The Kingbees, Vols. 1 & 2

Artist: The Kingbees
Label: Oglio Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 790058159927
EAN: 0790058159927
ASIN: B000009NXF

Release Date: 1998-07-21

The Kingbees, Vols. 1 & 2

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Tracks:

Sweet Sweet Girl to Me
My Mistake
Man Made for Love
No Respect
Fast Girls
Shake-Bop
Once Is Not Enough
Ting-a-Ling
Follow Your Heart
Everybody's Gone
The Big Rock
She Ain't My Baby
She Can't 'Make-up' Her Mind
How Can I Love You
Let Myself Go
Stick It Out!
Right Behind You Baby
Wishing
Boppin' The Blues
Burnin' The Town Tonight
The Ugly Truth
Rockin' My Life Away

Customer Reviews:

rockabilly.......2007-03-30

Back when the stracats were considred nothing more than teen beat gurus... there was the kingBees

Very different from the rest of the 80's rockabilly scene..........2005-02-26

Many people seem to think rockabilly can't be done without slap bass. They also seem to think if you try to update it you are just messing it up. Many bands have tried to take a different approach and most of them get called posers and lame. I have heard this over and over about the Kingbees and I find it sad. They were not the Stray Cats, Rockats, Blue Cats, Polecats, Bop Cats, or any cats...the were the Kingbees and they played a form of 80's rockabilly with electric bass and with tons of energy. Rockpile probably would be a closer match to them and yet that still is not a good comparison. The stuff is a little dated sounding today and "Big Rock" shows it the most with some of the lyrics, but people really missed a great band that put out two really solid records that were different and kept things interesting. They were second sting I guess, a little new wave-ish, but maybe that was a good thing?

Excellent.......2003-02-11

I first heard the Kingbees 23 years ago on a local college radio station.They were like nobody else,yet really rockin with the song "My Mistake".A true lost treasure.A real unique sound,a must have by anyone with interest in rock,punk or fast rockabilly.Awesome!

Great Punkabilly!.......2001-08-01

Plenty of bands tried, but the Kingbees did the best job of playing rockabilly with that punk attitude. Nobody rocked and thrashed harder than this band--in comparison, they make the Stray Cats sound like the Carpenters!

great retro-rockabilly stuff.......1999-03-18

The first time I ever heard of this group was through one of the local bar bands in our area. They were doing covers of "Sweet, Sweet Girl" and "My Mistake". I went out and purchased the first Kingbees Lp on RSO records, and eventually the band I was in did covers of those songs too! The 'Bees kind of came on the scene close to the same time as the Stray Cats...actually, the first Kingbees album was released in 1980..predating the Cats by a year (if my Trouser Press Record Guide is correct).

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