MERSEYBEATS / THE MERSEYS I Stand Accused - Complete Merseybeats and Merseys Sixties Recordings

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• Emerging from the Liverpool group scene during the goldrush years, The Merseybeats' combination of Everly Brothers-style vocal harmonies and adroitly-chosen beat boom ballads saw them record several hit singles (including 'I Think Of You', which reached the Top Five), a brace of very popular EPs and a self-titled album that spent a couple of months in the LP charts. • After their superb version of 'I Stand Accused' (a big favourite of local teenager Elvis Costello, later to cover the song) failed to become the huge success that it deserved to be, group leaders Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley reinvented themselves as vocal duo The Merseys, who recorded one of the classic mid-Sixties pop hits in 'Sorrow', subsequently quoted in Beatles track 'It's All Too Much' and taken back into the charts a few years later by David Bowie. • 'Sorrow' was followed by a handful of Merseys singles that, although less successful, are now highly regarded by admirers of late Sixties British pop and psychedelia, and are now legitimately assembled under one roof for the first time. • I Stand Accused: The Complete Merseybeats and Merseys Sixties Recordings features everything known to have been recorded by both acts, including demos, out-takes, alternative versions and home recordings. The set also incorporates the various splinter projects that took place during the same time-frame, with a pseudonymous single as Crackers joined by some highly sought-after 45s involving Merseybeats drummer John Banks and former Big Three bassist Johnny Gustafson, who had briefly replaced Kinsley in The Merseybeats. • A 2-CD digipak release, I Stand Accused features many superb full colour photos as well as a new 9,000 word essay that covers the fascinating careers of both bands, including their relationships with the pre-fame Beatles and Brian Epstein, their adventures with The Who (with whom they shared the same management team, leading to John Entwistle and Keith Moon playing on a handful of Merseys tracks) and their unwitting part in the tale of Pete Best's dismissal.

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I Stand Accused - Complete Merseybeats and Merseys Sixties Recordings

- 1 -
1. It's Love That Really Counts
2. The Fortune Teller
3. I Think of You
4. Mister Moonlight
5. Long Tall Sally
6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry
7. Shame
8. You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover
9. Don't Turn Around
10. Really Mystified
11. Milkman
12. Hello Young Lovers
13. He Will Break Your Heart
14. Funny Face
15. The Girl That I Marry
16. Fools Like Me
17. My Heart and I
18. Bring It On Home To Me
19. Lavender Blue
20. Jumping Jonah
21. The Things I Want To Hear (Pretty Words)
22. Wishin' and Hopin'
23. Last Night (I Made a Little Girl Cry)
24. See Me Back
25. Don't Let It Happen To Us
26. It Would Take a Long, Long Time
27. I Love You, Yes I Do
28. Good, Good Lovin'
29. Soldier of Love
30. I Stand Accused
31. All My Life
32. Our Day Will Come
33. Nur Unsere Liebe Zahlt (It's Love That Really Counts)
34. Nur De Allein (I Think of You)
- 2 -
1. Sorrow
2. Some Other Day
3. So Sad About Us
4. Love Will Continue
5. Rhythm of Love
6. Is It Love?
7. The Cat
8. Change of Heart
9. Penny In My Pocket
10. I Hope You're Happy
11. Lovely Loretta
12. Dreaming
13. Honey Do
14. It Happens All the Time
15. Sorrow (Alternative Version)
16. Nothing Can Change This Love
17. Do Me a Favour
18. Just To Be With You
19. Sweet Day
20. Take Me For a Little While
21. Make Me Your Number One
22. Bumper To Bumper
23. Scrape My Boot
24. Cool It
25. Mark of Her Head
26. Hello Memories
27. Pretend
28. So How Come (No-One Loves Me)
29. All I Have To Do is Dream