Bear Family is a German label that is committed to rational and careful reissue of popular music of the twentieth century blues, R & B, rockabilly, country music, soul etc. From experience, builds released by Bear Family for R & B and soul music of the years 1961-1975 and those devoted to country music are references. In 2001, this label is launching this series that now has eight references dedicated to Anglo-Saxon times songs in the 1960s and early 1970s by German variety of artists, in the language of Goethe. The artists in question have remained unknown in France, with the exception of Mary Roos who attempted a career in our beautiful country and obtained some success. The Helmut Schmidt cited in the list of artists on this CD is not about the former Chancellor as well as Jack White is not related with our Jack White today, the White Stripes and Third Man Records. For this first volume, lasting nearly 78 minutes, the directory together with these 25 songs are almost evenly split between US and UK. But the sound of almost all these songs is placed quite simply beyond the easy listening to pour into the purest kitsch. In opening, Cindy & Bert offer their review of 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath, unlikely hit of 1970, with all new words that relate to the dog ... the Baskervilles! At Cindy & Bert, the famous riff is a little massacred, and if the guitar is prominent, it has the support of an organ. The already mentioned Mary Roos is doing quite well 'You Can not Hurry Love' while Boris Brown applies to removing 'The House Of The Rising Sun' What pathos throughout the animal put Eric Burdon. The 'No Milk Today' the Four Kings is stiff as a bodkin. Similarly, no more cowbell blues at all in the balloche version of 'Honky Tonk Women' proposed by the famous Jack White. The top of kitsch dripping is achieved by Curd Borkmann and mini-opera 'Großer Jack' with his childish choruses. Boy Berger proposes meanwhile almost cushy version of 'Wooly Bully "by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs only the saxophone solo manages to wake up. More surely be recognized in the 'Fremde Augen' Bernt Spier 'America' Joe Dassin that the original song of a Christie ('Yellow River'). 'Killing Me Softly' already very "easy listening" in VO (Roberta Flack), is seen here add a few ingredients and some own insistence to ensure a stamp variety o '. Overall, a fun but first listen, except to be (on) a former fan of the sixties In Germany, the interest of the disc is very limited. A twenty-page booklet accompanying the CD with introductory text in German only, photographs of artists and color reproduction of the cover of the disc and references which their song is extracted. (1) to be lost in translation.
