Record executive Russ Regan, instrumental for his behind-the-scenes work with Harriet Schock, Genya Ravan, and producer Jimmy Miller, was involved in the creation of this soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox documentary film All This and World War II. Produced by Lou Reizner, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged by Wil Malone and conducted by Harry Rabinowitz, back up an amazing array of stars on Beatles covers. What this is, truly, is one of the first Beatles tribute albums, and it is extraordinary. Peter Gabriel performing "Strawberry Fields Forever should be a staple on classic hits radio stations. It's a natural, but how about David Essex doing "Yesterday," Leo Sayer on "Let It Be," or the Four Seasons interpreting "We Can Work It Out"? Where the dismal soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band had hits and misses, this is a very cohesive and impressive work of art. The Brothers Johnson re-create Hey Jude, and its soulful reading is not what Earth, Wind and Fire did to "Got To Get You Into My Life" -- their Top Ten 1978 hit from the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack -- but it is just as cool. In 1994 BMG released Symphonic Music of the Rolling Stones, which had Marianne Faithful sounding like Melanie Safka on "Ruby Tuesday" (or is it the other way around) and Mick Jagger re-creating "Angie," but that was 18 years after this, and doesn't have the marquee value of this double-vinyl LP chock full of stars. This is four sides of orchestrated Beatles, with the Status Quo, Ambrosia, and Bryan Ferry on a version of "She's Leaving Home" that was meant exclusively for him, as is Helen Reddy's take on "Fool on the Hill." Leo Sayer gets to do "The Long and Winding Road" as well as "I Am the Walrus," while Frankie Valli does "A Day in the Life" to augment his Four Seasons track. It is nice to see Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood on the same album again, Wood with "Polythene Pam"and "Lovely Rita," future Beatles co-producer Jeff Lynne cutting his teeth on about seven minutes of "With a Little Help From My Friends"/"Nowhere Man." Tina Turner reprises her classic "Come Together," Elton John, of course, has to weigh in with "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," while the Bee Gees are spread out over the record doing bits and pieces of the Abbey Road medley, "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" on side one, less than two minutes of "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" on side two, and two minutes of "Sun King" on side three. Frankie Laine, Status Quo, and a delirious Keith Moon add to the festivities, but it is the Peter Gabriel track which gets the nod as the over-the-top performance here; Moon's rant is so out-there and off-key it disturbs the momentum. We have to give him a pass, though. It's Keith Moon, and he never made it to 64! Keep in mind that, two years later, the Bee Gees, Helen Reddy, Frankie Valli, and Tina Turner would show up in the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band soundtrack and film as well, so maybe this is where the idea for that came to be. Utilizing the Elton John number-one hit from two years earlier, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," insures that a Beatle is involved in this project, as John Lennon performed on that single under the name Dr. Winston O'Boogie, though it might have been interesting had they added the Royal Philharmonicto the original tape. Well, on second thought, maybe not. Still, it is a classic, classic album that deserves a better place in rock history, certainly more so than the aforementioned Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack. Definitely worth seeking out. Posted by Joe Viglione Jun 18, 2004
1 Magical Mystery Tour 2 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 3 Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight 4 I Am the Walrus 5 She's Leaving Home 6 Lovely Rita 7 When I'm Sixty-Four 8 Get Back 9 Let It Be 10 Yesterday 11 With a Little Help from My Friends/Nowhere Man 12 Because 13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 14 Michelle 15 We Can Work It Out 16 The Fool on the Hill 17 Maxwell's Silver Hammer 18 Hey Jude 19 Polytheme Pam
20 Sun King 21 Getting Better 22 The Long and Winding Road 23 Help 24
Strawberry Fields Forever 25 A Day in the Life 26 Come Together 27 You Never Give Me Your Money 28 The End
Credits
Ambrosia Bryan Ferry David Essex Elton John Frankie Laine Frankie Valli Helen Reddy
Henry Gross Jeff Lynne Keith Moon Leo Sayer Lou Reizner Lynsey de Paul Peter Gabriel Riccardo Cocciante Rod Stewart Roy Wood Status Quo The Bee Gees The Brothers Johnson The Four Seasons The London Symphony Orchestra Tina Turner William Malone
2)Mickey Thomas
3)Robin Lane Catbird Seat
4)November Group
5)Ultimate Spinach?
6)Rock & Roll Queen?
