Harlequin Melodies: The Complete RCA Recordings ...Plus [Import, Extra tracks]

Mickey Newbury | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Extra tracks
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B000085RRB
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet Memories

2. Here Comes The Rain Baby

3. Mister Can You See

4. How Many Times Must The Piper Be Paid For His Song

5. Are My Thoughts With You

6. Harlequin Memories

7. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings

8. Time Is A Thief

9. Good Morning Dear

10. Weeping Annaleah

11. Just Dropped In

12. Sunshine

13. Get Down On Saturday

14. The Queen

15. Organised Noise

16. Remember The Good (Bonus Track)

17. The Futures Not What It Used To Be (Bonus Track)

18. How I Love Them Old Songs (Bonus Track)

19. If I Ever Get To Houston (Bonus Track)

20. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye (Bonus Track)

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Subtitled - The Complete RCA Recordings...Plus. Superb collection of the late country singer/songwriter's complete RCA recordings from 1968-72. Includes his 1968 debut album, 'Harlequin Melodies' (unavailable domestically), plus four tracks added when it was reissued in 1972 as 'Sings His Own', as well as the extremely rare B-side 'Organised Noise'. The CD also features seven bonus tracks, 'Remember The Good', 'The Future's Not What It Used To Be', 'How I Love Them Old Songs', 'If I Ever Get To Houston', 'She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye', 'Dizzy Lizzy', & 'An American Trilogy', taken from the rare (& unissued on CD) 1985 MCA album, 'Sweet Memories'. 22 tracks. Raven.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AT LAST, THE MICK'S RCA CATALOGUE ON CD, February 28, 2003

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Rupert Blake (Upper Beeding, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harlequin Melodies: The Complete RCA Recordings ...Plus (Audio CD)

Sadly Mickey passed away in September 2002 after a long illness and its criminal that his RCA catalogue has not seen the light of day on CD until its posthumous release on Raven Records out of Australia. But it is worth waiting for, his original versions of Just Dropped In (Kenny Rogers), Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (Don Gibson, Tom Jones) Sunshine (Ray Charles) Sweet Memories (Andy Williams, Everly Brothers et al) and many others plus some bonus tracks from his days @ Elekta. Liner notes from his original albums including Kris Kristofferson's from Looks Like Rain(1969).And there's an added bonus for us Everly/Emmylou fans - remove the CD and there's that famous shot of the Mick with Wesley Rose, Emmy and Don Everly from Wembley 1977, the first time I saw him in concert. This compilation nicely rounds off the Newbury CD catalogue, thanks to the wonderful Bob Rosemurgy we have had access to all of his recordings from 1969 (Looks Like Rain) thru to his most recent Long Road Home and Winter Winds. He'll me sady missed but we have very sweet memories!

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars very poorly mastered off the vinyl, April 1, 2006

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Smiley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harlequin Melodies: The Complete RCA Recordings ...Plus (Audio CD)

I'm not categorically against mastering cd's off the vinyl. I understand sometime it's the only option available; however, I have a hard time believing this is the best they could do. Plenty of hiss and crackle and the muffled sound found on vinyl that was poorly pressed in the first place. If you have acess to a vinyl copy, save your money.