CD Details
- Released: March 19, 1996
- Label: Scamp
Tracks:
- 1.Let's Have a Wonderful Time
- 2.Rock-a-Billy-Boogie
- 3.Zip Zip
- 4.Three Little Fishes - (U.S. version)
- 5.Every Which Way
- 6.You've Gotta Way
- 7.Big Guitar
- 8.Rodeo
- 9.Pancho
- 10.Hideaway
- 11.Farrago
- 12.Bees Knees
- 13.When the Saints Go Marchin' In
- 14.Pancho
- 15.Long John
- 16.Snap 'N' Whistle
- 17.Little John
- 18.For Pete's Sake
- 19.Bees Knees
- 20.Little John
- 21.Rebel Rouser
- 22.Mab Mab
- 23.Good Rockin' Tonight
- 24.Twelfth Street Rag
- 25.Christella
- 26.Beat Girl (Main Title)
- 27.Hit & Miss
- 28.Rockin' Already
- 29.Beat For Beatniks - (stereo)
- 30.Big Fella - (stereo)
- 31.Blueberry Hill
- 32.Never Let Go
- 33.Walk Don't Run - (stereo)
- 34.I'm Movin' On - (stereo)
- 35.Saturday's Child
- 36.Black Stockings - (stereo)
- 37.Get Lost Jack Frost - (stereo)
Product Description:
Personnel includes: John Barry, John Barry Seven.
Includes liner notes by David Toop.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Contains 37 tracks.
Audio Remasterers: Ronn Hill; Vic Lanza.
Liner Note Author: David Toop.
Recording information: 10/04/1957-11/11/1960.
Arranger: John Barry .
Although he's better known as a great film composers, John Barry began his career leading a (sort of) rock band at the epicenter of the pre-Beatles British music scene. This collection of his early work is all over the map stylistically; essentially, Barry was emulating what ever was in the charts at the time, hoping for a hit.
The early stuff here is lame but enjoyable--early rock a la Bill Haley and the Comets. There's also lounge jazz, ragtime, and straight covers of the Ventures and Duane Eddy. Toward the end of the album, however, you can hear Barry groping his way to his own sound, with a rather unique instrumental blend of twangy guitar and pizzicato strings that anticipates some of his later film work, particularly in the James Bond series. A fascinating period piece.
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