7)Dion Dimucci
8)Tracy Bonham
9)Fotomaker
10)Fotomaker
11)New Hope For The Wretched
12)Metal Priestess
13)Beyond the Valley of 1984
14)I Am Woman
Hi, It is July 8, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Sometimes the reviews for AMG get re-written and my original reviews vanish!
1)Mott The Hoople's ROCK & ROLL QUEEN
2)Dion DiMucci's Collectables album
3)Tracy Bonham's SECOND WIND
4)All This and World War II
5)Hendrix In The West
6)New Hope For The Wretched
7)Fotomaker
8)Fotomaker
9)Tanya Tucker
10)Nina Simone Jazz As Played at an Exclusive Club
5)HENDRIX IN THE WEST
6)Friends From The Beginning Little Richard / Jimi Hendrix
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There are only two instances of Jimi Hendrix performing with{$LittleRichard known to exist on tape. There's the Vee Jay single, "I Don't What You Got..." Parts 1 and the live performance at Revere Beach, Massachusetts of Little Richard in concert with Hendrix on guitar, recorded by the legendary mastering engineer"Little" Walter DeVenne. According to very reputable sources, this release, Friends From The Beginning, is totally bogus. There's Aki Tomita's illustrations of Hendrix and {$Penniman} onthe front and back cover, there are ridiculous liner notes that arealmost as absurd as the ones producer {$Johnny Brantley} etched on the back of Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Youngblood: Two Great Experiences Together - (another album reportedly containing tracks that feature a Hendrix sound alike to fill out the disc), and there's the "music".The album claims to be produced by {$Bumps Blackwell} and {$LittleRichard} but who can be sure? The version of {&"Tutti Frutti"} whichends side one sounds like a simple guitar lesson being played over aquick studio session with vintage sixties ambiance.Where a true "bootleg" album contains rare performances that fanstreasure, and a "counterfeit" is usually a reproduction of legit albumsby unscrupulous individuals, fraudulent recordings like {^Friends FromThe Beginning} serve no purpose but to confuse the public and harm thereputations of the artists whose names appear on these travesties. Thisalbum says it is a 1972 release, and it actually credits most of thesongwriting to {$Little Rchard} and {$Jimi Hendrix}. Of value to fansonly as a bizarre artifact from an industry where the artist and thepublic are both being cheated. Author {$John McDermott} from the official
Experience Hendrix company has a book which sets the
record straight on all this. Very necessary for an artist whose catalog isrifewith such items - it is suggested you spend your money on that.
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Reviews
Vis-à-Vis has immediate and satisfying jangle pop sensations in "Miles Away," the revved-up "Dear Prudence"-inspired "Snowblind," and the exquisitely son-of-Raspberries "Just for You." For all the extraordinary good points this album contains -- and there are many -- the band just misses the mark by not thinking in terms of a number one smash. Take "Name of the Game," a song title that ABBA utilized more efficiently, as just one example. Cars drummer David Robinson referred to Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA as true "craftsmen" -- and that is all that is missing from the first side of Fotomaker's second disc. They are a terrific pop band in need of a production team, an Ulvaeus and Andersson, to take it all to the next level. But despite the lack of a big smash single, leadoff track "Miles Away" getting to only bubble under the Top 40, side two holds some very pleasant surprises. "If I Can't Believe in You" and "Two Way Street" are both in-the-pocket, dreamy FM-friendly material, the first borrowing heavily from John Lennon's "God," the second finding inspiration in McGuinness Flint, some of the majesty you know these guys had in them from former glories. "Make It Look Like an Accident" follows the same routine and shows real promise. "Sweet Lies" is a bit of an oddity -- gritty and charging, it could be mistaken for Bachman-Turner Overdrive lite, but still manages to survive surrounded by better song structure. Vis-à-Vis had all the elements except for that perfectly positioned monster hit. It's really a shame, as this disc -- and the group's career -- deserved a better fate.
