Up & Away

The Kingsmen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B000003GXC
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,061 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trouble

2. If I Needed Someone

3. Grass Is Green

4. Tossin' And Turnin'

5. Under My Thumb

6. Wild Thing

7. (I Have Found) Another Girl

8. Daytime Shadows

9. Shake A Tail Feather

10. Children's Caretaker

11. Land Of 1000 Dances

12. Mustang Sally

13. Little Sally Tease

14. Hush-A-Bye

15. Killer Joe

Editorial Reviews

Hot on the heels of Sundazed's previous heapin' helpin' of Kingsmen wares - the garage/psych 6th album from the boys, with newly found fuzz-boxes in tow. Entire 1965 14-cut album from the stereo masters, plus the mono single version of 'Killer Joe' as a b

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KINGSMEN UP AND AWAY, May 4, 2008

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Robert B "Robert B" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Up & Away (Audio CD)

This was the last Kingsmen album until the unreleased 1967 Since you Have Been Gone came out. The group had no major hits for over a year. Their last album, 15 Great Hits had nine new songs, and six best of songs . Most likely the company released a new studio album as a best of to help sales. [ The fact it had 15 songs also may have been used as a bonus to improve sales as well] Sadly the groups biggest hit in 1966 was was reissue of Louie Louie. In late 1966, Up and Away came out. [ featuring 14 songs, unheard of on US albums of the era] It features superb harmonies that no one knew this group was able to do. [ Grass is Green, Children's Caretaker, If I needed Someone [ a Beatles Cover and single], Hushabye, and I have found another girl.] Trouble [the albums opener] was one of the great lost garage songs of the era, but didn't chart. It's flipside [track 7 on the CD ] Daytime shadows also was excellent. Their are some great rockin' mid 60's frathouse covers here with cool guitar work by Mike Mitchell. Shake a Tail Feather, Land of 1000 dances, and Little Sally Tease [with Killer fuzztone]. There is also a nice rendition as well of Mustang Sally. The covers of Under my Thumb and Wild thing are good, worth a listen , but are in no way great. Why Lynn Easton, the groups lead singer [ who had a bluesy voice], didn't sing Under my Thumb is very odd. Tossing and Turning seems very out of place here and should have been on the groups first or second Album. There is also one of the groups best singles as a bonus CD track, Killer Joe. It's sad this album wasn't a hit. The group was getting better as song writers, and musicians. [They were 10 times better musically than any group on one of the pebbles comp albums] I think it is one of the great lost albums of the sixties. Sadly all the new mid sixties hip groups coming out were getting all the airplay. Frat house fun was old hat. Had they been on a big label like the Raiders, things may have been different.

4.0 out of 5 stars no big hits but great garage rock of it's era., November 20, 2011

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Up & Away (Audio CD)

Kller joe" and 'little sally tease' got some radio play but the release had no real big hits as earlier releases did. In fact the band was breaking up and their type of wild organ pumping garage rock was being replaced on the airwaves but more brit invasion type of music. However it's sad that programmers couldn't see that there was still room for this type of rock on the airwaves. Why not? it was fun and pure party rock mainly. If you like great early sixties party rock or frat rock then this is a good addition to your collection. If you just want a greatest hits type of sample then don't buy this one though. However 'killer joe' and other songs are as good as anything they did before and frat rock was good fun. SO get rockin.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Will knock you right out of your tree., November 13, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Up & Away (Audio CD)

This was the fifth, and last, album that the Kingsmen released during their heyday. There were no hits on this album, but it does feature a few great songs ("Trouble", "Little Sally Tease" and "Killer Joe"). There are a few other pretty good songs ("Grass is Green", "(I Have Found)Another Girl", "Daytime Shadows" and "Children's Caretaker"). The rest of the album features mostly mediocre cover versions of songs by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Wilson Pickett. An average 1960s garage band album.