Pebbles, Volume 6 (1979 album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pebbles, Volume 6
Pebbles-Volume-06-lpcover.jpg
Compilation album
Released1980
RecordedMid-1960s
GenreGarage rock, freakbeat
Length43:55
LabelBFD
AIP
chronology
Pebbles, Volume 5 Pebbles, Volume 6 Pebbles, Volume 7 (LP)

Pebbles, Volume 6 is a compilation album among the LPs in the Pebbles series. Subtitled The Roots of Mod, Volume 6 is the only album in the Pebbles series that features primarily British music. The Pebbles, Volume 6 CD is not at all related to this LP; instead, the CD featuring the songs on this LP was released as English Freakbeat, Volume 6.

Release data[]

The album was released in 1980 by (as #BFD-5023) and was kept in print for many years by AIP Records.

Although the Pebbles, Volume 6 1994 CD has completely different music, most of the tracks on this album were reissued in 1996 on CD by AIP Records as English Freakbeat, Volume 6. For convenience, information on this CD is also included so that a comparison can be easily made between the tracks on these two highly similar albums.

Omitted tracks on the English Freakbeat CD[]

CD cover.

As with the first five volumes of the Pebbles series, AIP Records omitted some tracks on the LP in the reissue of the album as English Freakbeat, Volume 6. In this case, two excellent covers on the LP are not included on the CD: "Leave My Kitten Alone" by and the Bo Diddley classic, "Here 'Tis" by . Additionally, "Singing the Blues" by the Rats is omitted, though the performance of this song is included on the CD in place of their song on the LP.

Notes on the tracks[]

The following information was taken primarily from the liner notes on English Freakbeat, Volume 6. Twink was one of the members of the Fairies, an under-appreciated British rhythm & blues band; Twink would later be one of the founding members of a very different band, the Pink Fairies.

"Leave My Kitten Alone" is a celebrated Beatles rarity, written by Little Willie John, that is one of the standout tracks on the first Beatles Anthology collection. This version of the song was released in 1964 and features a young Jimmy Page.

Members of include Mick Fleetwood, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, as well as Peter Bardens and Phil Sawyer. They released several singles between 1963 and 1965.

The real name of the front man for is , the brother of Billy Fury, a pop star in the late 1950s. Their experimental treatment of "Singing the Blues" was released in the U.S. by Capitol Records in June 1966.

The music by was recorded in 1964, and the band is mainly The Rolling Stones plus others that might have included Gene Pitney and Phil Spector; this is an unexpectedly tuff treatment of the well known ballad.

Track listing[]

LP: Pebbles, Volume 6[]

Side 1:

  1. The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home", 2:17 – rel. 1964
  2. : "Take This Hammer", 2:05
  3. The Fairies: "I'll Dance", 2:01 – rel. 1964
  4. : "Respectable" (The Isley Brothers), 1:50
  5. : "Leave My Kitten Alone", 2:12, vinyl-only track
  6. : "Here 'Tis" (Elias B. McDaniel), 2:07, vinyl-only track
  7. : "Bowie Man", 2:20 – rel. 1964
  8. : "Bring it to Jerome" (Elias B. McDaniel), 2:07 – rel. 1965
  9. The Wheels: "Road Block", 3:14, vinyl-only track

Side 2:

  1. The Fairies: "Anytime at All", 2:09 – rel. 1964
  2. : "Honey Don't", 2:15 – rel. 1965
  3. : "I'm a Hog for You", 1:58
  4. : "I Love to See You Strut", 2:02 – rel. 1965
  5. : "Goin' to the River", 2:20
  6. : "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker), 2:10
  7. : "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed), 3:28 – rel. 1964
  8. The Rats: "Spoonful", 2:17, vinyl-only track
  9. : "Singing the Blues", 2:28
  10. : "Young Love", 2:35

CD: English Freakbeat, Volume 6[]

  1. The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home" – rel. 1964
  2. The Fairies: "I'll Dance" – rel. 1964
  3. The Fairies: "Anytime at All" – rel. 1964
  4. : "Take This Hammer" — rel. 1965
  5. : "Respectable" (The Isley Brothers)
  6. : "Bowie Man" — rel. 1964
  7. : "Honey Don't" — rel. 1965
  8. : "I'm a Hog for You" — rel. 1963
  9. : "Bring it to Jerome" — rel. 1965
  10. : "I Love to See You Strut" — rel. 1965
  11. : "Goin' to the River"
  12. : "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker) — rel. 1964
  13. : "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed)
  14. : "Singing the Blues"
  15. : "Young Love" — rel. 1964
  16. : "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" — rel. 1966, CD bonus track
  17. : "Jump Back" — rel. 1966, CD bonus track
  18. The Wranglers: "Li'l Liza Jane" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
  19. : "To Catch that Man" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
  20. : "Diggin' for Gold" — rel. 1965, CD bonus track
  21. : "She'll Be Sweeter than You" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
  22. : "Rise of the Brighton Surf" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track

Release history[]

LP: Pebbles, Volume 6[]

(#BFD-5023) — 1979

AIP Records – several reissues

CD: English Freakbeat, Volume 6[]

AIP Records – (#AIP-CD-1055) — 1996

See also[]

English Freakbeat series

Retrieved from ""