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Though the Action never had a chart hit nor scaled the heights of fame like its mid-1960s British Invasion contemporaries, the group remains well-respected as one of the quintessential mod/U.K. R&B bands. THE ULTIMATE ACTION makes a good case for the justness of this assessment by collecting the best of the Action's eminently soulful singles in one convenient package. Though vocalist Reg King and crew were never as bombastic as the Who, as threatening as the Rolling Stones, or as tough-sounding as the Small Faces, the Action were groovier than all three and perhaps closest to the spirit of the American black music they so admired. Produced by George Martin, on tracks like "In My Lonely Room" and "I Love You (Yeah)" the group also had a Beatles/Miracles-esque flair for vocal harmony which softened the teenage angst and lent the music a good-time vibe.
UK compilation for one of the best Mod band's on the 60's scene. Endorsed by Paul Weller who also provides a sleeve note and Phil Collins who called them, 'My all time favorite band...the band that had the most effect on me.'. Issued in cooperation with the band it includes all their recordings as The Action, recorded from 1965-1967 in chronological order (of recording). Packaging features many photos and memorabilia from the archives of the group. Standard jewelcase. 2001 release.
Includes liner notes by Paul Weller.
Personnel: Reg King (vocals); Pete Watson , Alan "Bam" King (guitar); Roger Powell (drums).
Liner Note Author: Alan Robinson.Mojo (Publisher) (5/01, p.122) - "...Their sound is a potpourri of Northern soul, Byrds Rickenbacker guitar, King's stirring vocals, strong Mod originals and some terrific reworkings of Motown classics....emoting as soulfully as any impovershed Yank..." Action Packed Songs | 1. | Land of 1000 Dances |
| 2. | In My Lonely Room |
| 3. | Harlem Shuffle |
| 4. | I Love You (Yeah) |
| 5. | I'll Keep on Holding On |
| 6. | Hey Sha-Lo-Ney |
| 7. | Just Once in My Life |
| 8. | Wasn't It You? |
| 9. | Baby You've Got It |
| 10. | Since I Lost My Baby |
| 11. | Never Ever |
| 12. | Twenty-Fourth Hour |
| 13. | Place, The |
| 14. | Come on, Come With Me |
| 15. | Cissy, The |
| 16. | Something Has Hit Me |
| 17. | Shadows and Reflections |
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Mary Martin went back and forth between the West Coast world of movie entertainment and the East Coast world of the legitimate stage several times before finally settling in New York in the mid-'40s to be a major Broadway star for the next two decades. This ping-ponging is alluded to in simplified form in the title of Jasmine Records' Martin compilation, Broadway to Hollywood -- and Back. (Actually, she started in Hollywood, but never mind.) The two-and-a-half-hour, 52-track, two-CD set is easily the most extensive collection of Martin's recordings ever released, and yet it is still incomplete. Annotator and compiler Geoff Milne coyly states, "Regrettably, no songs from The Sound of Music or I Do! I Do! were available for inclusion in the set." This is a conceit. Jasmine, like several other European record labels, patiently waits out the 50-year copyright limit on recordings in that territory and then assembles unlicensed discs like this one without paying the original issuing labels a penny for the use of the material. (In the U.S., the same tracks remain under copyright.) As such, this 2006 release could utilize Martin recordings made only up to 1955, and that let out such later musicals as The Sound of Music (1959) and I Do! I Do! (1966). But Milne has put together a fairly comprehensive collection of what was available to him, raiding the racks of 78s and LPs originally put out by Brunswick, Decca, Columbia, and RCA Victor Records as well as excerpts from the actual soundtracks of several films in which Martin appeared and one aircheck from the Kraft Music Hall radio series, on which she was a regular in 1942. He has employed distinctly different organizing ideas for the two discs. Disc one presents recordings of songs Martin sang in musicals and movies between 1938 and 1954, in chronological order from her first studio recording of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," the song that made her name in her Broadway debut, Leave It to Me!, to cast recordings from Peter Pan, including some rare (and sonically dodgy) movie songs and infrequently heard numbers from the West End-only Noël Coward musical Pacific 1860. Concurrently with her stage and film work, Martin also frequently entered recording studios to make records of other material, and for the second disc, Milne makes use of these tracks. Naturally, Martin frequently was called upon to sing show tunes; in fact, she made four studio-cast albums of musicals of the '30s in ...
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