Girls Go Zonk: Us Beat Chicks & Harmony Honey [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rpm Records UK
• ASIN: B00013MX74
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,077 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. So, Do the Zonk

2. Chico's Girl

3. The One You Can't Have

4. Dynamite

5. Mission Impossible (Theme)

6. You Don't Love Me

7. Daddy You Just Gotta Let Him In

8. The Boy with the Way

9. Just a Face in the Crowd

10. Where's My Baby

11. You're Invited to a Party

12. Tell Me in the Sunlight

13. Run-Around Lover

14. The Next Day

15. Someday

16. You Won't Even Know Her Name

17. Don't Worry Baby

18. Tar and Cement

19. Games

20. Paper Sun

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Subtitled - US Beat Chicks & Harmony Honeys. 2004 companion piece to the UK Brit girl series 'Dream Babes' takes a look at the U.S. mid-60s girl scene. 22 remastered tracks from such artists as Jamie Carter, The Girls, The Murmaids, Donna Loren, The Satisfactions, The Kane Triplets, The Tammys, & many more. Most tracks are hard to find & on CD for the first time. Includes fold out sleeve extensive liner notes with many photos & memorabilia. RPM.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun must-have for collectors!, April 21, 2004

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uthungus (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Girls Go Zonk: Us Beat Chicks & Harmony Honey (Audio CD)

If there were awards handed out for songs of the 60's (or any other era for that matter)categorized "So bad they're good", hands down winner in their class would have been "Egyptian Shumba" by The Tammys! Screaming, wailing and beat parts in it where you'd envision a "Nefertiti girl"- in a bikini, of course -chasing Harvey Lembeck all around the beach in one of his surf party movies! Rare Diane Renay and Donna Loren cuts, a little "Wall of Sound" , "Garage", "Bond-Girl" and of course the delightful Kane Triplets (who did the amusing "Pow-Pow-Pow!" on Ed Sullivan around that time) actually singing lyrics to "Mission Impossible" rounding out this eclectic but must-have for collectors! Also fun, colorful liner notes decorated with fashion images resembling "Betty" from "The Archies"!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I've been zonked!, December 28, 2006

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jon sieruga (Redlands, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Girls Go Zonk: Us Beat Chicks & Harmony Honey (Audio CD)

Wild (and surprisingly cohesive) collection of girl group songs from that transitional period in the 1960's when heartbreak ballads were out and tough psychedelia was moving in. Donna Loren (Miss Dr. Pepper!) gets down with a one-minute-forty-two second hummer called "So, Do the Zonk". It's understandable if Capitol Records was unsuccessful in promoting such a short, seemingly insignificant tune (about an apparent dance craze which never happened), but Loren strikes a sultry vocal presence here, grittier than her records from those "Beach Party" years. "Chico's Girl" by The Girls sounds like an updated cousin to "Leader of the Pack" (and doesn't make much of an impression), yet "Daddy You Just Gotta Let Him In", treading similar thematic territory, is marvelously performed by the mysterious Satisfactions. Brian Wilson's pet project The Honeys have a great number, and Murmaids' "Paper Sun" is a nicely-updated variation of the squeaky-clean pop Kim Fowley helped them put out just a few years prior, though some artists didn't adjust to the new times quite as smoothly. Diane Renay sounds out of her element, and the blonde, beaming Kane Triplets tackle an impossible tune (the "Mission Impossible" theme--with lyrics!). Overall, a very enjoyable compilation, one with fairly good liner notes and photos representing a nearly-forgotten chapter in musical history that is never less than a pleasure revisiting. 'B'

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zonkers! It more than bonkers! It goooooooooood!~, April 25, 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: Girls Go Zonk: Us Beat Chicks & Harmony Honey (Audio CD)

1. So, Do the Zonk - Donna Loren Crazy great zong!
2. Chico's Girl - The Girls (Also by Susan Barrett, 1963 on "Rockin Boppin Girls" cd, check EBAY!)
3. One You Can't Have - The Honeys (Who later became Ginger and the Snaps, and they did back ups for Beach Boys!)
4. Dynamite - Diane Renay Blue navy blue, see her website!
5. Mission Impossible (Theme) - The Kane Triplets They should've sang too was Hogan's Heroes!(just joking) I never knew there were lyrics to these themes!!!
6. You Don't Love Me
7. Daddy You Just Gotta Let Him In - The Satisfactions
8. Boy With the Way - Jamie Carter
9. Just a Face in the Crowd - The Dynells,
10. Where's My Baby - The Twilettes
11. You're Invited to a Party - The Victorians
12. Tell Me in the Sunlight - Margie Day
13. Run-Around Lover - Sharon Marie
14. Next Day - Debbie Burton
15. Someday - Roberta Day
16. You Won't Even Know Her Name - Josephine Sunday
17. Don't Worry Baby - Darlene McCrea
18. Tar and Cement - Verdelle Smith
19. Games - The Pandoras
20. Paper Sun - The Murmaids Been reading about this zong for zome time, now i actually get to hear it and it's great!
21. Silencers - Patti Seymour
22. Egyptian Shumba [Alternate Version][#] - The Tammys (they zang backup for Lou Christie in caze your new to this!)

Zonkers! It's a great collections of zongs! Buy it! and I now have to check out the others in the zeriez!

Zorro! (sorry about the excezzive uze of 'z''z)