ALAN PRICE : GEORDIE BOY - THE ANTHOLOGY

Disc One (78:32)

  1. Any Day Now (My Wild And Beautiful Bird)
  2. I Put A Spell On You
  3. Hi Lili Hi Lo
  4. Take Me Home
  5. Getting Mighty Crowded
  6. Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
  7. Tickle Me
  8. The House That Jack Built
  9. So Long Dad
  10. To Ramona
  11. Shame
  12. Don't Stop The Carnival
  13. Love Story
  14. The Trimdon Grange Explosion
  15. Sunshine And Rain (The Name Of The Game)
  16. Rosetta
  17. Yellow Man
  18. That's How Strong My Love Is
  19. O Lucky Man!
  20. Poor People
  21. jarrow Song
  22. Between Today And Yesterday
  23. In Times Like These
  24. Papers
  25. The Drinker's Curse

Disc Two (78:16)

  1. Changes
  2. Goodnight Irene
  3. Kiss The Night
  4. Glass Mountain
  5. I Know When I've Had Enough
  6. Shouts Across The Street
  7. I've Been Hurt
  8. Just For You
  9. I'm A Gambler
  10. England, My England
  11. Baby Of Mine
  12. Those Tender Lips
  13. House Of The Rising Sun
  14. I'm Coming Back
  15. Perfect Lady
  16. Over And Over
  17. Don't Slam That Door
  18. 50 Pence
  19. People Are Talking
  20. Boom Boom
  21. Some Change

Label : Castle Music

Released : 2002

Review (AllMusic) : A double-disc anthology of Alan Price? Better hope they've discovered how to cram more than 80 minutes of music on to a CD, then. Of all the artists currently crying out for the big box-set treatment, the former Animal is yowling louder than most. But, in the meantime, this 46-track collection will do nicely, as it swoops across Price's entire solo career, to scoop up every hit, every key album track, and even a couple of rarities, to paint the most vivid picture yet of the man's lengthy, and ever-changing career. From a strictly musical point of view, disc one is where the real meat lies, as it traces Price from his escape from the Animals in 1966, and on through the run of half-a-dozen U.K. hits that established him as the rocky side of the bubblegum pop movement - songs like "Don't Stop The Carnival" and "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" may be a long way from "Gonna Take You Back to Walker" and so forth, but they evince a driving beat and shout-a-long madness that wholly defied Price's growing reputation as a "family entertainer." His union with Georgie Fame is highlighted by another hit, "Rosetta," before we lurch into the 1970s, and what looked, at first, like a musical meltdown - little of what Price threw into the marketplace even dreamed of selling, a drought that peaked when his label of the day, Reprise, brusquely scrapped his 1973 album Savaloy Dip. But Price bounced back with his best-selling LP yet, 1974's Between Today and Yesterday," and scored his first solo hit in six years, the joyous semi-autobiography of "Jarrow Song." Since that time, and across disc two of this collection, hits have remained sporadic (just three more through the 1970s, one in 1988, and nothing since). But Price has continued recording and performing, and there are so many surprises leavened across the latter half of the Geordie Boy: Anthology that even the latter-day remakes of some early Animals numbers pass by without causing offence. And, until the powers that be do give him the full box, Geordie Boy will do very nicely indeed.