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Zombies - On The BBC EP (7 single/EP)
€8,00Quick ViewBig Beat’s exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing archival research, many previously unheard Zombies songs and performances have come to light and have been included on our numerous CD releases, including the acclaimed box set Zombie Heaven”. Subsequently, there have been numerous requests from fans to have these rare tracks also made available on vinyl.
Big Beat now presents the best of the Zombies’ originally unissued 1960s recordings on a set of six themed, limited edition vinyl EPs – mirroring the venerable, collectable format of the period – and resplendent in authentically-styled, eye-catching sleeves. As a special bonus, four of the six EPs contain vintage Zombies recordings that have not been released anywhere until now – a boon for both collectors and fans.
Our second set of EPs includes ”Zombies ’66”, ”Live At The BBC” and ”Time Of The Season”. Once again, none of these tracks have appeared on vinyl before, and we are most excited to offer several completely unreleased tracks: different BBC performances of ’This Old Heart Of Mine’ and ’Just A Little Bit’ to those that appear on ”Zombie Heaven”, as well as the group’s take on the Four Tops’ ’Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever’.
The ”Time Of The Season” EP features rarities connected to the epochal ”Odessey & Oracle album”: different mono mixes of ’Time Of The Season’ and ’A Rose For Emily’ (the latter unreleased) and two fresh stereo remixes of key album tracks ’Care Of Cell 44’ and ’Hung Up On A Dream’.
By Alec Palao (Ace Records”
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Zombies - Zombies ’66 (7 single/EP)
€8,00Quick ViewBig Beat’s exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing archival research, many previously unheard Zombies songs and performances have come to light and have been included on our numerous CD releases, including the acclaimed box set Zombie Heaven”. Subsequently, there have been numerous requests from fans to have these rare tracks also made available on vinyl.
Big Beat now presents the best of the Zombies’ originally unissued 1960s recordings on a set of six themed, limited edition vinyl EPs – mirroring the venerable, collectable format of the period – and resplendent in authentically-styled, eye-catching sleeves. As a special bonus, four of the six EPs contain vintage Zombies recordings that have not been released anywhere until now – a boon for both collectors and fans.
Our second set of EPs includes ”Zombies ’66”, ”Live At The BBC” and ”Time Of The Season”. Once again, none of these tracks have appeared on vinyl before, and we are most excited to offer several completely unreleased tracks: different BBC performances of ’This Old Heart Of Mine’ and ’Just A Little Bit’ to those that appear on ”Zombie Heaven”, as well as the group’s take on the Four Tops’ ’Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever’.
The ”Time Of The Season” EP features rarities connected to the epochal ”Odessey & Oracle album”: different mono mixes of ’Time Of The Season’ and ’A Rose For Emily’ (the latter unreleased) and two fresh stereo remixes of key album tracks ’Care Of Cell 44’ and ’Hung Up On A Dream’.
By Alec Palao (Ace Records)
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Zombies - At Work (n’ Play) EP (7 single/EP)
€8,00Quick ViewBig Beat’s exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing archival research, many previously unheard Zombies songs and performances have come to light, and have been included on our numerous CD releases, including the acclaimed box set Zombie Heaven”. Subsequently, there have been numerous requests from fans to have these rare tracks also made available on vinyl.
Big Beat now presents the best of the Zombies’ originally unissued 1960s recordings on a set of six themed, limited edition vinyl EPs – mirroring the venerable, collectable format of the period – and resplendent in authentically-styled, eye-catching sleeves. As a special bonus, four of the six EPs contain vintage Zombies recordings that have not been released anywhere until now – a boon for both collectors and fans.
In this month’s batch are ”Zombies R&B”, ”Zombies A Go Go” and ”Zombies At Work (N’ Play)”. All tracks have not previously appeared on vinyl, and the completely unreleased tracks are rare demo versions of ’Sometimes’ and ’It’s Alright With Me’, the latter from the band’s very first recording session.
By Alec Palao (Ace Records)”
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Zombies - A Go Go EP (7 single/EP)
€8,00Quick ViewBig Beat’s exhaustive Zombies reissue campaign of the last 12 years has achieved what it set out to do: restore to world-class status the catalogue of this most singular of pop groups. In the course of our ongoing archival research, many previously unheard Zombies songs and performances have come to light, and have been included on our numerous CD releases, including the acclaimed box set Zombie Heaven”. Subsequently, there have been numerous requests from fans to have these rare tracks also made available on vinyl.
