Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - A Golden Classics Edition (19 torrent

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in August 2011.


Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - A Golden Classics Edition (1997)

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Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com) DVD-ROM: LG GDR816B
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail)
AMG Bio.txt
AMG Review.txt
info.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

First biography paragraph from All Music (by Jason Ankeny):

During the late '60s -- a period forever distinguished as rock's most radical, innovative, and far-reaching -- Gary Puckett and the Union Gap forged a series of massive chart ballads almost otherworldly in their sheer earnestness and melodrama. Likely the only pop band of the era to play two nightly shows in the Catskills -- the early gig for their younger fans, the later appearance for the fans' parents -- the group pioneered the hip-to-be-square concept two decades before spiritual descendants Huey Lewis and the News; clad in Civil War-era get-ups (complete with fictitious military ranks) and bizarrely pedophilic lyrics, Puckett and the Union Gap were in their own way as far-out and singular as any other act of the period.

Read all of the bio at:
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-puckett-p5196/biography

All Music Album Review (by William Ruhlmann):

In essence, Collectables Records' Gary Puckett & the Union Gap compilation A Golden Classics Edition is a two-fer CD combining the group's first two albums, named after its first two singles, Woman, Woman and Young Girl. But the addition at the end of the disc of the next five singles -- "Lady Willpower," "Over You," "Don't Give in to Him," "This Girl Is a Woman Now," and "Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance" -- makes this a more thorough best-of for the group, at a generous 76-minute running time. Gary Puckett & the Union Gap was very much a singles act; the first six of those seven singles, all of which reached the Top 15 and four of which went gold, are all most people know the band for. The full contents of the first two albums suggest that that is all the group should be known for, too. The albums are clearly afterthoughts thrown together to generate some LP sales tied into the hit singles. They are dominated by covers of hit records that were in the charts at the time: Glen Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (although, to be fair, Puckett recorded the latter before Campbell scored a hit with it); Cher's "You Better Sit Down Kids"; Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman"; the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody"; the Beatles' "Lady Madonna"; Petula Clark's "Kiss Me Goodbye"; Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey"; Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn"; and Aretha Franklin's "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone." The arrangements ape the hit versions, and Puckett gamely applies his tastefully soulful voice to them. There are also some other songs, all of them forgettable except for a good version of Tim Hardin's "Don't Make Promises." An actual greatest-hits set would probably include Puckett's two solo chart entries and selections from subsequent albums. But this collection really contains all that a '60s music fan would want from Gary Puckett & the Union Gap.

Taken from: http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-golden-classics-edition-r259334/review

Amazon.com's page: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000935

Track List:

01. Woman, Woman
02. M'lady
03. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
04. Paindrops
05. Believe Me
06. I Want A New Day
07. You Better Sit Down Kids
08. Kentucky Woman
09. My Son
10. To Love Somebody
11. Don't Make Promises
12. Young Girl
13. Lady Madonna
14. Kiss Me Goodbye
15. The Pleasure Of You
16. Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife
17. I'm Losing You
18. Honey (I Miss You)
19. The Mighty Quinn
20. Wait Till The Sun Shines On You
21. (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
22. Say You Don't Need Me
23. Don't Give In To Him
24. Lady Willpower
25. Let's Give Adam & Eve Another Chance
26. Over You
27. This Girl Is A Woman Now