The Joe Brown Story [Import]

Joe Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Sequel Records UK
• ASIN: B0000085JC
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,150,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. People Gotta Talk

2. Comes The Day

3. Savage Pt. 1

4. Darktown Strutters' Ball

5. Swagger

6. Jellied Eels

7. Shine

8. Switch

9. Crazy Mixed Up Kid

10. Stick Around

11. I'm Henery The Eighth I A

12. Good Luck And Goodbye

13. Pop Corn

14. Picture Of You

15. Lay-About's Lament

16. Talking Guitar

17. Lonely Island Pearl

18. Your Tender Look

19. Other Side Of Town

20. It Only Took A Minute

See all 50 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant early sixties pop singer, June 9, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piccadilly / Pye Anthology (Audio CD)

Originally making his name as a musician, Joe Brown eventually made his name as a singer with a string of UK hits in the early sixties. Most of these were minor hits but three made the top ten, these being A picture of you (a number one hit in some charts but not the one now most widely recognized), It only took a minute and That's what love will do. Unlike many pre-Beatles British singers, these major hits were not covers of American songs but original material. Despite this, Joe failed to make it in America but his songs were covered by such American acts as the Kalin twins, Paul Evans and Bobby Goldsboro.

As the sixties progressed, Joe focused more on acting than singing. He later became interested in country music and performed on the British club circuit. His marriage to a member of the Breakaways (a British all-female sixties group) produced a daughter, Sam Brown, who had some success in the late eighties and early nineties.

This compilation includes the three major hits together with I'm Henry the Eighth I am (Joe's version is the original, recorded two years before Herman's Hermits covered it), Darktown strutter's ball (a distinctive cover of an American jazz song that gave Joe a minor UK hit), Shine, Your tender look, Nature's time for love, Sally Ann and With a little help from my friends (Joe's other minor UK hits of the sixties). A minor UK hit recorded for a different record label in the seventies (Hey Mama) is missing, but it's not important.

With very few covers and plenty of original material, Joe's music has plenty to offer sixties pop fans, especially those who are tired of hearing the same old songs.