Track Listings

1 The Packabeats - Theme from "The Traitors"

2 The Packabeats - Evening in Paris

3 The Tornados - Telstar

4 The Tornados - Earthy

5 The Outlaws - Ku-Pow!

6 The Outlaws - Sioux Seranade

7 The Moontrekkers - There's Something at the Bottom of the Well

8 The Moontrekkers - Hatashiai (Japanese Sword Fight)

9 Flee-Rekkers - Stage to Cimarron

10 The Fentones - the Mexican

11 The Fentones - the Breeze & I

12 The Fentones - Just for Jerry

13 Judd Proctor - Mad

14 Judd Proctor - the Turk

15 Judd Proctor - Backfire

16 Judd Proctor - It's Bluesy

17 The Echoes - Cloak and Dagger

18 Ted Taylor Four - M1

19 Ted Taylor Four - Fried Onions

20 Ted Taylor Four - Surf Rider

21 Ted Taylor Four - Spotlight

22 Dennis Newey - Checkpoint

23 Dennis Newey - Title Unknown

24 Dennis Newey - Border Patrol

25 Dennis Newey - Yea Yea

26 Sounds Inc. - Taboo

27 Bert Weedon - Poinciana (Song of the Tree)

28 Bert Weedon - Twist a Napoli

29 The Eagles - Bristol Express

30 The Eagles - Exodus

31 The Eagles - March of the Eagles

32 The Phantoms - Phantoma

33 Tony Hatch - Out of This World

Editorial Reviews

UK collection. The recordings made by producer Joe Meek in the late '50s and early '60s changed the face of pop music and revolutionized the recording processes behind it. Claiming to "Paint pictures in sound," Meek enjoyed a string of hits but it was 'Telstar, his own composition, performed by the Tornados for which he will best be remembered. Hit-maker to Britain's first generation of homegrown pop stars, Meek was an outsider who singlehandedly challenged the supremacy of the record industry establishment. The Shadows' monumental hit 'Apache', had ushered in the golden era of British instrumental guitar pop. They, along with John Barry, Bert Weedon and, of course, Joe Meek's 'Tornados' scored hits with consistency, while others merely flirted with chart success. The four other artists on the edition's nine Meek productions, the Packabeats, the Moontrekkers, Flee-Rekkers and the Outlaws all belong in this category; each however a masterpiece in the sound technology created by Meek at his Holloway Road studio. El.