Girls With Guitars

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Overview

To clear up some inevitable confusion right off the bat, this does not feature the same music as the 1989 LP compilation also titled Girls With Guitars, which came out on Impact, a subsidiary of Ace, the same label that put out the 2004 CD also titled Girls With Guitars [Ace]. The 1989 Impact LP bearing this title was devoted entirely to '60s female British acts, with the exception of Goldie & the Gingerbreads, an American band who were based in Britain in the mid-'60s. The 2004 Ace CD called Girls With Guitars [Ace] has 24 entirely different tracks, all of them by American-'60s girl groups, many (though not all) of whom played their own instruments. Goldie & the Gingerbreads appear on the 2004 Girls With Guitars [Ace] as well, but are represented by four mid-'60s tracks that don't appear on the 1989 Girls with Guitars LP. Got all that? Moving on to the music, it's okay and usually competent enough to avoid categorization as mere novelty. But it's not great -- it's mid-level period-'60s rock (actually from 1963-70), reflecting girl group, soul, British Invasion, and pop-rock trends of the day. Some of it has the raw guitar rock approach associated with garage rock, but not all of it does, by any means. Few will have heard of any of these acts, save perhaps Goldie & the Gingerbreads (whose tracks are only so-so); one-time Ikette Pat Powdrill, represented by an atypical (for her) piece of typical 1966 L.A. flower power pop/rock, "They Are the Lonely"; and, perhaps, She, who got some notoriety decades later after Ace issued a CD of that garage band's material. There's also Lonnie Mack, who's not a woman, of course, but whose "Sticks and Stones" featured vocals by women singers the Charmaines. Some of the standout tracks are the Beatlettes' "Only Seventeen," one of the most British Invasion-influenced songs on the disc (as if you couldn't tell from the group's name), though some of the melody borrows liberally from Lesley Gore's "She's a Fool"; "Help Me Boy," the Daughters of Eve's awkward, gender-adjusted cover of the Animals' hit "Help Me Girl"; the Girls' moody 1965 single "My Baby"/"My Love"; and the 2 of Clubs' version of Petula Clark's "Heart" (which actually charted in Billboard in the "bubbling under" section of the Hot Hundred in 1966), a song strong enough that it's hard to ruin, though both Clark and the Remains did better versions. This anthology will benefit from much stronger distribution than the many volumes in the Girls in the Garage series, the best-known anthologies of the small-'60s girl group/garage group genre. But to be honest, if you cherry-picked the best tracks from that series into one or two volumes, you'd have collections that would blow Girls With Guitars [Ace] out of the water. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	06/08/2004
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667198929

Tracks

1. My Baby  - Margaret Sandoval
2. I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
3. Get Away From Me
4. Boy, What'll You Do Then  -  Denise & Company  - Denise Kaufman
5. Chew Chew Fee Fi Fum  -  Goldie & the Gingerbreads  - Bobby Lance  - Fran Robbins
6. Only Seventeen  -  Beattle-ettes  - Billy Kelly  - Joe Monaco
7. Do the Dog
8. I Got a Guy  - Carl Cisco  -  Lynn
9. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)  -  Goodees  - Don Smith  - Cyril E. Vetter
10. (I Could Write a Book) About My Baby  -  Pandoras  - Bob Stone
11. They Are the Lonely  - Pat Powdrill  - Nick Risi
12. Heart  - Georges Aber  - Petula Clark  - Tony Hatch  -  Two of Clubs
13. Help Me Boy  -  Daughters of Eve  - Scott English  - Larry Weiss
14. Skinny Vinnie  -  Goldie & the Gingerbreads  - Stan Green  - Goldie Zelkowitz
15. Hully Gully Guitar  - Peter Antell  - John Linde  -  Percells
16. Rock City  - Carl Cisco  -  Lynn
17. Sticks and Stones  -  Charmaines  - Lonnie Mack  - Titus Turner
18. Take My Hand  -  Goldie & the Gingerbreads  - Bobby Lance  - Fran Robbins
19. Boys Can Be Mean  - Kenny O'Dell
20. Guitars, Guitars, Guitars  - Al Casey  - Lee Hazlewood
21. V.I.P.  -  Goldie & the Gingerbreads  - Bobby Lance  - Fran Robbins
22. Come on Along  -  Hairem  - Nancy Ross
23. My Love  - Terry Dene
24. Outta Reach  - Nancy Ross  -  She

Album Credits

Performance Credits

2 of Clubs   Primary Artist
The Girls   Primary Artist
The She Trinity   Primary Artist
The Beattle-ettes   Primary Artist
What Four   Primary Artist
Daughters of Eve   Primary Artist
She   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
The Goodees   Primary Artist
The Charmaines   Primary Artist
Kathy Lynn & the Playboys   Primary Artist
Raylene & The Blue Angels   Primary Artist
Pat Powdrill   Primary Artist
Colette & the Bandits   Primary Artist
The Debutantes   Primary Artist
Lonnie Mack   Primary Artist
The Pandoras   Primary Artist
The Wailers   Primary Artist
The Beas   Primary Artist
Ace of Cups   Primary Artist
The Liverbirds   Primary Artist
Gail Harris   Primary Artist
Al Casey   Primary Artist
Hairem   Primary Artist
Goldie & the Gingerbreads   Primary Artist
The Percells   Primary Artist
Denise & Company   Primary Artist
Nancy DiMuro   Drums
Ginny Revis   Drums
Sylvia Sandoval   Bass
Lori Wax   Bass
Rosemary Sandoval   Guitar
Margaret Sandoval   Drums,Vocals
Debi Pomeroy   Drums
Sally Ross Moore   Bass
Karen Luther   Organ
Marsha Tomal   Organ,Vocals,Guitar (Rhythm)
Gail Jones   Vocals
Diane Sandoval   Guitar (Rhythm)
Janis Volkoff   Guitar
Nancy Ross   Guitar
Michelle Marquis   Guitar
Goldie Zelkowitz   Vocals
Kathy Kinsella   Guitar (Rhythm)
Marilou Davison   Bass
Kathy Rice   Guitar
Gayle Lee   Drums
Judy Johnson   Guitar,Vocals
Elysee Thierry   Bass
Ginger Panebianco   Drums
Margo Crocitto   Organ

Technical Credits

Stan Green   Composer
Peter Antell   Composer
Linda Parrish   Performer
Dora Vinegar   Performer
Nick Risi   Composer
Joe Monaco   Composer
Joan Paulin   Performer
Tony Hatch   Composer
Mick Patrick   Annotation
Bob Stone   Composer
Kenny O'Dell   Composer
Margaret Sandoval   Composer
Betty Lloyd   Performer
Billy Kelly   Composer
Pat Powdrill   Performer
Larry Weiss   Composer
Don Smith   Composer
Lee Hazlewood   Composer
Scott English   Composer
Petula Clark   Composer
Nick Robbins   Mastering
Ady Croasdell   Coordination
Titus Turner   Composer
John Linde   Composer
Cyril E. Vetter   Composer
Goldie Zelkowitz   Composer
Georges Aber   Composer
Fran Robbins   Composer
Carl Cisco   Composer
Nancy Ross   Composer
Denise Kaufman   Composer
Dee Watkins   Performer
Terry Dene   Composer
Bobby Lance   Composer
Sandra Jackson   Performer