Live At Rockpalast - Chris Farlowe

Advantages: Great selection of tracks.
Disadvantages: Its not long enough.

...' All Over - Kidd, Johnny & The Pirates 3. Go Now - Moody Blues 4. Elenore - Turtles 5. Catch The Wind - Donovan 6. Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - West, Keith 7. If Paradise Is Half As Nice - Amen Corner 8. Honey - Goldsboro, Bobby 9. Fun Fun Fun - Beach Boys 10. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Beck, Jeff 11. On The Road Again - Canned Heat 12. Where Do You Got To My Lovely - Sarstedt, Peter 13. He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother) - Hollies 14. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces 15. Let's Go To San Francisco - Flower Pot Men 16. First Cut Is The Deepest - Arnold, P.P. 17. Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Status Quo 18. Sweets For My Sweet - Searchers CD Two 19. America - Nice 20. Out Of Time - Farlowe, Chris 21. Wonderful Land - Shadows 22. Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes 23. Three Steps To Heaven - Cochran, Eddie 24. I'm Alive... Read review

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Advantages: Great British Pop Soul
Disadvantages: Criminally Overlooked

...Paul Weller loves them and Phil Collins wanted to join them, but The Action remain one of the hidden gems of the 60's Mod scene. In fact, they were the REAL Mod favourites. Their choice of soul covers and well produced originals had Mods flocking from far and wide to see them. At the time, real mods were heading to clubs like The Flamingo to listen to authentic blues and R&B, played by authentic blues and R&B players. A small contingent of British acts were learning their craft from the originals, and combining the American sound with the sound of swining London. Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, The Animals, Them and Chris Farlowe all had their share of the limelight. Listening to this album, it's difficult to understand why they weren't huge! in Reggie King, they had a singer to rival the pure soul power of Steve Marriott, and they were... Read review

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Advantages: Some good tracks
Disadvantages: See text re comments on packaging, and also for likelihood of its being superseded

...;Eleanor Rigby’, except in their case the string quartet is replaced by classical-type guitar, harpsichord and hammered dulcimer, and it’s really rather lovely. Baroque, I think critics labelled it at the time. If you remove the vocals, the backing track could have doubled quite neatly as a theme for a Tudor costume drama on TV. ‘Out Of Time’ is the song they produced and gave away to Chris Farlowe, who took his version to No. 1 in the summer of 1966. Here, the Stones replaced strings with what sounds like a xylophone. I feel Mick doesn’t really put heart and soul into this one; it comes across more like a music publisher’s demo, or else a rushed job. [Another version appeared on a long-since deleted 1975 compilation ‘Metamorphosis’, which has Mick singing to the backing track used by Chris... Read review

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