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The Very Best of Joe Brown: 50th Anniversary

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    What a Crazy World (We're Livin' In) – Joe Brown 02:28
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    A Picture of You – Joe Brown 02:18
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    It Only Took a Minute – Joe Brown 01:55
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    Sally Ann – Joe Brown 01:53
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    All Things Bright and Beautiful – Joe Brown 01:51
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    That's What Love Will Do – Joe Brown 02:23
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    I'm Henry the Eighth I Am – Joe Brown 01:55
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    Hava Nagila (The Hora) – Joe Brown 02:24
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    Shine – Joe Brown 02:43
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    Souvenir d'Alvito – Joe Brown 02:43
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    Sea of Heartbreak – Joe Brown 03:32
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    Darktown Strutters' Ball – Joe Brown 02:15
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    I'll See You in My Dreams [Remix] – Joe Brown 03:15
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    Reuben – Joe Brown 03:37
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    One Trick Pony – Joe Brown 04:20
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    Lazybones – Joe Brown 03:35
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    Malt 'N' Barley Blues – Joe Brown 02:50
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    Well All Right [Remix] – Joe Brown 02:35
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    Early in the Morning [Remix] – Joe Brown 04:08
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    She Moves Through the Fair – Joe Brown 05:41
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    Black Betty – Joe Brown 02:48
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    Well Well Well – Joe Brown 03:34
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    A Picture of You – Joe Brown 02:21
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    Sally Ann – Joe Brown 02:42
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    It Only Took a Minute – Joe Brown 02:24

The very cheeky, chirpy cockney sparrow Joe Brown celebrated his 50th anniversary in the music business early in 2008, although his first few years were as a rather good but anonymous guitar player in backing bands, playing for brighter stars such as Billy Fury. When he finally broke out as a solo singer and guitarist in 1960 with his first hit, "Darktown Strutters' Ball," he came across as less of a serious rock roller than his former mentor Billy Fury and instead as an artist whose songs owed more to music hall comedy and skiffle than rock roll, especially "What a Crazy World We're Living In" and "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am." Brown then turned out a series of lightweight pop songs, including "A Picture of You" (his biggest hit, reaching number two in the summer of 1962), "That's What Love Will Do," "It Only Took a Minute," and "Sally Ann," before the arrival of Merseybeat and new pop groups swept him and his kind away. Brown was a well-respected guitarist but this was never really given a chance to show through, although the Israeli tune "Hava Nagila," a very Shadows-sounding guitar instrumental, did give his fingers a workout. It says something about the pop records of the time that Universal managed to squeeze 25 tracks onto this single-CD compilation with a running time of 72 minutes. Even though it was over 30 years old at the time of its release here, a cover of Ram Jam's "Black Betty" gave the album a contemporary feel as well as being a retrospective of an artist who had long since departed the charts. In 2008 Billy Fury successfully placed a compilation of his work in the Top Ten and Universal reckoned on Joe Brown following him there, but Brown only had 11 hits -- and strangely, four of them were omitted from this collection. Surely, if Brown's back catalog had been properly researched and these tracks included, The Very Best of Joe Brown would have been more complete -- "Your Tender Love," "Nature's Time for Love," "With a Little Help from My Friends," and "Hey Mama" could easily have been substituted for the final three tracks, re-recordings of his hits that had already appeared earlier in the running order: "A Picture of You," "Sally Ann," and "It Only Took a Minute." Sharon Mawer, Rovi

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