The Buckinghams - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection
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Artist: The BuckinghamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
Soundtracks:
- Kind of a Drag [Remix]
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy [Remix]
- I've Been Wrong Before
- I'll Go Crazy [Remix]
- I Call Your Name [Remix]
- Makin' Up and Breakin' Up
- Don't You Care
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) [Remix]
- Susan [Remix]
- Back in Love Again [Remix]
- You Misunderstand Me [#]
- Where Did You Come From [#]
- This Is How Much I Love You [Remix][#]
- It's a Baeutiful Day (For Lovin') [#]
- Difference of Opinion [#]
- I Got a Feelin' [#]
- You [Remix][#]
Free Music Notes for Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection
Free Music Review: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy + 1 Additional CD
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a much better package than the 1969 "Buckinghams Greatest Hits" Columbia put out with the atomic bomb blast in the background. Almost everything is here except "Foreign Policy"-which some people poo poo but was actually a great sound piece. The liner notes and pix are done very well-and kudos for so many tracks from their first USA album. It's in stereo because these are album tracks. For an earlier reviewer, there is a collection of Buck's singles in mono on cd.
For me, the best thing about this package are the unreleased cuts from their last
days in the studio. I had a vinyl copy of "In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow" which contained the last hit "Back In Love Again". I wasn't too impressed with the album as a whole as it appears James William Guerico had a better vision for the band's sound including the horns than the producer assigned for their last recording. Marty Grebb replaced Holvay as group composer and "You Misunderstand Me" is a great song-which could have been a hit if it were handled right. It appears that Columbia was looking for more progressive groups at the time-i.e. B,S & T and Chicago -as the pop scene was changing to the rock scene. The Bucks were not a festival band and fell into hard times. Columbia should be ashamed of themselves for abandoning this great and talented group, esp. since it helped them sell so much vinyl in '67-'68.
This is a great package. However, for the completists out there-you need to find a copy of Sundazed's "In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow" album as it contains 2 previously unreleased tracks that are not on MMM. Sundazed has included some great liner notes and pix-and the final chapter in detail of the group. The sound is great-and in the twilight of the 60's Buck's,you hear a half dozen cuts that indicate a group recovering and adapting it's sound to the winds blowing in the rock community at the end of the 60's. Columbia wrote these boys off way too soon.
If you don't own a Buck's collection, start here. If you like what you hear, get the Sundazed double CD "Time and Charges/Portrait". If you like that, get "In One Ear..." The Sundazed version of the latter has 2 unissued tracks not found on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy".
BTW-I understand Carl Giamerese is working on a book to tell the Buck's Story. I hope it comes soon!! And to set the story straight-Guerico did not start the horn thing-that began in Chicago with USA Records, Dan Belloc,producer, and the Buckinghams!! Read the liner notes in the Sundazed version of "Kind of a Drag". Neither Al Kooper or James Guerico started it-and the Bucks may have predated The Electric Flag.
Also, get the new recording by the new Bucks-it is called "Reaching Back" and
has a sound similar to their classic albums "Time and Charges/Portraits" and new recorded version of the big hits. You won't be disappointed.
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection Poster
These clean-cut Chicagoans were unrepentantly commercial popsters whose wholesomely catchy, horn-laced '60s hits retain their bubblegum charm three decades after the fact. The 18 track Mercy, Mercy, Mercy is an exemplary best-of disc, collecting all of the group's major hits, i.e. "Kind of A Drag," "Don't You Care," "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," and "Susan." Meanwhile, less familiar numbers like covers of Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," the Beatles' "I Call Your Name," and a vocal interpretation of the Cannonball Adderley jazz tune that provides the collection's title suggest that there was more substance to the band than its squeaky-clean hits let on. --Scott SchinderClassic Rock Music CDs
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