Mop Top Pop-Beat, Vol. 3Various Artists
Release Date: 09/14/2004
Original Release:
2002
# of Discs:
2
J&R Item # 586311_CD
UPC # 823107238424
Label: Castle Music Ltd. (UK)
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Disc: 1
1.
Don't Throw Your Love Away - The Searchers
2.
I Pretend I'm With You - The Searchers
3.
Talk to Me - Rod & Carolyn
4.
Show You Mean It Too - Me & Them
5.
Everything I Do Is Wrong - Me & Them
6.
Don't Bother Me - Gregory Phillips
7.
Make Sure That You're Mine - Gregory Phillips
8.
Baby Don't Cry - The Puppets
9.
Will You or Won't You - Hi-Fi's
10.
She's the One - Hi-Fi's
11.
You Still Want Me - The Kinks
12.
You Do Something to Me - The Kinks
13.
It's Great - The Monotones
14.
Anymore - The Monotones
15.
Never Again - Brett Young
16.
You Can't Fool Me - Brett Young
17.
Doin' the Mod - VanDyke/Vandyke & The Bambis
18.
All I Want Is You - VanDyke/Vandyke & The Bambis
19.
I Missed You - Butch Moore & the Capitol Showband
20.
You Might as Well Forget Him - Tommy Quickly
21.
It's as Simple as That - Tommy Quickly
22.
September in the Rain - Wedgewoods
23.
Gone, Gone Away - Wedgewoods
24.
Then I'll Be Home - The Chants
25.
She's Mine - The Chants
26.
You're a Beautiful One - The Trends
27.
Way You Do the Things You Do, The - The Trends
28.
Near You - The Migil 5/The Mugil 5
29.
Don't Wanna Go on Shaking - The Migil 5/The Mugil 5
30.
He's Telling You Lies - Lance Harvey & Kingpins
Disc: 2
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Performer: Various Artists
Distributor: Navarre Notes: All tracks have been digitally remastered. The third entry (subtitled "Mop Top Pop") in this retrospective series of chronological reissues of Pye Records' releases covers the tail-end of the first wave of the British Invasion, from April through July of 1964. Interspersed with promising outfits like the Kinks and the label's one hugely successful act, the Searchers, are more great records by the likes of the Chants and the Trends, who never got the recognition they deserved, and a lot of acts that undeservedly barely made it out of the starting gate, most notably Shane & the Shane Gang, whose bluesy "Whistle Stop" is almost worth the price of admission. It's amazing to see performers like Johnny Sandon (best known in America as a footnote in the Searchers' history) still pushing their work at this relatively late date (and good work it was, too, albeit not really in a Brit beat style), and Beatles footnotes like Jimmy Nicol doing solid soul instrumentals -- "Husky" at least got recorded and pushed heavily on release, probably by virtue of the press Nicol received subbing for Ringo Starr early in 1964, but it was too different from the Beatles' sound to make the leap out of jukeboxes and onto the radio or the sales charts. As with the other parts of this series, the sound is phenomenally good, and the annotation is more thorough than one could ever ask for. ~ Bruce Eder
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