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Pebbles, Volume 6 is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

among the LP's in the Pebbles series

Pebbles series

Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP...

. Subtitled The Roots of Mod, Volume 6 is the only album in the Pebbles series that features primarily British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

music. The Pebbles, Volume 6 CD is not at all related to this album.

Release data

The album was released in 1980 by BFD Records (as #BFD-5023) and was kept in print for many years by AIP Records

AIP Records

AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw's Bomp! Records, being launched in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series. The abbreviation AIP stands for "Archive International Productions". The first 10 volumes in the Pebbles series had been released by BFD Records of Kookaburra,...

.

Although the Pebbles, Volume 6 1994 CD has completely different music, most of the tracks on this album were reissued in 1996 on CD by AIP Records

AIP Records

as English Freakbeat, Volume 6. For convenience, information on this CD is also included so that a comparison can be easily made between the tracks on these two highly similar albums.

Omitted Tracks on the English Freakbeat CD

As with the first five volumes of the Pebbles series

Pebbles series

Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP...

, AIP Records

AIP Records

omitted some tracks on the LP in the reissue of the album as English Freakbeat, Volume 6. In this case, two excellent covers on the LP are not included on the CD: "Leave My Kitten Alone" by the First Gear and the Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...

classic, "Here 'Tis" by the Betterdays. Additionally, "Singing the Blues" by the Rats

The Rats (UK group)

The Rats were a rock band, first established in 1963, from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.In May 1998, the independent record label, Angel Air released a CD compilation of their work, entitled The Rats' Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone and the Rats From Hull.-Band members:Members...

is omitted, though the Jason Eddie & the Centremen performance of this song is included on the CD in place of their song on the LP.

LP: Pebbles, Volume 6

Side 1:

The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home", 2:17 – rel. 1964
Junco Partners: "Take This Hammer
Take This Hammer
"Take This Hammer" is a prison work song. It was collected by John and Alan Lomax. The song "Nine Pound Hammer" has a few phrases in common with this song, and the same Roud number. "Swannanoa Tunnel" is similar, and this group of songs are referred to as 'hammer songs' or 'roll songs'...

", 2:05
The Fairies: "I'll Dance", 2:01 – rel. 1964
The Cheynes: "Respectable" (The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

), 1:50
The First Gear: "Leave My Kitten Alone", 2:12, vinyl-only track
The Betterdays: "Here 'Tis" (Elias B. McDaniel), 2:07, vinyl-only track
The Wild Ones: "Bowie Man", 2:20 – rel. 1964
David John and the Mood: "Bring it to Jerome" (Jerome Green), 2:07 – rel. 1965
The Wheels: "Road Block", 3:14, vinyl-only track

Side 2:

The Fairies: "Anytime at All", 2:09 – rel. 1964
Rhythm & Blues, Inc.: "Honey Don't
Honey Don't
"Honey Don't" is a song written by Carl Perkins, originally released on January 1, 1956 as the B-side of the "Blue Suede Shoes" single. Both songs became rockabilly classics...

", 2:15 – rel. 1965
Erkey Grant & the Eerwigs: "I'm a Hog for You", 1:58
David John and the Mood: "I Love to See You Strut", 2:02 – rel. 1965
Bill & Will: "Goin' to the River", 2:20
Blues by Five: "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

), 2:10
Steve Aldo: "Baby What You Want Me to Do
Baby What You Want Me to Do
"Baby What You Want Me to Do" is a blues song that was written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1959...

" (Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed
Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries...

), 3:28 – rel. 1964
Jason Eddie & the Centremen: "Spoonful
Spoonful
"Spoonful" is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. It is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton , itself related to "All I Want Is A Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan...

", 2:17, vinyl-only track
The Rats
The Rats (UK group)
The Rats were a rock band, first established in 1963, from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.In May 1998, the independent record label, Angel Air released a CD compilation of their work, entitled The Rats' Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone and the Rats From Hull.-Band members:Members...

: "Singing the Blues
Singing the Blues
"Singing the Blues" is a popular song written by Melvin Endsley and published in 1956. The best-known recording was released in October 1956 by Guy Mitchell and spent nine weeks at #1 on the U.S...

", 2:28
[Bo and Peep]: "Young Love", 2:35

CD: English Freakbeat, Volume 6

The Fairies: "Get Yourself Home" – rel. 1964
The Fairies: "I'll Dance" – rel. 1964
The Fairies: "Anytime at All" – rel. 1964
Junco Partners: "Take This Hammer
Take This Hammer
"Take This Hammer" is a prison work song. It was collected by John and Alan Lomax. The song "Nine Pound Hammer" has a few phrases in common with this song, and the same Roud number. "Swannanoa Tunnel" is similar, and this group of songs are referred to as 'hammer songs' or 'roll songs'...

" — rel. 1965
The Cheynes: "Respectable" (The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

)
The Wild Ones: "Bowie Man" — rel. 1964
Rhythm & Blues, Inc.: "Honey Don't
Honey Don't
"Honey Don't" is a song written by Carl Perkins, originally released on January 1, 1956 as the B-side of the "Blue Suede Shoes" single. Both songs became rockabilly classics...

" — rel. 1965
Erkey Grant & the Eerwigs: "I'm a Hog for You" — rel. 1963
David John & the Mood: "Bring it to Jerome" — rel. 1965
David John & the Mood: "I Love to See You Strut" — rel. 1965
Bill & Will: "Goin' to the River"
Blues by Five: "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

) — rel. 1964
Steve Aldo: "Baby What You Want Me to Do
Baby What You Want Me to Do
"Baby What You Want Me to Do" is a blues song that was written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1959...

" (Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed
Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries...

)
Jason Eddie & the Centremen: "Singing the Blues
Singing the Blues
"Singing the Blues" is a popular song written by Melvin Endsley and published in 1956. The best-known recording was released in October 1956 by Guy Mitchell and spent nine weeks at #1 on the U.S...

"
Bo & Peep: "Young Love" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
Chicago Line: "Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" — rel. 1966, CD bonus track
Chicago Line: "Jump Back" — rel. 1966, CD bonus track
The Wranglers: "Li'l Liza Jane
Li'l Liza Jane
Li'l Liza Jane, also known as Little Liza Jane and Liza Jane, is a song dating back at least to the 1910s. It has become a perennial standard both as a song and an instrumental in traditional jazz, folk music, and bluegrass, and versions have repeatedly appeared in other genres including rock and...

" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
David John & the Mood: "To Catch that Man" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
David John & the Mood: "Diggin' for Gold" — rel. 1965, CD bonus track
Nix-Nomads: "She'll Be Sweeter than You" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track
Bo & Peep: "Rise of the Brighton Surf" — rel. 1964, CD bonus track

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