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| 1. ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER HEARTACHE - The 5th Dimension | |||
| 2. CAN I GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER - The Turtles | |||
| 3. TAKE ME FOR WHAT I'M WORTH - The Searchers | |||
| 4. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU - The Grass Roots | |||
| 5. KICK THAT LITTLE FOOT SALLY ANN - Round Robin | |||
| 6. YOU BABY - The Mamas & The Papas | |||
| 7. YOU SAY PRETTY WORDS - Ramona King | |||
| 8. (HERE THEY COME) FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - Jan & Dean | |||
| 9. LET ME BE - The Turtles | |||
| 10. SUMMER MEANS FUN - Bruce & Terry | |||
| 11. MEET ME TONIGHT LITTLE GIRL - Philip & Stephan | |||
| 12. PLEASE DON'T GO - Yvonne Carroll | |||
| 13. GOES TO SHOW (JUST HOW WRONG YOU CAN BE) - Joey Paige | |||
| 14. THE SH-DOWN DOWN SONG (YOU BETTER LEAVE HIM ALONE) - The Ginger-Snaps Featuring Dandee Dawson | |||
| 15. A MUST TO AVOID - Herman's Hermits | |||
| 16. CAN'T WE GO SOMEWHERE - Terry Black | |||
| 17. I FOUND A GIRL - Jan & Dean | |||
| 18. SECRET AGENT MAN - Mel Tormé | |||
| 19. SOMEDAY SOON - Betty Everett | |||
| 20. TELL 'EM I'M SURFIN' - The Fantastic Baggys | |||
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* The latest edition in Ace's songwriter series contains 25 hit songs and rarities penned by the team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri.
* In the four years of their partnership, Sloan & Barri wrote dozens of memorable, melodic pop and rock songs, in every flavour on the musical menu. From dance craze to hot rod to girl group to surfing to novelty to R&B to faux-British Invasion to folk rock, Sloan & Barri delivered the goods.
* They also pushed the envelope of what a pop song could be. On his own, inspired by folk musicians such as Pete Seeger, Odetta and Bob Dylan, Sloan sought to pen more introspective, personal songs. In his alter ego of P.F. Sloan, he pursued the rocky road of what he calls "people's music". The controversial `Eve Of Destruction' brought him worldwide attention.
* This schizophrenic mix of vibrant pop-rock and more socially aware, questioning songs mightily confused Sloan's peers and associates. Nonetheless, the Sloan-Barri team continued to write - and produce - dynamite pop material through 1967.
* This first-ever compilation of their hits and rarities shows their breathless versatility as writers and their skill as producers of lasting pop gems.
* The CD comes with a full colour 24 page booklet featuring rare memorabilia, unpublished photographs and a 10,000 word essay based on exclusive interviews with Sloan and Barri.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Aces new "You Baby" CD collection makes a fitting companion to sister-label Big Beats release of a couple of years ago featuring Phil Sloan's solo work for the Dunhill label in the mid-sixties. However, this new collection shows the more commercial and pop oriented side to Sloan's work, written in collaboration with partner Steve Barri.
Covering the period 1964 to 1967 this compilation is a mixture of hits and rarities and contains several tracks unavailable elsewhere. Produced to Aces usual high standards for audio quality and well researched and informative booklets the package justifies the premium price Aces products usually command.
However, for me there is one major error in the judgement of the compilers here. For reasons they try to justify in more than a page of track details in the booklet the version of "Secret Agent Man" featured here is by Mel Torme rather than that by Johnny Rivers - big mistake! The song is one of the better-known ones featured here, and Rivers' version was used as the theme to the TV series "Danger Man" when shown in the US under the same title as the song. To have included both versions would have been logical, or to feature the actual TV show theme itself - different to the hit version - would have been even better! One star off a five star compilation for a rare lapse of judgement at Ace.
Niggles aside the rest of the tracks on this CD are at the very least interesting whilst many are minor or major classics. A mixture of mono and stereo these tracks sound as good as you are ever likely to hear them, thanks to Aces sound restoration and mastering. The booklet contains comprehensive track details and biographies and details about the composers and is very well illustrated.
"You Baby" is a fitting tribute to an undervalued song-writing duo and will hopefully bring their material to a slightly wider audience. Good effort - but not quite perfect!
Covering the period 1964 to 1967 this compilation is a mixture of hits and rarities and contains several tracks unavailable elsewhere. Produced to Aces usual high standards for audio quality and well researched and informative booklets the package justifies the premium price Aces products usually command.
However, for me there is one major error in the judgement of the compilers here. For reasons they try to justify in more than a page of track details in the booklet the version of "Secret Agent Man" featured here is by Mel Torme rather than that by Johnny Rivers - big mistake! The song is one of the better-known ones featured here, and Rivers' version was used as the theme to the TV series "Danger Man" when shown in the US under the same title as the song. To have included both versions would have been logical, or to feature the actual TV show theme itself - different to the hit version - would have been even better! One star off a five star compilation for a rare lapse of judgement at Ace.
Niggles aside the rest of the tracks on this CD are at the very least interesting whilst many are minor or major classics. A mixture of mono and stereo these tracks sound as good as you are ever likely to hear them, thanks to Aces sound restoration and mastering. The booklet contains comprehensive track details and biographies and details about the composers and is very well illustrated.
"You Baby" is a fitting tribute to an undervalued song-writing duo and will hopefully bring their material to a slightly wider audience. Good effort - but not quite perfect!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Top class. A brilliant compilation from 'Ace'. I only knew 5 of the 25 songs on this cd, so its come as a fantastic surprise that nearly all the tracks are 9/10 or 10/10. The only bad track is 'Secret agent man' by Mel Torme. As for the good stuff, there's too many to mention but a few would be 'Take me for what i'm worth' by the Searchers, 'Kick that little foot' by Round Robin, 'Where were you when i needed you' by Grass Roots, 'Let me be' by the Turtles, 'Eve of destruction' by Barry McGuire and a few of the female solo efforts which are great 'please don't go' by Yvonne Carroll, 'You say pretty words' by Ramona King and Ann Margret's 'You sure know how to hurt someone'. My only wish is that 'Ace' had included Barry McGuires 'Whats exactly the matter with me'.Don't delay buy today.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
After some 40 0dd years the CD Age has restored P F Sloan to the catalogs with not only a new album but a CD of demos plus various Grassroots,Fantastic Baggys and Barry McGuire ones.
As a One Hit Wonder in the U K (Sins of the Family),Sloan is not as much a houshold name as those he wrote for which included British acts like the Searchers and Hermans Hermits.Along the way to his folk rock days came a slew of surf and hot rod music with even earlier if you trace the name back to the 50s a couple of singles made for the mainly black label Aladdin.
By 1967 it was all over and Sloan phased himself out as songs like Eve of Destruction entered into a life of their own.
As he passed into history new writer Jim Webb became the next big thing and penned a tribute song called P F Sloan.
As a One Hit Wonder in the U K (Sins of the Family),Sloan is not as much a houshold name as those he wrote for which included British acts like the Searchers and Hermans Hermits.Along the way to his folk rock days came a slew of surf and hot rod music with even earlier if you trace the name back to the 50s a couple of singles made for the mainly black label Aladdin.
By 1967 it was all over and Sloan phased himself out as songs like Eve of Destruction entered into a life of their own.
As he passed into history new writer Jim Webb became the next big thing and penned a tribute song called P F Sloan.
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