Joe Brown - Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings (2012)
BAND/ARTIST: Joe Brown
- Title: Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings
- Year Of Release: 2007/2012
- Label: Castle Communications
- Genre: Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Rock'n'Roll
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless
- Total Time: 03:05:07
- Total Size: 440 mb / 1.02 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Shine
02. The Switch
03. Crazy Mixed Up Kid
04. Stick Around
05. I'm Henery the Eighth I Am
06. Good Luck and Goodbye
07. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In
08. Popcorn
09. A Picture of You
10. A Layabout's Lament
11. Lonely Island Pearl
12. Talking Guitar
13. The Surrey With the Fringe On Top
14. English Country Garden
15. Put On a Happy Face
16. Your Tender Look
17. The Other Side of Town
18. It Only Took a Minute
19. All Things Bright and Beautiful
20. That's What Love Will Doa
21. Hava Nagila (The Hora)
22. What's the Name of the Game
23. Let Her Go
24. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
25. Whistle My Love
26. Nature's Time for Love
27. The Spanish Bit
28. Sally Ann
29. There's Only One of You
CD2
01. Little Ukelele
02. Hercules Unchained
03. Moonglow
04. Walkin' Tall
05. St. Louis Blues
06. The Holly and the Ivy
07. Silent Night
08. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
09. You Do Things to Me
10. Everybody Calls Me Joe
11. Don't
12. Just Like That
13. Teardrops in the Rain
14. Lonely Circus
15. Sicilian Tarantella
16. Thinkin' That I Love You
17. Charlie Girl
18. My Favourite Occupation
19. Sea of Heartbreak
20. Mrs. O's Theme
21. Little Ray of Sunshine
22. Your Loving Touch
23. A Satisfied Mind
24. Stay a Little While
25. Th' Wife
26. The Rich Man's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter
27. With a Little Help from My Friends
28. Show Me Around
CD3
01. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live)
02. Some of These Days (Live)
03. Girls Girls Girls (Live)
04. El Relicario (Live)
05. Old Apache Squaw (Live)
06. Castin' My Spell (Live)
07. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Live)
08. Alley Oop (Live)
09. Hava Nagila (The Hora) (Live)
10. The Sheik of Araby (Live)
11. You Can't Lie to a Liar (Live)
12. Sweet Little Sixteen (Live)
13. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Film Soundtrack)
14. A Layabout's Lament (Film Soundtrack)
15. I Sure Know a Lot About Love (Film Soundtrack)
16. Bruvvers (Film Soundtrack)
17. Oh What a Family (Film Soundtrack)
18. Alfred Hitchins (Film Soundtrack)
19. Sally Ann (Film Soundtrack)
20. Wasn't It a Handsome Punch Up (Film Soundtrack)
21. Please Give Me a Chance (Film Soundtrack)
22. Independence (Film Soundtrack)
23. I Feel the Same Way Too (Film Soundtrack)
24. Just You Wait and See (Film Soundtrack)
25. Medley: Things We Never Had / What a Crazy World We're Living In (Reprise) [Film Soundtrack]
There were extensive compilations of Joe Brown's early output prior to this release, but this three-CD, 82-track box is certainly the biggest one likely to be produced. Everything he released on the Pye and Piccadilly labels between 1961 and 1967 is here, including not only everything from his singles, EPs, and LPs, but also the entirety of the obscure 1964 soundtrack album What a Crazy World (on which Brown sang or co-sang the majority, but not all, of the numbers). As with any such retrospective of an artist whose output was uneven and whose significance wasn't monumental, such completeness of packaging is a mixed blessing. Brown was at his best when he leaned toward a mild country-rockabilly-influenced rock & roll sound, and on the best tracks -- "A Picture of You," "Your Tender Look," "Sally Ann," "Everybody Calls Me Joe," "You Can't Lie to a Liar" -- you can hear why he was admired by early-'60s British rock & roll fans and musicians, including George Harrison (who sang on a couple of Brown covers the Beatles played live in the early '60s, "A Picture of You" and "What a Crazy World We're Living In"). The problem is, you also get an abundance -- some would say an excess -- of vaudevillian tunes playing up Brown's Cockneyism, at times sounding like a somewhat more rock-oriented take on the most music hall-ish side of Lonnie Donegan's repertoire. There are also quite a few slight early-'60s pop/rock songs and ballads, along with standards and instrumentals (and even a faithful 1967 cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends," which made the British Top 40) that testified to his versatility, but often don't make for very satisfying listening. The music hall-like cuts in particular won't translate well to the relatively few American listeners likely to seek out Brown reissues (and it's virtually impossible to imagine how the Beatles would have performed "What a Crazy World We're Living In" on-stage), though "I'm Henery the Eighth I Am" at least demonstrates that Herman's Hermits weren't the first British rockers to come up with the idea of updating that song. The What a Crazy World soundtrack material is only of interest to rabid completists, being far more oriented toward dippy theatrical musical fare than rock & roll, and it should be noted that Brown doesn't even sing on a few of those tracks. If you want to get even pickier, if this box were to be a truly complete survey of Brown's early output, it should have licensed the six tracks he issued on three 1959-1960 Decca singles, as a prior anthology (Sequel's two-CD The Joe Brown Story) did. A much more selective and shorter Brown anthology, then, is advised for listeners who want to focus on only the most noteworthy records he cut. For those who want to immerse themselves in virtually all of Brown's early material, however, it's well-packaged, with detailed historical liner notes.
