The Fireballs - Firebeat! The Great Lost Vocal Album (2009)

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The Fireballs - Firebeat! The Great Lost Vocal Album (2009)
Rock'n'roll | FLAC (tracks) | Covers | 01:01:04 | 440 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Ace Records | Tracks: 24 | Rls.date: 2009

The Fireballs were best known as an instrumental act, landing chart hits with the likes of "Torquay," "Quite a Party," and "Bulldog," and their most successful vocal sides found the band taking second-billing to guitarist and sometimes lead singer Jimmy Gilmer, most notably "Sugar Shack." But popular belief to the contrary, the Fireballs made some top-notch vocal recordings that were every bit as tough, tight, and exciting as their instrumental hits, and Firebeat! The Great Lost Vocal Album collects the cream of their vocal sides on one disc. While "Sugar Shack" sounded like a bubblegum pop number, at their best the Fireballs were a great straightforward rock combo, and the material here certainly falls into that category, with George Tomsco and Gilmer delivering sharp, concise guitar lines as Stan Lark and Doug Roberts held down the rhythm with easy authority on bass and drums. Gilmer was also a much more passionate and gutsy singer than "Sugar Shack" would suggest, and his covers of "Codeine," "Louie Go Home," "Summertime Blues," and "Bottle of Wine" are soulful and convincing. Norman Petty's production gets this music on tape with just the right amount of polish, and though in many ways the Fireballs sound like the sort of band that fell by the wayside after the British Invasion and the later psychedelic era took center stage, Firebeat! documents a superb rock combo whose members were fine hands in the studio – left to their own devices, they could have been New Mexico's answer to the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section with chops and smarts like this. The CD also includes Quicktime files of three songs from a 1968 television appearance, with Tomsco and Lark demonstrating a very impressive camel walk on "Bottle of Wine."
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Tracklist:

01. The Fireballs - Say I Am (What I Am)
02. The Fireballs - Lies
03. Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Thunder & Lightnin'
04. Jimmy Gilmer - Codine
05. The Fireballs - Louie Go Home
06. Jimmy Gilmer - Come To Me
07. The Fireballs - (I Don't Want) Your Kind Of Love
08. The Fireballs - Never You Mind
09. Jimmy Gilmer - Somebody Stole My Watermelon
10. The Fireballs - You're So Good To Me
11. Chuck Tharp & the Fireballs - Tough Times
12. The Fireballs - Dancing By Myself
13. The Fireballs - Hungry Hungry Hungry
14. The Fireballs - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
15. The Fireballs - Medley: Summertime Blues/Land Of 1,000 Dances/Shotgun
16. Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - What Do You Do
17. Jimmy Gilmer - Lonesome Tears
18. The Fireballs - Kansas City
19. Jimmy Gilmer - Appreciate A Girl
20. The Fireballs - Here It Comes Again
21. The Fireballs - Bottle Of Wine
22. The Fireballs - One Fine Day
23. The Fireballs - Baby, What's Wrong?
24. The Fireballs - Atlanta Georgia Stray

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