Pebbles, Volume 23

Infobox Album
Name = Pebbles, Volume 23
Type = compilation
Longtype =
Artist =


Released = 1988
Recorded = Mid-1960's
Genre = Garage rock, Nederpop, Beat
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Label = AIP Records
Producer =
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Last album = Pebbles, Volume 22
This album = Pebbles, Volume 23
Next album = Pebbles, Volume 24

"Pebbles, Volume 23" is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series. It is one of 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled Holland, Part 2. "Pebbles, Volume 15" and "Pebbles, Volume 25" also feature Dutch bands. (There is apparently no intention to distinguish between The Netherlands and Holland in this series — technically, North Holland and South Holland are 2 of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands — in the subtitle of the former album, "The Netherlands: 1965-1968".)

Release Data

This album was released on LP by AIP Records in 1988 (as #AIP-10040) and was kept in print for many years.

Notes on the Tracks

The unusual name of the opening song is a double entendre, but only for Dutch listeners: "drollery" is very similar to the Dutch word for excrement. "Someday I'm Somebody" is an example of the sometimes clumsy titles and lyrics that these bands utilize in their English-language songs. The final cut by The Outsiders is from their legendary first album, one of the truly essential studio albums in all of rock music.

There appears to be some overlap in countries among the various albums in this sub-series; the Lords on this album of Dutch music may actually be the German band, although this is not certain.

Track listing

Side 1:

# The Fun of It: "Drollery" – Rel. 1966
# The Bumble Bees: "Girl of My Kind" – Rel. 1967
# The Phantoms: "Someday I'm Somebody" – Rel. 1965
# Chapter II: "East of My Place"
# The Jets: "I Was So Glad"
# The Haigs: "Never Die" – Rel. 1966
# The Marquees: "Call My Name" – Rel. 1967
# The Haigs: "Where to Run" – Rel. 1966

Side 2:

# The Jets: "Worker in the Night"
# The Lords: "Day after Day" – Rel. 1966
# The Counsellors: "I'll Be Your Man" – Rel. 1965
# Les Baroques: "Working on a Tsjing Tsjang"
# The Motions: "I've Got Misery" – Rel. 1964
# The Jay/Jays: "Come Back If You Dare" – Rel. 1966
# Zen: "Please Accept My Invitation"
# The Outsiders: "If You Don't Treat Me Right" (Wally Tax/Ron Splinter) – Rel. 1967