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The Best Of Georgie Fame 1967 - 1971 [CD]

Georgie Fame Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (12 Aug 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Sony Music CMG
  • ASIN: B000024STH
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,897 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The Ballad Of Bonnie & ClydeGeorgie Fame 3:09£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. This Guy's In Love With YouGeorgie Fame 3:59£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Seventh SonGeorgie Fame 2:31£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Try My WorldGeorgie Fame 2:24£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. And I Love HerGeorgie Fame 3:22£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. PeacefulGeorgie Fame 2:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Mellow YellowGeorgie Fame 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Because I Love YouGeorgie Fame 2:52£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. By The Time I Get To PhoenixGeorgie Fame 3:20£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. RosettaGeorgie Fame & Alan Price 2:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. When I'm Sixty-FourGeorgie Fame 3:11£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Everything Happens To MeGeorgie Fame 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Knock On WoodGeorgie Fame 2:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. St. James InfirmaryGeorgie Fame 4:08£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Ask Me NiceGeorgie Fame 2:30£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen16. HideawayGeorgie Fame 2:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Exactly Like YouGeorgie Fame 2:05£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen18. Yellow ManGeorgie Fame & Alan Price 3:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen19. BlossomGeorgie Fame 2:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen20. Bird In A World Of PeopleGeorgie Fame 6:33£0.89  Buy MP3 


Product Description

1-The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde 2-This Guy's In Love With You 3-Seventh Son 4-Try My World 5-And I Love Her 6-Peaceful 7-Mellow Yellow 8-Because I Love You 9-By The Time I Get To Phoenix 10-Rosetta (with ALAN PRICE) 11-When I'm Sixty-Four 12-Everything Happens To Me 13-Knock On Wood 14-St. James Infirmary 15-Ask Me Nice 16-Hideaway (from the film 'BOOM') 17-Exactly Like You 18-Yellow Man (with ALAN PRICE) 19-Blossom 20-Bird In A World Of People (1996/SONY) 20 tracks

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars mellow, but mixed 18 Nov 2010
By Graham R. Hill VINE™ VOICE
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The songs that one would associate primarily with Fame (Bonnie and Clyde, Rosetta, Peaceful) are generally better than those which are more clearly covers. Most of these sound strangely relaxed and some are positively horizontal. His rendition of 'St James Infirmary' is taken at a funereal pace. Admittedly that is not entirely inappropriate given the lyrics, but it loses something by not having the swing of, say, Louis Armstrong's version. And the version of Lennon and McCartney's 'And I Love Her' makes you wonder who is going to fall asleep first: the listener or the vocalist. He does make a good fist of Willie Dixon's 'Seventh Son' though; probably because he does it up-tempo.
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Laid back, lazy or just peaceful? 23 May 2002
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I never could make up my mind whether Georgie Fame was superbly laid back in his work, or just wasn't trying. This collection doesn't really make it any more obvious to me.

There were some releases like the desperately over-familiar "Yeah Yeah" which is mercifully not featured here - and "Rosetta" - track 10 - where one feels that Fame is deriving some excitment from the music making process. However, one often feels that he is either trying too hard to play it cool or he is bored to tears with the whole business ("Because I Love You" - track 8 here - teeters on this particular brink I feel).

I have a tape of Kenny Everett's Radio One Show from about 1970 in which he plays "Peaceful" - track 6 on this disc - and I always liked the song, and its inclusion here is the reason I bought the disc, I think it should have been a bigger success than it was because Georgie manages to sound laid back but not in a terminal state of ennui. "Seventh Son" - track 3 - similarly has some spark, and of course "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" - track 1 - still packs a bit of a punch.

However Georgie seems to sleepwalk through some of the other cover versions on this album. Did the world really need another version of "By the Time I Get to Pheonix"? - Track 9 - and what did Paul McCartney ever do to Georgie that he should so mutilate "And I Love Her" and "When I'm Sixty Four"? The only slight surprise is that Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" is not included in the cover set presented here.

A shame that some of the instrumentals weren't included: "Beware of the Dog", "El Bandido" etc are available on other GF compilations though.

I have to disagree with another reviewer who liked Georgie and Pricey's version of Randy Newman's "Yellow Man" - track 18 -, which I think misses the point of the song: Harry Nilsson's version is much more evocative of the song's sentiment.

Through his subsequent career Georgie has provided quality keyboard support to many artists - notably Van Morrison, but also many others - and if this collection shows anything I think it shows that his contribution to music in that role is probably greater than his role as a front man.

"I can wait for fate to bring around to me, any part of my tomorrow." - Peaceful. Yummy.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A COOL C.D BY A SUPER COOL SINGER 23 Jun 2007
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EACH TRACK DISPLAYS HIS MUSICAL TALENT. HIS INTERPRETATION OF CLASSIC SONGS ARE SECOND TO NONE. A MIX OF JAZZ , BLUES AND BIG BAND POP.

JUST LISTEN TO HIM SINGING "PEACEFULL & HIDE AWAY" TWO REALLY GREAT TRACKS. ALL 20 SONGS ON THIS C.D ARE A MUST FOR ANY ONE WHO LIKES GEORGIE FAME AND GOOD MUSIC. FOR SOME REASON "YA`YA" & "GETAWAY" IS NOT INCLUDED ON THE C.D, BUT EVEN SO THIS IS A COOL C.D TO HAVE.
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