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A giant thirty track career-spanning retrospective featuring the very best of George Tomsco and the Fireballs including all eleven of their US Top 100 hits. Now in new, improved packaging and with remastered sound. Although Ace is already known for the sound quality of its releases we have been to Clovis to make new transfers, direct from the master tapes, using the latest 24/96 technology and making new stereo remixes. Sleeve notes by Dave Burke and Alan Taylor of Pipeline magazine.
Clovis Classics - The Definitive Collection Reviews
Clovis Classics - The Definitive Collection Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful As the title says..., By This review is from: Clovis Classics - The Definitive Collection (Audio CD) For about a decade during the sixties, the Fireballs, with and without Jimmy Gilmer, intermittently had chart successes with a variety of tunes, both vocal and instrumental. This new collection of their recordings from the top-notch Ace label in the U.K., produces what it says - a definitive collection of their music. Ace and other domestic labels (Varese and Sundazed) have made the Fireballs' music available for some time but this is the first truly comprehensive collection.Here are all eleven of their pop-charting singles culled from the many labels on which the Fireballs were to appear over their charting lifetime. While some popular groups of the era had a very identifiable sound with an initial success on the charts, they were often stuck with a sound that, once unique and fresh, quickly became old-hat and delegated them to one-hit wonder status. The Fireballs were anything but predictable. They didn't even stick to one format in that they had both instrumental... Read more |
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