Let's Go: Joe Meek's Girls [Import]

Joe Meek | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rpm Records UK
• ASIN: B000024M37
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

29 track comp of Meek productions with girl singers ranging from intense beat to ethereal vocal melo- drama, most never on CD and 10 are previously unreleased.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Document of Brit Girl Rock & Pop, July 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: Let's Go: Joe Meek's Girls (Audio CD)

...Joe Meek did not record nearly as many female artists as male artists. However, this might just as well be because of the greater difficulty female artists experienced securing radio exposure in the 1960s. Nonetheless, this superb collection demonstrates Meek's efforts with a respectable number of girl singers and, at the same time, provides a great sampler of archetypal British girl records from the early 1960s.

Because Meek was an independent who merely leased his masters to the record labels, and he has long been dead, his master tapes have been scattered to the winds and sometimes destroyed. For this reason, many of the tracks on this collection could not be mastered from a proper source and therefore suffer sonically. Forgive the fuzzy sound and enjoy the great music.

There are so many great moments on this disc, including the consistently superb work of Meek's only longtime female singer, Glenda Collins, who is represented here by her first Meek opus "I Left My Heart at the Fairground" complete with galloping "Telstar" rhythm and fairground noises, her classic rockaballad "Baby It Hurts," with its vibrato guitar and saxophone fills and truly campy lyrics, and then a great unreleased track "This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'." There are the two sides to Pamela Blue's iconoclastic depresso single "My Friend Bobby" and "Hey There Stranger." There are Flip's two great mid-60s soul numbers "Mama Didn't Lie" and "My Johnny Doesn't Come Around" and then her amazing rockabilly "Listen to Me." There are the two sides to Jenny Moss' terrific single "Hobbies" b/w "Big Boys" and a relatively clean version of "Please Let It Happen to Me" which would end up in the soundtrack for the film "Live It Up" with extensive additional arrangements. Then there are the two gnomish bubblegum numbers from Swedish model Gunilla Thorne "Merry Go-Round" and "Go On, Then," the latter with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. Those Swedish models never can sing, can they?

For girl rock collectors, this set is a must. For Joe Meek initiates, this set is also a must.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It For Dumbhead, August 13, 2002

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hasbro (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go: Joe Meek's Girls (Audio CD)

I'll only mention what other reviews haven't so far: the song "Dumbhead" is by far one of the all-time greatest unintentionally-insane songs ever recorded. Two nasal, self-deprecating ladies belting it out in a cave backed by a flatulent keyboard. Please, please buy this album if only for Dumbhead. Without a doubt my favorite Joe Meek moment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you find this, do the right thing!, April 2, 2004

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Mike (Denton, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go: Joe Meek's Girls (Audio CD)

I must add on to Hasbro's comments below - "Dumbhead" is incredible! I have yet to hear the original, but I doubt it can touch the production-madness of Meek's. However, the women singing 'Dumbhead' (the Sharades) also do a song on the CD titled 'Boy Trouble', on which they go into vocal hysteria! It's as if they're trying to outdo the Proclaimers. I really do wish these ladies had recorded more. This CD is enjoyable and definitely worth having. Of course, not EVERY track will knock your socks off ('Let's Go See Gran'ma' will knock the boots though...you'll see), but that's to be expected. HIGHLIGHTS (in my opinion): 'I Lost My Heart At the Fairground', 'Hobbies', 'My Johnny Doesn't Come Around', & 'Please Don't Say Goodbye' - to name a few. Do pick this one up, you'll be glad you did.