The Complete Indigo Recordings [Import]

Innocents | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 26, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B000007ZMV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,011 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > General

Track Listings

1. Gee Whiz

2. Please Mr. Sun

3. Walking Along

4. Once In A While

5. Pains In My Heart

6. Chiquita

7. Girl In My Dreams

8. Because I Love You

9. Sleeping Beauty

10. Donna

11. Kathy

12. My Baby Hully Gullys

13. Honest I Do

14. Beware

15. I'm A Hog For You

16. When I Become A Man

17. Two Young Hearts

18. Dee Dee Di Oh

19. I Believe In You

20. It Was A Tear

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Missing A Discography - Usually A Feature Of All Ace Releases, September 11, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Indigo Recordings (Audio CD)

The folks at Ace of London, usually so flawless in their releases which ranks them at the top of any list of oldies distributors, were not up to snuff on this one covering The Innocents. Because conspicuously absent - which has come to be expected of all Ace products - is a discography of the contents showing the year of release, label details and, where applicable, their rankings in the Billboard Pop Hot 100 or Bubble Under charts.

The Innocents may be better known to some as the group that sang with Kathy Young on all three of her hit singles for Indigo in 1960/61, but the factis, they did score on the charts first, in late summer 1960, when Honest I Do reached # 28 Billboard Pop Hot 100 b/w My Baby Hully Gullys on Indigo 105. Then, in late October, a cover of a 1954 recording by the R&B group, The Rivileers (a strong local hit that did not chart nationally) called A Thousand Stars was released on Indigo 108 billed to Kathy Young with The Innocents b/w Eddie My Darling, and it rose to # 3 Hot 100/# 6 R&B in December. At almost the same time, on Indigo 111, Gee Whiz, billed to The Innocents, hit # 15 R&B/# 28 Hot 100 b/w Please Mr. Sun.

And that would be it insofar as solo hits were concerned for lead James West, bass Al Candelaria, and tenor/guitarist Darron Stankey. although there would be other releases, including a few more with Kathy. Early in 1961, for exxample, Kathy Young with The Innocents took Happy Birthday Blues to # 30 Hot 100 b/w Someone To Love on Indigo 115, and in September, Magic Is The Night to # 80 Hot 100 b/w Du Du'nt Du on Indigo 125.

On their own they tried and failed with 1961 cuts Kathy b/w In The Beginning (Indigo 116), Beware b/w Because I Love You So (Indigo 124), Donna b/w You Got Me Goin' (Indigo 128) and Pains In My Heart b/w When I Become A Man (Indigo 132). All are here in this otherwise excellent album, along with a tune they did in 1959 for two young trumpet players named Lou Adler and Herb Alpert for Keen's Andex subsidiary called Dee Dee Di Oh when they were known as The Echoes. It came out on Andex 2102 b/w Time, which infortunately is not included here. In 1962, Indigo would re-release both sides on Indigo 141 as by The Innocents, again without chart success. But it's a great little Doo Wop-style song.

The two pages of liner notes by Rob Finnis, written in 1992, are quite informative, and credit any quotes contained therein to an article by Rip Lay in Goldmine magazine issue 52 dated September 1980. It only loses 1 star in my view for the lack of a discography.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Without Kathy Young, well they're..., March 1, 2006

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Lawrence Paul Guidry III "Larry Guidry" (New Orleans) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Indigo Recordings (Audio CD)

Okay, I'm not bashing this group, but the cd is very low key. Nothing stands out at all, very (pardon the pun) monotone! It's great to see all the stuff on one cd as a collector, but without Kathy Young... well... just buy it and you be the judge.

Don't worry about the quality, it's clear and crisp from the master tapes with false starts and a great booklet.

4.0 out of 5 stars Innocents, April 18, 2009

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C. J. Moser - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Indigo Recordings (Audio CD)

Not a bad CD, some music is on the edge for fifties/sixties music. If you like oldies, this would be a good edition to your collection.