It's Only Make Believe - Robert Gordon, Nance, Jack
Wheel of Fortune - Robert Gordon, Benjamin
Am I Blue - Robert Gordon, Akst
Walk on By - Robert Gordon, Hayes, K.
I Just Met a Memory - Robert Gordon, Gordon
Blue Christmas - Robert Gordon, Hayes
Sweet Love on My Mind - Robert Gordon, Walker
The Worrying Kind - Robert Gordon, Lampert
Bad Boy - Robert Gordon, Wilde
A Picture of You - Robert Gordon, Beveridge
Torture - Robert Gordon, Loudermilk
Crazy Man Crazy - Robert Gordon, Haley
Born to Lose - Robert Gordon, Gordon
Nervous - Robert Gordon, Tarver
Uptown - Robert Gordon, Melson
Is It Wrong (For Loving You) - Robert Gordon, McPherson, W.
Need You - Robert Gordon, Wheeler
Are You Gonna Be The One - Robert Gordon,
Someday, Someway - Robert Gordon, Crenshaw, Marshall
Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die - Robert Gordon,
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
Lover Boy - Robert Gordon, Johnson, M.
Drivin' Wheel - Robert Gordon, Burnett, T. Bone
Take Me Back - Robert Gordon, Johnson, M.
But But - Robert Gordon, Crenshaw, M.
Something's Gonna Happen - Robert Gordon,
Wasting My Time - Robert Gordon, Crenshaw, M.
It Hurts Too Much - Robert Gordon,
Run for Your Life - Robert Gordon, Lennon, J.
One Day Left - Robert Gordon,
Suspicion - Robert Gordon,
Movin' Too Slow - Robert Gordon,
You Girl - Robert Gordon,
I Found You - Robert Gordon,
Signs of Love - Robert Gordon, Spedding, Chris
Girl Like You - Robert Gordon,
So Young So Bad - Robert Gordon,
2007 Released Digitally Remastered Double CD Definitive Collection of the Former Tuff Darts Frontman's Solo Recordings that Originally Came Out on the Private Stock Label (Also the First Home of Blondie) in 1977 at the Hei... more »ght of the Punk Revolution. Gordon's Style Paid Great Homage to Original Rockers of the 50's and He was Doing Rockabilly Years Before the Stray Cats Would Hit Pay Dirt with the Style. With Both Link Wray and Chris Spedding as Collaborators (And Richard Gottehrer in the Producer's Chair), Gordon Delivered Some of the Best Inspired Music of the Era. This Definitive Collection of "The RCA Years" Compiles Songs from "Rock Billy Boogie" (1979), the Outstanding "Bad Boy" (1980), "Are You Gonna Be the One" (1981) as Well as a Selection of Tracks from "The Great Lost Album".« less
2007 Released Digitally Remastered Double CD Definitive Collection of the Former Tuff Darts Frontman's Solo Recordings that Originally Came Out on the Private Stock Label (Also the First Home of Blondie) in 1977 at the Height of the Punk Revolution. Gordon's Style Paid Great Homage to Original Rockers of the 50's and He was Doing Rockabilly Years Before the Stray Cats Would Hit Pay Dirt with the Style. With Both Link Wray and Chris Spedding as Collaborators (And Richard Gottehrer in the Producer's Chair), Gordon Delivered Some of the Best Inspired Music of the Era. This Definitive Collection of "The RCA Years" Compiles Songs from "Rock Billy Boogie" (1979), the Outstanding "Bad Boy" (1980), "Are You Gonna Be the One" (1981) as Well as a Selection of Tracks from "The Great Lost Album".
CD Reviews
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BOB | LOS ANGELES, CA | 10/24/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
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There's a bit of marketing deception involved with two aspects of this release: The Product Description describing this as "digitally remastered" and the title, "The RCA Years".
First, the audio: The master used for disc one is the EXACT same master used for the 2001 Rock Billy Boogie/Bad Boy Collectables CD: Disc one of this set is just that EXACT same disc, track-for-track, bit-for-bit. Technically, BMG remastered the disc back in 2001, so it IS remastered, but there's no new restoration work that has been done just for this release, which the cleverly-worded text above seems to imply.
Second, the title: Usually, when one sees a CD release title with "Years" in the title, one is expecting to be purchasing the complete body of work while at that label. Not so here. Disc two is actually a hodgepodge of tracks from the three subsequent RG albums after "Bad Boy", all of which are available individually.
It's a great collection, but if you're purchasing it with the expectation of new, 2007 mastering (like I did), and you already have the Collectables disc, well, then, you might want to reconsider.
Remember that old joke about the lawyers at the bottom of the ocean being a great start? Well, it would be only if all the marketing guys were made to stand on their shoulders...
Track Listings (26) - Disc #1