Hall Of Fame – GEORGIE FAME****

Yeh Yeh/Sunny/Point Of No Return/Like We Used To Be/Get On The Right Track Baby/Outrage/Let The Sunshine In/Getaway/Sitting In The Park/In The Meantime/Something/Do Re Mi/Sweet Thing/Lil’ Darlin’

Hall Of Fame is a compilation album that includes all Georgie Fame's hit singles from 1964-66. More comprehensive CD collections are available which include his later hits. (UK:12)

"Georgie Fame is simply one of the best R & B/pop vocalists and organists around anywhere. This is a superb collection of Georgie in action. I strongly recommend this LP to all lovers of great music. A strong 60s feel with a powerful driving organ. Grab this one quick."

"An obvious title for an album of Georgie Fame hits and this is the account up to 1967. Fame is the only artist in the world who made the top ten on three occasions, each time making No 1. This set kicks off with the first one, Yeh Yeh, which also gave him a US hit. Its followed by his cover of Bobby Hebb's Sunny. Fame was virtually a covers man, taking little known American songs and making them his own. But he also came up with a few songs of his own like his second No.1 Getaway. In The Meantime the follow up to the first hit is, to my mind, his finest hour."

"Georgie Fame could do little wrong from the moment he burst into the public consciousness with the No.1 hit, Yeh Yeh. Not surprisingly, this collection of mid-1960s recordings opens with this and includes his follow-up chart-topper, Getaway. These are among the poppier tracks, along with Bobby Hebb's Sunny and Sitting In The Park, a languid, summery hit. All of the music contained here though is jazz-inflected R & B, led by Fame's organ, husky vocals and complemented by brass. Most of the tracks are uptempo and reflect a buoyant and exciting musical era. The album is a capsule of swinging Britain as we like to imagine it."

"Love this album - even though it spans different genres. I love all the tracks and am fast becoming something of a Georgie Fame fan. There's a jazz feel, a whole lotta soul, a touch of mod and some beat too. It was well worth taking a punt on."

"It goes deeper into the earlier catalogue of Georgie's career, and does evoke memories of sweaty Soho 60s clubs. Georgie's impressive keyboard work and funky, down-home vocal approach is more than adequately showcased here."