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This 20-track compilation contains everything from their 1964 self-titled LP, as well as both sides of their three 1964 singles and a cover of Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep" (found on a 1965 single). Its quaintness and lack of strong tunes (only one of which was a group original) limit its worth to British Invasion obsessives for the most part, with some value for Beatles completists due to the hit cover of "Like Dreamers Do." "No Time," one of several songs co-written by future Honeybus main man Pete Dello, is about the best song, with its moody melody; at their most energetic (as on "See If She Cares") they sound a bit like Gerry & the Pacemakers. The covers of '50s rock classics are dire, but the reading of Davies' "I Go to Sleep," with its eerie organ and high yelping backup vocals, has some curiosity value as the first cover of this song, which the Kinks did not release in the 1960s.

4-CD box set features early European 'beat music' as presented at Hamburg's world famous Star Club in the early 1960s, including Bobby Patrick Big Six, The Giants, Phantom Bros., Four Renders, Road Runners, Broom Town Band, German Bonds, Team Beats & others…

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (after bands from Liverpool and nearby areas beside the River Mersey) is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll (mainly Chuck Berry guitar style and the midtempo beat of artists like Buddy Holly), doo-wop, skiffle and R&B. The genre provided many of the bands responsible for the British Invasion of the American pop charts starting in 1964, and provided the model for many important developments in pop and rock music, including the format of the rock group around lead, rhythm and bass guitars with drums. The Beat Of The Pops - excellent selection of beat tracks.

Johnny Rivers - At The Whisky a Go Go & Here We a Go Go Again! (1964) {BGO Records BGOCD241 rel 1994}
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© 1964, 1994 Liberty / Beat Goes On Records | BGOCD241
Rock & Roll / Rockabilly / Early Pop

Johnny Rivers' first two LPs – 1964's At the Whiskey-a-Go-Go and Here We A-Go-Go Again, both recorded at the famed Los Angeles club – are compiled on this set, a portrait of the singer at his mid-1960s peak. I first heard the latter of this compilation (Here We A-Go-Go Again) at a friends place back in 1969. His mom had the record and everytime I'd visit, she would let me blare the stereo as long as I'd have Johnny Rivers playing. Some years later I bought both albums for my own and still listen to them today although "Here We A-Go-GO Again" gets the nod. Johnnys crisp guitar and harmonica playing along with Jerry Rubins drums and Joe Osbournes bass gave this trio a great sound.

From the rock n' roll revolutionary responsible for hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" comes a collection of remastered rare stereo mixes from the Sun Records archive. Jerry Lee Lewis, considered one of the last standing original rock n' roll stars when he passed away in 2022, rocks and rolls his way through multi-track takes of songs like "Money" and "Ramblin' Rose," and features his versions of hits like "What'd I Say" and "Be-Bop-a-Lula."

In what would become Fats Domino’s final public performance, he with his 9-piece band demonstrating why he is considered one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll. This previously unreleased album - Live at Tipitina’s - was multi tracked recorded and professionally mixed so you can feel like you were right there in the middle of it all.