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Simply horrid

porcupine | New York, NY USA | 02/11/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"If you're any fan of Georgie Fame, avoid this at any cost. Yes, there are a lot of tracks, and yes, all the charting hits are here, but that's about all the nice thing I can say about it. Sound quality is all over the map, continuing Raven's propensity towards pulling the easiest-to-find master and using it instead of doing their homework. Things are mono that should be stereo, and things that should be mono are in abominable rechanneled (i.e. phony) stereo. Fame deserves better than this. Save your money and find a copy of "20 Beat Classics" plus any of the UK CBS collections still floating around."

Great sixties mix of pop, blues and jazz

Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 09/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Georgie Fame's musical roots were in jazz and blues and that was what really interested him. Fortunately for him, there was room in the sixties pop charts for such musicians, especially if they were prepared to adapt their music to appeal to pop audiences. So it was that Georgie Fame topped the UK charts three times and several other hits. By some statistical freak, none of his hits made the top ten except for the three that made number one.



The three UK number ones were Yeh yeh (his first hit, though not his first single), Get away (which he originally wrote for a TV commercial) and The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, which was about the film. These are the songs that Georgie is best remembered for but some of his other pop hits are also noteworthy, among them being Sunny, Sitting in the park, Because I love you, Peaceful and Rosetta, the last-named featuring Alan Price.



As the hits dried up, Georgie returned to the jazz and blues music that he loved but as this collection shows, that music was always an important influence in his pop hits. This is as good a collection of his music from his hit-making years as you are likely to find, containing all his UK hits and several other interesting tracks."

The Most Comprehensive Fame Collection Available!

J. Passifiume | Columbus, OH United States | 04/28/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had heard of Georgie Fame as a teenage Beatles fan back in the early 1980s, but hadn't heard him until a friend put Georgie's version of "Work Song" on a compilation disc for me almost 20 years later. The energy in that one recording made me feel as if I had in some small way experienced the fabled early 60s British R&B/Jazz scene that spawned The Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, and others. After that, I acquired more Georgie Fame's 60s recordings, including the spectacular pop nugget "Yeh Yeh." This compilation provides a fantastic sampling of, arguably, Fame's most seminal recordings, and is worth the price of admission for the 2 tracks I mentioned earlier. This is 60s British R&B/Jazz-influenced pop at its finest. My only wish now is that someone will eventually have the good sense to reissue Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames' "Rhythm & Blues at the Flamingo" on CD."