Best of [Import]

Georgie Fame | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B000024STH
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,490 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 tracks.***Easy listening British popstar.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Mixed Bag, November 2, 2008

By 

Morten Vindberg (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This best of collection covers the second period of Georgie Fame's recording career from 1967-1971 and the five albums released during this period.

Compared to his early recordings with the Blue Flames many of these tracks are heavier arranged with jazzy horn-arrangements which you may either like or hate. Personally, I prefer the more relaxed arrangements of songs like "Peaceful" and "Yellow Man". Another stand-out track is the soulful "Knock on Wood", which may be the song that comes the closest to his early sound.

The hit-single "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" is still fine and amusing and also "Because I Love You" is quite good.

His jazzy main-stream covers of songs like "Mellow Yellow", "And I Love Her", "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "This Guy's in Love With You" seem unnnecessary and uninteresting.

All in all this is a mixed bag with Fame's great vocals as the connecting thread.