The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison

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The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison
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Compilation album by
Them
Released20 October 1997 (UK)
Recorded1964–1966
Genre Rhythm and blues, garage rock
Length143:34
Label Deram
Producer Tommy Scott, Bert Berns, Dick Rowe
Them chronology
Them Again
(1966)		The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison
(1997)
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The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison is a compilation album, that includes almost every song recorded by the Northern Irish band Them, during the two-year history of the band when it featured Van Morrison as the vocalist for the group.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Van Morrison except as noted

Disc 1

  1. "The Story of Them" [Parts 1 & 2] – 7:18
  2. "Don't Start Crying Now" (James Moore, Jerry West) – 2:03
  3. "Gloria" 2:35 (stereo)
  4. "Philosophy" – 2:35
  5. "One Two Brown Eyes" – 2:34 (stereo)
  6. "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 2:40
  7. "Here Comes the Night" (Bert Berns) – 2:46 (stereo)
  8. "All for Myself" – 2:47
  9. "One More Time" – 2:48
  10. "Little Girl – 2:47
  11. "I Gave My Love a Diamond" (Berns) – 3:02
  12. "Go on Home Baby" (Berns) – 2:32 (stereo)
  13. "My Little Baby" (Berns, Wes Farrell) – 2:00 (stereo)
  14. "Mystic Eyes" – 2:41 (rechanneled)
  15. "Don't Look Back" (John Lee Hooker) – 3:20 (rechanneled+)
  16. "If You and I Could Be as Two" – 2:51 (stereo)
  17. "I Like It Like That" – 3:16 (rechanneled+)
  18. "I'm Gonna Dress in Black" (Gillon a.k.a. Tommy Scott, M. Howe) – 3:29 (stereo)
  19. "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 2:22 (rechanneled+)
  20. "Just a Little Bit" (Rosco Gordon) – 2:21
  21. "You Just Can't Win" – 2:21
  22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jimmy Reed) – 2:30
  23. "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Reed) – 3:26
  24. "I'm Gonna Dress in Black" (Gillon) – 3:34 [Alternate Mix]
  25. "One More Time" – 2:45 [US Version – Stereo Mix] (stereo)
  26. "Little Girl" – 2:47 [Alternate Version] (rechanneled+)

Disc 2

All songs written by Van Morrison except as noted

  1. "How Long Baby" (Gillon) – 3:37
  2. "(It Won't Hurt) Half As Much" (Berns) – 3:01 (stereo)
  3. "Something You Got" (Chris Kenner) – 2:31
  4. "Call My Name" (Scott) – 2:20
  5. "Turn On Your Love Light" (Don Robey, Joseph Wade Scott) – 2:19 (rechanneled++)
  6. "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) – 2:36
  7. "I Got A Woman" (Ray Charles) – 3:12
  8. "Out of Sight" (Ted Wright a.k.a. James Brown) – 2:21
  9. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) – 3:47
  10. "Bad Or Good" – 2:06
  11. "Hello Josephine" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 2:04
  12. "Don't You Know" (Scott) – 2:22
  13. "Hey Girl" – 3:00
  14. "Bring 'em on In" 3:13
  15. "Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough" (Jimmy Witherspoon) – 2:12 (rechanneled+++)
  16. "Stormy Monday" (T-Bone Walker) – 2:40 (rechanneled+++)
  17. "Friday's Child" – 3:27
  18. "Richard Cory" (Paul Simon) – 2:43
  19. "My Lonely Sad Eyes" – 2:28 (rechanneled)
  20. "I Can Only Give You Everything" (Scott, Phil Coulter)– 2:39 (rechanneled++)
  21. "Could You, Would You" – 3:08
  22. "Bring 'em on In" – 3:41 [US Version 2]
  23. "Richard Cory" (Simon) – 3:47 Version 2 (stereo)
  24. "Call My Name" (Scott) – 2:18 [Version 2] [1]

(In regards to the rechanneled tracks, + indicates sides using the Parrot rechanneled mixes with non-original added percussion, probably done for the 2LP Parrot anthology from the 1970s, ++ indicates sides using the Parrot rechanneled mixes from the second album, and +++ indicates demos that were slightly rechanneled when issued on LP in the 1960s in Germany, and they did not have the mono mixes available.)

Notes on the album sleeve

References

  1. 1 2 "The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison – Them | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Reed, Joh (February 1998). "Them: The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison". Uncut . No. 9. p. 88.
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