Chartbusters USA, Vol. 3

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Overview

Like the previous two volumes in Ace's Chartbusters USA series, this assembles as much music as is possible to fit onto a single-disc compilation of quality, though thematically unrelated, American chart hits from 1963-1969. The latest tracks here are actually from 1968, but it's still a good survey of smashes from the golden age of '60s rock, mixing superstars with one-shots. Classic hits from several genres are on hand here: surf and hot rod music (the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun," the Hondells' "Little Honda"), British Invasion (the Zombies' "She's Not There"), blue-eyed soul (the Box Tops' "The Letter"), Motown (Junior Walker's "(I'm A) Road Runner" and Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), garage rock (the Music Machine's "Talk Talk"), instrumentals (Booker T. & the MG's' "Soul Limbo," Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass"), Chicago soul (the Impressions' "People Get Ready"), Stax (Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour"), novelties (Henry Mancini's "The Pink Panther Theme"), psychedelia (Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild"), blues-rock (Canned Heat's "Goin' Up the Country"), and even blues (Slim Harpo's "Baby Scratch My Back"). As for tracks that don't often show up on these kind of anthologies, there aren't many, but there are a few, those including the Rose Garden's one-shot pop-folk-rock hit "Next Plane to London," the Marvelows' superb clapalong harmony soul single "I Do," and Timmy Shaw's "Gonna Send You Back to Georgia," which is certainly the most off the beaten track song here, and is better known to many in its cover version by the Animals (who changed the title to "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"). Many '60s collectors will already have most of this, but for more general fans it's a rollicking good time, buttressed by Ace's usual excellent, thorough liner notes. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	04/08/2003
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667189026
Rank:	2646

Tracks

1. (I'm A) Road Runner  - Lamont Dozier  - Brian Holland  - Eddie Holland  -  Walker
2. The Letter  -  Box Tops  - Wayne Carson
3. Fun, Fun, Fun  -  Beach Boys  - Mike Love  - Brian Wilson
4. She's Not There  - Rod Argent  -  Zombies
5. Ode to Billy Joe  - Bobbie Gentry
6. Along Comes Mary  - Tandyn Almer  -  Association
7. I Got You Babe  - Sonny Bono  -  Sonny & Cher
8. Next Plane to London  - Kenny O'Dell  -  Rose Garden
9. Down in the Boondocks  - Billy Joe Royal  - Joe South
10. You Turn Me On (Turn on Song)  -  Bluesville Bombers  - Ian Whitcomb
11. Guantanamera  - Hector Angulo  -  Sandpipers  - Pete Seeger
12. Goin' Out of My Head  -  Little Anthony & the Imperials  - Teddy Randazzo  - Bob Weinstein
13. I Do  -  Marvelows  - Melvin Mason  - Frank Paden  - Johnny Paden  - Jesse Smith  - Willie Stephenson
14. I Heard It Through the Grapevine  - Marvin Gaye  - Barrett Strong  - Norman Whitfield
15. In the Midnight Hour  - Steve Cropper  - Wilson Pickett
16. Gonna Send You Back to Georgia  - Johnnie Mae Matthews  - Timmy Shaw  - Tommy Shaw
17. Just Like Me  - Rick Dey  - Roger Hart  -  Revere
18. The Pink Panther Theme  - Henry Mancini
19. Goin' up the Country  -  Canned Heat  - Alan Wilson
20. People Get Ready  -  Impressions  - Curtis Mayfield
21. Soul Limbo  -  Booker T. & the MG's  - Steve Cropper  - Donald "Duck" Dunn  - Al Jr. Jackson  - Booker T. Jones
22. Baby Scratch My Back  - Slim Harpo  - James Moore
23. Grazing in the Grass  - Harry Elston  - Philemon Hou  - Hugh Masekela
24. Little Bit O' Soul  - John Carter  - Ken Lewis  -  Music Explosion
25. Talk Talk  - Sean Bonniwell  -  Music Machine
26. We'll Sing in the Sunshine  - Gale Garnett
27. Lies  - Beau Charles  -  Knickerbockers  - Buddy Randell
28. Little Honda  -  Hondells  - Mike Love  - Brian Wilson
29. Born to Be Wild  - Mars Bonfire  -  Steppenwolf

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gale Garnett   Primary Artist
Junior Walker & the All-Stars   Primary Artist
Canned Heat   Primary Artist
Little Anthony & the Imperials   Primary Artist
Marvin Gaye   Primary Artist
The Marvelows   Primary Artist
Steppenwolf   Primary Artist
Slim Harpo   Primary Artist
The Beach Boys   Primary Artist
Sonny & Cher   Primary Artist
Bobbie Gentry   Primary Artist
The Hondells   Primary Artist
The Impressions   Primary Artist
Billy Joe Royal   Primary Artist
The Knickerbockers   Primary Artist
The Sandpipers   Primary Artist
Music Explosion   Primary Artist
The Music Machine   Primary Artist
Rose Garden   Primary Artist
The Zombies   Primary Artist
The Box Tops   Primary Artist
Timmy Shaw   Primary Artist
Wilson Pickett   Primary Artist
Henry Mancini   Primary Artist
Paul Revere & the Raiders   Primary Artist
The Association   Primary Artist
Ian Whitcomb   Primary Artist
Booker T. & the MG's   Primary Artist
Hugh Masekela   Primary Artist
Tommy Shaw   Primary Artist
Bluesville Bombers   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Gale Garnett   Composer
Wayne Carson   Composer
John Carter   Composer
Johnnie Mae Matthews   Composer
Pete Seeger   Composer
Rob Finnis   Annotation,Liner Notes
Rod Argent   Composer
Sean Bonniwell   Composer
Philemon Hou   Composer
Teddy Randazzo   Composer
Sonny Bono   Composer
Bobbie Gentry   Composer
Bob Weinstein   Composer
Kenny O'Dell   Composer
Lamont Dozier   Composer
Barrett Strong   Composer
Curtis Mayfield   Composer
Tandyn Almer   Composer
Mike Love   Composer
Al Jackson, Jr.   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer
Alan Wilson   Composer
Brian Wilson   Composer
Buddy Randell   Composer
Wilson Pickett   Composer
Henry Mancini   Composer
Steve Cropper   Composer
Ian Whitcomb   Composer
Booker T. Jones   Composer
James Moore   Composer
Mars Bonfire   Composer
Roger Hart   Composer
Norman Whitfield   Composer
Harry Elston   Composer
Jesse Smith   Composer
Chris Popham   Package Design
Hector Angulo   Composer
Ken Lewis   Composer
Frank Paden   Composer
Rick Dey   Composer
Melvin Mason   Composer
Johnny Paden   Composer
Willie Stephenson   Composer
Beau Charles   Composer
Eddie Holland   Composer
Joe South   Composer
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Composer