Give My Heart A Break - The Complete King Recordings [Import]

Bobby Freeman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace (U.K.)
• ASIN: B0029F50KY
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,478 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Please Stay By Me

2. Good Good Lovin

3. What Can I Do

4. (I Do The) Shimmy Shimmy

5. Come To Me

6. There s Gonna Be A Change

7. You Don t Understand Me

8. Please Please Please

9. Be My Little Chick-A-Dee

10. Turn Around

11. Please Give My Heart A Break

12. Fever

13. Miss You So

14. Baby Baby Baby

15. Bony Moronie

16. Love Struck

17. (Somebody Somewhere) Hear My Plea

18. Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight

Editorial Reviews

This perennially popular San Francisco rocknroll legends career has been widely documented on CD, but his early 1960s sessions for King Records have never been anthologised in the CD era until now.

Recorded in 1960 and 1961, these 18 sides represent an important transitional period in Freemans career, as he successfully moved from Do You Wanna Dance rocker to Cmon And Swim soul man. King only released four singles on Bobby over a 5-year period including the hit (I Do The) Shimmy Shimmy plus one LP that duplicated many of the previously released sides (which means that many of our inclusions here have never seen the light of day before).

The recordings here are mostly in the New Breed R&B style and will appeal to both sets of Freeman fans. The sleeve notes offer Bobbys own recollections of this period in his career, and the wealth of previously unpublished colour photos from the King vaults will have fans of rock n roll photography drooling. A perfect complement to Aces earlier and still available collection of Bobbys Autumn recordings, Cmon And Swim.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bobby Freeman Give My Heart a Break, December 23, 2009

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THOMAS C. BIAGI "tomcatss" (fairfield, ca.) - See all my reviews
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Bobby Freeman was rockin out back in the 50's and 60's. His upbeat songs were Bay Area Hits but
if you listen to his slow stuff you are doubly impressed.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bobby Freeman Complete King Recordings, February 5, 2010

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Neil G. Johnston "OLD ROCKER" (Stanhope , PEI , Canada) - See all my reviews
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Interesting collection of blues & R & B from King Records of Cinncinnati....no hits here to match 1958's Do You Want To Dance , but Shimmy Shimmy was a Top 40 release in 1960. For collectors , an interesting collection from Syd Nathan's archives & King was one of the top post war indie labels with many great artists !