Joe Meek The Exceptional Joe Meek (CD)

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(1994/Oxford) 33 tracks (75:03) with 12 page booklet. more

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Joe Meek: The Exceptional Joe Meek (CD)

(1994/Oxford) 33 tracks (75:03) with 12 page booklet.

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Album titlle: The Exceptional Joe Meek (CD)
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EAN: 5014130130426
weight in Kg 0.107

Meek, Joe - The Exceptional Joe Meek (CD) CD 1
01	There's Lots More Where This Came From	SANDS, Wes
02	Shut Up	CAVELL, Andy
03	Saturday Dance	GODDARD, Geoff
04	Since You Went Away	TEMPLE, Gerry
05	Try Once More	GODDARD, Geoff
06	For Loving Me This Way	ROBERTS, Kim
07	I Was A Fool	JONES, Tom
08	Lonely Week-End	DEXTER, Ray
09	I'll Prove It	ROBERTS, Kim
10	My Little Girl's Come Home	GODDARD, Geoff
11	Lonely Joe	JONES, Tom
12	Lonely Soldier Boy	CAVELL, Andy
13	The Bogey Man	MOONTREKKERS
14	Reindeer Ride	LAVERN, Roger & THE MICRONS
15	Anyone Can Lose A Heart	GARFIELD, Johnny
16	Hey There, Senorita	CAVELL, Andy
17	Moonlight Rendezvous	CHARLES, Don
18	There Was A Time	VICTOR, Tony
19	Lucky Star	CHARLES, Don
20	Walk With Me My Angel	GODDARD, Geoff
21	Tomorrow I'll Be Gone	MORGAN, Davy
22	Girl Bride	GODDARD, Geoff
23	A Girl Called Bonnie	DELAMERE, Gary
24	Christmas Stocking	LAVERN, Roger & THE MICRONS
25	Guess That's The Way It Goes	CHARLES, Don
26	For Eternity	GODDARD, Geoff
27	That's What We'll All Do	JONES, Tom
28	Ain't Got Much More To See	MORGAN, Davy
29	Come Back To Me	GODDARD, Geoff
30	Don't You Make My Baby Cry	EVANSTON, Percy
31	Paper Boat	MEEK, Joe
32	My Love Was Meant For You	DOUGLAS, Mark
33	My Friend Bobby	GODDARD, Geoff

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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