Colonized! Best of The New Colony Six

New Colony Six | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1993)
• Original Release Date: April 6, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032YY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,142 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Confess

2. Dawn Is Breaking [*]

3. I Lie Awake

4. At the River's Edge [*]

5. Cadillac [*]

6. (The Ballad of the) Wingbat Marmaduke [*]

7. Love You So Much

8. Let Me Love You [*]

9. I'm Just Waitin' (Anticipatin' for Her to Show Up)

10. You're Gonna Be Mine

11. Treat Her Groovy

12. I Will Always Think About You

13. Can't You See Me Cry

14. Things I'd Like to Say

15. I Want You to Know

16. I Could Never Lie to You

17. Barbara, I Love You

18. Roll On

19. Long Time to Be Alone

20. Someone, Sometime [*]

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1993 release. Still sealed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars there was only 1 WLS, November 3, 2005

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Micheal Yates (lexington, ky United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colonized! Best of The New Colony Six (Audio CD)

was just reading the reviews of this cd and it made me feel so nostalgic that i have to add my own to the list.

i never cease to be surprised how many other people throughout the country waited for the sun to go down and WLS to come on at '89. it was like a miracle--one minute there was nothing but static and noise--and the next there was the greatest radio ever. i started with ron riley and art roberts and was still hanging around at the end of 1989 with john landecker.

those were the days of real radio--not programming companies in seattle that make every station play the same playlist and not dj's who get to read a liner and then aren't allowed to talk.

radio stations had their own personality and their own playlists and broke their own records in their market.

which leads to this wonderful cd and the joy of hearing all the new colony six records on WLS.

growing up in rural western kentucky we knew the chicago bands as well as anyone in chicagoland. american breed--buckinghams--shadows of knight--cryan shames and of course new colony 6. i remember the early stuff--"I confess"--"let me love you" and it was fine. but the ballads--oh my! they were simple and yet beautiful. delicious tennage angst! in a parked car under the stars these songs were the soundtrack of many a french kiss and decent grope. on the dance floor if you had pitch you could softly sing along to "i will always think about you" close to your date's ear and become a romantic.

in 1968--age 16--i was hired as a dj at a local radio station that played top 40--and they let me pick my music--heaven on earth. amazingly our playlist included all the chicago bands that we heard after dark on WLS. we didn't care what billboard magazine said was no. 1.

my greatest dream at that time was to live in chicago--visit WLS and go to all these great "battle of the band" shows. this cd takes me back to that time and reading these other reviews lets me know that there were a lot of us that knew we were living in a special time. no--you can't go back there--but you can turn the lights down and turn up the stereo with this cd on--and for a few minutes smell "heaven scent" perfume and think about getting your tux at "carole's red hanger shoppes" and your new stereo at "playback--the electronic playground".

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "I Love You So Much", February 12, 2001

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jerry kamper (upstate New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colonized! Best of The New Colony Six (Audio CD)

I was looking for a song by a Chicago group called "I Love You So Much". What a surprise to find my way to Amazon.com and not only find this song but 3 New Colony Six CD's. I am 52 years old and a native of the South Side of Chicago. I am not sure these days what was fact or fiction about growing up on the southside of Chicago. I seem to recall seeing groups like The Cyran Shames,Buckinghams and The New Colony Six in Battle Of The Bands at Brother Rice Hight School. I can't recall who won the contest but I do recall how much I liked the music. WLS in Chicago played this Chicago Garage Band music all the time but having grown up and entering the Army I lost track of most of these bands. The Buckinghams and Cyran Shames signed with good record labels but the best band,for my money,The New Colony Six, ever really got off the ground. I can recall picking up WLS in Ft Polk LA at about 2 in the morning and hearing "I Love You So Much",it was such a relief to be able to escape these turbulent times. I was on my way to Viet Nam and both Bobby and Martin Luthur King had just been killed. Yhank you Amazon.com for bringing these songs back to life. I highly recommend these CD to all midwest 60's music lovers. Playing this CD will remind you of all the songs you have forgotten even existed. These are some of the best examples of Chicago based Garage based music. I dont know who was responsible for this group never reaching their public but thank you Amazon.com for giving them one more chance to reach their music lovers. The ballads in this collection are some of the best arranged and performed songs you will ever hear. The New Colony Six were caught in the British invasion and besides poor management got over looked like many other American bands during this time. "I Will Always Think About You","Things I'd Like To Say","I Want You To Know",I Could Never Lie To You". All These songs sound great. I can still recall the poor quality of the old 45's and LP's,what a great sound to be recaptured on this great CD.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Definitive Anthology, June 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Colonized! Best of The New Colony Six (Audio CD)

The New Colony Six were never big hitmakers (out of 10 charted pop hits, only two made the Top Forty), and many music fans born after the early 60s may never have heard of them, but they are perhaps the most underappreciated American pop group of the late 1960s. One listen to the touching ballad "I Will Always Think About You," or its companion piece, the beautiful "Things I'd Like to Say," should put a lump in anyone's throat. Other tracks run the gamut from garage rock ("I Confess," their first charting) to Brit-pop (the Holliesish "Can't You See Me Cry") to late 60s vocal pop-rock (the Turtleseque "I Could Never Lie to You"). With excellent liner notes, this CD is the best possible introduction to a band that should be remembered as one of the era's best.