UK two-on-one reissue combines 'The Wildest Organ In Town' (Stereo) (1966) with 'Club Meeting' (Mono) (1967), both originally released on Capitol & currently out-of-print. 24 tracks. EMI. 2004.
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The Wildest Organ in Town!/Club Meeting
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ASIN: B000065UBP Release Date: 2004-02-16 |
Tracks:
- Midnight Hour
- Uptight
- A Hard Days Night
- Ain't Got No Time To Play
- Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things
- The Duck
- Advice
- Satisfaction
- I Got You
- It's Got To Happen
- Free Funk
- The 'In' Crowd
- Introduction
- Sunny
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- Billy's Groove
- No Man Is An Island
- Let The Music Play
- Wade In The Water
- Summertime
- This Little Light Of Mine
- Ike's Theme
- Together
- James Brown Medley
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UK two-on-one reissue combines 'The Wildest Organ In Town' (Stereo) (1966) with 'Club Meeting' (Mono) (1967), both originally released on Capitol & currently out-of-print. 24 tracks. EMI. 2004.Album Details
Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Original LPs on a Single CD. These Two Albums Are the Organist's 1966 and 1967 Jazz / R&B Solo Releases Recorded after He Served Time Playing with the Great Ray Charles.Customer Reviews:
This belongs in the bin!.......2007-05-17
The songs on the CD pair are almost all covers and they are boring, poorly arranged and to make things worse, Billy hardly varies his tone from beginning to end - its all scream all the way, and a rather unpleasant sound at that.
The featured singers on the live album (the CD offers two original LPs) are the Soul brothers and I have seldom heard such flat and lifeless singing on a recording.
I was expecting smoking grooves, and tasteful organ sounds with lots of variation but Billy lost inspiration on these tracks. None of the covers actually cut it. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Otis Redding and other covers are so ordinary you want skip to the next track. The cover of Summertime is so bad its embarrassing, despite Billy's intention to entertain his live audience.
It is a tough call to keep listeners engaged when you are playing rock or pop covers without vocals and these recordings don't add anything to do that.
If you want to hear better pop/rock instrumental organ from the period, I would suggest Booker T and the MGs, albums such as Hip Hug Her are worth checking out. Granted, Billy has a bigger sound with more drive than Booker T. But Booker T kept his songs very short and a lot more together.
Ultimately there are many great funky organ recordings by other masters - Check out Jimmy Smith's "Back at the Chicken Shack" for one example. Preston's CD just isn't one of them.
Funky.......2005-11-22
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