Rewind/Realization [Original recording remastered, Import]

Johnny Rivers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00000DB3H
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,936 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #89 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Pop Rock

Track Listings

1. Tracks of My Tears

2. Carpet Man

3. Tunesmith

4. Sidewalk Song/27th Street

5. It'll Never Happen Again

6. Do What You Gotta Do

7. Baby I Need Your Loving

8. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

9. Rosecrans Boulevard

10. The Eleventh Song

11. Sweet Smiling Children

12. Hey Joe

13. Look to Your Soul

14. The Way We Live

15. Summer Rain

16. A Whiter Shade of Pale

17. Brother, Where Are You

18. Something's Strange

19. What's the Difference

20. Going Back to Big Sur

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

1998 BGO reissue with two of the pop guitarist/ vocalist's best LPs for the Imperial label together on one CD: 1967's 'Rewind' & 1968's 'Realization'. A combined total of 21 tracks, including 'The Tracks Of My Tears', 'Baby I Need Your Loving', 'Hey Joe', 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' and 'Positively 4th Street'. All tracks are digitally remasteredfrom the original master tapes. Also includes faithfully restored artwork & additional sleeve notes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Vintage 60s Work By The Incredible Johnny Rivers!, April 5, 2001

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rewind/Realization (Audio CD)

No one has ever created better covers of other artist's songs more consistently than sixties superstar Johnny Rivers, and here in this double re-release of two of his best 1960s work, "Rewind/Realization" are found some of the finest cover efforts he has ever made. From "Baby, I Need Your Loving" to "The Tracks Of My Tears", from "Positively Fourth Street" to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", Johnny turns in a truly stellar performance here. Several of my favorites, though, are works written by other artists but originally recorded and released by Rivers, such as the smash hit "Summer Rain", "Something Strange", and "Look To Your Soul", all written by James Hendricks (not Jimi Hendrix). All of these wonderful songs carry the signature Johnny Rivers vocal style and are also beautifully arranged and accompanied.

Also excellent are "What's the Difference?", a sixties counter-cultural anthem by Scott MacKenzie (of "San Francisco" fame) and a pair of relatively rare Johnny Rivers compositions, "The Way We Live", and "Going Back To Big Sur". I also like the treatment Rivers uses to cover "For Emily , Wherever I May Find Her", and for "It'll Never Happen Again". Few other sixties artists were as bold or as forthright about delivering stirring and accomplished covers of other artists work, and Rivers has long been under-appreciated as a master for delivering blue-eyed soul with conviction and believability. He is also a consummate professional, and I am glad to see this new compilation which makes the material on these two great albums available again. Enjoy!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Double Album!, May 19, 2003

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"tac0210" (Essex Fells, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rewind/Realization (Audio CD)

I bought this double album for "Realization". I have the LP, but have been unable to play it the past 30 yrs because I don't have
a record player...remember them? I saw it was available on CD, and I jumped on it! a great album by a terific artist. Johnny Rivers never got the credit due him as an artist, in the same vein as Rick Nelson. Both made great contributions to Rock and Roll, and it was good to hear this album again after 30 years. I can't stop playing it in my car. I see "Realization" is available in a single album now, you don't have to purchase "Rewind" with it. Realization is a must album for all collections, if there was your era of music, or even today. Rewind is a good album, also. Thanks Johnny, for the memories! TC

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Johnny Rivers' Best Albums Ever!, December 7, 2001

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This review is from: Rewind/Realization (Audio CD)

When I was stationed in Viet Nam, I practically wore out my Realization album ... listening to it helped to temporarily block the sights and sounds of the war. This is a great CD with some rare tracks that had not be reissued until now.