VA - The Castells And Beyond 1964-1966

VA - The Castells And Beyond 1964-1966  (2015)

Teensville Records is proud to present The Castells & Beyond: 1964-1966, collecting 34 rare & hard-to-find tracks for the very first time.
Studio wizard Gary Usher was the mastermind behind many of The Castells post-ERA releases.
Listeners will be able to hear them all in this collection, including previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes.The package is highlighted by The Castells complete recordings for Warner Bros and Decca from 1964-1966.
Also included are records and songs created by Usher and Castells lead singer Chuck Girard: these include six sides by child prodigy Keith Green, pop/folk/surf group The Devons, R&B duo Chuck & Joe, The Neptunes, and more! The Castells & Beyond boasts a full color booklet with label scans and track-by-track annotations.
This is the very first collection of "lost" mid-sixties pieces featuring the production of Gary Usher and the involvement of Chuck Girard, powerful lead voice of the silky smooth Castells.

2015/Teensville) 34 tracks. Studio wizard Gary Usher was the mastermind behind many of The Castells post-ERA releases. Listeners will be able to hear them all in this collection, including previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes. The package is highlighted by The Castells complete recordings for Warner Bros and Decca from 1964-1966. Also included are records and songs created by Usher and Castells lead singer Chuck Girard: these include six sides by child prodigy Keith Green, pop/folk/surf group The Devons, R&B duo Chuck & Joe, The Neptunes, and more! The Castells & Beyond boasts a full color booklet with label scans and track-by-track annotations. This is the very first collection of "lost" mid-sixties pieces featuring the production of Gary Usher and the involvement of Chuck Girard, powerful lead voice of the silky smooth Castells.

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"If you have any interest in the surf, hot-rod and hipster musical movements of this period, you'll know Gary Usher was churning out all kinds of pertinent material with the studio musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew" (see the movie if you can) and any number of pop groups and artists, sometimes using the same personnel under various names. He often recorded with some of them as a vocalist. This disc is informative. It's nicely (digitally) re-mastered in monaural. Sometimes a bit "dated" sounding, some of the material is still timely and may be appealing to you as pop music from this period goes.Chuck Girard's vocal work, as always, is notable for its excellence. When teamed with Joe Kelly (as Chuck & Joe) they came off as a hot blue-eyed soul duet. Joe's (amazing Irish tenor) voice on The Castells' "Tell Her If I Could" is great to hear as a lead even though you can usually pick him out in their other vocals too. Their cover of "Harlem Shuffle" still turns me on. My opinion? If you like that period in popular music and want to learn a bit about, " . . what ever happened to . . . ? This is one for your collection. . . and you'll probably like a few of the songs!"

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