England's Newest Singing Sensations/On Hullabaloo

Artist: The Hullaballoos
Label: Collectables
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 090431629925
EAN: 0090431629925
ASIN: B00004WFQB

Release Date: 2000-09-12

England's Newest Singing Sensations/On Hullabaloo

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British Invasion

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Tracks:

Beware
I Couldn't Get Along Without You
Did You Ever
If You Don't Know Me By Now
Can't You Tell
Party Doll
I'll Show You How To Love
Every Night
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Wouldn't You Like To Know
Who Do You Think You're Fooling
I'm Gonna Love You Too
I Won't Turn Away Now
Rave On
I Got This Feeling
Better Change Your Ways
You Were There
Never Ever Will I
Learning The Game
Don't Stop
My Heart Keeps Telling Me
That'll Be The Day
Don't Cha Know
It's About That Time

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Customer Reviews:

More nostalgia than quality.......2006-11-07

If I am writing this is because, at 5, three decades and a half ago, in a remote corner of the Earth called Chile, I became a fan of this blondish quartet from the UK -as well as of other replicas of The Beatles such as The Monkeys, and of an eclectic collection of pop singers from all over the world such as Aznavour, Italy's Equipe 84 and others. These blokes' songs are very powerful to me, as they evoke pleasant times gone long ago. These Hullaballos are not particularly good. They are indeed quite flat, providing rather standard types of harmonies, instrumentation, and performance. The repertoire is limited as well, rather too dependent on Buddy Holly. But on behalf of these Brits, I like their versions of Holly's songs better. They are also able to communicate some force, joie de vivre, a kind of naive optimism I like very much. As another reviewer before me, my original LP is so worn out that it can hardly be heard so now I am happy to get a CD with no scratches. I guess I like them because of nostalgia rather than by artistic merit!

Hullaballoos Revisited.......2002-10-29

It's hard to believe that a group of teenage musicians who were presented as much for their look as their musicianship, and whose material was written primarily by Brill Building hacks, could produce two dozen tracks worth of material that sounds this fresh almost forty years after its release. Although the over-ripe Buddy Holly fixation can be a bit grating at times, it also gives us one of the prettiest versions of Holly's "Learning the Game" ever waxed, and overall, the material hits the mark more often than it misses.

The last half of the disc (the second LP) is arguably the most enjoyable, with cheery rockers like "I Got This Feeling", and "Don't Stop". The musicianship is suprisingly good, and the albums end up sounding a lot better than some other British Invasion material (The first few wildly uneven albums by the Dave Clark Five, for example).

It's a pity that nothing was apparently left "in the can", as the CD has plentey of room for extra material. A third LP would have been most interesting (the group added a fifth member before breaking up, accoring to Vernon Joynson's book The Tapestry of Delights, and this may have marked a change in their sound), as the group was beginning to write its own material ("You Were There", and the excellent "Better Change Your Ways") by the second album. The best track, though, is perhaps their cover of the 1959 hit "Party Doll". A blistering two minutes of pounding drums, close harmonies, and incisive guitar playing, it could easily pass for a lost Moby Grape out-take! It's not the Beatles, but it's a lot closer than anyone would have a right to expect!

Hullaballoos - 3 Decades Later.......2002-07-07

I was l7 when my friend Margaret and I first discoved the music of the Hullaballoos. We are now 54 years old. We went to see then live in the New York Paramount Theatre and in the Brooklyn Fox. We bought there albums and ever visited the year later in England (Harry Dunn and Andy Woonton). There music was happy, upbeat, fun and good. I am happy to be able to get their music on CD. It is a fresh today as it was in the 60's. If people were to listen they would love them as I did and enjoy them as I always will. 5 stars and better for the Hullaballoos. Joan

Hullaballoos - 3 Decades Later.......2002-07-07

A Great Flashback.......2002-04-20

As a kid of 11 or 12, I bought their second album "On Hulaballoo" because they were the strangest looking band I'd seen in a long time. Long bleached blonde hair, no pretty boys here. I really liked the music and to tell the truth, thought Buddy Holly copied them. Several songs are Buddy Holly's and when I heard Holly years later, well... Holly was on the radio a bit before I started paying attention, I was too young, so I did not make the connection.

The CD includes both of their albums and the songs are British Invasion pop. Even today, I think they got a raw deal by their record company's marketing practices. As a result, they only made a minor splash in the states and were rumored to be a "manufactured" band because they were practically unknown in their native England. Not true, they were a real band and played some very catchy songs. There is nothing down or depressing on this album, it is all bright catchy songs that should have brought them to a much broader audience. I am glad the CD finally came out because the first album is nearly impossible to find, and my copy of "On Hulaballoo" is so worn it is almost inaudible.

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