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Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings

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Download links and information about Crazy Mixed-Up Kid: The Complete Pye/Piccadilly Recordings by Joe Brown. This album was released in 2007 and it belongs to Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop genres. It contains 82 tracks with total duration of 03:04:30 minutes.

Artist: Joe Brown
Release date: 2007
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Tracks: 82
Duration: 03:04:30
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No. Title Length
1. Shine 1:57
2. The Switch 2:04
3. Crazy Mixed-Up Kid 1:59
4. Stick Around 2:22
5. I'm Henry the Eighth I Am (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:55
6. Good Luck and Goodbye 2:23
7. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:43
8. Popcorn (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:13
9. A Picture of You (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:19
10. A Layabout's Lament (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:25
11. Lonely Island Pearl (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:58
12. Talking Guitar (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:52
13. The Surrey With the Fringe On Top 2:26
14. English Country Garden (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:01
15. Put On a Happy Face 1:36
16. Your Tender Look (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:11
17. The Other Side of Town (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:20
18. It Only Took a Minute (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:56
19. All Things Bright and Beautiful (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:51
20. That's What Love Will Do (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:23
21. Hava Nagila (The Hora) (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:07
22. What's the Name of the Game (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:32
23. Let Her Go 2:01
24. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 2:25
25. Whistle My Love 2:13
26. Nature's Time for Love 2:02
27. The Spanish Bit (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:07
28. Sally Ann (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:54
29. There's Only One of You (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:33
30. Little Ukelele 2:41
31. Hercules Unchained (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:34
32. Moonglow 1:01
33. Walkin' Tall (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:27
34. St. Louis Blues 2:31
35. The Holly and the Ivy (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:21
36. Silent Night 2:10
37. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:04
38. You Do Things to Me (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:34
39. Everybody Calls Me Joe (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:40
40. Don't 2:04
41. Just Like That (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:17
42. Teardrops In the Rain (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:12
43. Lonely Circus (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:38
44. Sicilian Tarantella 1:51
45. Thinkin' That I Love You 2:35
46. Charlie Girl 2:15
47. My Favourite Occupation (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:36
48. Sea of Heartbreak (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:46
49. Mrs. O's Theme 2:07
50. A Little Ray of Sunshine (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 3:00
51. Your Loving Touch 2:14
52. A Satisfied Mind (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:53
53. Stay a Little While 2:46
54. Th' Wife 2:22
55. The Rich Man's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:22
56. With a Little Help from My Friends (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:33
57. Show Me Around 1:55
58. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live) 3:39
59. Some of These Days (Live) 2:10
60. Girls Girls Girls (Live) 2:18
61. El Relicario (Live) 2:17
62. Old Apache Squaw (Live) 1:57
63. Castin' My Spell (Live) (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:13
64. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Live) (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:17
65. Alley Oop (Live) 2:35
66. Hava Nagila (The Hora) [Live] (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:52
67. The Sheik of Araby (Live) 2:59
68. You Can't Lie to a Liar (Live) 2:01
69. Sweet Little Sixteen (Live) (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 2:59
70. What a Crazy World We're Livin' In (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Marty Wilde) 2:28
71. A Layabout's Lament (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Marty Wilde) 2:53
72. I Sure Know a Lot About Love (Film Soundtrack) 1:29
73. Bruvvers (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Michael Goodman, Grazina Frame) 1:42
74. Oh, What a Family (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Marty Wilde) 2:00
75. Alfred Hitchins (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Susan Maughan) 2:25
76. Sally Ann (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Joe Brown And The Bruvvers) 1:54
77. Wasn't It a Handsome Punch Up (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Marty Wilde) 1:22
78. Please Give Me a Chance (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Susan Maughan) 3:45
79. Independence (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Marty Wilde, The Bruvvers) 2:14
80. I Feel the Same Way Too (Film Soundtrack) (featuring Susan Maughan) 2:27
81. Just You Wait and See (Film Soundtrack) 2:49
82. Medley: Things We Never Had / What a Crazy World We're Living In (Reprise) [Film Soundtrack] (featuring Harry H Corbett) 2:28

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There were extensive compilations of Joe Brown's early output prior to this release, but this three-CD, 82-track box is certainly the biggest one likely to be produced. Everything he released on the Pye and Piccadilly labels between 1961 and 1967 is here, including not only everything from his singles, EPs, and LPs, but also the entirety of the obscure 1964 soundtrack album What a Crazy World (on which Brown sang or co-sang the majority, but not all, of the numbers). As with any such retrospective of an artist whose output was uneven and whose significance wasn't monumental, such completeness of packaging is a mixed blessing. Brown was at his best when he leaned toward a mild country-rockabilly-influenced rock & roll sound, and on the best tracks — "A Picture of You," "Your Tender Look," "Sally Ann," "Everybody Calls Me Joe," "You Can't Lie to a Liar" — you can hear why he was admired by early-'60s British rock & roll fans and musicians, including George Harrison (who sang on a couple of Brown covers the Beatles played live in the early '60s, "A Picture of You" and "What a Crazy World We're Living In"). The problem is, you also get an abundance — some would say an excess — of vaudevillian tunes playing up Brown's Cockneyism, at times sounding like a somewhat more rock-oriented take on the most music hall-ish side of Lonnie Donegan's repertoire. There are also quite a few slight early-'60s pop/rock songs and ballads, along with standards and instrumentals (and even a faithful 1967 cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends," which made the British Top 40) that testified to his versatility, but often don't make for very satisfying listening. The music hall-like cuts in particular won't translate well to the relatively few American listeners likely to seek out Brown reissues (and it's virtually impossible to imagine how the Beatles would have performed "What a Crazy World We're Living In" on-stage), though "I'm Henery the Eighth I Am" at least demonstrates that Herman's Hermits weren't the first British rockers to come up with the idea of updating that song. The What a Crazy World soundtrack material is only of interest to rabid completists, being far more oriented toward dippy theatrical musical fare than rock & roll, and it should be noted that Brown doesn't even sing on a few of those tracks. If you want to get even pickier, if this box were to be a truly complete survey of Brown's early output, it should have licensed the six tracks he issued on three 1959-1960 Decca singles, as a prior anthology (Sequel's two-CD The Joe Brown Story) did. A much more selective and shorter Brown anthology, then, is advised for listeners who want to focus on only the most noteworthy records he cut. For those who want to immerse themselves in virtually all of Brown's early material, however, it's well-packaged, with detailed historical liner notes.