Joe Meek The Early Years Vol.5 - Various Artists (CD)

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(Sequel Records) 25 tracks 1956-1960 with 16 page fold-out booklet more

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Joe Meek: The Early Years Vol.5 - Various Artists (CD)

(Sequel Records) 25 tracks 1956-1960 with 16 page fold-out booklet

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Interpret: Joe Meek
Album titlle: The Early Years Vol.5 - Various Artists (CD)
Label CASTLE
Genre Rock'n'Roll
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EAN: 5023224088222
weight in Kg 0.1

Meek, Joe - The Early Years Vol.5 - Various Artists (CD) CD 1
01	Georgia's Got A Moon	MILLER, Betty
02	Robin Hood	MILLER, Gary
03	Cry Me A River	RYAN, Marion
04	Rhythm & Blues	WINSTONE, Eric & HIS ORCHESTRA
05	16 Tons	HOCKRIDGE, Edmund
06	Sugartree	LOTIS, Dennis
07	Garden Of Eden	MILLER, Gary
08	Love Is Strange	DONEGAN, Lonnie & SKIFFLE GROU
09	Bye Bye Love	FRASER, John
10	Freight Train	SEEGER, Peggy
11	Wild Eyes And Tender Lips	HICKS, Colin & HIS CABIN BOYS
12	Land Of Make Believe	DAVIS, Jackie & HIS QUARTET
13	The Story Of My Life	MILLER, Gary
14	Mule Skinner Blues	DONEGAN, Lonnie & SKIFFLE GROU
15	Cerveza	WAINER, Cherry
16	Weekend	PRICE, Red
17	Charlie Brown	ELLINGTON, Ray
18	Venus	VALATINE, Dickie
19	Yashmak	ARNEZ, Chico
20	Allentown Jail	ROZA, Lita
21	Hold Back Tomorrow	MIKI & GRIFF
22	What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For	FORD, Emile & CHECKMATES
23	Dear Daddy	CLARK, Petula
24	Mr.Blue	MACBETH, David
25	This Love I Have For You	FORTUNE, Lance

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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