Name: Dig The Buzz: The Thunderbirds First Recordings 1962-65
Brand: RPM (UK)
SKU: 1382038
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Dig The Buzz

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Album: Dig The Buzz: The Thunderbirds First Recordings 1962-65
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Air Travel
2)	I Remember
3)	Push Push
4)	Blue Beat, The
5)	I Wanna Shout
6)	Girl Trouble
7)	Itty Bitty Pieces
8)	Just A Dream
9)	What You Gonna Do
10)	Hey Hey Hey Hey
11)	Hound Dog
12)	Reelin' And Rockin'
13)	Voodoo
14)	Buzz With The Fuzz
15)	You're The One
16)	Stormy Monday Blues, Pt. 1
17)	Stormy Monday Blues, Pt. 2
18)	She's Alright

Album: Dig The Buzz: The Thunderbirds First Recordings 1962-65
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Air Travel
2)	I Remember
3)	Push Push
4)	Blue Beat, The
5)	I Wanna Shout
6)	Girl Trouble
7)	Itty Bitty Pieces
8)	Just A Dream
9)	What You Gonna Do
10)	Hey Hey Hey Hey
11)	Hound Dog
12)	Reelin' And Rockin'
13)	Voodoo
14)	Buzz With The Fuzz
15)	You're The One
16)	Stormy Monday Blues, Pt. 1
17)	Stormy Monday Blues, Pt. 2
18)	She's Alright

Performer Notes

Recording information: 1962-1965.
Dating from 1962-1965, these 18 tracks comprise virtually everything Chris Farlowe recorded before joining Immediate Records and attaining his greatest British commercial success. That includes not just several Columbia singles, but also some obscure items that only showed up on LPs and EPs, as well as the 1964 single that he and the Thunderbirds did under the name of the Beazers, and the pseudonymous 1965 single he did as Little Joe Cook. Farlowe was a fair, but not great, British soul singer, and these sides owe somewhat more to earlier R&B/soul styles than the stuff he cut for Immediate did. On the Beazers single he gets into a ska-meets-soul bag, and those cuts are actually among the highlights of the disc. Where this anthology falls short, though, is in the slight and heavily derivative nature of the material, only a little of which was original. There's nothing to match the pop hooks of the Jagger/Richards covers he did for Immediate, and tunes like "Push Push," with its combination of lifted riffs from both "Twist and Shout" and "Do You Love Me," are just too imitative to command respect. It's not bad mid-'60s British R&B with a heavy soul flair, mind you, but it's not too noteworthy either. Oddly, the B-side of his first single, "Why Did You Break My Heart?," is absent, although all of his other pre-Immediate tracks seem present and accounted for. ~ Richie Unterberger

Professional Reviews

Record Collector (magazine) (p.83) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Chris Farlowe's voice and persona were convincing from the word go, and this most welcome reissue shows just how strong he was on predominately US material..."