Big Beat now presents the best of the Zombies’ originally unissued 1960s recordings on a set of six themed, limited edition vinyl EPs – mirroring the venerable, collectable format of the period – and resplendent in authentically-styled, eye-catching sleeves. As a special bonus, four of the six EPs contain vintage Zombies recordings that have not been released anywhere until now – a boon for both collectors and fans.
In this month’s batch are ”Zombies R&B”, ”Zombies A Go Go” and ”Zombies At Work (N’ Play)”. All tracks have not previously appeared on vinyl, and the completely unreleased tracks are rare demo versions of ’Sometimes’ and ’It’s Alright With Me’, the latter from the band’s very first recording session.
By Alec Palao (Ace Records)”
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Rationals - Fan Club Album (LP)
€18,00Quick View* The Rationals’ Fan Club Album” is legendary in collector circles as one of the rarest 60s garage artefacts known to man – only two test pressing copies are confirmed to exist. Consisting of unreleased outtakes from the bands earliest sessions in 1965 and 1966, the longplayer was intended as a farewell ”thank you” to the group’s loyal fanbase by the band’s producer and mentor Jeep Holland, when he parted with the Rationals in late 1968.
* Save for one cut, this Big Beat vinyl reissue reprises the album’s original tracklist and running order, and the fully illustrated sleeve comes with detailed liner notes.”
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Various - Nippon Girls – Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-1970 (CD)
€17,00Quick View* The Big Beat International label returns with a bang and another celebration of the wonderful world of Japanese 60s pop. After the acclaimed GS I Love You” volumes, it’s the girls turn, as Big Beat examine the distaff side of the country’s remarkable GS pop scene with ”Nippon Girls”.
* The likes of Shonen Knife and The 5-6-7-8s have given more face to women in Japanese pop, but they draw on a tradition that stretches back to the wild 1960s ”Group Sounds” era, when the Land Of the Rising Sun was smitten with westernised rock’n’roll, yet came to develop its own distinctive brand of the same. Like in the west, female artistes tended to be solo, though their accompaniment often came from some of the top GS acts like the Bunnies. Major female stars of the period represented here include Miki Obata, Linda Yamamoto and Mie Nakao, the latter with the fuzztoned classic `Sharock No 1′.
* The sound was eclectic, drawing upon not only the full smorgasbord of 60s styles like groovy go-go, lounge-y bossa nova and wobbly pop-psych, but also traditional Japanese songwriting and themes. There’s dance floor fillers such as `Ye-Ye’ and the usual fascinating interpretations of western material, such as Nana Kanomi’s take on the Zombies’ `I Love You’.
* ”Nippon Girls” is annotated by noted girl group expert and latter-day Japanese pop champion Sheila Burgel of Cha Cha Charming magazine, who provides a fascinating overview of this tremendous and compelling tributary of 60s pop. Highly recommended to girl group fanciers, GS groovers and any one else with a keen ear for eclectic 60s pop.
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Rationals - Think Rational 2CD (CD)
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* Mention the Rationals to anyone who was a teenager in Michigan during the 1960s and you will hear impassioned testimony to a group unlike any other. This punchy quartet from Ann Arbor ruled the state during the mid-1960s with a blend of rootsy garage and exciting blue-eyed soul. The handful of records they cut have become totems of cool to garage fanciers the world over.
* Think Rational!” is therefore amongst the most eagerly awaited of all 1960s rock anthologies, collecting together for the first time the incomparable sides the Rationals cut under the auspices of their manager and mentor, the enigmatic Hugh `Jeep’ Holland. From early Brit-influenced rockers like `Look What You’re Doing To Me Baby’ and `Feelin’ Lost’, through garage soul like `Hold On Baby’ and their big hits `Respect’ and `I Need You’, to psychedelically-tinged items like `Sunset’, this 2CD compilation covers the group’s entire output between 1965 and 1968.
* In addition to all the singles on A-Square and Cameo, we hear the rare promo 45 cut for a Detroit men’s clothing store, as well as tracks from the Rationals’ 1968 fan club LP (two known test pressings) and many unissued goodies like `Gotta Go Now’ and `Poor Dog’. ”Think Rational!” is manna from heaven to anyone with an interest in vintage Detroit, or the best 1960s rock, full stop.”
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Jesters - Cadillac Men-The Sun Masters (CD)
€18,00Quick View14 original Sun label masters plus 4 sides cut as The Escapades, this is Memphis rockin’ garage at its best. Known only by their incendiary 1966 waxing ’Cadillac Man’, the Jesters nevertheless have an amazing reputation as the most crazed Memphis garage rock’n’rollers of their era. Now with the Big Beat collection, Cadillac Men, comes further indisputable proof of the band’s genius.
