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DESCRIPTION
Four-hour, 3CD anthology of hard-edged British R&B from the genre's pivotal year. Featuring hit singles, key album tracks, cult classics and some fabulous previously unreleased recordings. While 1963 belonged to the Merseyside-led beat boom, the following year saw the emergence of homegrown R&B as market leaders The Rolling Stones were joined on the Thames Delta by a host of equally young, raw and enthusiastic British blues-hounds. The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds and Manfred Mann would all come to national prominence, but many other putative king bees - The Artwoods, Downliners Sect, early Ronnie Wood outfit The Birds - would have to settle for a more localised audience. Other hard-up heroes trying to pay the rent included The Who (as The High Numbers), Steve Marriott (as leader of The Moments) and Rod 'The Mod' Stewart (with The Hoochie Coochie Men), who all gave early notice of their developing talent to an indifferent world. As a new wave of acne-scarred teenage degenerates clambered out of the primordial R&B soup, the R&B revolution spread throughout the land: Newcastle likely lads The Animals topped the charts, Birmingham outfit The Spencer Davis Group also made early commercial progress, while The Betterdays were initially banned from Plymouth dancehalls for playing what the local Mecca ballroom manager described as "n* music". Although more musically sophisticated Flamingo Club regulars like Georgie Fame and Zoot Money are also represented, the emphasis on 'Having A Rave-Up! - The British R&B Sounds of 1964' is on what would subsequently be labelled as garage R&B/punk, with the bigger names joined by such equally artless hopefuls as The Fairies, The Cops 'n' Robbers, The Authentics and The Primitives. In addition to the various hits and misses, our overview includes tracks from ultra-rare private pressings and numerous previously unissued tracks, including a pulverising six-minute rave-up from The Tridents, featuring Jeff Beck just before he jumped ship to join The Yardbirds. With 91 great tracks, three great chords and a 48-page booklet that's overflowing with rare photos and memorabilia, the most blueswailing 'Having A Rave-Up!' is a thrilling reminder of a time when rock music was young, loud and dangerous.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Rosalyn - the Pretty Things
2 Baby What's Wrong -Downliners Sect
3 Sweet Mary - the Art Woods
4 Aw Shucks Hush Your Mouth -The Betterdays
5 Climbing Through - the Authentics
6 Help Me - the Primitives
7 I'm Your Kingpin - Manfred Mann
8 Leave My Kitten Alone - the First Gear
9 I Got Love If You Want It -The Athenians
10 Honey in Your Hips - the Yardbirds
11 Bo Street Runner (Oak Version) - Bo Street Runners
12 The Uncle Willie - Zoot Money
13 Castin' My Spell - the Pirates
14 Don't Gimme No Lip Child - Dave Berry
15 Oh Yeah! - the Others
16 That's Alright - Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions
17 Crawling Up a Hill - John
18 Mayall & the Blues Breakers
19 Long Legged Baby - the Graham Bond Organisation
20 Zulu Stomp - the Brand
21 Looking for My Baby - the Second Thoughts
22 I'll Be Good to You - the Talismen
23 A Shot of Rhythm 'N' Blues - the Sundowners
24 Chicago Calling - the Iveys
25 I'm a Lover Not a Fighter -The Bo-Weevils
26 Betty Jean - the Cops 'N' Robbers
27 Walking the Dog - the Dennisons
28 Baby I Go for You - the Blue Rondos
29 One Fine Day - Shel Naylor
30 I Want to Be Loved* - the Stylos
31 What's That? - Group 5
32 Got My Mojo Working - the Sheffields
- Disc 2 -
1 Beautiful Delilah - the Kinks
2 Pretty Thing - David John & the Mood
3 Reelin' and a Rockin' - Mickey Finn & the Blue Men
4 I Wish You Would - the Yardbirds
5 You're on My Mind - the Birds
6 Anytime at All - the Fairies
7 Tiger in Your Tank - Thetridents
8 Draggin' Around - the Saxons
9 Let's Make It Pretty Baby -The Soul Agents
10 Don't Start Me Talkin' - the Sorrows
11 Shame Shame Shame - the Merseybeats
12 Boom Boom - Blues By Five
13 I'm the Face - the High Numbers
14 Dimples - Spencer Davis Group
15 Gonna Send You Back to Georgia - the Searchers
16 Come Back Baby - Screaming Lord Sutch
17 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You -The Plebs
18 You'll Be Mine - Long John
19 Baldry & the Hoochie Coochie Men
20 Parchman Farm - Georgie Fame
21 A Certain Girl - the Paramounts
22 I'm Gonna Jump - the Toggery Five
23 Memphis - the Hollies
24 Forget It - Mal Ryder & the Spirits
25 Peter Gunn - the Remo Four
26 Voodoo Blues (Demo Version) - Shades of Blue
27 Hoochie Coochie Man - the Art Wood Combo
28 Manhattan Place - the Excerts
29 You're Gonna Ruin Me Baby-The Original For-Tunes
30 Do the Dog - Lester Square & the G. T.'s
31 Down the Road Apiece - the Cops 'N' Robbers
- Disc 3 -
1 Sect Appeal - Downliners Sect
2 I Ain't Got You - the Yardbirds
3 Bald Headed Woman - the Sneekers
4 Don't Bring Me Down - the Pretty Things
5 Cracking Up - the Betterdays
6 Hide 'N' Seek (Oak Version) - the Thyrds
7 She Said Yeah - the Animals
8 Woman - the Zombies
9 Baby What You Want Me to Do - the Stylos
10 I Don't Care - Duffy Power
11 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - the Clique
12 Money Money - the Moments
13 How Many More Times - the T-Bones
14 T.N.T. - the Nashville Teens
15 That's What I'll Do - the Bad Boys
16 You Can't Judge a Book By
17 It's Cover - the Wild Oats
18 Honey Hush - Christian's Crusaders
19 Right Throughly - the Saxons
20 Don't You Mix It with Money -The Talismen
21 My Luck Never Showed -Shades of Blue
22 Pretty Thing - the Mike Cotton Sound
23 To Catch That Man - David John & the Mood
24 Billie Jean - the Fuzz
25 Bright Lights Big City - the Hoochie Coochie Men Featuring Rod Stewart
26 Midnight Special - the Iveys
27 Bo Diddley - the SW4
28 Every Night - the Excerts
29 Evil* - the Original For-Tunes
30 Sticks and Stones - Four Just Men
31 Long Tall Shorty - the End
