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| | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection | | | Music Artist : | | The Buckinghams | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | SBME SPECIAL MKTS. | | Release Date : | | 2008-02-01 | | Store Price : | | $6.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $6.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Kind of a Drag [Remix]
2. Lawdy Miss Clawdy [Remix]
3. I've Been Wrong Before
4. I'll Go Crazy [Remix]
5. I Call Your Name [Remix]
6. Makin' Up and Breakin' Up
7. Don't You Care
8. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
9. Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) [Remix]
10. Susan [Remix]
11. Back in Love Again [Remix]
12. You Misunderstand Me [#]
13. Where Did You Come From [#]
14. This Is How Much I Love You [Remix][#]
15. It's a Baeutiful Day (For Lovin') [#]
16. Difference of Opinion [#]
17. I Got a Feelin' [#]
18. You [Remix][#]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy + 1 Additional CD
Submitted on: 2009-11-20 |
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This is a much better package than the 1969 "Buckinghams Greatest Hits" Columbia put out with the atomic bomb blast in the background. Almost everything is here except "Foreign Policy"-which some people poo poo but was actually a great sound piece. The liner notes and pix are done very well-and kudos for so many tracks from their first USA album. It's in stereo because these are album tracks. For an earlier reviewer, there is a collection of Buck's singles in mono on cd.
For me, the best thing about this package are the unreleased cuts from their last
days in the studio. I had a vinyl copy of "In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow" which contained the last hit "Back In Love Again". I wasn't too impressed with the album as a whole as it appears James William Guerico had a better vision for the band's sound including the horns than the producer assigned for their last recording. Marty Grebb replaced Holvay as group composer and "You Misunderstand Me" is a great song-which could have been a hit if it were handled right. It appears that Columbia was looking for more progressive groups at the time-i.e. B,S & T and Chicago -as the pop scene was changing to the rock scene. The Bucks were not a festival band and fell into hard times. Columbia should be ashamed of themselves for abandoning this great and talented group, esp. since it helped them sell so much vinyl in '67-'68.
This is a great package. However, for the completists out there-you need to find a copy of Sundazed's "In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow" album as it contains 2 previously unreleased tracks that are not on MMM. Sundazed has included some great liner notes and pix-and the final chapter in detail of the group. The sound is great-and in the twilight of the 60's Buck's,you hear a half dozen cuts that indicate a group recovering and adapting it's sound to the winds blowing in the rock community at the end of the 60's. Columbia wrote these boys off way too soon.
If you don't own a Buck's collection, start here. If you like what you hear, get the Sundazed double CD "Time and Charges/Portrait". If you like that, get "In One Ear..." The Sundazed version of the latter has 2 unissued tracks not found on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy".
BTW-I understand Carl Giamerese is working on a book to tell the Buck's Story. I hope it comes soon!! And to set the story straight-Guerico did not start the horn thing-that began in Chicago with USA Records, Dan Belloc,producer, and the Buckinghams!! Read the liner notes in the Sundazed version of "Kind of a Drag". Neither Al Kooper or James Guerico started it-and the Bucks may have predated The Electric Flag.
Also, get the new recording by the new Bucks-it is called "Reaching Back" and
has a sound similar to their classic albums "Time and Charges/Portraits" and new recorded version of the big hits. You won't be disappointed.
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Espo
Submitted on: 2009-09-22 |
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| Great collection of Buckinhams classics, sound quality is excellent, good choice for those who love the sounds of the 60's |
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The Buckinghams
Submitted on: 2009-05-09 |
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Great album with a good selection of the songs I remember from the 60s.
Brought back lots of good memories of cruising around and singing along.
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 More than just the hits.....
Submitted on: 2009-01-13 |
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As an Illinois native, the Buckinghams were all over the radio from 1967 to 1969. Rock stations like WLS and WCFL both held these guys (along with the New Colony Six and the Cryan' Shames) in heavy rotation. These songs are here for sure. "Susan", "Kind of a Drag" and "Don't You Care" are all on this disc. The production for these songs is pretty well transcended from analog to digital, a certain aspect usually expected but not always delivered.
More importantly are the B sides on this idsc. There is no getting away from the fact that the Buckinghams are from Chicago. They have a definite Chicago sound and feel. They are steeped in what the 1960 music press would dub "the Chicago Sound". All these songs are good examples of the beat, the production, the vocal and brass arrangements that help accompany these pop hits to be dubbed the Chicago Sound.
Liner notes and added background info are really interesting. Example; The record company chose the name The Buckinghams because it had the British Invasion sound to it, while the band was more comfortable with telling people that they were named after the famous Chicago fountain.
The recording harkens back to a time when melody and pop music were always and end product of what would soon become a hit. |
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The Buckinghams/MercyMercyMercy
Submitted on: 2009-01-06 |
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| Was advertised excellent condition well worth the cost. Good place too find the ones that really count. |
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