Joe Meek Freakbeat - You're Holding Me Down (CD)

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Joe Meek: Freakbeat - You're Holding Me Down (CD)

(2006/CASTLE) 30 tracks Freakbeat, Mod and R&B nuggets 1964-66

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Album titlle: Freakbeat - You're Holding Me Down (CD)
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Meek, Joe - Freakbeat - You're Holding Me Down (CD) CD 1
01	You're Holding Me Down	BUZZ
02	Come On Back	PAUL & RITCHIE & THE CRYIN S.
03	Baby I Go For You	BLUE RONDOS
04	Crawdaddy Simone	SYNDICATS
05	She Comforts My Sorrow	BYSTANDERS
06	Love gone Again	BIRDS OF PREY
07	Little Baby	BLUE RONDOS
08	I Love To See You Strut	JOHN, David & THE MOOD
09	What'cha Gonna Do Baby	EDDIE, Jason & THE CENTREMEN
10	It Ain't Right	SAXONS
11	Let Me In	CRYIN' SHAMES
12	I Take It That We're Through	RIOT SQUAD
13	Diggin' For Gold	JOHN, David & THE MOOD
14	Summer Without Sun	CHARLES KINGSLEY CREATION
15	Walking On Ice	RIOT SQUAD
16	Big Fat Spider	HEINZ & THE WILD BOYS
17	Come On Baby	EDDIE, Jason & THE CENTREMEN
18	What's News, Pussycat	CRYIN' SHAMES
19	What Can I Do	BLUE RONDOS
20	City Lights	BIRDS OF PREY
21	No More You And Me	TORNADOS '66
22	Too Far Out	IMPAC
23	Shake With Me	PUPPETS
24	Leave My Kitten Alone	SYNDICATS
25	Bluebirds Over The Mountain	JOEY, Shade & THE NIGHT OWLS
26	Bring It To Jerome	JOHN, David & THE MOOD
27	I Gotta Buzz	BUZZ
28	I Don't Love Her No More	HOTRODS
29	I'm Not A Bad Guy	HEINZ & THE WILD BOYS
30	Singing The Blues	EDDIE, Jason

Joe Meek Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio... more

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"Joe Meek"

Joe Meek

Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio technician in the early Fifties. In 1953, he came out and went to work as an engineer at the IBC studio, at that time one of only two independent studios in London. There he engineered records by Frankie Vaughan (`Green Door'), Denis Lotis, Lita Roza, Shirley Bassey, Anne Shelton, Harry Secombe and Petula Clark. In 1956, Meek went to work for Denis Preston at Lans-downe Studios, where he was engineer on several of Lonnie Donegan's early hits, including 'Cumberland Gap' and `Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' as well as trad jazz records by Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber. He also began dabbling in songwriting and in 1958 wrote Tommy Steele's Tut A Ring On Her Finger'.

Leaving Lansdowne in 1960, Meek built his own studio in a flat above a shop in Holloway, North London, equipping it with £3,000 worth of second-hand equipment. He called it RGM Sound and simultaneously activated his own label, Triumph, going against all odds at a time when British pop was monopolized by the three major labels.

A cover version of an American hit, 'Angela Jones' by Michael Cox, reached the Top Ten in June, 1960 but none of Triumph's other releases were successful and Meek discontinued the label in favour of tape-lease deals with the majors. He scored the following year with John Leyton's eerie, futuristic 'Johnny Remember Me' and 'Wild Wind', Mike Berry's poignant `Tribute to Buddy Holly' and several smaller hits by the Outlaws (with Richie Blackmore) who backed many of Meek's artists on record.

In 1962, a combination of Meek's session musicians recor-ded an instrumental he wrote titled `Te!star', under the name of the Tornados, which proved his biggest selling hit, reach-ing No. 1 in both Britain and America. In production terms, it still remains far ahead of contemporary records. The Tor-nados followed up with several slightly less successful records including 'Robot', 'Globetrotter' and 'Ice Cream Man' be-fore being swamped in the ensuing Merseybeat craze. Never-theless, Meek scored early in 1963 with Mike Berry's 'Don't You Think It's Time' and in 1964 with the Honeycomb's `Have I The Right', but found the going hard in the mid-Sixties.

He had no hits in 1966 and faced with increasing anxiety through personal problems, blew his brains out with a shotgun on February 3, 1967.

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