Heinz
The Complete Heinz


Tracks:

CD 1:

01. Dreams Do Come True
02. Been Invited To A Party
03. Just Like Eddie
04. Don't You Knock On My Door
05. Country Boy
06. Long Tall Jack
07. You Were There
08. No Matter What They Say
09. Please Little Girl
10. For Loving Me This Way
11. Questions I Can't Answer (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
12. Beating Of my Heart (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
13. Diggin' My Potatoes (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
14. She Ain't Coming Back (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
15. Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
16. Big Fat Spider (Heinz & The Wild Boys)
17. End Of The World
18. You Make Me Feel So Good
19. Heart Full Of Sorrow
20. Don't Worry Baby
21. Movin' In
22. I'm Not A Bad Guy

CD 2:

01. I Get Up In The Morning
02. Talk Like A Man
03. That Lucky Old Sun
04. Lonely River
05. Live It Up
06. Don't You Understand
07. When Your Loving Goes Wrong
08. Tribute To Eddie
09. Hush-A-Bye
10. (Sorry) I Ran All The Way Home
11. Summertime Blues
12. Don't Keep Pickin' At Me
13. Cut Across Shorty
14. Three Steps To Heaven
15. Come On And Dance
16. Twenty Flight Rock
17. Look For A Star
18. My Dreams
19. I Remember
20. Rumble In The Night
21. Somebody To Love (live)
22. I Got A Woman (live)

Line up:

Heinz Burt - Vocals
Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar

Record Label / Year of Release:

Repertoire Records 1999

Notes:

This double-CD set, with 44 songs recorded by the early- to mid- '60s British pop/rock star Heinz, may seem like overkill, but as it turns out, it's not. Heinz, or Heinz Burt as he was known in The Tornados, was not only a prodigious talent, but a highly consistent recording artist. From the first two tracks here, dating from 1962, to the last one -- a live recording of "I Got a Woman" done in 1965 from the Cavern Club -- the recordings are exciting and interesting, and memorable.

Heinz' producer on these sides was the legendary Joe Meek, and his signature attributes -- flashy keyboards and guitar, all very compressed -- can be found on much of it, but unlike a lot of other extended bodies of Meek's recordings, this body of music is highly listenable, track after track. Heinz was a better singer than he usually got credit for being, and he cut superb versions of "Summertime Blues" and "Twenty Flight Rock," and was just as good doing songs that came out of Meek's stable of composers, including Geoff Goddard's "Hush-a-Bye," and his singing makes even lackluster songs such as "(Sorry) I Ran All the Way Home" more interesting than they should be. The annotation is also extremely thorough, not just concerning the songs but also Heinz's career, which was, sadly, cut short by illness in the 1990s.

This is a great compilation of early '60s rock 'n' roll from Heinz & Joe Meek that clearly shows that the Brits were superior to the Americans when it came to music. No syrupy ballads or watered down remakes (like Pat Boone did) here. Good rocking songs with great guitar solos courtesy of one young Ritchie Blackmore (on most of them).

Ritchie Blackmore on all songs except tracks 17-20 (CD 1) and tracks 12-14, 17-18 & 20-22 (CD 2).