget "Yeh Yeh." This compilation provides a fantastic sampling of, arguably, Fame's most seminal recordings, and is worth the price of admission for the 2 tracks I mentioned earlier. This is 60s British R&B/Jazz-influenced pop at its finest. My only wish now is that someone will eventually have the good sense to reissue Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames' "Rhythm & Blues at the Flamingo" on CD.

5 out of 5 stars True "Blue Eyed Soul" and Jazz, and R&B, and POP,.............2004-11-09

Georgie does it all! And it's all here! This is the most comprehensive collection of Georgie Fame's great music available today. This CD spans his years with EMI and CBS (Epic and Imperial in the states). All of the hits are here as well as some fantastic live jazz and R&B cuts. His horn section really stands out on this CD and are comparable to the best. His extensive use of baritone sax (an istrument that seems to have all but disappeared today) is remarkable in itself. It, along with the bass trombone adds balls to any horn section as evidenced on this cd. Georgie Fame only had 2 or 3 songs chart in the USA, but if any American jazz or R&B fans happen to read this review; do yourself a favour and get this cd. You'll love it! Jerry Grigsby

5 out of 5 stars Great sixties mix of pop, blues and jazz.......2004-09-26

Georgie Fame's musical roots were in jazz and blues and that was what really interested him. Fortunately for him, there was room in the sixties pop charts for such musicians, especially if they were prepared to adapt their music to appeal to pop audiences. So it was that Georgie Fame topped the UK charts three times and several other hits. By some statistical freak, none of his hits made the top ten except for the three that made number one.

The three UK number ones were Yeh yeh (his first hit, though not his first single), Get away (which he originally wrote for a TV commercial) and The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, which was about the film. These are the songs that Georgie is best remembered for but some of his other pop hits are also noteworthy, among them being Sunny, Sitting in the park, Because I love you, Peaceful and Rosetta, the last-named featuring Alan Price.

As the hits dried up, Georgie returned to the jazz and blues music that he loved but as this collection shows, that music was always an important influence in his pop hits. This is as good a collection of his music from his hit-making years as you are likely to find, containing all his UK hits and several other interesting tracks.

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  5. The 2nd John Handy Album ~ John Handy Quintet
  6. Ten Short Songs About Love ~ Gary Clark
  7. No Substitutions: Live in Osaka ~ Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather
  8. Parallel Realities Live
  9. Secrets ~ Herbie Hancock
  10. Cool ~ George Duke

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