Singles [Extra tracks, Import]

Fortunes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Br Music Holland
• ASIN: B00000JD1L
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Caroline

2. You've Got Your Troubles

3. Here It Comes Again

4. This Golden Ring

5. You Gave Me Somebody to Love

6. Silent Street

7. Is It Really Worth Your While

8. Our Love Has Gone

9. The Idol

10. Loving Cup

11. Seasons in the Sun

12. Celebration of the Year

13. Ballad of the Alamo

14. Books and Films

15. That Old Same Feeling

16. Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again

17. I Gotta Dream

18. Freedom Come, Freedom Go

19. Storm in a Teacup

20. Baby by the Way

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

24 recordings for the Decca & EMI labels in the '60s by this hit '60s British group, including 'You've Got Your Troubles' and 'Here It Comes Again'. Also contains a 12 page booklet with detailed sleeve notes, including chart positions from Europe & the U.S. of the included hits. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard-To-Find stuff!, October 14, 2001

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John Robinson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of the 60's British Invasion, you need this cd. There are other, cheaper compilations of The Fortunes' music out there. The problem is, all those are inferior re-recordings. It took me a helluva long time to find the original hit version of HERE IT COMES AGAIN, but by gosh, it's here, along with all the other ORIGINAL HIT RECORDINGS of The Fortunes, like YOU'VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES and HERE IT COMES AGAIN. Yep, it's an import and will cost you a few extra bucks, but if you want the best, you gotta get this one.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars singles collection, December 20, 2001

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Mr. T. J. Gray "cyrckle" (walton on thames, surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles (Audio CD)

Excellent compilation from this group and like the other reviewer said all originals.Which is very hard to come by, by this group especially one that features all their singles, even over here in england home of the group.Includes thier first top twenty singles they had here in england you've got your troubles and here it comes again and their early 70s hits as well over here the catchy freedom come freedom go,storm in a tea cup etc...Remastered well comes with pictures of the group from the early 60s to early 70s,also comes with precise history of the group overall worth the money.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive collection of brilliant harmony group, October 4, 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: Singles (Audio CD)

The Fortunes emerged in mid-sixties Britain with their debut single, Caroline, which failed to chart but was adopted as the theme song of the famous pirate radio station, Radio Caroline. This gave them plenty of publicity and they went on to have five UK chart hits, four of which made the top ten. Of these, the one they are best remembered for is You've got your troubles, their biggest hit. It peaked at number two in Britain and made the top ten in America. The follow-up, Here it comes again, made the top five in Britain and the top thirty in America. Following these two, their next single, This golden ring, was a comparative disappointment, failing to reach the UK top ten and being only a minor American hit. Worse was to follow, as they were unable to chart again for a few years.

Changes of label eventually yielded more hits, these being That same old feeling (a minor USA hit, in direct competition with the original by Pickettywitch), Here comes that rainy day feeling again (USA top twenty), Freedom come freedom go (UK top ten, a minor USA hit) and Storm in a teacup (UK top ten hit). So ended the chart career of the Fortunes.

This compilation contains all these hits together with all the intermediate failed singles. Moreover, these are all the original recordings - something not always true of re-issues of Fortunes music.

If you enjoy the music of the Hollies and the Tremeloes, you might give the Fortunes a listen.