Sweet - Funny Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
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Artist: SweetEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-01-24
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Co-Co
- Chop Chop
- Reflections
- Honeysuckle Love
- Santa Monica Sunshine
- Daydream
- Funny Funny
- Tom Tom Turnaround
- Jeanie
- Sunny Sleeps Late
- Spotlight
- Done Me Wrong All Right
- Be With You Soon (Out-Take) (Bonus Track)
- You?Re Not Wrong For Loving Me (Bonus Track)
- Alexander Graham Bell (Bonus Track)
- Poppa Joe (Bonus Track)
- Little Willy (Bonus Track)
- Man From Mecca (Bonus Track)
- Wig-Wam Bam (Bonus Track)
- New York Connection (Bonus Track)
- Paperback Writer (Bonus Track)
- Lucille/Great Balls Of Fire (Bonus Track)
Free Music Notes for Funny Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
Free Music Review: Best sound quality ever for 1971 UK debut album
Hit: 5 Stars
First,I'd like to say that this remaster is a dramatic improvement in sound quality over the original UK vinyl and the only previous CD release(an obscure German Ariola mid-price CD from the early 1990's).I've owned two different UK vinyl releases,each of which had a different album cover,and this CD presents yet another different set of artwork,one which shortens the title to "Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be".Is this the actual original artwork? I don't know.This release adds on all the non-L.P. singles A's & B's from this period,plus two BBC tracks("Paperback Writer" & "Lucille/Great Balls of Fire") and the album outtake "Be With You Soon"...all of which have appeared on German CD's on Repertoire or RCA.The disc is generously filled with music.Too bad that BMG/Sony couldn't have found some actual unreleased material from this period.Much of this material is bubblegum pop,rather than the hard rocking Glam sound for which the group later became known.The group had already been through 2 lead guitarists(Frank Torpey & Mick Stewart)and four failed singles for two labels(Fontana & Parlophone),so when guitarist Andy Scott joined,and the group signed with RCA/UK,they had to agree to a less than ideal setup forced on them by producers Phil Wainman,Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn:At the time of the first 5 RCA/UK singles and this album,on cover versions or songs written or supplied by the producers,Sweet would appear only as vocalists backed by studio musicians,but on songs written by the group,the group would play the instruments AND sing.The reason for this was because the producers weren't that interested in the group's hard rocking sound.The producers wanted to make bubblegum novelty records.But on the group's 5th RCA/UK single,"Little Willy",the sessionmen created a hard rock sound similar to the group's own.When the record was a huge hit(and U.S.A. breakthrough),there was clearly no more reason to use sessionmen.Starting with the 6th RCA/UK single "Wig Wam Bam",the group would henceforth always play the instruments,whether or not they wrote the song.This album wasn't released in the United States.In fact,with the exception of "Little Willy",the tracks featuring sessionmen were squelched from ever appearing as album tracks in the U.S.A.(though a few had appeared as failed singles on the "Bell" label).For America,a different album was compiled by the "Bell" label,"Sweet,featuring Little Willy & The Blockbuster",which brought together all of the songs to that date which featured the group's real playing.Don't bother with the American CD of "Sweet,Featuring Little Willy & The Blockbuster"(which uses a live version of "Need a Lot of Loving" by mistake).All of the correct takes appear in the new RCA/BMG UK remastered series,many of them on this CD.By the way,for unknown contractual reasons,the group took credit for the songwriting of "Jeannie".Deep Purple's Roger Glover(then an apartment roommate of Sweet's Brian Connolly) actually wrote it.And it wasn't the first time that Connolly had sung Glover's material(see "Questions" on "Sweet-The Early Recordings,a Roger Glover-Ian Gillan composition,with Glover credited under his early writing pseudonym "Roger David").The standout tracks on this disc are the hard rock numbers played by the group("Spotlight","Done Me Wrong Alright","Man From Mecca","New York Connection","Wig Wam Bam" & "Be With You Soon") where the group's real sound emerges.
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Remastered & repackaged reissue of 1971 album includes ten bonus tracks, 'Be With You Soon' (Out-Take), 'You're Not Wrong For Loving Me', 'Alexander Graham Bell', 'Poppa Joe', 'Little Willy', 'Man From Mecca', 'Wig-Wam Bam', 'New York Connection', 'Paperback Writer', & 'Lucille/Great Balls Of Fire'. BMG. 2005.Classic Rock Music CDs
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