The Little Black Egg

Artist: The Nightcrawlers
Label: Big Beat UK
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 029667420327
EAN: 0029667420327
ASIN: B000050XGO

Release Date: 2000-11-24

The Little Black Egg

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Tracks:

The Little Black Egg
A Basket Of Flowers
Sally In The Alley
Who Knows
Me For Me
If You Want My Love (Undubbed Version)
I Don't Remember
If I Were You
The Last Ship
Show Me The Way
What Time Is It
You're Running Wild
Washboard
Sticks And Stones
He Shouldn't Hurt You
Cry
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
All Day And All Of The Night
Grown Up Wrong
Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')
Sea Of Love
It's All Over Now
Washboard (Early Version)
Heart Of Stone

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Product Description

1. The Little Black Egg
2. A Basket Of Flowers
3. Sally In The Alley
4. Who Knows
5. Me For Me
6. If You Want My Love (Undubbed Version)
7. I Don't Remember
8. If I Were You
9. The Last Ship
10. Show Me The Way
11. What Time Is It
12. You're Running Wild
13. Washboard
14. Sticks And Stones
15. He Shouldn't Hurt You
16. Cry
17. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
18. All Day And All Of The Night
19. Grown Up Wrong
20. Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')
21. Sea Of Love
22. It's All Over Now
23. Washboard (Early Version)
24. Heart Of Stone

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Nightcrawlers - 'The Little Black Egg' (Big Beat).......2007-01-18

Twenty-four track compilation of this little known '60's band, coming to you from Daytona Beach, Florida. Best described as garage rock with a folk edge to it. Better tunes include their sole hit, the disc's title cut "The Little Black Egg", "Basket Of Flowers", "I Don't Remember", their Kinks cover "All Day And All Of The Night" as well as their two Stones covers "Grown Up Wrong" and "Heart Of Stone". Might draw in fans of Shadows Of Knight, Byrds, Barbarians, The Haunted and Beau Brummels. Give this CD a listen.

+1/2 Should've-been-better anthology of Florida garage band.......2004-08-11

Along with "Louie Louie," this Florida band's 1965 single "The Little Black Egg" is one of the most enigmatic (and catchy) tunes in pop history. Primitively recorded, the single had to be released three times before it caught on at the bottom of the Billboard charts. Still, regional play made it a garage band staple in the mid-60s, and its catchy guitar riff and childlike lyrics still fare well today. In typical "That Thing You Do" fashion, the original NightCrawlers lineup had broken up by the time the single began to catch, and a reforumulated group filled out an LP and recorded a few more singles before evaporating. The band's sole LP release, included here in its entirety, adds several more Beau Brummel-esque folk-rock originals, highly influenced by the British Invasion, all rendered in superbly basic garage-rock style.

For all the tracks that were gathered to flesh out this one-hit-wonder band, this collection is oddly unsatisfying as the ultimate statement on the band's recorded history. In particular, the tracks are sequenced oddly, neither following the order of singles releases, nor duplicating the band's Kapp LP. The latter can be reproduced as 1, 12, 5, 6, 7, 2, 10, 11, 4, 13, though even there you'll find that the version of "If You Want My Love" removes the dubbing Kapp added for the LP (which, like it or not, is how it was issued). The title tune has a nasty squeak (one of the drummer's pedals?) not evident on the original LP, and the tape used for "Me for Me" is surprisingly hissy. The album tracks are all mono (which makes sense, since the stereo LP - which sounds surprisingly good - was electronically produced), except for "Little Black Egg," which was recorded in true stereo. Several of the bonus tracks (8, 14-15, 17-22, 24) are true stereo. Also surprising is that the latter-day single "My Butterfly" is missing. Overall, this simply doesn't sound as good as the original vinyl; perhaps the tapes had deteriorated by the time they got around to making a digital transfer.

Alec Palao's liner notes put the band in context, and extensive remembrances from the band make for good reading (and provide the songwriters' explanation of the origin of "The Little Black Egg."). This is absolutely worth picking up, whether or not you have the original vinyl. If you don't have the vinyl, it's a quick and fairly thorough introduction to the band. If you do have the vinyl, the extra tracks (including a fine acoustic demo of "Washboard" and the previously unreleased Brummelesque "He Shouldn't Hurt You") are worth the price of this CD; just hang on to your original records, as this CD is not an equal substitute.

4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings.

Great 60's Garage Music.......2003-01-02

Finally, a great quality mid-60's garage band I been searching for for years. Not just a one song wonder but a good album all the way through.

The Little Black Egg.......2002-02-20

The most hyptnotic pop/rock song of the sixties! I'd love to here REM or even babyface record it. You would have 2 unique approaches to a totally unique song.

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