CD1
01. Shine
02. The Switch
03. Crazy Mixed Up Kid
04. Stick Around
05. I'm Henery the Eighth I Am
06. Good Luck and Goodbye
07. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In
08. Popcorn
09. A Picture of You
10. A Layabout's Lament
11. Lonely Island Pearl
12. Talking Guitar
13. The Surrey With the Fringe On Top
14. English Country Garden
15. Put On a Happy Face
16. Your Tender Look
17. The Other Side of Town
18. It Only Took a Minute
19. All Things Bright and Beautiful
20. That's What Love Will Doa
21. Hava Nagila (The Hora)
22. What's the Name of the Game
23. Let Her Go
24. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
25. Whistle My Love
26. Nature's Time for Love
27. The Spanish Bit
28. Sally Ann
29. There's Only One of You
CD2
01. Little Ukelele
02. Hercules Unchained
03. Moonglow
04. Walkin' Tall
05. St. Louis Blues
06. The Holly and the Ivy
07. Silent Night
08. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
09. You Do Things to Me
10. Everybody Calls Me Joe
11. Don't
12. Just Like That
13. Teardrops in the Rain
14. Lonely Circus
15. Sicilian Tarantella
16. Thinkin' That I Love You
17. Charlie Girl
18. My Favourite Occupation
19. Sea of Heartbreak
20. Mrs. O's Theme
21. Little Ray of Sunshine
22. Your Loving Touch
23. A Satisfied Mind
24. Stay a Little While
25. Th' Wife
26. The Rich Man's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter
27. With a Little Help from My Friends
28. Show Me Around
CD3
01. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live)
02. Some of These Days (Live)
03. Girls Girls Girls (Live)
04. El Relicario (Live)
05. Old Apache Squaw (Live)
06. Castin' My Spell (Live)
07. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Live)
08. Alley Oop (Live)
09. Hava Nagila (The Hora) (Live)
10. The Sheik of Araby (Live)
11. You Can't Lie to a Liar (Live)
12. Sweet Little Sixteen (Live)
13. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Film Soundtrack)
14. A Layabout's Lament (Film Soundtrack)
15. I Sure Know a Lot About Love (Film Soundtrack)
16. Bruvvers (Film Soundtrack)
17. Oh What a Family (Film Soundtrack)
18. Alfred Hitchins (Film Soundtrack)
19. Sally Ann (Film Soundtrack)
20. Wasn't It a Handsome Punch Up (Film Soundtrack)
21. Please Give Me a Chance (Film Soundtrack)
22. Independence (Film Soundtrack)
23. I Feel the Same Way Too (Film Soundtrack)
24. Just You Wait and See (Film Soundtrack)
25. Medley: Things We Never Had / What a Crazy World We're Living In (Reprise) [Film Soundtrack]
There were extensive compilations of Joe Brown's early output prior to this release, but this three-CD, 82-track box is certainly the biggest one likely to be produced. Everything he released on the Pye and Piccadilly labels between 1961 and 1967 is here, including not only everything from his singles, EPs, and LPs, but also the entirety of the obscure 1964 soundtrack album What a Crazy World (on which Brown sang or co-sang the majority, but not all, of the numbers). As with any such retrospective of an artist whose output was uneven and whose significance wasn't monumental, such completeness of packaging is a mixed blessing. Brown was at his best when he leaned toward a mild country-rockabilly-influenced rock & roll sound, and on the best tracks -- "A Picture of You," "Your Tender Look," "Sally Ann," "Everybody Calls Me Joe," "You Can't Lie to a Liar" -- you can hear why he was admired by early-'60s British rock & roll fans and musicians, including George Harrison (who sang on a couple of Brown covers the Beatles played live in the early '60s, "A Picture of You" and "What a Crazy World We're Living In"). The problem is, you also get an abundance -- some would say an excess -- of vaudevillian tunes playing up Brown's Cockneyism, at times sounding like a somewhat more rock-oriented take on the most music hall-ish side of Lonnie Donegan's repertoire. There are also quite a few slight early-'60s pop/rock songs and ballads, along with standards and instrumentals (and even a faithful 1967 cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends," which made the British Top 40) that testified to his versatility, but often don't make for very satisfying listening. The music hall-like cuts in particular won't translate well to the relatively few American listeners likely to seek out Brown reissues (and it's virtually impossible to imagine how the Beatles would have performed "What a Crazy World We're Living In" on-stage), though "I'm Henery the Eighth I Am" at least demonstrates that Herman's Hermits weren't the first British rockers to come up with the idea of updating that song. The What a Crazy World soundtrack material is only of interest to rabid completists, being far more oriented toward dippy theatrical musical fare than rock & roll, and it should be noted that Brown doesn't even sing on a few of those tracks. If you want to get even pickier, if this box were to be a truly complete survey of Brown's early output, it should have licensed the six tracks he issued on three 1959-1960 Decca singles, as a prior anthology (Sequel's two-CD The Joe Brown Story) did. A much more selective and shorter Brown anthology, then, is advised for listeners who want to focus on only the most noteworthy records he cut. For those who want to immerse themselves in virtually all of Brown's early material, however, it's well-packaged, with detailed historical liner notes.
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