This CD combines both of the Hullaballoos' albums onto one CD, handily summarizing this British Invasion footnote in one place (and just 51 minutes, although it contains 24 songs). The group plays like a cross between the Searchers and Gerry & the Pacemakers on amphetamines on most of their self-titled album, which includes both "I'm Gonna Love You Too" and "Did You Ever." Enjoyable despite itself, and "I'll Show You How to Love" is actually a pretty and tuneful beat ballad worthy of a more skilled group. Their second LP stuck to much the same format as their first. A few Buddy Holly covers were stuck amidst new songs, supplied to the band, that aimed to combine Buddy Holly with the Merseybeat sound, in a simple and exploitative way. Like the debut, it's not bad in spite of all that, though the material is a little weaker this time around. "I Won't Turn Away Now" is about the best of the batch, with something of a melodramatic New York pop influence in the songwriting; it wouldn't be too hard to imagine the Shangri-Las doing it with a totally different arrangement, for instance. ~ Richie Unterberger
Originally released on Roulette.
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De Ja Vu the music of the 60's. the british invasion. those days whenc the changing of the guard, meant the english ruled music in them era. this group though shortly lived where a good sound and up beat group. this many sounds at this price was a steal. so i close my eyes and listen and it takes me back, over 45 years ago when peace signs meant something.. long live rock. THANKS for British Invasion Submitted by roymarias (CARTERET, N.J. USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
I knew these guys I traveled with the band when they did a tour in the US. Havn't seen or heard from them since I took them to the airport in Minneapolis, Mn. this would have been in 1965. Submitted by dennisknapp (Yuma, AZ. USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Unbelievable It was a greate band on 60's. Submitted by nop (São Paulo, SP, Brazil) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
$11.65 While The Ark contained nothing quite as elaborate as "The Progress Suite" that had taken up one whole side of Of Cabbages and Kings, it was another psychedelic mishmash of styles -- Indian one minute, musichall the next -- of a kind so many popular performers had been indulging in at the time in hopes of making the next Sgt. Pepper. The difference was that most of Chad & Jeremy's peers had gotten it out of their systems the year before. But C&J were upper-class types who took naturally to the pretensions of the form -- they thought they were making Art. Their listeners thought differently: The Ark missed the charts, and Chad & Jeremy broke up. ~ William Ruhlmann
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$12.35 I Don't Want to Lose You Baby was Chad & Jeremy's fourth new album to be released within 14 months, which may help to explain the thinness of the material. Van McCoy contributed another Top 40 hit in the somewhat ...
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