This cache of previously unissued Sun recordings is inconceivably even more deranged than the band’s lone single. Featuring lead screamer Tommy Minga and the berserk, headless-chicken guitar of Teddy Paige, the Jesters are now revealed as the true analogue to the rockabilly wildmen of Sun Records’ 50s heyday.
And if the sounds weren’t enough, the band’s brief history, as revealed in the lengthy notes to Cadillac Men, is even stranger than fiction, encompassing as it does Memphis maverick Jim Dickinson, a future medieval knight, and the world’s most perfectly formed midget.
The tracklisting is bolstered by four sought-after 1966 sides by Tommy Minga’s band the Escapades. Whether you are a fan of rockabilly, 60s garage or just the craziest rock’n’roll on the planet, Cadillac Men is a must hear.
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Mojo Men - Not Too Old to Start Cryin`- the Lost 1966 Masters (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewAlbum Description
* San Francisco’s pre-eminent popmeisters the Mojo Men are well known to mid-60s aficionados, thanks to both some garage-rocking sides for Autumn and the dulcet baroque experiments of their Reprise years. The 24 previously unreleased titles featured on Not Too Old To Start Cryin'” fall stylistically between these two schools, yet they may well be amongst the best studio recordings of their entire career.
* These sessions were held in the year preceding the Mojo Men’s chart breakthrough in early 1967 with `Sit Down I Think I Love You’, and consist principally of original material. The Mojos were known for their quality songwriting and tight, self-contained arrangements, not to mention a powerhouse vocal team in bass player Jim Alaimo and the drumming Mojo Woman, Jan Errico.
* Garage and folk-rock sounds abound on here, from the snotty punk of `Til I Find You’ to the sombre Marianne Faithfull-isms of `Don’t Leave Me Crying Like Before’. There’s a sprinkling of proto-psych too on cuts such as `Free Ride’ and `What Kind Of Man’. It’s rare that a cache of this standard comes to light nowadays, which makes ”Not Too Old To Start Cryin'” a must for any fan of mid-60s garage and pop.”
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Prisoners - Rare And Unissued (Käytetty CD)
€10,00Quick View”Album Description
* In 1988 a year after they had fallen apart, loved by a hard-core legion of fans who had supported them up and down the country and across Europe, the Prisoners released ”Rare And Unissued” on Billy Childish’s Hangman label. Despite its rather lo-fi nature, it became a prized possession for many of those fans and has never been available on CD before.
* In the intervening 20 years the Prisoners legend has grown. Graham Day and Allan Crockford formed a variety of groups from Planet to the Solar Flares (Allan is currently in the Billboard Garage charts with his group the Stabilisers), organist James Taylor has his Quartet and virtually invented Acid Jazz. The Prisoners are now seen as the great pioneers of modern day garage, lauded in the NME as one of the most influential bands of the 80s. Recently their ”Last Fourfathers” album was described by Uncut as ”one of the most important in British rock”. Everyone from Oasis’ Noel Gallagher to Radio One’s Steve Lamacq claim to love them, as do Ian Brown and The Horrors along the way.
* Our version of ”Rare And Unissued” leaves off a handful of tracks that were included on Big Beat’s reissues of the original albums, but otherwise sees the Hangman album present and correct with great live tracks, live cuts and early B-sides showing a truly breathtaking outfit in action. We have added to that collection two wonderful studio out-take tracks; an instrumental called `Unbeliever (Fast)’ from the ”Wizer” sessions and a take of `Love Me Lies’ recorded live in a studio some time before the its appearance at those sessions. Also added are two cuts recorded at a live demo session in 1984 which appeared on various small run compilations – `Joe 90′ and an amazing version of `Hush’.
* The whole package is completed with notes that include in-depth comments from the Prisoners, and illustrations of all the various releases from which these tracks have been culled.”
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Thierry Le Coz - On Stage House Of Live Paris 2002 (DVD)
€25,00Quick ViewBlasting Rockin’ Blues & Rockabilly from the rockin’ guitar ace who rose to fame in the early 80s with Rockabilly band The Teencats. A storming live performance with lots of originals alongside covers of Eddie Cochran & Gene Summers. Includes bonus video and interview footage. Total running time is 80 minutes.
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Travis Ervin And The Virginians - Shades Of Blue In Paris (DVD)
€25,00Quick ViewThe ultimate Gene Vincent tribute band capture the spirit of the legendary Rocker. 22 great songs filmed live on stage in Paris, France, plus lots of bonus footage filmed in Holland, England and France. Also featuring interview from French TV.
