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Various Artists - Beat At Abbey Road 1963 To 1965 (1997)

Track listing:
  1. Love Of The Loved - Cilla Black 2:03
  2. I'm In Love - The Fourmost 2:10
  3. Cruel Sea - The Dakotas 2:16
  4. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody - Freddie & The Dreamers 2:02
  5. Roll Over Beethoven - Pat Wayne & The Beachcombers 2:59
  6. The Answer Is No - Keith Powell & The Valets 2:29
  7. Please Mr Postman - Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders 2:33
  8. Shake, Shake, Shake - Tony Rivers & The Castaways 1:54
  9. 5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann 1:59
  10. Bad Time - The Roulettes 2:38
  11. Come On Back - The Hollies 2:13
  12. You're No Good - The Swinging Blue Jeans 2:17
  13. I Should Have Known Better - The Naturals 2:12
  14. She's My Girl - Bobby Shafto 2:01
  15. When You Walked In The Room - Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas 2:48
  16. Look At Me - The Whirlwinds 1:56
  17. I'm The One Who Loves You - The Paramounts 2:09
  18. Things Will Never Be The Same - Four Just Men 1:49
  19. What A Sweet Thing That Was - Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders 2:31
  20. I'll Wait For You - Gerry & The Pacemakers 2:12
  21. I Gotta Woman - The Black Nights 1:58
  22. I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys - The Toggery Five 2:32
  23. Blue Ribbons - The Paramounts 2:23
  24. Tired Of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared Of Dying - Manfred Mann 2:52
  25. The Name Game - Dean Ford & The Gaylords 2:22
  26. Candy To Me - Martin Raynor & The Secrets 2:11
  27. Break-A-Way - Beryl Marsden 2:44
  28. The Day Will Come - Rod Stewart 2:45

Notes

AMG Review
by Bruce Eder

As a collection of mid-'60s EMI British beat tracks, this 28-song CD is above average, touching on several superb tracks that have been ignored by similar Rhino and See For Miles releases. Naturally, there are no Beatles cuts on here, but the disc opens conservatively enough with a Cilla Black version of an orphaned Lennon/McCartney song, "Love of the Loved," and then steps into slightly less familiar territory with the Fourmost's rendition of the pair's "I'm in Love." From there, it gets a lot more interesting. The Dakotas (sans Billy J. Kramer) show themselves to be a first-rate, hard-rocking instrumental outfit on "The Cruel Sea," which showcases original lead guitarist Mike Maxfield. Jimmy Page's lead guitar is the focal point of a killer cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" by Birmingham's Pat Wayne & the Beachcombers, who eventually evolved into Keith Powell & the Valets, who left behind the sweetly sung ballad "The Answer Is No" (also featured here). Among the other fair-to-middling finds here is the Toggery Five's "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys," a surprisingly lyrical piece of pop fluff by Andrew Loog Oldham and Keith Richards. Manfred Mann's seldom-heard "Tired of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared of Dying" is one of the fiercer rock & roll numbers left behind by this most musically articulate of British beat bands, with a raucous performance all around (especially by soon-to-depart guitarist Mike Vickers). Beryl Marsden represents the fairer sex on this compilation with a lung-searing performance of "Break-A-Way" that's one of the most exciting records of its period. Her future Shotgun Express stablemate Rod Stewart closes this jewel of a disc with "The Day Will Come," an oddball 1965 single whose majestic orchestral backing suggests that evidently someone was thinking of Stewart as a potential rival to Tom Jones.

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