Joe Meek's Groups: Crawdaddy Simone [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rpm Records UK
• ASIN: B00005CELR
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,776 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Maybellene

2. True to Me

3. Howling for My Baby

4. What to Do

5. Leave My Kitten Alone

6. Don't Know What to Do

7. On the Horizon

8. Crawdaddy Simone

9. Everybody's Talking

10. Poison Ivy

11. Baby Don't Cry

12. Shake With Me

13. I've Seen Such Things

14. She's Too Way Out

15. Little Baby

16. Baby I Go for You

17. Don't Want Your Lovin' No More

18. What Can I Do

19. Boy Meets Girl

20. Everything in the Garden

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great music, but unimaginative and redundant compilation, August 26, 2001

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Randall E. Adams (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joe Meek's Groups: Crawdaddy Simone (Audio CD)

I was frankly disappointed by this release. With the exception of "Crawdaddy Simone," everything on this disc has already been released on CD by RPM or Sequel. Why not dig up something new? The liner notes refer to a large number of unreleased recordings Meek did with some of these artists (for example, "Blue Train" by the Blue Rondos); why not include some of these? Why only 20 tracks? And if the thesis of the collection was to show Meek's efforts with authentic rock groups, why include Tony Dangerfield & the Thrills and Bobby Rio? And why, for God's sake, would you ever omit David John & the Mood, easily Meek's best London r&b outfit? What about Meek's Mod bands like The Buzz, Impac or the incomparable Riot Squad? RPM has distinguished itself with superb collections of perfectly mastered obscurities of surprising musical merit, seemingly without regard to expected sales. This disc just looks like exploitation. If this is what the takeover of RPM by Cherry Red means, then RPM is finished, folks.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i was there for crawdaddy simone!, February 18, 2004

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chris box (Cambridgeshire, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Meek's Groups: Crawdaddy Simone (Audio CD)

Crawdaddy Simone was written by my brother Jeff Williams and Ray Fenwick - I remember the Syndicats rehearsing at our house in London in the 1960's.
It sounds better now than it did then! as do several of the other tracks on this CD - but ballads and stuff like that were popular then and the Syndicats were ahead of their time..
anyone wishing to hear really raucous R&B which will send them straight back to the 60's - buy this!!
Incidentally Jeff is still going strong - a great musician.