The Sorrows - Pink Purple Yellow & Red: Complete Sorrows (CD)

Details: Four CD set. Best known for their 1965 hit, the brooding garage pop masterpiece 'Take A Heart', Coventry band The Sorrows cut a clutch of similarly vital 45s and the Take A Heart album before frontman Don Fardon left in 1966. While Fardon went on to a solo career, The Sorrows regrouped and moved to Italy, where they had a couple of minor hit singles and released the psych-rock album Old Songs, New Songs before breaking up at the end of the decade. While those two distinct phases of the band have been individually anthologized before, Pink Purple Yellow And Red represents the first time that they have been assembled under one roof, and as such stands as the definitive document of The Sorrows' fascinating career. In addition to those pivotal mid-Sixties singles, the package includes the entire "Take A Heart" album in both mono and stereo, the "Old Songs, New Songs" LP and an earlier acetate-only demo album that was scrapped when two members of the band left. The set also features their collaborations with soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone, their title song to the Italian spy movie Ypotron, a superb acetate-only early 1968 single, spin-off singles by The Eggy and Renegade, a 1980 live show from the reformed band and, in a thrilling new archival find, four previously unissued 1964 recordings with legendary producer Joe Meek. Housed in a clamshell box, and including a lavish booklet containing many rare photos and a detailed essay on the band's activities, the set Pink Purple Yellow And Red is an essential purchase for anyone with more than a passing interest in Sixties British pop.

Tracklist:

1. I Don't Wanna Be Free
2. Come with Me
3. Baby
4. Teenage Letter
5. Take a Heart
6. We Should Get Along Fine
7. You've Got What I Want
8. No No No No
9. Let the Live Live
10. Don't Sing No Sad Songs for Me
11. Let Me in
12. How Love Used to Be
13. Pink Purple Yellow and Red
14. My Gal
15. She's Got the Action (Album Mono)
16. Cara-Lin (Album Mono)
17. Come with Me (Album Mono)
18. Gonna Find a Cave
19. I Take What I Want
20. Baby All the Time
21. Baby (1966 Re-Recording)
22. Matchbox
23. Hoochie Coochie Man
24. Don't Start Me Talkin'
25. Georgia on My Mind
26. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
27. Baby (Album Version Stereo)
28. No No No No (Album Version Stereo)
29. Take a Heart (Album Version Stereo)
30. She's Got the Action (Album Stereo)
31. How Love Used to Be (Album Version Stereo)
32. Teenage Letter (Album Version Stereo)
33. I Don't Wanna Be Free (Album Version Stereo)
34. Don't Sing No Sad Songs for Me (Album Version Stereo)
35. Cara-Lin (Album Stereo)
36. We Should Get Along Fine (Album Version Stereo)
37. Come with Me (Album Version Stereo)
38. Let Me in (Album Version Stereo)
39. Pioggia Sul Tuo Viso #1
40. Pioggia Sul Tuo Viso #2
41. Ypotron
42. Zabadak
43. Which Way
44. My Way of Thinking
45. Nimm Mein Herz (Take a Heart German Language)
46. Sie War Mein Girl (We Should Get Along Fine German Language)
47. Mi Si Spezza Il Cuore (Take a Heart Italian Language)
48. Vivi (Baby Italian Language)
49. La Liberta Costa Cara (How Love Used to Be Italian Language)
50. Verde Rosso Giallo Blu (Pink Purple Yellow and Red Italian Language)
51. No No No No (Italian Language)
52. Same Old Road
53. Hey Mr. Policeman
54. Heaven Is in Your Mind
55. Mary J
56. Hey Hey
57. The Makers
58. Io Amo Te Per Lei (Which Way Italian Language)
59. Dear Mr. Fantasy
60. Rollin' Over
61. Per Una Donna... No! (Listen to Me Italian Language)
62. 6 Ft 7 ½ Inch Shark Fishing Blues
63. Old Songs New Songs
64. Per Una Donna... No!
65. (Listen to Me Italian Language) (Single Version)
66. Amore Limone (Each and Every Day Italian Language)
67. Hey Hey (Single Version)
68. 6 Ft. 7 ½ Inch Shark Fishing Blues (Single Version)
69. Hookey (Pip Whitcher/Roger Lomas Demo)
70. You're Still Mine (Pip Whitcher/Roger Lomas Demo)
71. Armchair King (Pip Whitcher/Roger Lomas Demo)
72. You're Still Mine (The Eggy)
73. Hookey (The Eggy)
74. A Little Rock'n'roll (Renegade)
75. My Revolution (Renegade)
76. Hey Hey (Alternative Version)
77. New York Mining Disaster 1941
78. Answer My Questions
79. Dear Mr. Fantasy (Alternative Version)
80. We Can Work It Out
81. The Makers (Alternative Version)
82. Heaven Is in Your Mind (Alternative Version)
83. Dogs and Cats
84. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
85. Move Da Show
86. Matchbox/Rock'n'roll Music
87. Baby What You Want Me to Do
88. Bye Bye Bird
89. Let Me in
90. What'd I Say
91. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
92. No Reply
93. A Little Rock'n'roll
94. 5-4-3-2-1
95. Take a Heart