English Freakbeat, Volume 6

Infobox Album
Name = English Freakbeat, Volume 6
Type = compilation
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Artist =


Released = 1996
Recorded = Mid-1960's
Genre = Beat, Freakbeat
Length =
Label = AIP Records
Producer =
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Last album = English Freakbeat, Volume 5
This album = English Freakbeat, Volume 6
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"English Freakbeat, Volume 6" is a compilation album in the English Freakbeat series that has been issued in CD format. This is actually the reissue of the "Pebbles, Volume 6" LP as a CD; it was shifted from the Pebbles series to the English Freakbeat series, since it is the only Pebbles album to feature British music.

Release Data

The album was released as a CD in 1996 (as #AIP-CD-1055), actually before the release of "English Freakbeat, Volume 4" and "English Freakbeat, Volume 5" on CD.

Vinyl-Only Tracks and CD Bonus Tracks

The "English Freakbeat" LPs and CDs have most tracks in common, although not always in the same order, and the same is true in the reissue of "Pebbles, Volume 6" as "English Freakbeat, Volume 6". In most cases, some of the LP tracks were not included on the CDs. Also, the CD bonus tracks are not always at the end of the album. Thus, for the sake of clarity, we have shown track listings for both editions of the album.

In this case, two excellent covers on the LP are not included on the CD: "Leave My Kitten Alone" by the First Gear and the Bo Diddley classic, "Here 'Tis" by the Betterdays. Additionally, "Singing the Blues" by the Rats is omitted, though the Jason Eddie & the Centremen performance of this song is included on the CD in place of their song on the LP.

Notes on the Tracks

The following information was taken primarily from the liner notes. Twink was one of the members of The Fairies, an under-appreciated British rhythm & blues band; Twink would later be one of the founding members of a very different band, the Pink Fairies.

Members of the Cheynes include Mick Fleetwood, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, as well as Peter Bardens and Phil Sawyer. They released several singles between 1963 and 1965.

The real name of the front man for Jason Eddie and the Centremen is Al Wycherley, the brother of Billy Fury, a pop star in the late 1950's. Their experimental treatment of "Singing the Blues" was released in the U.S. by Capitol Records in June 1966.

The music by Bo and Peep was recorded in 1964, and the band is mainly the Rolling Stones plus others that might have included Gene Pitney and Phil Spector; this is an unexpectedly tuff treatment of the well known ballad.

Both sides of the only single by Chicago Line are included. Among the bandmembers are Mike Patto, later of Timebox and Patto, plus drummer Viv Prince, formerly of the Pretty Things. Patto was also a member of the Frays – see "English Freakbeat, Volume 2".

The final cut on the CD is a rambling recitation by Kim Fowley about a British coastal resort town, which is performed more or less to the tune of House of the Rising Sun.

Track listing

LP (Pebbles, Volume 6)

Side 1:

# The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home", 2:17 – rel. 1964
# Junco Partners: "Take this Hammer", 2:05
# The Fairies: "I'll Dance", 2:01 – rel. 1964
# The Cheynes: "Respectable" (Isley Brothers), 1:50
# The First Gear: "Leave My Kitten Alone", 2:12, "vinyl-only track"
# The Betterdays: "Here 'Tis" (Elias B. McDaniel), 2:07, "vinyl-only track"
# The Wild Ones: "Bowie Man", 2:20 – rel. 1964
# David John and the Mood: "Bring it to Jerome" (Jerome Green), 2:07 – rel. 1965
# The Wheels: "Road Block", 3:14, "vinyl-only track"

Side 2:

# The Fairies: "Anytime at All", 2:09 – rel. 1964
# Rhythm & Blues, Inc.: "Honey Don't", 2:15 – rel. 1965
# Erkey Grant & the Eerwigs: "I'm a Hog for You", 1:58
# David John and the Mood: "I Love to See You Strut", 2:02 – rel. 1965
# Bill & Will: "Goin' to the River", 2:20
# Blues by Five: "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker), 2:10
# Steve Aldo: "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed), 3:28 – rel. 1964
# Jason Eddie & the Centremen: "Spoonful", 2:17, "vinyl-only track"
# The Rats: "Singing the Blues", 2:28
# Bo and Peep: "Young Love", 2:35

CD: English Freakbeat, Volume 6

# The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home" – rel. 1964
# The Fairies: "I'll Dance" – rel. 1964
# The Fairies: "Anytime at All" – rel. 1964
# Junco Partners: "Take this Hammer" — rel. 1965
# The Cheynes: "Respectable" (Isley Brothers)
# The Wild Ones: "Bowie Man" — rel. 1964
# Rhythm & Blues, Inc.: "Honey Don't" — rel. 1965
# Erkey Grant & the Eerwigs: "I'm a Hog for You" — rel. 1963
# David John & the Mood: "Bring it to Jerome" — rel. 1965
# David John & the Mood: "I Love to See You Strut" — rel. 1965
# Bill & Will: "Goin' to the River"
# Blues by Five: "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker) — rel. 1964
# Steve Aldo: "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed)
# Jason Eddie & the Centremen: "Singing the Blues"
# Bo & Peep: "Young Love" — rel. 1964, "CD bonus track"
# Chicago Line: "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" — rel. 1966, "CD bonus track"
# Chicago Line: "Jump Back" — rel. 1966, "CD bonus track"
# The Wranglers: "Little Liza Jane" — rel. 1964, "CD bonus track"
# David John & the Mood: "To Catch that Man" — rel. 1964, "CD bonus track"
# David John & the Mood: "Diggin' for Gold" — rel. 1965, "CD bonus track"
# Nix-Nomads: "She'll Be Sweeter than You" — rel. 1964, "CD bonus track"
# Bo & Peep: "Rise of the Brighton Surf" — rel. 1964, "CD bonus track"