Artist: Adam Faith
Title: Complete Faith (His HMV, Top Rank & Parlophone Recordings 1958-1968)
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Parlophone UK
Genre: Early British Pop/Rock, AM Pop, British Invasion
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 06:41:19
Total Size: 2,22 GB (covers)
British teen idol Adam Faith gets the omnibus treatment on this 172-track, six-CD set covering all his recordings from the start of his musical career in 1958 to 1968, when he temporarily quit music making to pursue acting full-time. Faith was more a pretty face than a distinctive voice, and he was molded in the pop music of his time, particularly drawing on the sound of Buddy Holly. Holly's late recording "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," with it pizzicato string chart, was a template for Faith's music, both in terms of the arrangements of John Barry and in Faith's singing. As the years go by and the recording sessions mount up over the course of these discs, he tries aping any number of other American singers, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Rick Nelson, Dion, and Gene Pitney. But he keeps coming back to the Holly sound. By the early ‘60s, he was on two separate tracks. As a singles artist, he necessarily began assimilating the Beatles' Merseybeat sound, even to the point of hiring his own beat-heavy backup group, the Roulettes (containing future members of Argent). As an albums artist, he sang for grown-ups over big-band arrangements that suggested a British version of Bobby Darin. By late 1964, he had turned to the soft rock style of Burt Bacharach's arrangements for Dionne Warwick, notably scoring his last U.K. Top 20 hit with a version of Bacharach and Hal David's "A Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird)" (aka "Message to Michael"), but he reverted to his ‘50s rocker self for one night to record the live-in-the-studio LP Faith Alive, his final chart album of the period, in 1965. That brings this collection to the end of the fifth CD. The sixth disc covers the final two-plus years of Faith's EMI tenure, a miscellany of desultory, one-off singles in which he tries everything from anti-war folk-rock ("Daddy What'll Happen to Me") to light psychedelia ("Cowman Milk Your Cow") in the search of a career resurgence. It's a long journey from the late '50s to the late ‘60s, but for Faith fans and fans of the era in general it may be worth taking the trip again.
CD 1:
01. (Got A) Heartsick Feeling
02. Brother Heartache and Sister Tears (2011 Remaster)
03. High School Confidential
04. Country Music Holiday
05. Runk Bunk (2011 Remaster)
06. Ah Poor Little Baby
07. Say Mama (2011 Remaster)
08. C'Mon Everybody (2011 Remaster)
09. Believe What You Say (2011 Remaster)
10. From Now Until Forever
11. What Do You Want
12. Made You
13. I Did What You Told Me (2011 Remaster)
14. Poor Me
15. The Reason
16. The Beat Girl Song (2011 Remaster)
17. Big Time (2011 Remaster)
18. Carve Up (2011 Remaster)
19. Someone Else's Baby
20. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
21. How About That
22. With Open Arms
23. A Girl Like You (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
24. Turn Me Loose (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
25. Hit the Road to Dreamland (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
26. Summertime (Porgy & Bess, Act 1, Scene 1) (1997 Remastered Version Stereo Version)
27. Wonderful Time (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
28. So Many Ways (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
29. I'm a Man (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
30. Singin' in the Rain (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
31. Diamond Ring (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
32. Fare Thee Well My Pretty Maid (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
CD 2:
01. Piper of Love (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
02. Greenfinger (Stereo Version; 1997 Remaster)
03. Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop)
