Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers [Import]

Gerry & The Pacemakers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B0007ZAZEO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,360 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This 2 CD set features number 1's, top 40 hits as well as B sides and rarities. Gerry and the Pacemakers will never be forgotten and 'You'll Never Walk Alone', has remained the anthem of the crowds at Liverpool Football Club. EMI GOLD. 2005.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here is the Track Listing, July 24, 2005

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David Mekalian (Spingfield, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers (Audio CD)

Similar to The Very Best [IMPORT], At Abbey Road 1963-1966 or A's, B's & EP's. Nothing rare or unusual, but a good coverage of material. Great collection if you don't any of this artist. If you own one of the other various 20 -28 track collections, you duplicate a lot of material. However, overall a good collection.

Disc1

1. How Do You Do It?
2. I Like It
3. Girl On A Swing
4. Ferry Cross The Mersey
5. Come Back To Me
6. When Oh When
7. Pretend
8. Walk Hand In Hand
9. Jambalaya
10. Maybellene
11. You're The Reason
12. Slow Down
13. Summertime
14. Chills
15. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
16. Reelin' And Rockin'
17. A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
18. Why Oh Why
19. She's The Only Girl For Me
20. I'm The One

DISC TWO:

1. You'll Never Walk Alone
2. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
3. It's All Right
4. Give All Your Love To Me
5. Hallelujah I Love Her So
6. Away From You
7. You've Got What I Like
8. It's Gonna Be Alright
9. You You You
10. Baby You're So Good To Me
11. Without You
12. Dreams
13. Think About Love
14. La La La
15. I'll Be There
16. The Wrong Yoyo
17. Don't You Ever
18. Where Have You Been All My Life?
19. Rip It Up
20. You Win Again

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive collection, August 17, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers (Audio CD)

This is the most comprehensive compilation of this group's music that I've yet seen, containing the essential hits together with an interesting selection of other tracks that show their roots.

Gerry and the Pacemakers began their career with three number one UK hits, these being How do you do it (an up-tempo song that was offered to the Beatles), I like it (another up-tempo song) and You'll never walk alone (the Rodgers-Hammerstein ballad from Carousel that became the anthem of both Celtic and Liverpool football clubs).

They never had another number one hit but they had three more top ten hits - I'm the one (a number two hit), Don't let the sun catch you crying (their first American hit) and Ferry cross the Mersey (also an American hit). Their only other UK hits were It's gonna be alright, I'll be there and Walk hand in hand.

Their early UK hits charted in America following the success of Don't let the sun catch you crying, though without the impact they'd had in the UK. Girl on a swing missed the UK charts completely but made the USA top thirty.

Those ten hits are the only essential tracks but they recorded many other fine songs including covers of fifties songs made famous by Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis and others. Unlike some other Liverpool groups of the time, they did not look to the Beatles as a source of songs.

This particular compilation of music by Gerry and the Pacemakers contains far more than just the hits, which can be found on any number of single CD's (though some of them don't include all the hits). But if you're really into the Merseybeat sound of the sixties, you'll love this double CD.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS is what I was looking for!, August 7, 2005

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Doug Hazlewood "badfinger54" (Victoria, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Gerry & the Pacemakers (Audio CD)

I was looking for some guidance from a forum I enjoy on which Gerry & the Pacemakers collection was the best overall. I had the "Definitive Collection" already. I didn't really get any feedback on the two CD's I thought might fill the bill, so I listened to song snippets and did a little online research.

I took a chance and ordered this and I was VERY pleased! A great balance of types of songs and sound quality. The "Definitive" CD has too many slow numbers (or somewhat sappy) for my liking. THIS collection gives me a much greater appreciation of what these guys did. It does have Copy Control. Lots of goodies I had never heard of or heard Gerry & the Pacemakers' versions of. More uptempo and rock numbers. I can't understand why they would have left some of these off of the earlier CD collection in the place of some of the tracks they DID use. Highly recommended!