The Fantastic Baggys - Anywhere The Girls Are! 1964-66 (2000 Sundazed) Flac &mp3@320

Along with the entire Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' LP, this CD adds a heap o' extras: the 1964 non-LP single "Debbie Be True"/"Anywhere the Girls Are," a couple of songs that showed up on a 1966 South African LP, the 1965 non-LP single "It Was I," and nine alternate/instrumental/vocal overdub/variations versions, most of them previously unreleased. "Debbie Be True," complete with "Don't Worry Baby"-type guitar chording, would have been pretty fair Beach Boys album filler; "It Was I" is a not-bad update of the old Skip & Flip hit rockaballad; and "(Goes to Show) Just How Wrong You Can Be," which would be re-recorded by P.F. Sloan in the mid-'60s as a solo artist, shows Sloan and Steve Barri's growth into more serious directions. To be honest, though, most of those extras are nothing more than very modest variations from the official tracks. But what the heck, if you're bothering to hunt down a Fantastic Baggys compilation in the first place, you might as well have everything you can, right? In addition there are lengthy liner notes, even including first-hand quotes from Sloan and Barri. It remains about the best Jan & Dean album you could track down that is not, in fact, Jan & Dean.(Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com)

As the preview already says, this is clearly going in the direction of Jan And Dean. The band is really good, the arrangements are cleverly done, just like you need it in this kind of music. Most of the songs are written by Sloan and Barri, who were real hit guarantees at that time. The songs are well done and imho this is a recommendable fun. If you like Jan & Dean and similar artists you will like this, too.

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