Rocker [Import]

Billy Fury | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spectrum Audio UK
• ASIN: B0007OQDHS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,266 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You're Having the Last Dance with Me

2. Don't Knock Upon My Door

3. Kansas City

4. The Hippy Hippy Shake

5. Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)

6. Don't Jump

7. Glad All Over

8. Turn My Back on You

9. The Twist Kid

10. Colette

11. Gonna Type a Letter

12. Play It Cool

13. Bumble Bee

14. My Advice

15. That's Love

16. I'm Moving On

17. Sweet Little Sixteen

18. Sticks and Stones

19. Just Because

20. That's All Right

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clearly Not "The Sound of Fury", February 29, 2008

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popmusicfan (northeastern Ohio) - See all my reviews
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Billy Fury's 1960 debut album, The Sound of Fury, painted him as an imitator of Sun Records-era Elvis Presley: it was rockabilly when rockabilly was already old hat. He did, however, write his own songs, had a very good backing band, and sang with a rocking energy that was missing from some of his British "teen idol" contemporaries. This album, which focuses mostly on Fury's work from 1962 to 1964 is very different--although there's at least one track from 1960. Even though post-Sound of Fury Fury includes way too many ballads, this collection shows that he could rock, and that he was changing with the times to meet the likes of the British Invasion bands on their own terms. Some of the tracks that were recorded by the bands that actually were part of the British Invasion do not stand up all that well -- there is a subtle difference in approach, but there were some reasons that Fury never made it in the U.S.A. Perhaps if Fury had joined a "real" band he would have had more success, because tracks from a solo singing star that include two-part vocal harmony throughout just don't make any sense, and there's some of that here. It is a case of trying too hard to match the style of harmony vocals that groups such as the Beatles, the Searchers, and the Hollies were incorporating into their sounds. Still, it's a lot more interesting that some of the material American teen idols in the 1960-1964 period were churning out!

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ENGLISH ELVIS!, August 10, 2007

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marcee r. (minnesota) - See all my reviews

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THIS IS A CD YOU CAN JUST THROW IN AND LISTEN TO EVERY CUT. "NOTHING SHAKING" REALLY ROCKS AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIGH ON THE U.S. CHARTS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS CD.