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01. The Mickey Finn - Time to Start Loving You
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02. The Mickey Finn - Garden of My Mind
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03. The Mickey Finn - (Because I Love You) I Do Love You
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04. The Mickey Finn - If I Had You Baby
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05. The Mickey Finn - The Sporting Life
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06. The Mickey Finn - Night Comes Down
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07. The Mickey Finn - Ain't Necessarily So
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08. The Mickey Finn - God Bless The Child
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09. The Mickey Finn - Pills
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10. The Mickey Finn - Hush Your Mouth
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11. The Mickey Finn - Reelin' & A 'Rockin'
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12. The Mickey Finn - I Still Want You
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13. The Mickey Finn - Stagger Lee
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14. The Mickey Finn - Poverty
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15. The Mickey Finn - Tom Hark
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16. The Mickey Finn - Please Love Me
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ARTIST
MICKEY FINN, THE
TITLE
The Mickey Finn 1964/1967
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
MUNSTER RECORDS
CATALOG #
MR 411LP
MR 411LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/21/2021
The Mickey Finn
may not have notched up hit records, but their sixties adventures took them from the East End of London to trendy clubs in the South of France and the Bahamas. This collection of their work is an impressive tribute to their maverick, hedonistic spirit, comprising all their released recordings plus some "unissued at the time" 1966 tracks that have never been available on vinyl before. Guitarist
Mickey Waller
and drummer
Richard Brand
formed the earliest incarnation of the group in London's Bethnal Green in 1962. By late 1963 they'd added bass player
John Burkett
and lead singer
Alan Mark
and changed their name to the
Central Sound
. In 1964 the Blue Beat label had just released a single recorded by members of the Checkmates but credited to an as-yet fictional group,
Mickey Finn & the Blue Men
. After adding a new member,
John "Fluff" Cooke
on keyboards, the group began its real recording career in March 1964 when Oriole released a single featuring hip bluebeat arrangements of two R&B numbers,
Bo Diddley
's "Pills" and
Jimmy Reed
's "Hush Your Mouth". For the recording session at Regent Sound, they were joined by their friend
Jimmy Page
on harmonica. Page also played a handful of gigs with them and also blew harp on their next single, a version of
Chuck Berry
's "Reelin' and Rockin'" backed with an excellent punk R&B original, "I Still Want You".
Shel Talmy
took over production duties for their next single, released on Columbia in March 1965. On "Night Comes Down" Mark's brooding vocal is underpinned by a tense descending bass line by new member
Mick Stannard
, atmospheric keyboards from Fluff, and some wild, dissonant guitar work from Mickey Waller and Jimmy Page. Another Talmy-produced track, "It Ain't Necessarily So", also dates from this period. Although the group was kept busy with live work, they went out on a package tour with the
Kinks
, the
Yardbirds
, and
Goldie & the Gingerbreads
, the next Mickey Finn single didn't appear until July 1966. The Polydor release found singer
Alan Mark
backed by session players for a cover of
Billy Stewart
's "Because I Love You" and a number by American songwriters
Pam Sawyer
and
Lori Burton
, "If I Had You Baby". It's the real band playing, though, on two solid soul numbers,
Lloyd Price
's "Stagger Lee" and
Bobby Bland
's "Poverty", cut at Regent Sound in 1966 but unissued at the time. By 1967
Bernard Jory
had replaced Mick Stannard in time for the explosive "Garden of My Mind", backed with the raucous
Equals
-style mover "Time to Start Loving You".
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