GEORGIE FAME Sweet Thing Rare Orig UK 1966 Columbia Mono LP R&B Beat Psych Soul
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Georgie Fame
Sweet Things
Very Rare original UK LP released on Columbia Records in 1966. 1st UK Mono Pressing and coms in a laminated flipback sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - XAX 3068-1
Side Two - XAX 3069-1
Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames' third album very much follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, a punchy R&B stomper that could (even should) have been recorded live, so high is the energy, and so abandoned the backing of the Blue Flames. This is especially apparent on side two of the original vinyl, as the band all-but replicate the closing run of a hot and sweaty club gig, pounding through an electrifyingly note-perfect "My Girl," a rattling "The Whole World's Shaking" and a truly incredible version of "The In Crowd," all honking horns and smooth-flowing Hammond. Don Covay's "See Saw" is another jewel, but for sheer audacity, the highlight has to be calypso king Lord Kitchener's gleefully risqué "Dr Kitch," a percussively swaying romp that only grows more delightful as it becomes apparent that Fame himself is having trouble delivering the lyric straight-faced -- the story of a doctor attempting to administer an injection to a nervous young lady, after all, is so rife with double meaning that it is virtually a sex act in its own right.
Not quite up to the standard of the group's debut (which, of course, was recorded live), Sweet Thing is nevertheless one of the finest British R&B albums of the mid-'60s, and one of the last to illustrate just how many possibilities were still open to the U.K. scene at that time. The journey from soft soul to rude calypso, via every musical shade in between, was not one that many performers were willing to take, after all. Fame and co, on the other hand, make the journey in record time.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1 Sweet Thing
2 See Saw
3 Ride Your Pony
4 Funny How Time Slips Away
5 Sitting In The Park
6 Dr. Kitch
Side Two
1 My Girl
2 Music Talk
3 The In Crowd
4 The World Is Round
5 The Whole World's Shaking
6 Last Night
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Released on Columbia Records in 1966
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Catalogue Number SX 6043
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Record is in Ex + condition (some fine hairline surface marks from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Near Mint condition
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