I Don’t Wanna Be Free/Come With Me/Baby/Teenage Letter/Take A Heart/We Should Get Along Fine/You’ve Got What I Want/No No No No/Let The Live Live/Don’t Sing No Sad Songs For Me/Let Me In/How Love Used To Be/Pink Purple Yellow Red/My Gal
First album from the Coventry based group The Sorrows who enjoyed some limited fleeting success in the mid 1960s with their brand of R & B cum garage rock. Their single Take A Heart just missed the UK top twenty.
“Although just a cobbled together collection of single sides from 1965, this is no less an excellent album of high quality R & B tunes anyway you present it. Almost every song is full of energy and great crunchy guitar work.”
“Check out this fab gear group from the swinging sixties. You may be familiar with Take A Heart and true it is a classic but the other tracks will not disappoint. Get a load of the full on R & B of Teenage Letter, the atmospheric Baby and the mind blowing Pink Purple Yellow Red, to name but a few.”
“There's no doubting that The Sorrows were a dynamite act and deserve this level of coverage. Most of this music is fiery R & B, though their hit Take A Heart reveals that they could adopt a more brooding style as well. Not all of the songs are of a high quality. Baby for instance features uninspired lyrics punctuated with irritating pauses. This is the exception rather than the rule however.”
“The Sorrows were pure beat era, mixing the danceable 'modness' of The Kinks with the R & B muscle of The Pretty Things. Tunes like Come With Me are the epitome of Swinging England harmony pop. The band's catalogue is filled with great R & B-tinged stompers and ballads, with start/stop rhythms, riffing guitars, pounding drums, strong harmonies and gritty vocals.”
“The Sorrows were the raunchiest, hard-edged, most aggressive band in England in 1965. Their brand of thumping R & B/blues/garage-rock at the time was groundbreaking and way ahead of it's time. All songs rock with extreme intensity.”
“This album has some raucous mod stompers with the most obvious being their hit Take A Heart. While the rest of this album is not as strong as the title track it is definitely worth a listen.”
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