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Let's Stomp: Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969 / Var - Let's Stomp: Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969 / Var [CD]

Let's Stomp: Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969 / Var - Let's Stomp: Merseybeat & Beyond 1962-1969 / Var [CD]

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3CD box set spotlighting the pioneering movement that brought the world The Beatles but has been overshadowed by their success. Hits include The Searchers' 'Sweets For My Sweet' (UK #1) and 'When You Walk In The Room' (UK #3), Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas' 'Bad To Me' (UK #1), The Swinging Blue Jeans' 'Hippy Hippy Shake' (UK #2) and The Mojos' 'Everything's Al'right' (UK #9). Also featuring The Chants (featuring Eddy Amoo later of The Real Thing), The Undertakers and Lomax Alliance (both led by Jackie Lomax who later signed to Apple) and The Kirkbys and The 23rd Turnoff whose singer/guitarist was ace songwriter Jimmy Campbell. Five tracks are newly mastered from producer Joe Meek's 'Tea Chest Tapes' including The Cryin' Shames' magnificent tear jerker 'Please Stay' and the previously unreleased 'A Different Drummer' by The Maracas. Other rarities include an unreleased track by Birkenhead's The Pathfinders from producer Shel Talmy's vaults and a fab song by ex Vernons Girl, Samantha Jones found on a well- preserved acetate plus tracks by The Dennisons, The Seftons and The Perishers released on CD for the first time. Although The Beatles aren't present for licensing reasons there are four Lennon and McCartney compositions donated to other acts. Merseybeat was a brief phenomenon but hugely influential throughout the world. It blew up nationwide in 1963 before Merseybeat groups spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the US charts. This box celebrates the scene on the first two discs, then on disc three presents some of the brilliant mod, freakbeat, psych and Mersey soul music that came from Liverpool when the Merseybeat bubble burst and press and public looked elsewhere. Inspired by US rock 'n' roll, R&B and Motown and the D. I. Y. attitude of skiffle, the Liverpool beat groups rocked clubs such as their hometown's The Cavern and the Star-Club in Hamburg and larger 'Big Beat' sessions at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton. The Searchers and Gerry And The Pacemakers achieved success on the world stage, others never made it out of their local area, made a couple of 45s or even demos and disappeared.

Tracklist:

  1. Lee Curtis ; the All Stars - Let's Stomp
  2. The Searchers - Farmer John
  3. Gerry ; the Pacemakers - Slow Down
  4. The Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake
  5. The Big Three - Some Other Guy
  6. Johnny Sandon ; the Remo Four - Lies
  7. The Chants - I Don't Care
  8. Wailin' Howie Casey ; the Seniors - Double Twist
  9. The Undertakers - Just a Little Bit
  10. Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
  11. Bad to Me
  12. The Fourmost - I'm in Love
  13. Faron's Flamingos - Do You Love Me
  14. Ian ; the Zodiacs - Beechwood 4-5789
  15. Freddie Starr ; the Midnighters - Peter Gunn Locomotion (Alternative Mix)
  16. The Vernons Girls - Lover Please
  17. The Chants - Come Go with Me
  18. The Searchers - Sweets for My Sweet
  19. Jeannie ; the Big Guys - Sticks and Stones
  20. The Dennisons - You Don't Know What Love Is
  21. King Size Taylor - Somebody's Always Trying
  22. Billy Fury - Nothing Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)
  23. Glenda Collins - I Feel So Good
  24. Howie Casey ; the Seniors - I Ain't Mad at You
  25. Danny Seyton ; the Sabres - House of Bamboo
  26. Cilla Black - Love of the Loved
  27. Lyn Cornell - Sally Go Round the Roses
  28. The Merseybeats - Our Day Will Come
  29. Wellington Wade (Ian ; the Zodiacs) - It Ain't Necessarily So
  30. The Kinsleys - Do Me a Favour
  31. The Big Three - What'd I Say (Live at the Cavern)
  32. Earl Preston ; the TTS (Featuring Cy Tucker) - Bony Moronie
  33. Rory Storm ; the Hurricanes - Lend Me Your Comb
  34. Savva ; the Democrats - Shakin' All Over
  35. Mike ; the Thunderbirds - Web of Love
  36. The Mojos - Everything's Al'right
  37. Gerry ; the Pacemakers - Why Oh Why
  38. The Liverbirds - Talking About You
  39. The 'Takers (The Undertakers) - If You Don't Come Back
  40. Tony Jackson with the Vibrations - Bye Bye Baby
  41. The Searchers - When You Walk in the Room
  42. The Swinging Blue Jeans - Make Me Know You're Mine
  43. The Black Knights - I Gotta Woman
  44. Earl Royce ; the Olympics - Shake a Tail Feather
  45. Beryl Marsden - Music Talk
  46. The Fourmost - the in Crowd
  47. The Trends - the Way You Do the Things You Do
  48. The Breakaways - That's How It Goes
  49. Four Just Men - Things Will Never Be the Same
  50. Tommy Quickly ; the Remo Four - Wild Side of Life
  51. The Pathfinders - Lonely Room (Previously Unreleased)
  52. Jason Eddie ; the Centremen - Come on Baby (Alternative Mix)
  53. The Koobas - Somewhere in the Night
  54. The Eyes - She
  55. The Connoisseurs - Make Up Your Mind
  56. Greta Ann - Sadness Hides the Sun
  57. The Roadrunners - Cry, Cry, Cry
  58. The Cryin' Shames - Please Stay (Alternative Mix)
  59. Mark Peters - Don't Cry for Me
  60. Earl Preston's Realms - Daddy Rolling Stone
  61. The Richmond Group - Cops and Robbers
  62. Michael Allen - I Can't Stand It
  63. Them Calderstones - What'cha Gonna Do About It
  64. The Four Originals - You Won't Be Leaving
  65. The Newtowns - Tomorrow
  66. Tony Jackson with the Vibrations - Fortune Teller
  67. The Kirkbys - It's a Crime
  68. The Koobas - a Place I Know
  69. Paddy, Klaus ; Gibson - No Good Without You Baby
  70. Paul ; Ritchie ; the Cryin' Shames - Come on Back (Alternative Mix)
  71. Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas - We're Doing Fine
  72. Johnny Gustafson - Take Me for a Little While
  73. Eddie Cave ; the Fyx - Fresh Out of Tears
  74. Chris Curtis - Aggravation
  75. The 5 A.M. Event - I Wash My Hands in Muddy Water
  76. The Clayton Squares - Imagination
  77. The Merseys - Sorrow (Alternative Version)
  78. The Thoughts - All Night Stand (Us Version)
  79. The Maracas - the Drummer (Previously Unreleased)
  80. The Lomax Alliance - You Better Get Going Now
  81. Wimple Winch - Rumble on Mersey Square South
  82. The Seftons - I Can See Through You
  83. Bill Kenwright ; the Runaways - I Want to Go Back There Again
  84. The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo
  85. Focal Point - Girl on the Corner
  86. The Swinging Blue Jeans - Keep Me Warm ('Til the Sun Shines)
  87. Samantha Jones - This Is the Real Thing (Previously Unreleased)
  88. The Remo Four - Heart Beat
  89. The Lomax Alliance - Give What You Take
  90. The Perishers - Bye Bye Baby
  91. The Merseys - So Sad About Us
  92. The Quotations - Cool It
  93. Satin Bells - I Stand Accused (Of Loving You)
  94. Cilla Black - Step Inside Love

UPC: 5013929431430
Label: Strawberry
Release Date: 6.2.23
Format: CD

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