On the Right Track: Beat Ballad & Blues 1964-1971

Georgie Fame | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B0002DB5LI
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,448 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #51 in Music > Jazz > Jive Jazz

Track Listings

1. Work Song (Live)

2. Get On The Right Track, Baby

3. Yeh, Yeh

4. In The Meantime

5. Telegram

6. Like We Used To Be

7. Something

8. Get Away

9. Sunny

10. Sitting On The Park

11. Sweet Thing

12. Bluesology

13. Because I Love You

14. Try My World

15. Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde

16. Bullets Laverne

17. Kentucky Child

18. Need You Love So Bad

19. Seventh Son

20. Somebody Stole My Thunder

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great sixties mix of pop, blues and jazz, September 26, 2004

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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: On the Right Track: Beat Ballad & Blues 1964-1971 (Audio CD)

Georgie Fame's musical roots were in jazz and blues and that was what really interested him. Fortunately for him, there was room in the sixties pop charts for such musicians, especially if they were prepared to adapt their music to appeal to pop audiences. So it was that Georgie Fame topped the UK charts three times and several other hits. By some statistical freak, none of his hits made the top ten except for the three that made number one.

The three UK number ones were Yeh yeh (his first hit, though not his first single), Get away (which he originally wrote for a TV commercial) and The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, which was about the film. These are the songs that Georgie is best remembered for but some of his other pop hits are also noteworthy, among them being Sunny, Sitting in the park, Because I love you, Peaceful and Rosetta, the last-named featuring Alan Price.

As the hits dried up, Georgie returned to the jazz and blues music that he loved but as this collection shows, that music was always an important influence in his pop hits. This is as good a collection of his music from his hit-making years as you are likely to find, containing all his UK hits and several other interesting tracks.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Simply horrid, February 11, 2006

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porcupine (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Right Track: Beat Ballad & Blues 1964-1971 (Audio CD)

If you're any fan of Georgie Fame, avoid this at any cost. Yes, there are a lot of tracks, and yes, all the charting hits are here, but that's about all the nice thing I can say about it. Sound quality is all over the map, continuing Raven's propensity towards pulling the easiest-to-find master and using it instead of doing their homework. Things are mono that should be stereo, and things that should be mono are in abominable rechanneled (i.e. phony) stereo. Fame deserves better than this. Save your money and find a copy of "20 Beat Classics" plus any of the UK CBS collections still floating around.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Fame Collection Available!, April 27, 2005

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J. Passifiume (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Right Track: Beat Ballad & Blues 1964-1971 (Audio CD)

I had heard of Georgie Fame as a teenage Beatles fan back in the early 1980s, but hadn't heard him until a friend put Georgie's version of "Work Song" on a compilation disc for me almost 20 years later. The energy in that one recording made me feel as if I had in some small way experienced the fabled early 60s British R&B/Jazz scene that spawned The Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, and others. After that, I acquired more Georgie Fame's 60s recordings, including the spectacular pop nugget "Yeh Yeh." This compilation provides a fantastic sampling of, arguably, Fame's most seminal recordings, and is worth the price of admission for the 2 tracks I mentioned earlier. This is 60s British R&B/Jazz-influenced pop at its finest. My only wish now is that someone will eventually have the good sense to reissue Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames' "Rhythm & Blues at the Flamingo" on CD.