The Cats - The Complete Collection - 1968 - 1994

The Cats / The Cats - The Complete Collection
Жанр: Pop, Rock
Страна: Netherlands
Label: EMI ‎– 7243 5 40223 0 2
Format: 3 × CD, Compilation
Год издания: 1968 - 1994
Аудиокодек: MP3
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 03:51:42
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Треклист:

CD1

1. Jukebox
2. What A Crazy Life
3. Vive L'Amour
4. Sure He's A Cat
5. Without Your Love
6. What's The World Coming To
7. Turn Around And Start Again
8. Remember The Good Times
9. Times Where When
10. Lea
11. I Gotta Know What's Going On
12. Lies
13. Why
14. Mandy My Dear
15. Scarlet Ribbons
16. Today
17. Marian
18. Somewhere Up There
19. Magic Mystery Morning
20. Where Have I Been Wrong
21. Don't Waste Your Time
22. One Way Wind
23. Country Woman
24. Let's Dance

CD2

1. Vaya Con Dios
2. There Has Been A Time
3. Let's Go Together
4. Maribaja
5. Rock 'N Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)
6. Be My Day
7. Come Sunday
8. Hard To Be Friends
9. Like A Spanish Song
10. We Should Be Together
11. Romance
12. Save The Last Dance For Me
13. Cindy
14. Lucky Star
15. She Was Too Young
16. The End Of The Show
17. La Diligence
18. Stay In My Life
19. Love Is A Golden Ring
20. Lovers Don't Talk
21. She's So In Love
22. Hooray For Michael

CD3

1. Goodbye My Love
2. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
3. I'm Ashamed To Tell
4. Ave Maria No Morro
5. A Fool Never Learns
6. Tossing And Turning (Audition Demo Bovema)
7. No Reply (Audition Demo Bovema)
8. What Have They Done To The Rain (Audition Demo Bovema)
9. I've Just Seen A Face (Audition Demo Bovema)
10. Remember The Good Times (Unreleased Demo)
11. How Could I Be So Blind
12. Why (Previously Unreleased)
Lead Vocals – Cees Veerman, Piet Veerman
13. I Walk Through The Fields
14. The Greatest Thing
15. Marian (Unreleased German Version)
16. Linda
17. Mississippi (Promo For KLM)
18. I'm Going Home (Unreleased KLM Version)
19. Jamaica
20. El Paso
21. She Don't Love Me (Unreleased Demo)
22. If I Could Be With You
23. Love Like Yours (Live In Slagharen, 7/7/1984)

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Об исполнителе (группе)

The band began life as two separate duos: Cees Veerman (born 6 October 1943) and Arnold Muhren (born 28 January 1944) who started in a skiffle band; and cousins Piet Veerman (born 1 March 1943) and Jaap Schilder (born 9 January 1943) who modelled themselves after the Everly Brothers. The duos merged and became The Mystic Four, with Cees Veerman and Piet Veerman on vocals/guitar, Schilder on guitar (and piano), and Muhren on bass. By 1965 they changed their name to The Blue Cats, a reference to the colour of their suits and Cees' nickname, Poes (Dutch for 'cat'). Dropping the 'Blue' from their name in 1966 they recruited drummer Theo Klouwer (30 June 1947 – 8 February 2001).
The Cats borrowed money from Jan Buys, who was later to become their manager, and recorded their first singles that immediately entered the charts. Singing in English thanks to a songwriting duo from England, the group sounded British. Cees initially performed the majority of the lead vocals but that was to change by 1968 when the band recorded Times Were When; Piet decided that this song (the original version is by the Scottish band Studio Six), suited his voice better and Cees agreed on giving him a go. Arnold's lyrics and Piet's sad voice appeared to be a match made in heaven, spawning five Top 10 hits in the next two years including Lea[1] (dedicated to a faithful fan who died in a car accident), Why?,[2] Scarlet Ribbons[3] and Marian.[4]
Their international popularity began to grow (and so did the beards). By spring 1970 the Cats toured Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles and played one show on 4 April 1970 in Guyana. It was Beatlemania all over again.
On 17 October 1970 the band travelled to EMI headquarters in London to collect, as Theo said when the Dutch television show TopPop followed them, a few goldies. These were presented to the band by Cliff Richard.
Early in 1971 The Cats were touring Indonesia where again the Beatlemania-aspect awaited them. Those horrible looks belie their warm personalities one lady said in fluent Dutch. However, between performances they were rebuked for meeting with the expatriat Dutch political dissident Poncke Princen whom some in the Netherlands viewed as a traitor.[5]
Don't Waste Your Time broke a string of Top 10 chart dominations but that proved to be the calm before the storm, as One Way Wind (inspired by the divi-divi trees of the Windward Islands) became The Cats' biggest ever hit. In Germany it reached Number One chart position and in 1972 the band responded by releasing Katzenspiele (Cat's Play), featuring their hits rerecorded in German

Если кратко, то группа была известна в Голландии не меньше, чем Beatles в Великобритании
Доп. информация: Producer – Al Capps (tracks: 2-6 to 2-8), Ben Levi (tracks: 1-1, 3-1 to 3-5),
Cats, The (tracks: 2-21, 2-22, 3-21 to 3-23),
Edward Reekers (tracks: 2-17 to 2-20, 3-20),
Evan Durlacher (tracks: 1-1, 3-1 to 3-5),
Gerrit-Jan Leenders (tracks: 2-17 to 2-20, 3-20),
John Möring (tracks: 1-6, 3-6 to 3-9, 3-15),
Klaas Leyen (tracks: 1-2 to 2-5, 2-9, 2-11 to 2-16, 3-10 to 3-14, 3-16 to 3-18),
Rene Topaz (tracks: 2-10)