Get on Up & Get Away [Import]

Esquires | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Westside UK
• ASIN: B000009NWT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,115 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get on Up

2. You Got the Power

3. Everybody's Laughing

4. You Say

5. I Know I Can

6. Groovin'

7. No Doubt About It

8. I Don't Know

9. My Sweet Baby

10. Part Angel

11. State Fair

12. The Feeling's Gone

13. Woman

14. When I'm Ready

15. How Was I to Know

16. Listen to Me

17. Why Can't I Stop

18. Things Won't Be the Same

19. (That) Ain't No Reason

20. Reach Out

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As Complete As You're Ever Going To Find On The Esquires, June 17, 2011

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

This review is from: Get on Up & Get Away (Audio CD)

Let me correct one thing right from the start, and that is the suggestion that this Esquires compilation is now "out of print." I know of two sources that still offer original copies and at decent prices, one of them right here in Canada. So perhaps it's time for Amazon to re-stock, as this is easily the best compilation of their work available!

Brothers Alvis and Gilbert Moorer, along with Sam Place, Millard Edwards and Shawn Taylor, all from Milwaukee, were every bit as good as contemporaries such as The Temptations and Impressions, but whereas those groups had the fortune to record for Motown (Gordy) and ABC-Paramount in the 1967-1971 period, The Esquires were competing for air/jukebox play and record sales while toiling first for the small Bunky label run by Bill "Bunky" Sheppard out of Chicago (whose discs were distributed through Scepter), and then the marginally larger - but still small compared to Motown and ABC-Paramount - Wand subsidiary of Scepter, run by Florence Greenberg.

Consequently, they suffered to a significant degree from a lack of promotional funding, although their first release, Get On Up, defied the odds by shooting to # 3 R&B/# 11 Hot 100 in the fall of 1967 on Bunky 7750 b/w Listen To Me, and only somewhat less so for the follow-up And get Away, which finished at # 9 R&B/# 22 Hot 100 that December on Bunky 7752 b/w Everybody's Laughing. That success was hard to sustain, however, without the power of a large label, and so when You Say came out early in 1968 on Bunky 7753 b/w State Fair, it could only manage a # 41 R&B/# 126 Hot 100 Bubble Under in March.

Their last release by Sheppard's label, Why Can't I Stop? on Bunky 7755, finished at # 48 R&B in June 1968 b/w The Feeling's Gone, and missed out on the more lucrative Pop charts entirely. Towards the end of that year, they had the excellent You've Got The Power go as high as # 29 R&B, but only a disappointing # 91 Hot 100 on Wand 1193 b/w No Doubt About It. In March of 1969 they had I Don't Know peak at # 37 R&B on Wand 1195 b/w Part Angel, but again failed to make the Hot 100, and later saw Whip It On Me/It Was Yesterday on wand 11201 fail on both charts.

They wouldn't see another hit of any sort until March 1971 when now recording for the tiny Lamarr Records, had Girls In The City finish at # 18 R&B/# 120 Hot 100 Bubble Under b/w Ain't Gonna Give It Up on Lamarr 1001. And that would be it for the next several years insofar as charted singles were concerned, until September 1978 when they popped back in with the # 62 R&B Get On Up '76 on Ju-Par 104 b/w The feeling's Gone.

All of the foregoing records, including the B-sides, are in this collection, with excellent sound and notes by Bill Dahl, with the exception, unfortunately, of the hit sides from Lamarr and Ju-Par, which will likely be impossible to find now in CD format.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars They did get up and got away, May 18, 2003

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get on Up & Get Away (Audio CD)

The sweet soul sound of the Esquires found a commercial audience for a brief period in the mid-sixties headed up by their catchy "Get On Up", a tune that just missed the pop top-10 in the summer of '67. A respectable showing for the follow-up tune, "And Get Away" was followed by just one more tune that scraped the bottom of the pop charts, "You've Got The Power". A few of their other singles did manage to register on the r'n'b charts but the success of "Get On Up" was never to be repeated.

This collection from Westside in the U.K. gathers up many of their recordings done for several of the labels for which they recorded during the later 60's. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the group's musical output and also is the most competent, production-wise. Other Esquires CD's have appeared but this is by far the best to come along and is worth seeking out in preference to others that may be more readily available.

Within the generous 23 tracks included are the above-mentioned pop charting singles, their r'n'b charting singles, failed singles and a few album cuts. Sound quality is good overall with many tracks in stereo (1,3,6,7,9,13-16,18,23), the remainder in mono. Without specifying which ones, the producers acknowledge that some tracks have been lifted from vinyl but there is no objectionable noise to be found. Finishing up the piece is a detailed history of the group contributed by Bill Dahl.

For the fan considering purchase of an Esquires CD, though now out of print, this remains the top choice.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Must for Esquire fans!, May 27, 2008

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J. Y. Moreland, Jr. (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get on Up & Get Away (Audio CD)

"Get On Up" and get this CD! Even if you have the Collectables volume, this CD fills in some valuable gaps. I've had "You Say" b/w "State Fair" on the original 45 for years. I hated jumping between CD player and turntable for a "feel good" Esquire concert. With this CD, it's all in one place. Get it--trust me! One of the CD's can always go in the car.