Not long after we released our complete collection of Jan & Dean singles last year, the collector community started calling for us to do the same for another great singles act of the '60s, Gary Lewis & the Playboys. And since we are a label and a catalog of, by and for the fine people that make up that very collector community, how could we say no? We even got one of the leaders of that community, Steve Hoffman to oversee the mastering, along with our old friend Ed Osborne to produce and do the liner notes (and do them he did, interviewing producers Snuff Garrett and Bones Howe, drummers Hal Blaine and Jim Keltner, singer and Gary's “ghost” voice Ron Hicklin, and even Gary himself)! Just as was the case with the J&D set, virtually all of these original mono singles mixes have never appeared on CD; in fact, the master tapes have remained untouched for over 40 years! And man, do they sound 'good', the way they sounded when they came cracklin' out of your radio back then. Some of these songs, especially the B-sides, have never appeared on CD in ANY version, and we've even dug up a promo-only rarity, 'Way Way Out', to sweeten the deal. It's 45 tracks of classic '60s pop-rock, the COMPLETE Liberty singles of Gary Lewis & the Playboys (many of which are pictured inside the booklet), exclusively from 'Collectors' Choice Music'!

1 This Diamond Ring
2 Hard To Find
3 Tijuana Wedding
4 Count Me In
5 Little Miss Go-Go
6 Doin' The Flake
7 Save Your Heart For Me
8 Without A Word Of Warning
9 Everybody Loves A Clown
10 Time Stands Still
11 She's Just My Style
12 I Won't Make That Mistake Again
13 Sure Gonna Miss Her
14 I Don't Wanna Say Goodnight
15 Green Grass
16 I Can Read Between The Lines
17 My Heart's A Symphony
18 Tina (I Held You In My Arms)
19 (You Don't Have To) Paint Me A Picture
20 Looking For The Stars
21 Way Way Out
22 Down On The Sloop John B
23 Where Will The Words Come From
24 May The Best Man Win
25 The Loser (With A Broken Heart)
26 Ice Melts In The Sun
27 Girls In Love
28 Let's Be More Than Friends
29 Jill
30 New In Town
31 Has She Got The Nicest Eyes
32 Happiness
33 Sealed With A Kiss
34 Sara Jane
35 Main Street
36 C.C. Rider
37 Mister Memory
38 Every Day I Have To Cry Some
39 Rhythm of the Rain
40 Hayride
41 Gary's Groove
42 Something Is Wrong
43 I Saw Elvis Presley Last Night
44 I'm On The Right Road Now
45 Great Balls Of Fire

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0021TVYIA/?tag=imwan-20

I'm in! I loved the Jan & Dean set aswell as Tommy James and The Shondells so Gary Lewis soumds like a great follow-up.

Rick A.

I hear that the segues on the original tracks are now missing because Hoffman used the master tape.

"Way Way Out" is the theme song to a hilariously awful mid-60s movie starring Jerry Lewis and Anita Eckberg(!) in a race to beat the Russians as the first couple to procreate on the moon. I wonder how Gary Lewis got picked for that gig? "Hey Dad, guess what?! We're gonna record the theme to your movie--isn't that a coincidence?"

Wow, I liked these guys when I was a little boy, but i only remember 9 of these songs. They really had 45 singles??!!!

The CD sounds just fine but what's really enjoyable about this release is the liner notes written by Ed Osborne. They are a fun read and a good look at the pop record business of the sixties.