Sixties Pop by The Merseys - A & B Sides, Rarities & More 1964-1968 (1995 Oxford Records)

This seemingly legit CD from Italy contains not only the complete recorded history of the Merseys but also that of those other Merseybeats offshoots Johnny Gus, the Johnny Gus Set, the Kirbys, and the Quotations.

The music is all fine and sometimes even better than that (the Gustafson material has some genuine excitement), and is very diverse, even allowing for the fact that four different corners of the Merseybeats' membership are represented.

Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley handle the harmony singing and John Gustafson and John Banks the harder sounds, and the result isn't all that different in range from what a compilation of early solo sides by the ex-Beatles would have sounded like around 1970-1971, even with a fair number of originals interspersed with work by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, Richard Gottehrer, Bob Feldman and Jerry Goldstein, et al.

The sound is excellent and the annotation is reasonably thorough, considering the extremely complex history of the group and its members.(Bruce Eder, allmusic.com)

Like i said to some of you, here is the really marvelous collection by the Merseys and all their related bands and artists. Great pop music here and i think you will enjoy it.(Frank)

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