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Following on from the blazing live set that was his debut, Georgie Fame's first studio album is one of those discs to which only one appellation can truly be applied -- it's dangerous. A blistering romp through Fame & His Blue Flames' live repertoire of the day, fast and loose and driving, it captures one of Britain's best-ever R&B troupes stepping so far beyond the customary precepts of the Beat Boom that, if you were to come to this record without knowing who it was, there's no way you'd ever guess a bunch of (predominantly) Londoners were responsible. To pull out any highlights is to indicate that there are any corresponding low-lights -- there aren't. But a "Green Onions" so sweet that you can taste it captures the group in full flame, while Willie Dixon's "I Love the Life I Live" has rarely sounded so supreme. Even the closing "I'm in the Mood for Love" -- not a song one normally associates with heads-down blues boogie -- is granted a cigarettes'n'alcohol ambience that could choke any passing puritan, and the whole disc adds up to one of the all-time great albums of its, or any other, R&B-blessed era.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Titus Turner, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Teddy Randazzo, ComposerLyricist - Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Robert Weinstein, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame, MainArtist - Billy Barberis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Curtis Mayfield, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Jimmy McGriff, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Jon Hendricks, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Leo McCarey, ComposerLyricist - Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Harry Warren, ComposerLyricist - Harold Adamson, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Bell, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Marvin Gaye, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Al Jackson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Booker T. Jones, ComposerLyricist - Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Steve Cropper, ComposerLyricist - Lewie Steinberg, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1965 Universal International Music B.V.
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - WILLIE DIXON, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 The Robert Stigwood Organisation Limited
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Earl King, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - RICHARD BARRETT, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Reggie Obrecht, ComposerLyricist - Fred Jay, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Ian Samwell, Producer - Cecil Campbell, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 The Robert Stigwood Organisation Limited
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - Rupert Bopape, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Ian Ralph Samwell, Producer - MORRIS, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame, MainArtist
℗ 1964 The Robert Stigwood Organisation Limited
Joe Josea, ComposerLyricist - Ian Samwell, Producer - Jules Taub, ComposerLyricist - Sam Ling, ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Jon Hendricks, ComposerLyricist - Tony Palmer, Producer - Rodgers Lee Grant, ComposerLyricist - Patrick Laudrine Jr., ComposerLyricist - Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames, MainArtist
℗ 1964 Universal International Music B.V.
Ian Samwell, Producer - Georgie Fame, MainArtist - John Burch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Album review
Following on from the blazing live set that was his debut, Georgie Fame's first studio album is one of those discs to which only one appellation can truly be applied -- it's dangerous. A blistering romp through Fame & His Blue Flames' live repertoire of the day, fast and loose and driving, it captures one of Britain's best-ever R&B troupes stepping so far beyond the customary precepts of the Beat Boom that, if you were to come to this record without knowing who it was, there's no way you'd ever guess a bunch of (predominantly) Londoners were responsible. To pull out any highlights is to indicate that there are any corresponding low-lights -- there aren't. But a "Green Onions" so sweet that you can taste it captures the group in full flame, while Willie Dixon's "I Love the Life I Live" has rarely sounded so supreme. Even the closing "I'm in the Mood for Love" -- not a song one normally associates with heads-down blues boogie -- is granted a cigarettes'n'alcohol ambience that could choke any passing puritan, and the whole disc adds up to one of the all-time great albums of its, or any other, R&B-blessed era.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:18
- Main artists: Georgie Fame
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Jazz
© 1965 Polydor Ltd. (UK) This Compilation ℗ 1965 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
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