[.ca] Get Away With: Very Best of

R & B/Jazz/Pop in it's finest hour. Love this guy.:
Georgie Fame is simply one of the best R & B/Pop vocalists and organists around anywhere. This is a superb collection of Georgie in action. I strongly recommend this CD to all lovers of great music. A strong 60's feel with a powerful driving organ. Grab this one quick.

Classic British cover versions of US R & B, and some originals:
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were one of a dozen or so bands who were nurtured at The Flamingo Club in London, in the late 1960s. At a time when American classic R & B (James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, early Ray Charles) was available only as expensive imports through a very few record stores, Flamingo artists introduced the music to British audiences. (Note that the Beatles had followed a similar path a few years earlier, introducing British listeners to Tamla-Motown, which also had been unavailable in the UK.) Even bands such as The Who included some R & B in their repertoire during this period; so did Rod Stewart (who appeared a few times at The Flamingo). But the R & B never really broke out of the club scene. Bands such as Zoot Money and Herbie Goins and the Night Timers remained obscure. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were the only Flamingo regulars who enjoyed any real national success, and they did it by diluting the R & B with a more pop-flavored product. Thus we have a strange crossbreed: British pop and American R & B that was already out of date when Georgie Fame started playing it. Personally I like the mix--but my nostalgia for that period (when I was a regular at the Flamingo) colors my judgment.

• Yeh Yeh
• Green Onions
• Let the Good Times Roll
• Sitting in the Park
• Funny How Time Slips Away
• Shop Around
• Baby Please Don't Go
• Get Away
• Eso Beso
• In the Meantime
• Sunny
• Ride Your Pony
• Night Train
• I Love the Life I Live