Piccadilly / Pye Anthology

Piccadilly / Pye Anthology Artist: Joe Brown
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050159114825
ASIN: B0000572BY


Release Date: 2001-02-23

Piccadilly / Pye Anthology


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Album Details

Double CD Compilation, a Reissue of Sequel's Best Selling 'story of Joe Brown' featuring 50 Tracks by the UK 50's/60's Singer/Guitarist.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant early sixties pop singer.......2005-06-09

Originally making his name as a musician, Joe Brown eventually made his name as a singer with a string of UK hits in the early sixties. Most of these were minor hits but three made the top ten, these being A picture of you (a number one hit in some charts but not the one now most widely recognized), It only took a minute and That's what love will do. Unlike many pre-Beatles British singers, these major hits were not covers of American songs but original material. Despite this, Joe failed to make it in America but his songs were covered by such American acts as the Kalin twins, Paul Evans and Bobby Goldsboro.

As the sixties progressed, Joe focused more on acting than singing. He later became interested in country music and performed on the British club circuit. His marriage to a member of the Breakaways (a British all-female sixties group) produced a daughter, Sam Brown, who had some success in the late eighties and early nineties.

This compilation includes the three major hits together with I'm Henry the Eighth I am (Joe's version is the original, recorded two years before Herman's Hermits covered it), Darktown strutter's ball (a distinctive cover of an American jazz song that gave Joe a minor UK hit), Shine, Your tender look, Nature's time for love, Sally Ann and With a little help from my friends (Joe's other minor UK hits of the sixties). A minor UK hit recorded for a different record label in the seventies (Hey Mama) is missing, but it's not important.

Music Album:

  1. All By Myself ~ Eric Carmen
  2. A Journey to Tyme, Vol. 1 & 2 ~ Various Artists
  3. Bevis Through the Looking Glass ~ The Bevis Frond
  4. Oh, The Stories We Hold ~ Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel
  5. We Are Legion ~ Billy No Mates
  6. Lost and Found ~ Mudvayne
  7. Rock n' Roll Reunion: Class of 64 ~ Various Artists
  8. Big Daddy ~ John Cougar Mellencamp
  9. All Night Disco Party ~ Brakes
  10. No Angel ~ Dido

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Bermuda Nights ~ Gerald Albright

Spring Cycle ~ Steve Hobbs

Explorations ~ Bill Evans Trio

Best of the California Concerts ~ Duke Ellington

1939-1940 ~ Fats Waller

Cannonball Adderley Collection, Vol. 2: Bossa Nova ~ Cannonball Adderley

Best of Ronald Rubinel ~ Ronald Rubinel

Wedding in Central Europe ~ Various Artists

Ritual Chant & Music ~ Various Artists

Chant Dhrupad: North Indian Classical Music ~ The Dagar Brothers