04. Who Am I
05. This Is It
06. Wonderin'
07. Easy Going Me
08. My Last Wish
09. Don't You Know It?
10. You and Me and the Gang (2011 Remaster)
11. If I Had a Hammer (If I Had a Dollar) (2011 Remaster)
12. Little Yellow Roses (2011 Remaster)
13. Sho' Know a Lot About Love (2011 Remaster)
14. I'm Coming Home (2011 Remaster)
15. As Long as You Keep Loving Me (2011 Remaster)
16. All These Things (2011 Remaster)
17. I've Just Fallen for Someone (2011 Remaster)
18. Come to Me (2011 Remaster)
19. It's All over Now (2011 Remaster)
20. A Help Each Other Romance (2011 Remaster)
21. I'm Gonna Love You Too (2011 Remaster)
22. Second Time (2011 Remaster)
23. The Time Has Come (2011 Remaster)
24. Lonesome
25. Watch Your Step (2011 Remaster)
26. Rivers Run Dry
27. I Know What I Want
28. That's What Love Will Do
CD 3:
01. You Can Do It If You Try
02. As You Like It
03. Face to Face
04. La Bamba
05. Mix Me a Person
06. Don't That Beat All
07. Swimming in Tears (2011 Remaster)
08. I Ran All the Way Home (2011 Remaster)
09. I Got a Woman (2011 Remaster)
10. The Kings Highway (2011 Remaster)
11. I'm Going Home (2011 Remaster)
12. Going Up (2011 Remaster)
13. Learning to Forget (2011 Remaster)
14. Ballad of a Broken Heart (2011 Remaster)
15. Baby Take a Bow
16. You 'N' Me (2011 Remaster)
17. Knocking on Wood
18. While I'm Away (2011 Remaster)
19. Butter Wouldn't Melt in Your Mouth (2011 Remaster)
20. What Have I Got
21. What Now
22. Just Mention My Name
23. Little Bit of Love
24. So Long Baby
25. A Little Bit of Soap
26. Walkin' Tall
27. Made for Me
28. The First Time
29. This Is the Feeling (2011 Remaster)
CD 4:
01. The Wanderer (2011 Remaster)
02. My Kind of Girl (2011 Remaster)
03. Forget Him (2011 Remaster)
04. Forget Me Not (2011 Remaster)
05. Let There Be Love (2011 Remaster)
06. Lazy River (2011 Remaster)
07. Hello Mary Lou (2011 Remaster)
08. Ginny Come Lately (2011 Remaster)
09. Things (2011 Remaster)
10. Take Good Care of My Baby (2011 Remaster)
11. It Doesn't Matter Anymore (2011 Remaster)
12. Bye Bye Love (2011 Remaster)
13. Talk to Me
14. The Promise of Love
15. We Are in Love
16. If He Tells You
17. Only One Such as You (2011 Remaster)
18. She's Smiling At Me (2011 Remastered Version)
19. Come Closer (2011 Remaster)
20. Come on Dream (2011 Remaster)
21. Tomorrow
22. Here's Another Day (2011 Remaster)
23. You've Got a Way with Me (2011 Remaster)
24. Mighty Fine Girl (2011 Remaster)
25. Don't You Dig This Kind of Beat (2011 Remaster)
26. I Do (2011 Remaster)
27. It'll Never Happen to You (2011 Remaster)
28. I Gotta Get Going (2011 Remastered Version)
29. I Love Being in Love with You
30. You're Nice to Know (2011 Remaster)
CD 5:
01. It's Alright (Mono Version; 2011 Remaster)
02. I Just Don't Know
03. Don't You Know (2011 Remaster)
04. I Could Fall in Love with You (2011 Remaster)
05. A Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird)
06. It Sounds Good to Me
07. Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
08. I'll Stop at Nothing (2011 Remaster)
09. I've Gotta See My Baby
10. Talk About Love
11. Hand Me Down Things (2011 Remaster)
12. I Can't Think of Anyone Else
13. Lady Oh Lady (2011 Remaster)
14. High Heel Sneakers (2011 Remaster)
15. Talk About Love (2011 Remaster)
16. Look out Baby (2011 Remaster)
17. Everybody's Talking 'Bout a Thing Called Love (2011 Remaster)
18. Night Time Is the Right Time (2011 Remaster)
19. I Wanna Be Your Man (2011 Remaster)
20. Little Queenie (2011 Remaster)
21. Hey Little Lovin' Girl (2011 Remaster)
22. Hey Baby (2011 Remaster)
23. I Can't Think of Anyone Else (2011 Remaster)
24. You Can't Blame Him (2011 Remaster)
25. Heartbreak Hotel (2011 Remaster)
26. I Need Your Loving (2011 Remaster)
CD 6:
01. Someone's Taken Maria Away
02. To Make a Big Man Cry
03. If Ever You Need Me
04. I Don't Need That Kind of Lovin'
05. I'm Used to Losing You (Mono Version; 2011 Remaster)
06. Idle Gossip
07. Cheryl's Goin' Home
08. Funny Kind of Love
09. Daddy What'll Happen to Me (2011 Remaster)
10. What More Can Anyone Do
11. Something Beginning with You
12. To Hell with Love
13. Cowman Milk Your Cow
14. Close the Door
15. So This Is Love
16. You Make My Life Worthwhile
17. What Now (2011 Remaster)
18. It's Alright (Stereo Version; 2011 Remaster)
19. To Make a Big Man Cry (Stereo Version; 2011 Remaster)
20. I'm Used to Losing You (Stereo Version; 2011 Remaster)
21. Wie Heisst Dein Boy (The First Time) (2011 Remaster)
22. Ich Bin Verliebt (We Are in Love) (2011 Remaster)
23. Oh Caroline (2011 Remaster)
24. Rien Ne Peut Plus M'empecher (It's Alright) (2011 Remaster)
25. Parler D'Amour (Talk About Love) (2011 Remaster)
26. Quelque'un M'a Vole Marie (Someone's Taken Maria Away)
27. Ne Plus Penser a Toi (Only One Such as You)
