Merseybeats / Merseys I Stand Accused: Complete Merseybeats & Merseys CD

Two CDs. Emerging from the Liverpool group scene during the goldrush years, The Merseybeats' combination of Everly Brothers-style vocal harmonies and adroitly-chosen beat boom ballads saw them record several hit singles (including 'I Think Of You', which reached the Top Five), a brace of very popular EPs and a self-titled album that spent a couple of months in the LP charts. After their superb version of 'I Stand Accused' (a big favourite of local teenager Elvis Costello, later to cover the song) failed to become the huge success that it deserved to be, group leaders Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley reinvented themselves as vocal duo The Merseys, who recorded one of the classic mid-Sixties pop hits in 'Sorrow', subsequently quoted in Beatles track 'It's All Too Much' and taken back into the charts a few years later by David Bowie. I Stand Accused: The Complete Merseybeats and Merseys Sixties Recordings features everything known to have been recorded by both acts, including demos, out-takes, alternative versions and home recordings. The set also incorporates the various splinter projects that took place during the same time-frame, with a pseudonymous single as Crackers joined by some highly sought-after 45s involving Merseybeats drummer John Banks and former Big Three bassist Johnny Gustafson, who had briefly replaced Kinsley in The Merseybeats.

1. It's Love That Really Counts 2. The Fortune Teller 3. I Think of You 4. Mister Moonlight 5. Long Tall Sally 6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry 7. Shame 8. You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover 9. Don't Turn Around 10. Really Mystified 11. Milkman 12. Hello Young Lovers 13. He Will Break Your Heart 14. Funny Face 15. The Girl That I Marry 16. Fools Like Me 17. My Heart and I 18. Bring It on Home to Me 19. Lavender Blue 20. Jumping Jonah 21. The Things I Want to Hear (Pretty Words) 22. Wishin' and Hopin' 23. Last Night (I Made a Little Girl Cry) 24. See Me Back 25. Don't Let It Happen to Us 26. It Would Take a Long, Long Time 27. I Love You, Yes I Do 28. Good, Good Lovin' 29. Soldier of Love 30. I Stand Accused 31. All My Life 32. Our Day Will Come 33. Nur Unsere Liebe Zahlt (It's Love That Really Counts) 34. Nur de Allein (I Think of You) 35. Sorrow 36. Some Other Day 37. So Sad About Us 38. Love Will Continue 39. Rhythm of Love 40. Is It Love? 41. The Cat 42. Change of Heart 43. Penny in My Pocket 44. I Hope You're Happy 45. Lovely Loretta 46. Dreaming 47. Honey Do 48. It Happens All the Time 49. Sorrow (Alternative Version) 50. Nothing Can Change This Love 51. Do Me a Favour 52. Just to Be with You 53. Sweet Day 54. Take Me for a Little While 55. Make Me Your Number One 56. Bumper to Bumper 57. Scrape My Boot 58. Cool It 59. Mark of Her Head 60. Hello Memories 61. Pretend 62. So How Come (No-One Loves Me) 63. All I Have to Do Is Dream