Heinz The Complete Heinz Tracks: CD 1: 01. Dreams Do Come True 02. Been Invited To A Party 03. Just Like Eddie 04. Don't You Knock On My Door 05. Country Boy 06. Long Tall Jack 07. You Were There 08. No Matter What They Say 09. Please Little Girl 10. For Loving Me This Way 11. Questions I Can't Answer (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 12. Beating Of my Heart (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 13. Diggin' My Potatoes (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 14. She Ain't Coming Back (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 15. Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 16. Big Fat Spider (Heinz & The Wild Boys) 17. End Of The World 18. You Make Me Feel So Good 19. Heart Full Of Sorrow 20. Don't Worry Baby 21. Movin' In 22. I'm Not A Bad Guy CD 2: 01. I Get Up In The Morning 02. Talk Like A Man 03. That Lucky Old Sun 04. Lonely River 05. Live It Up 06. Don't You Understand 07. When Your Loving Goes Wrong 08. Tribute To Eddie 09. Hush-A-Bye 10. (Sorry) I Ran All The Way Home 11. Summertime Blues 12. Don't Keep Pickin' At Me 13. Cut Across Shorty 14. Three Steps To Heaven 15. Come On And Dance 16. Twenty Flight Rock 17. Look For A Star 18. My Dreams 19. I Remember 20. Rumble In The Night 21. Somebody To Love (live) 22. I Got A Woman (live) Line up: Heinz Burt - Vocals Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar Record Label / Year of Release: Repertoire Records 1999 Notes: This double-CD set, with 44 songs recorded by the early- to mid- '60s British pop/rock star Heinz, may seem like overkill, but as it turns out, it's not. Heinz, or Heinz Burt as he was known in The Tornados, was not only a prodigious talent, but a highly consistent recording artist. From the first two tracks here, dating from 1962, to the last one -- a live recording of "I Got a Woman" done in 1965 from the Cavern Club -- the recordings are exciting and interesting, and memorable. Heinz' producer on these sides was the legendary Joe Meek, and his signature attributes -- flashy keyboards and guitar, all very compressed -- can be found on much of it, but unlike a lot of other extended bodies of Meek's recordings, this body of music is highly listenable, track after track. Heinz was a better singer than he usually got credit for being, and he cut superb versions of "Summertime Blues" and "Twenty Flight Rock," and was just as good doing songs that came out of Meek's stable of composers, including Geoff Goddard's "Hush-a-Bye," and his singing makes even lackluster songs such as "(Sorry) I Ran All the Way Home" more interesting than they should be. The annotation is also extremely thorough, not just concerning the songs but also Heinz's career, which was, sadly, cut short by illness in the 1990s. This is a great compilation of early '60s rock 'n' roll from Heinz & Joe Meek that clearly shows that the Brits were superior to the Americans when it came to music. No syrupy ballads or watered down remakes (like Pat Boone did) here. Good rocking songs with great guitar solos courtesy of one young Ritchie Blackmore (on most of them). Ritchie Blackmore on all songs except tracks 17-20 (CD 1) and tracks 12-14, 17-18 & 20-22 (CD 2). |