Drums! Drums! A Go Go [Import]

Hal Blaine, Mamas & Papas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Japan
• ASIN: B000065EAV
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,503,365 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Topsy '65

2. Wooly Bully

3. Whiskey A-Go-Go

4. Money (That's What I Want)

5. Cannonball

6. La Bamba

7. Rumble

8. California Sun

9. Ooh Poo Pah Doo

10. Midnight at Pinks

11. Land of 1000 Dances

12. Drums A-Go-Go

13. Bang Bang Rhythm [*]

14. The Invaders [*]

15. The Swinger [*]

16. Secret Agent Man [*]

Editorial Reviews

Japanese 24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1966 album that's unavailable domestically. Blaine was the busiest recording session drummer in Los Angeles in the 1960s & 1970s, playing with Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drummer Man, February 27, 2005

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drums Drums a Go Go (Audio CD)

It has been said that Hal Blaine is the most recorded drummer in pop music history. After 50 years in the music business, he has played on over 4,000 records. Over 3,000 of these made it onto the Billboard Hot 100. More than 300 were certified gold and at least 40 of them hit the #1 position. Some of the artists Blaine has worked with include The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, Jan & Dean, The Carpenters and Herb Alpert. Most of Phil Spector's lush productions for The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love and others featured the drumming of Hal Blaine, as did many orchestral pieces by arrangers such as Jimmie Haskell and Nelson Riddle.

This CD features Hal's second solo album. It is an instrumental album, since Hal didn't sing. The album mostly features cover versions of recent hits. Although it is not a live album, it features audience reactions dubbed in, to simulate the "a go-go" sound featured on the Johnny Rivers live albums that were popular at the time. Although this is not an important album by any stretch of the imagination, it is still a lot of fun. It is designed to showcase Hal's drumming, and it does that quite well. The CD features four bonus tracks that were not on the original album. Fans of 1960s instrumentals should dig it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars swanky and delectible, January 18, 2005

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magnolia jenkins "tangerine-starfish" (dave hassinger, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drums! Drums! A Go Go (Audio CD)

Put on your red shoes and get ready to shake out that dusty rug. This album really gets your feet stomping and your hands clapping. Back from Hal Blaine's better days of drumming, this is pure drumming excellence. The solo in "Topsy '65" is ever most delicious, and tastes almost (not nearly) as good as the drum solo in Santana's "Soul Sacrifice". . . with a hint of dick dale. . .this album is a compilation of Blaine's ripest material fresh for the picking. in other words.. drumming paradise

4.0 out of 5 stars The Wrecking Crew rocks!, May 15, 2002

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R. Riis "rriis" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drums Drums a Go Go (Audio CD)

A better album than the "Deuces, T's, ..." set, but now sadly out of print. Get it if you can find it. Those wishing to hear Blaine at his best, though, can pick up Phil Spector's "Back to Mono" box set or nearly anything recorded on the West Coast in the 1960s.