Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars

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Overview

A sequel to the 2004 Ace CD Girls with Guitars, this likewise focuses on guitar-oriented, girl-sung 1960s rock from the '60s, though to be technical one 1970 cut sneaks in. These aren't all self-contained female groups who played their own instruments (although a few of them are); in fact, a number of these artists didn't play their own music, and some of them were solo acts, not bands. The common factor, however, is that all of them did play rougher, more guitar-heavy rock than the norm for woman rockers of the era. There's a fairly narrow pool of discs to choose from when you're making an anthology like this (though not as narrow as many people realize), which makes it hard if not impossible to make an "all killer no filler" compilation. That's how it goes with Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars, which is usually fun, and occasionally very good, but often more interesting for historical oddity and energy than for the quality of the songs or performers. Still, there are some genuinely stand-out tracks here, none more so than Beverley Jones' "Hear You Talking," which is average Merseybeat musically, but has a vocal that's incredibly vicious by 1964 standards, and a chorus ("I'll cut you dead...if I hear you talking about her") that's downright gangsta in this company. Also very good is Sharon Tandy's "Hold On," justly hailed as a first-rate mod rocker long before its appearance on this compilation, and Ann-Margret's unlikely (and mighty strange) psychedelic Lee Hazlewood-written and produced 1968 rarity "You Turned My Head Around." Nothing else on the CD galvanizes like these three items, but it does at least present a wide range, from Merseybeat (including Liverpool's self-contained Liverbirds) and Beatles novelties to She Trinity's "He Fought the Law" (reportedly the inspiration for the Clash's "I Fought the Law" cover, according to the liner notes); a folk-rocker co-written by Erik Darling of the Rooftop Singers (Project X's "Don't You Think It's Fine"); and a rocking Donovan song that Donovan himself never put on his records (Karen Verros' "You Just Gotta Know My Mind"). Also neat is the Girls' previously unreleased "Here I Am in Love Again," with backing by the Beau Brummels, which was written and produced by Sly Stone, even if the vocals are pretty shaky. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	04/14/2009
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667036627
Rank:	77615

Tracks

1. I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy  - Ronnie Dante  - Kris Resnick  -  What Four
2. You Don't Love Me  - Tommy Raye  -  Starlets
3. Shakin' All Over  - Frederick Heath  -  Raylene & The Blue Angels
4. He Fought the Law  - Sonny Curtis  -  She Trinity
5. No  - Nat Kipner  -  McCann
6. He's Something Else  -  Liverbirds  - Rick Shorter
7. Hear You Talking  - Beverley Jones  -  Prestons
8. Shake a Tail Feather  -  Debutantes  - Otis Hayes  - Verlie Rice
9. The Beatles Are in Town  -  Fondettes
10. Don't You Think It's Fine  -  Project X  - Pat Street
11. It's a Nice World to Visit (But Not to Live In)  -  Ann-Margret  - Larry Collins
12. Hold On  - Gordon Haskell  - Sharon Tandy
13. You Just Gotta Know My Mind  - Karen Verros
14. You Turned My Head Around  -  Ann-Margret  - Lee Hazlewood
15. I've Been Workin' on You  -  Feminine Complex
16. Here I Am in Love Again  -  Girls
17. Tell Me  - Mick Jagger  -  Termites
18. Talking About You  - Chuck Berry  -  Liverbirds
19. Baby, I Dig Love  - Rudy Clark  -  What Four
20. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone  - Tommy Boyce  - Bobby Hart  -  Pivots
21. He's About a Mover  -  Liverbirds
22. That's My Guy  -  Cheryll & Pam  - Steve Cropper
23. Fraternity, USA  - Frank Guida  -  Lady-Bugs
24. Climb That Tree  - Stephen Cotton  - Alan Hodge  - Richard Leigh  -  She Trinity

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Liverbirds   Primary Artist
Fondettes   Primary Artist
Debutantes   Primary Artist
The Starlets   Primary Artist
Karen Verros   Primary Artist
Ann-Margret   Primary Artist
Raylene & The Blue Angels   Primary Artist
Cheryll & Pam   Primary Artist
The Prestons   Primary Artist
Project X   Primary Artist
Sharon Tandy   Primary Artist
Beverley Jones   Primary Artist
Toni McCann & The Blue Jays   Primary Artist
The Lady-Bugs   Primary Artist
The Termites   Primary Artist
The Girls   Primary Artist
The Pivots   Primary Artist
The She Trinity   Primary Artist
What Four   Primary Artist
The Feminine Complex   Primary Artist
Teo Macero   Conductor
Jack Nitzsche   Conductor
Earl Guest   Director

Technical Credits

Frederick Heath   Composer
Mike Curb   Producer
Don Arden   Producer
Bruce Scott   Producer
Kris Resnick   Composer
Alan Hodge   Composer
Teo Macero   Producer,Arranger
Ted Taylor   Producer
Sonny Curtis   Composer
Bob d'Orleans   Producer
Mick Patrick   Liner Notes
Bobby Hart   Composer
Jack Nitzsche   Arranger
Chuck Berry   Composer
Larry Collins   Composer
Carlos Olms   Producer
Frank Guida   Composer,Producer
Lee Hazen   Engineer
Lee Hazlewood   Composer,Producer
Rudy Clark   Composer
Richard Leigh   Composer
Duncan Cowell   Mastering
Gordon Haskell   Composer
Mike Minor   Producer
Tommy Boyce   Composer
Rob Shread   Audio Restoration
David Hassinger   Producer
Steve Cropper   Composer,Producer
Pat Street   Composer
Ivory Joe Hunter   Arranger
Chris Strachwitz   Producer
Nat Kipner   Composer,Producer
Mick Jagger   Composer
Neil Dell   Package Design
Ronnie Dante   Composer
James Kirschstein   Producer
Tommy Raye   Composer
Rick Shorter   Composer
Verlie Rice   Composer
Stephen Cotton   Composer
Frank Fenter   Producer
Sly & Freddie   Producer
Otis Hayes   Composer