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Pussycat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00000734K
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,235 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #41 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Netherlands

Track Listings

1. Mississippi

2. Georgie

3. Smile

4. My Broken Souvenirs

5. I'll Be Your Woman

6. If Your Ever Come to Amsterdam

7. It's the Same Old Song

8. Wet Day in September

9. Hey Joe

10. Daddy

11. Doin' la Bamba

12. Then the Music Stopped

13. Une Chambre Pour la Nuit

14. Teenage Queenie

15. Lovers of a King

16. Mississippi [DTSCH. Originalaufnahme]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fan of rock, country etc, September 11, 2003

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"ecja" (Aarhus C Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Premium Gold Collection (Audio CD)

I think one of the best CD's from Pussycat.
I bought this CD for the track: Teenage Queenie.
Most people know Mississippi, Georgie is some of that kind.
My broken souvenirs is sensitive music.
Hey Joe is country-like and my favorite Teenage Queenie is
kind of slow rock. Really varied music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent but incomplete re-do of the 90's "Gold" cassette, November 14, 2009

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Webistrator "J. S." (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Premium Gold Collection (Audio CD)

It's a worthwhile collection of the original dutch cassette, but replaces some of those more memorable selections (Blue Light in My Eyes) with less worthy later selections (Hey, Joe, etc.). And why for a world market do they replace their classic "Mississippi" in English with the German version? The English was more popular even in Germany at that time!

It also would have been nice to have the CD be remastered from the original studio tapes, but that might be a legal issue so this will have to do.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dutch pop group sing about Mississippi, April 2, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Pussycat were a pop group (four men, three women) from the Netherlands whose music was (for the most part) mainstream seventies pop, mainly recorded in English. They wrote most of their own material but they also recorded a few covers including It's the same old song (Four Tops). They recorded a well-balanced mix of up-tempo and slower songs.

Their claim to fame is a country-styled up-tempo pop song that they wrote about the American heartland - Greenville, Mississippi to be exact. They released the song in the UK, where Dutch pop singers had no previous record of success, and took it all the way to the top of the charts, knocking Dancing queen (Abba) off the top. It sat there for four weeks, eventually being replaced by another classic (If you leave me now - Chicago). In America, Barbara Fairchild, a country singer who learned about Pussycat's song on a visit to Europe, covered the song. Her version became a minor hit on the country charts but deserved to do much better.

Pussycat never repeated the success of Mississippi in the UK, though the follow-up, Smile, made the top thirty. Other songs that I particularly like include Georgie and If you ever come to Amsterdam, though another of my favorite Pussycat tracks (Mexicali lane) is missing from this particular compilation.

Pussycat are not essential to a collection of seventies music but there is more to their music than Mississippi.