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Joe Meek: Telstar - The Hits Of Joe Meek (2-CD)

(2006/CASTLE) 36 original tracks

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Album titlle: Telstar - The Hits Of Joe Meek (2-CD)
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EAN: 5016073065124
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Meek, Joe - Telstar - The Hits Of Joe Meek (2-CD) CD 1
01	Johnny Remember Me	LEYTON, John
02	Be Mine	FORTUNE, Lance
03	Just Like Eddie	HEINZ
04	Walkin' With My Angel	STARR, Lee & THE ASTRALS
05	Bouzoukis	ATHENIANS
06	Globetrotter	TORNADOS
07	What's News Pussycat	CRYING SHAMES
08	Can't You Hear The Beat Of A Broken Heart	GREGORY, Ian
09	Lonely City	LEYTON, John
10	Mr. Blue	MacBETH, David
11	The Garden Of Eden	MILLER, Gary
12	Lover Return	PETE & THE BOULEVARDS
13	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	HEINZ & THE WILD BOYS
14	The Ice Cream Man	TORNADOS
15	Please Stay	CRYING SHAMES
16	The Next Train Out Of Town	MILLER, Betty
17	What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For	FORD, Emile & THE CHECKMATES
18	Tribute To Buddy Holly	BERRY, Mike & THE OUTLAWS
19	CD-2	Joe Meek
20	Telstar	TORNADOS
21	Son This Is She	LEYTON, John
22	Don't You Think It's Time	BERRY, Mike & THE OUTLAWS
23	September In The Rain	PAUL & RITCHIE
24	Time Will Tell	GREGORY, Ian
25	Diggin' My Potatoes	HEINZ & THE WILD BOYS
26	You're My Girl	PETE & THE BOULEVARDS
27	The Story Of My Life	MILLER, Gary
28	This Love I Have For You	FORTUNE, Lance
29	Robot	TORNADOS
30	Wild Wind	LEYTON, John
31	Nobody Waved Goodbye	CRYING SHAMES
32	Questions I Can't Answer	HEINZ
33	What'cha Gonna Do Baby	EDDY, Jason & THE CENTREMEN
34	I Take It We're Through	RIOT SQUAD
35	Little Baby	BLUE RONDOS
36	Cumberland Gap	DONEGAN, Lonnie
37	How Will It End?	LEYTON, John

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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