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Various - You Got Yours! East Bay Garage 1956-1967 (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewAlbum Description
* Big Beat’s ongoing series documenting the groovy sounds of 1960s California, Nuggets From The Golden State, makes a welcome return with You Got Yours: East Bay 60s Garage 1965-67″. Returning to the regional themes espoused in earlier volumes, this power-packed collection focuses on one of the grungiest and most prolific garage rock scenes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
* Directly across the bay from San Francisco raged a teen scene so vibrant that the `adult’ rock shenanigans of the early hippie clique had little impact, at least for a couple of years. The tough, blue collar environs of the East Bay demanded entertainment, not enlightenment, and sought it in the garage soul of the Spyders and US Male, the bright, British sounds of the Baytovens, Shillings and Peter Wheat & The Breadmen, or the droll Stonesy punk of the Harbinger Complex, Just VI and Soul Vendors. Kids raved at area hotspots like the Penthouse Club in Hayward and the Teens N’ Twenties dances at San Leandro’s Rollarena.
* ”You Got Yours” celebrates this intriguing facet of SF music history with rare singles, unreleased studio cuts and a booklet jam-packed with photos and memorabilia. It also forms the audio soundtrack to a recent book documenting East Bay 60s garage bands. Many of these tracks are acknowledged 60s punk classics, others are gems waiting to be discovered. For fans of vintage punk and garage as well as those fascinated with all things San Francisco.”
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Various - Now Hear This: Garage and Beats from the Norman Petty Vaults (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewAlbum Description
_ Now Hear This” is the first of two volumes devoted to 1960s gems licensed from the heavily-guarded vaults of legendary producer-engineer Norman Petty.
_ Unlike many other Americans, Petty’s prior involvement with Buddy Holly (and that artist’s crucial influence on the British Invasion) gave him an unprecedented sympathy with post-Beatle US rock’n’roll. He actively signed bands with chart potential and several groups featured here, such as the Chances, Cinders (featuring a young JD Souther) and Cords, were Petty-sponsored combos. Other acts such as major Canadian act Wes Dakus’ Rebels specifically sought the producer out to handle their recording career.
_ As busy as it was with these groups and Norman’s main charges, the Fireballs, Petty’s Clovis, New Mexico studio was open for business to any garage combo. He was consequently behind the board for a rash of top-rated, fuzz and Farfisa-driven 60s punk discs such as Colorado’s Trolls and Teardrops, while the Perils from Texas are as far removed from the polite `Sugar Shack’ as you could get.
_ The well-illustrated, fully-detailed booklet to ”Now Hear This” provides much undisclosed information about Norman Petty’s operation in the mid-1960s, with the full co-operation of many who were there. Thanks to access to the original master tapes, not only is the sound quality second to none, but over half the collection features unissued material. One not to be missed for the 1960s rock crowd.”
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Prisoners - The Wisermiserdemelza And 17 (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewThe Prisoners’ spell at Big Beat Records in 1983 and 1984 coincided with their most psychedelic records and many of their fans’ favourite tracks. This new issue of Wisermiserdemelza has been substantially upgraded from its original 1990 CD issue bringing it in-line with the exacting standards that we have applied to their other studio albums in our Prisoners reissue series.
The Prisoners had become a fixture of the London garage scene, after they had released their debut album ’A Taste Of Pink’ themselves and garnered a whole lot of attention on the back of it. Signed to Big Beat Records by Ted Caroll and Roger Armstrong, they were put to work recording their next album with a producer assigned by the label.
Phil Chevron had been in the band Radiators From Space and would later become a member of the Pogues, and was definitely a member of the Ace/ Big Beat extended family. In the notes he tells of his love for the band live and the problems he had in making them use the studio as a tool – the band being unduly influenced by a form of hometown primitivism. Today Graham Day, the Prisoners lead singer, is disappointed that he didn’t listen to Phil.
The album was full of great tracks such as Hurricane and Love Me Lies and Thinking Of You, that would all become massive favourites of the band’s live audience. The constant pushing against the idea of being signed and produced meant that they wouldn’t make another album for Big Beat. They did however complete their stint with the label by recording an awesome EP, The Electric Fit” – which contained the Small Faces-influenced Last Thing On My Mind and the frenetic Melanie. Their final throw of the dice was Reaching My Head which had featured on a segment of Channel 4 TV’s The Tube, dedicated to the London Garage scene. The band stole the show by appearing in Star Trek outfits!
