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You Heard It Here First Volume 2 (Original Versions of Famous Songs)
Various Artists
You Heard It Here First Volume 2 (Original Versions of Famous Songs)
Genres: Pop, Rock
 
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As soon as volume one of You Heard It Here First hit the racks in 2008, the requests starting to pour in for both a second volume, and for specific original versions to be featured on said second volume. Ace hopes that the...  more »

     
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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: You Heard It Here First Volume 2 (Original Versions of Famous Songs)
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ace Records UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 1/26/2010
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 029667039123

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As soon as volume one of You Heard It Here First hit the racks in 2008, the requests starting to pour in for both a second volume, and for specific original versions to be featured on said second volume. Ace hopes that the thousands who wanted more will enjoy this one as much as compilers Rob Finnis and Tony Rounce have done while putting it together.Here are another two dozen tracks that mostly went unheard and unheeded on release, only for someone else's second attempt to take them high into the Hot 100. Here are the original recordings of, or templates for, such iconic US hits as Hush, Cold Sweat, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, California Dreamin', Bend Me Shape Me and more, all as you have probably never heard them.The majority of these recordings are as good as, if not better than, the hit versions that followed in their wake. Many will be a revelation to those who bought and have long cherished those hit versions. At least half of them have never been reissued before, much less appeared on CD.Happily there is plenty more where these come from, and plans are already afoot for a third volume for 2011 release. All considerations for inclusion are currently being entertained.

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The source of the Nile
Jeffrey L. Giltenboth | Asheville, NC, USA | 04/03/2010
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Not as good as the first. Some I was already familiar with: Billy Joe Royal, Johnny Kidd, Dells, Sir Mack Rice, McCoys, Neil, Great Society, Don & Dewey and Berry. Liked them already. A few of the remaining songs are good but a lot of them are blah. It's not going to hurt if you buy this but if you don't have Volume One and you're debating between them, go for the first.

As is my custom, I never read other reviews until I write mine. I see that the other 2 feel pretty much the same. I guess we're right."
ACE SCRAPING THE BOTTOM
Syd | Chicago | 03/24/2010
(1 out of 5 stars)

"I managed to listen to samples on another site. Boy, best to keep the samples off this one. I really liked the first volume, but c'mon now, there is no shortage of original versions that they have to resort to this: Ace, you could have done a bunch for the 70s. Examples:



Gypsy Woman (orig: Impressions /later: Brian Hyland) / Rockin Pneumonia and Boogie Flu ( Orig: ? / Johnny Rivers) / Who Do You Really Think That You Are ( orig: Candlewick Green / later: Bo Donaldson) Mocking Bird ( Orig:? / Later James Taylor Carley Simon) / Billy Don't Be Hero (Orig: Paper Lace / later: Bo Donaldson) / Mr Big Stuff (orig:? / later Jean Knight) /Right Place Wrong Time (org? / later Dr. John) Blinded By the Light (org: Springsteen / later: Manfred Mann) Mama Told Me Not to Come (Randy Newman or Eric Burdon(really!) /later: 3 Dog Night) You're 16(orig:? / later: Ringo Starr / Locomotion (org: Little Eva / later: Grand Funk) Get Ready (org: Temptations / later: Rare Earth) Going to a GoGo (org: Miracles later: Stones) / 10 Inch Record (org:? / later: Aerosmith)...if I think of anymore, I'll added `em.....



Hush was good, and Somebody to Love, that's about it.... could not get California Dreaming, but I feel I am not missing much...."
Exactly what the title implies...
Marc Wielage | Northridge, CA USA | 03/23/2010
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Note there's no real hits here -- just obscurities and early versions of songs that later became hits for other artists. Some are illuminating; some should've been hits on their own; and others deserved to be in the shadow of the better versions that followed.



Here's a track list from Ace Records' site:



01 HUSH - Billy Joe Royal

02 LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE - The Four Preps

03 SHAKIN' ALL OVER - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

04 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' - Barry McGuire

05 IO CHE NON VIVO (SENZA TE) - Pino Donaggio

06 HIGHER AND HIGHER - The Dells

07 I DON'T CARE - James Brown

08 YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES - Bobby Parker

09 OLD MAN WILLIS - Tony Joe White

10 I'M YOUR PUPPET - Dan Penn

11 MUSTANG SALLY - Sir Mack Rice

12 MBUBE - Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds

13 I GOT MY MIND SET ON YOU PARTS 1 & 2 - James Ray

14 SORROW - The McCoys

15 CANDIDA - The Corporation

16 SEALED WITH A KISS- The Four Voices

17 EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' - Fred Neil

18 BEND ME SHAPE ME - The Outsiders

19 SING IN THE SUNSHINE - Hoyt Axton

20 SOMEONE TO LOVE - The Great Society

21 THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE - Don Cherry

22 DIFFERENT DRUM - The Greenbriar Boys

23 LEAVIN' IT ALL IT UP TO YOU - Don & Dewey

24 COME ON - Chuck Berry"