- Joe Viglione, All Music Guide
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align="right">Review by Joe Viglione Live Wire Records number two is the Texas-based Delinquents in 1981 without the collaboration of late rock critic Lester Bangs, who released Jook Savages on the Brazos this same year, a collection of 11 tunes Bangs co-wrote with the band on Live Wire number three. The dozen tunes on their self-titled project owe much to the B-52's; indeed, they could be a B-52's clone band. They give thanks to Roky Erickson and Joe "King" Carrasco, but the leanings are new wave, not roots rock. "Alien Beach Party" is indicative of the entire album, short bursts of trendy sounds found in the early '80s. Becky Bickham sings and plays guitar, as does Andy Fuertsch, and on "Pain Like Bullets" she certainly sounds like she's having fun. Cool name and cool Cramps vamping on "The Wince," which opens side two, with Bickham picking up right where she left off on side one, posing edgy vocals delivering deadpan lines like, "Your best friend is a narc!" Yes, Mindy Curley's keyboards give everything a nice early-punk vibe, but on tunes like "You Just Sit There," they are the B-52's' incarnate. A fun record despite the derivation being at such a high level. China West, a musician who worked briefly with late producer Jimmy Miller, was a latter-day member of this group and may have added a bit of a twist with his eccentricities.
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Over 150 minutes of music from {$Tanya Tucker} appears on thisexquisitedouble disc from Australia's mailto:%7B@Raven Records}, {^The Upper 48 Hits1972-1997} opens with her terrific {&"Delta Dawn"} and closes with{&amp;amp;"Little Things"} while vocal performances and/or duets with {$VinceGill}, {$Paul Davis} and {$Paul Overstreet}, {$Beth Nielsen Chapman},{$T. Graham Brown} and {$Delbert McClinton} are found in between.Though mailto:%7B@Raven Records} has established itself with a diverse catalogranging from {$The Velvet Underground} to {$Ronnie Spector}, {$JoePerryProject}, {$Captain & Tenille} and so many others, their countrycatalogcontains releases from {$Dolly Parton}, {$Rosanne Cash}, {$Hoyt Axton},{$Gram Parsons} and more, so this beautiful double CD set is no flukeorone-off. Tucker's pop leanings come through loud and clear, and linernotes author {$Keith Glass} makes a keen observation regarding "thispowerful recording" of {&"Delta Dawn"} getting passed over by Top 40radio for "the less atmospheric{$Helen Reddy} recording that reached number one..."Indeed, only {&"Lizzie And The Rainman"} reached the Top 40, and thatjust barely in the middle of 1975. This compilation is proof of howthis artist's bright and bouncy pop could very well have livened up'70's and '80's hit radio but was strangely relegated to the genreTanyais most associated with. There's a reproduction of her appearance on the cover of {-Rolling Stone} magazine and that famous pose of the singer holding sticks of dynamite in the sixteen page booklet, but it's the well crafted music which is a revelation for those who never listened to country radio and have this compilation as their introduction to Tucker. {&"Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand AnotherYou"} is a standout on disc one, {"(Without You) What Do I Do With Me?"} the same on disc two, both surrounded by a boatload of great songs. It's staggering to think she had 10 Country #1 hits and 21 Top 5's, so mailto:%7B@Raven} accurately touts this as the "ultimage multi-label double CD hits collection." With licensing more popular in the new millennium - major labels being more willing to share their music and imprints like
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Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club [Charly UK]Release date: 2002Nina Simone's first official album, 1958's Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club, is pure perfection, an amazing accomplishment for a 24-year-old pianist arranging and singing studio renditions of songs from her live set. Captured here are moments of intrigue, as Simone magically takes the listener through musical caverns that want to be explored again with repeated spins. The rendition of "Plain Gold Ring" is exotic and draws the listener back, just as the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart classic "Little Girl Blue" (the alternate title of the album stamped on the label of the vinyl as well as on the back cover) is a gorgeous work of art, Simone adding the melody from the traditional "Good King Wenceslas" to the standard Janis Joplin would bring to rock audiences a decade later. The cover photograph of the artist on a park bench in Central Park is a play on her only songwriting contribution, "Central Park Blues," which concludes the LP. In her autobiography, Simone gives insight into the recording of this masterpiece, an album that sets different tones with each melodic adventure. The uptempo blues of "Mood Indigo" drops quietly into "Don't Smoke in Bed" and the even deeper blues of "He Needs Me." One can hear Billie Holiday's influence pushing Simone on her own musical path. While Roger Williams was tearing up the popular charts with his middle-of-the-road magic, Simone elegantly plays her jazz with adult contemporary leanings, cracking the Top 20 herself with "I Loves You, Porgy" in 1959. Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club (aka Little Girl Blue) is a superb fusion of jazz, blues, and pop that reveals something new each time it is played. ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide - Joe Viglione
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