She Flies Like a Bird: The Anthology

She Flies Like a Bird: The Anthology Artist: Honeybus
Label: Castle Music UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050159153329
ASIN: B0000669KX


Release Date: 2002-06-27

She Flies Like a Bird: The Anthology


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Tracks:

  1. Delighted to See You
  2. Breaking Up Scene
  3. (Do I Figure) In Your Life
  4. Throw My Love Away
  5. I Can't Let Maggie Go
  6. Tender Are the Ashes
  7. Girl of Independant Means
  8. How Long [Single Version]
  9. She Sold Blackpool Rock
  10. Would You Believe
  11. Story
  12. Black Mourning Band
  13. Scarlet Lady
  14. Fresher Than the Sweetness in Water
  15. He Was Columbus
  16. Ceilings No. 1
  17. Under the Silent Tree
  18. She's Out There
  19. She Said Yes
  20. I Remember Caroline
  21. How Long [LP Version]
  22. Ceilings No. 2
  23. Right to Choose
  24. She Is the Female to My Soul
  25. For Where Have You Been

Tracks:

  1. Pete Dello Interview
  2. (Do I Figure) In Your Life? [Live BBC Session]
  3. Like an Old Time Movie [Live BBC Session]
  4. Maxine's Parlour
  5. She Comes to Me [Live BBC Session]
  6. I Can't Let Maggie Go [Live BBC Session]
  7. Ain't That Just Bonny for You [Live BBC Session]
  8. Francoise [Live BBC Session]
  9. Cigona (She Sold Blackpool Rock)
  10. Chi Sei Tu (Ceilings No. 2)
  11. For You
  12. Little Lovely One
  13. Be Thou by My Side
  14. Julie in My Heart
  15. Big Ship
  16. Hear Me Only
  17. Texas Gold
  18. Madam Chairman of the Committee
  19. Jug of Water
  20. Proof Enough
  21. Like Me Like You Used to Do
  22. Lovely Ladies 'N' Things
  23. Caterina
  24. Slow Rock
  25. Music
  26. In the End Is My Beginning

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Album Description

Full title - She Flies Like A Bird - The Anthology. A solitary hit single with 'I Can't Let Maggie Go' in 1968 was poor reward for one of Britain's most brilliant pop bands of all time. As this remarkable retrospective proves, Honeybus boasted some of the finest writers & vocalists of the era, whose haunting songs have grown richer & more affecting with age. This is the most comprehensive collection of their work ever assembled, which includes several unreleased tracks. 51 tracks. Slipcase.

Album Details

Double CD Compilation featuring Virtually Everything this Late 60's/Early 70's Pop Band Recorded Including their Deram and Bell a and B Sides, the 'story' LP, Rarities and Live Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I can't let Maggie go.......2003-04-07

The exquisite I can't let Maggie go, a top ten UK hit in 1968, is all that anybody ever remembers Honeybus for. They were true one-hit wonders, as nothing else so much as grazed the charts. What surprised me was that somebody found enough material to fill two CD's.

The first CD contains the A and B-sides of seven singles plus all the tracks from their only album, Story. The second CD is made up of previously unreleased demos, some BBC sessions and tracks recorded for a 1973 reunion album that was aborted before it was complete, plus both sides of an Italian single.

Their first two singles were unsuccessful. Following the success of the third single, I can't let Maggie go, the group was required by its record company to do some touring. Lead singer and songwriter didn't want to do this and quit the group. Had he stayed, it is likely that Honeybus would have had further hits. Ray Cane and Colin Hare took over songwriting duties, each contributing interesting songs - they did not write together. Jim Kelly joined the group to become lead singer.

The cover versions that characterise so many albums of the sixties are conspicuously absent from their studio recordings, but the BBC sessions include a cover of Like an old time movie, a minor hit for Scott Mackenzie, whose big hit was San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in your hair).

This is an interesting anthology of a group that should have achieved more than they did, but pop and rock history is full of what might have been. If you only want I can't let Maggie go, it is available on any number of UK various artists sixties compilations, but if, like me, you are curious, you will find this to be an interesting collection, especially the first CD.

5 out of 5 stars Buy this one! You can't do wrong.......2002-10-18

After hearing Ian Matthew's cover of "Do i still figure in your life" from his Some Days You Eat the Bear Lp, I had to find the guy who wrote this great song. It happend to be Pete Dello,
leader of the most underrated British 60's group Honeybus.
If you love artist like the Left Banke, Emmit Rhodes or the Beatles buy this one.

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