All these tracks – and some splendid stills from the Tube – are present and correct on this upgraded CD package, alongside in-depth interviews with all those involved in the record.
By Dean Rudland”
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Various - It Came From The Garage! Nuggets From Southern California (CD)
€18,00Quick View”This is the third volume of goodies exploring the deceptively elusive Downey Records catalogue. The much-lauded first comp was a collection of weird instrumentals, ”Intoxica!” (CDCHD 1144), and the second was a rock’n’roll collection that spanned the pre-Beatles era, ”It Came From The Suburbs” (CDCHD 1133). This collection brings us gems from Southern California’s suburban garage-land. If the second volume was caught somewhere between the beach and the hip teen clubs on Sunset Strip, then this volume chronologically carries on where that volume left off at the British Invasion of 1964. All great garage-punkers and whimsical psychedelic folk-rockers of a mixed-up jangly nature!
Essentially based on a much-missed Big Beat comp called ”Scarey Business”, which was released and then withdrawn in 2001, this collection adds a further 11 tracks to the 13 gems pulled from the Downey tape vaults for that collection by Ace wunderkind Alec Palao. ”Scarey Business” introduced many unreleased tracks that we bring back in the company of a clutch of other unissued and mostly unhinged corkers.
Bill Wenzel, together with his oldest son, Jack, opened Wenzel’s Music Town in 1958 and began to record local acts at the studio they had installed in back of the store. They founded the Jack Bee record label in the summer of ’59 and another imprint, Downey, in 1962. They hit paydirt with the Rumblers’ Boss, and then with the Chantays’ Pipeline and so the label started with a reputation for releasing instrumentals.
1964 saw a big change in American music and teen culture. The British Invasion not only put the final coffin nail in the instrumental scene (as it had in the UK), but on the positive side it freed the instrumental groups to start singing. Groups like the Rumblers had been recording tough R&B vocals on their B-sides since before the arrival of the Beatles, Stones and Them, and from the same suburban garages that the instrumental and surf groups had first got together, in came a new breed. From the Pacific North West; from all over Texas; from Missouri; from California; and from every landlocked small town across the land. They emerged with their Prince Valiant haircuts and cheap guitars. They arrived with acne and attitude. From the British Invasion through to the first psychedelic era, they brought an energetic buzz not felt since the earliest savage Southern rockabilly.
With a couple of exceptions, what you have here is all from the final fling at Downey, from 1965-1967. I like to think that this collection can sit beside ”Nuggets”, the double long-player that was released way back in 1972, compiled by the great Lenny Kaye, and a forerunner of so many similar collections ever since. Yes, this is a swag bag of ”Nuggets” that will have eBay hounds searching for the rare originals.
We present the Rumblers from Norwalk, California; the Last Word/Sir Frog & the Toads from Las Vegas, Nevada; the little known Barracudas and New Breed, from parts unknown; the Sunday Group, who were the Hustlers from Whittier, California in disguise. Add to this another illustrious name, not normally associated with garage punkers and folk-rockers, the Love Walrus himself, Barry White. Barry produced the Bobby Fuller 4 after he left Downey, and before he started getting his teeth into his more famous early sub-Motown productions, he actually wet his production head on Lakewood Boulevard at Downey on the Rumblers and the Hustlers! Witness the Bel-Cantos sides, a thinly disguised Rumblers, giving us some hard-edged white-boy R&B. Sleepy Hollow by the Last Word has proved to be a popular addition to previous comps, and it’s a stand-out track here.
The Downey vaults excavation continues in order to bring straight-from-the-masters quality. We’ve discovered that the released sides (and the two or three hits on the label) were only a small part of the Downey story!
By Brian Nevill”
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Escalators - Moving Staircases (CD)
€13,00Quick View”VIHDOINKIN MYÖS CD;NÄ!! TODELLINEN PSYCHOBILLY KLASSIKKO ALBUMI!
– The Escalators’ sole Big Beat album (CDWIKM 15 from 1983) is released in a cardboard facsimile of the LP, as part of our ongoing Hip Pocket series.
– The Escalators were formed by two ex-members of the Meteors, Nigel Lewis and Mark Robertson. They were augmented by Bart Coles on bass and extra vocals, and Woodie, another ex-Meteor.
– The band recorded this album and two single for Big Beat. ’Munsters Theme’ actually crept into the Top 100 and was one of the label’s best-selling singles.
– Soon after the release of this LP the band became the Tall Boys.
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