Sweet Things (Georgie Fame album)

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Sound Venture
Sweet Things album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1966
Recorded1965–1966
Genre
Length39:05
Label Columbia
Producer Denny Cordell
Georgie Fame UK chronology
Fame at Last!
(1964)
Sound Venture
(1966)
Sound Venture
(1966)

Sweet Things is the 1966 third album with the Blue Flames by Georgie Fame which reached No.6 in the album Top Ten in the UK. [1] Following this album his band The Blue Flames was replaced with The Tornados. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

The album, issued on the Columbia label (SX 6043), has been described as "one of the finest British R&B albums of the mid-'60s."

Style and content

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Dave Thompson says that it ".. follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, a punchy R&B stomper that could (even should) have been recorded live, so high is the energy, and so abandoned the backing of the Blue Flames." [5]


Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sweet Thing" William "Mickey" Stevenson 2:35
2."See Saw" Don Covay 2:46
3."Ride Your Pony" Naomi Neville 2:42
4."Funny How Time Slips Away" Willie Nelson 3:17
5."Sitting In The Park" Billy Stewart 3:26
6."Dr. Kitch" Chris Blackwell, Lord Kitchener 4:00
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."My Girl" Ronald White, Smokey Robinson 2:58
8."Music Talk" Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder, Ted Hull3:22
9."The In Crowd"Billy Page2:59
10."The World Is Round" Rufus Thomas 2:41
11."The Whole World's Shaking" Sam Cooke 3:12
12."Last Night"Bob Laine5:07

Personnel

Source: [6]

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References

  1. Rock Stars Encyclopedia – Page 362 0789446138 Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton – 1999 – GEORGIE FAME &THE BLUE FLAMES 1966 May Sweet Things hits UK #6.
  2. John Tobler (1991), Who's Who in Rock & Roll, 0517056879, p. 1988: "His third album with the Blue Flames, 'Sweet Things', lingered in the chart, but the band was dismissed so that Fame ..."
  3. The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 1857431618- Page 163 The Blue Flames, 1961; Band replaced with the Tornados: London residencies, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, ... 1, UK), 1966; Sweet Things, 1966; Sunny, 1966; Sitting In The Park, 1967; Because I Love You (own composition), 1967; The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
  4. Bob Brunning – Blues: The British Connection −1986 Page 75 "Georgie's soul music side was ably reflected on his next album Sweet Things in early 1966."
  5. Dave Thompson. "Sweet Things – Georgie Fame". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 April 2016.{{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  6. Adapted from back cover credits, Columbia SX6043, 1966