| MEDLEY 1 Intro – Hooked On Number Ones - HOOKED ON SINGERS 1. Uptown Girl FORTUNES 2. Sweets For My Sweets MUNGO JERRY 3. Y.M.C.A. BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 4. Super Trouper SUSAN MAUGHAN 5. Sugar Sugar HOOKED ON SINGERS 6. You Don’t Know HELEN SHAPIRO 7. Telstar HOOKED ON MUSICIANS 8. Ob La Di Ob La Da MARMALADE 9. Rivers Of Babylon LYNN PAUL 10. I Remember You MIKE BERRY 11. Sailing LONNIE DONEGAN 12. Only Sixteen CRAIG DOUGLAS 13. Save Your Kisses For Me TONY BURROWS 14. Glad All Over MUD 15. What Do You Wanna Make Those Eyes At Me For HOOKED ON SINGERS 16. You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me LYNN PAUL 17. That’ll Be The Day MIKE BERRY 18. I Wanna Hold Your Hand HOOKED ON SINGERS 19. Michelle LONNIE DONEGAN 20. Maggie May BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 21. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) CRAIG DOUGLAS 22. Baby Now That I’ve Found You MARMALADE 23. Waterloo MADELINE BELL 24. How Do You Do It GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS 25. January MARMALADE |
MEDLEY 2 26. Sugar Baby Love MUD 27. Dream Lover CRAIG DOUGLAS 28. Baby Love SUSAN MAUGHAN 29. Knock Three Times TONY BURROWS 30. My Sweet Lord HOOKED ON SINGERS 31. Under The Moon Of Love TONY BURROWS 32. Walkin’ Back to Happiness HELEN SHAPIRO 33. Picture Of You JOE BROWN 34. Help HOOKED ON SINGERS 35. In The Summertime MUNGO JERRY 36. Living Doll MIKE BERRY 37. She Loves You HOOKED ON SINGERS 38. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree TONY BURROWS 39. Puttin’ On The Style LONNIE DONEGAN 40. I Like It GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS 41. Oh Boy MUD 42. Young Ones MIKE BERRY 43. Those Were The Days LYNN PAUL 44. All Shook Up BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 45. Out Of Time MUD 46. Eye Level HOOKED ON MUSIC 47. Do Wah Diddy Diddy MARMALADE 48. See My Baby Jive TONY BURROWS 49. Congratulations TONY BURROWS 50. Relax HOOKED ON SINGERS |
MEDLEY 3 51. Love Grows TONY BURROWS 52. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) LYNN PAUL 53. I’m Confessin’ MIKE BERRY 54. Welcome Home SUSAN MAUGHAN & MIKE BERRY 55. You’re The One That I Want HELEN SHAPIRO 56. Only The Lonely BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 57. Yellow Submarine HOOKED ON SINGERS 58. Apache HOOKED ON MUSICIANS 59. Fame MADELINE BELL 60. Bad Moon rising JOE BROWN 61. Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs GEOFF MORROW 62. Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye) FORTUNES 63. You To Me Are Everything MARMALADE 64. I Will Survive HELEN SHAPIRO 65. Lovesick Blues MIKE BERRY 66. Cathy’s Clown FORTUNES 67. It’s Now Or Never BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 68. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep SUSAN MAUGHAN 69. Puppet On A String SUSAN MAUGHAN 70. The Wayward Wind MIKE BERRY 71. King Of The Road JOE BROWN 72. Sunday Girl MADELINE BELL 73. Tiger Feet MUD 74. Cumberland Gap LONNIE DONEGAN 75. My Old Man’s A Dustman LONNIE DONEGAN |
MEDLEY 4 76. Hello PAUL BROOKS 77. Hey Jude GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS 78. You’ll Never Walk Alone GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS 79. Annie’s Song CRAIG DOUGLAS 80. Mull Of Kintyre TONY HEAD 81. If You Leave Me Now THE FORTUNES 82. I’m Not In Love HELEN SHAPIRO 83. Without You PAUL BROOKS 84. Bohemian Rhapsody TONY HEAD 85. Anyone Who Had A Heart MADELINE BELL 86. Albatross HOOKED ON MUSICIANS 87. The Carnival Is Over LYNN PAUL 88. Three Times A Lady PAUL BROOKS 89. Don’t Cry For Me Argentina MADELINE BELL 90. Imagine JOE BROWN 91. Green Green Grass Of Home MIKE BERRY 92. A Whiter Shade Of Pale MUNGO JERRY 93. Bridge Over Troubled Waters PAUL BROOKS 94. If CRAIG DOUGLAS 95. Amazing Grace HOOKED ON MUSICIANS 96. House Of The Rising Sun JOE BROWN 97. Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore BOGDAN KOMINOWSKI 98. When I Need You THE FORTUNES 99. Seven Tears LYNN PAUL 100. Karma Chameleon TONY HEAD |
This is 1984 and renowned songwriter and producer GEOFF MORROW assembles a who’s who of the Pop world to record their versions of pop classics and makes the top echelons of the UK carts as “Mixes” are all the rage.
THE FORTUNES, MUNGO JERRY, MARMALADE, MUD, GERRY & The PACEMAKERS, MADELINE BELL, HELEN SHAPIRO, LYNN PAUL, SUSAN MAUGHAN, MIKE BERRY, CRAIG DOUGLAS, LONNIE DONEGAN, JOE BROWN and TONY BURROWS all deliver their stunning versions of pop classics.
Now remastered with informative sleeve notes on the story behind the project.
MUSICIANS
The FORTUNES, MUNGO JERRY, MARMALADE, MUD, GERRY & The PACEMAKERS, MADELINE BELL, HELEN SHAPIRO, LYNN PAUL, SUSAN MAUGHAN, MIKE BERRY, CRAIG DOUGLAS, LONNIE DONEGAN, JOE BROWN and TONY BURROWS
Reviews
When the focus is on the '60s or memories are cast even further back, like "Lovesick Blues" with Mike Berry's yodel, the artists involved apply their best interpretative skills, but there's not much zest in the latter stuff, so thankfully, the '80s output is boiled down to the opener "Uptown Girl", "Relax" and closer "Karma Chameleon" that slip out and into the "Hooked On Number 1's" theme delivered by the creme de la creme of session singers including Sue and Sunny, Tony Burrows and Vicki Brown. Her other half, Joe, shines on "Bad Moon Rising" yet fails to blow life into "Imagine" as marred by a homogenous rhythm track as is "Michelle" in which Lonnie Donegan's brilliantly repaying The Fabs all their admiration; the skiffle master's keening voice feels perfectly suited for this tune but, surprisingly, can't hold "Sailing" above the water he treads in his own "Puttin' On The Style". By the same token, MUNGO JERRY are inimitable when it comes to "In The Summertime", although they deliver "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" and "Sweets For My Sweets" just as infectiously.
...the real star of the show is an unknown vocalist, Bogdan Kominowski whose attack lends a new quality to "Maggie May", whereas GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS prefer to stay in the comfort zone of "How Do You Do It" - unlike THE FORTUNES updating "If You Leave Me Now" or MUD who throw away their saccharine for zippy harmonies of "Oh Boy" before exorcising all the sarcasm from "Out Of Time". But that's the emotion which gets in the way of dancing, a goal this album hits in style. ***
www.dmme.net (March 2012)
It's fascinating to hear a familiar voice on a chorus or verse of a song that's not usually associated with that particular voice. The more unexpected examples include 'Michelle' and 'Sailing', performed by Lonnie Donegan; 'San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)' by Craig Douglas...
The Beat (March 2012)
...Featuring an all star cast, including original artists, and produced in 1984 by Geoff Morrow, the 100 track CD features snippets of songs everyone knows and loves and breaks it all down into four medleys.
On hand are much revered artists including members of The Fortunes, Mungo Jerry, Marmalade, Lonnie Donegan, Joe Brown, Helen Shapiro and more. As documented on previously released Angel Air titles - including CDs from Ammo and Butterscotch - Morrow's work in the pop field is never less than exemplary.
Touching on a hundred different tracks, it's all a bit karaoke, but nevertheless, Hooked On Number Ones makes for 65 minutes of nonstop listening fun.
MWE3.COM (April 2012)
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