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Girls With Guitars (Impact) 1989

01. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat   

02. Barry St. John - Bread And Butter   

03. The Martells - Time So Say Goodnight   

04. The Mysteries - Give Me Rhythm & Blues   

05. The Kittens - Don't Stop Now   

06. Lulu - I'll Come Running Over   

07. Barry St. John - I've Been Crying   

08. Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind   

09. The Orchids - Oo-Chang-A-Lang   

10. The Vernons Girls - Dat's Love   

11. The Chimes Featuring Denise - Say It Again   

12. Beryl Marsden - Love Is Gonna Happen To Me   

13. The Other Two - Grumbling Guitar   

14. The Beat Chics - Now I Know   

15. The Kittens - 'Round About Way   

16. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - That's Why I Love You  

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ACE Girls With Guitars 

To clear up some inevitable confusion right off the bat, this does not feature the same music as the 1989 LP compilation also titled Girls With Guitars, which came out on Impact, a subsidiary of Ace, the same label that put out the 2004 CD also titled Girls With Guitars [Ace]. The 1989 Impact LP bearing this title was devoted entirely to '60s female British acts, with the exception of Goldie & the Gingerbreads, an American band who were based in Britain in the mid-'60s. The 2004 Ace CD called Girls With Guitars [Ace] has 24 entirely different tracks, all of them by American-'60s girl groups, many (though not all) of whom played their own instruments. Goldie & the Gingerbreads appear on the 2004 Girls With Guitars [Ace] as well, but are represented by four mid-'60s tracks that don't appear on the 1989 Girls with Guitars LP. Got all that? Moving on to the music, it's okay and usually competent enough to avoid categorization as mere novelty. But it's not great -- it's mid-level period-'60s rock (actually from 1963-70), reflecting girl group, soul, British Invasion, and pop-rock trends of the day. Some of it has the raw guitar rock approach associated with garage rock, but not all of it does, by any means. Few will have heard of any of these acts, save perhaps Goldie & the Gingerbreads (whose tracks are only so-so); one-time Ikette Pat Powdrill, represented by an atypical (for her) piece of typical 1966 L.A. flower power pop/rock, "They Are the Lonely"; and, perhaps, She, who got some notoriety decades later after Ace issued a CD of that garage band's material. There's also Lonnie Mack, who's not a woman, of course, but whose "Sticks and Stones" featured vocals by women singers the Charmaines. Some of the standout tracks are the Beatlettes' "Only Seventeen," one of the most British Invasion-influenced songs on the disc (as if you couldn't tell from the group's name), though some of the melody borrows liberally from Lesley Gore's "She's a Fool"; "Help Me Boy," the Daughters of Eve's awkward, gender-adjusted cover of the Animals' hit "Help Me Girl"; the Girls' moody 1965 single "My Baby"/"My Love"; and the 2 of Clubs' version of Petula Clark's "Heart" (which actually charted in Billboard in the "bubbling under" section of the Hot Hundred in 1966), a song strong enough that it's hard to ruin, though both Clark and the Remains did better versions. This anthology will benefit from much stronger distribution than the many volumes in the Girls in the Garage series, the best-known anthologies of the small-'60s girl group/garage group genre. But to be honest, if you cherry-picked the best tracks from that series into one or two volumes, you'd have collections that would blow Girls With Guitars [Ace] out of the water. 

Girls With Guitars (2004)

01. The Girls - My Baby   

02. The Tomboys - I'd Rather Fight Than Switch   

03. The Angels - Get Away From Me   

04. Denise & Company - Boy, What'll You Do Then   

05. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Chew Chew Fee Fi Fum   

06. The Beattle-Ettes - Only Seventeen   

07. Sugar & The Spices - Do The Dog   

08. Kathy Lynn & The Playboys - I Got A Guy   

09. The Goodees - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)   

10. The Pandoras - (I Could Write A Book) About My Baby   

11. Pat Powdrill & The Powerdrills - They Are the Lonely   

12. 2 Of Clubs - Heart   

13. The Daughters Of Eve - Help The Boy   

14. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Skinny Winnie   

15. The Percells - Hully Gully Guitar   

16. Kathy Lynn & The Playboys - Rock City   

17. Lonnie Mack & The Charmaines - Sticks And Stones   

18. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Take My Hand   

19. Sugar & The Spices - Boys Can Be Mean   

20. Al Casey With The K-C-Ettes - Guitars, Guitars, Guitars   

21. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - V.I.P.   

22. The Hairem - Come on Along   

23. Girls - My Love   

24. She - Outta Reach   

 More Girls With Guitars - Destroy That Boy! (2009)

01. The What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy   

02. The Starlets - You Don't Love Me   

03. Raylene & The Blue Angels - Shakin' All Over   

04. She Trinity - He Fought The Law   

05. Toni McCann with The Blue Jays - No   

06. The Liverbirds - He's Something Else   

07. Beverley Jones with The Prestons - Hear You Talking   

08. The Debutantes - Shake A Tail Feather   

09. The Fondettes - The Beatles Are In Town   

10. Project X - Don't You Think It's Fine   

11. Ann-Margret - It's A Nice World To Visit (But Not To Live In)   

12. Sharon Tandy - Hold On   

13. Karen Verros - You Just Gotta Know My Mind   

14. Ann-Margret - You Turned My Head Around   

15. The Feminine Complex - I've Been Workin' On You   

16. The Girls - Here I Am In Love Again   

17. The Termites - Tell Me   

18. The Liverbirds - Talking About You   

19. The What Four - Baby, I Dig Love   

20. The Pivots - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone   

21. The Liverbirds - He's About A Mover   

22. Cheryll & Pam - That's My Boy   

23. The Lady Bugs - Fraternity, USA   

24. She Trinity - Climb That Tree  

 Girls With Guitars - The Rebel Kind (2014)

01. Colette & The Bandits - A Ladie's Man   

02. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Please Please   

03. The Girls - Chico's Girl   

04. The Bootles - I'll Let You Hold My Hand   

05. Jean & The Statesides - Putty In Your Hands   

06. The Debutantes - A New Love Today   

07. The Beas - International Girl   

08. Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind   

09. Mousie & The Traps - How About You   

10. The Debutantes - Love Is Strange   

11. Lydia Marcelle - The Girl He Needs   

12. Brenda Lee - What'd I Say   

13. Honeybeat - Dicci Come Fini   

14. Gail Harris With The Wailers - I Idolize You   

15. The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore   

16. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat   

17. Jackie Deshannon - Dream Boy   

18. The Chicks - The Rebel Kind   

19. The Delmonas - Peter Gunn Locomotion   

20. Pinky Chicks - Soba Ni Ite   

21. The Debutantes - Strong Foundation   

22. The Ace Of Cups - Stones   

23. Honeybeat - Fa Come Vuoi   

24. The Chantels - Peruvian Wedding Song   

 Girls With Guitars -  Take Over (2017) LP

1. The Girls Take Over - High Heel Sneakers   

2. The Clingers - Gonna Have A Good Time   

3. The Plommons - Last Train To Liverpool   

4. The Wrongh Black Bag - Wake Me, Shake Me   

5. The Heart Beats - Little Latin Lupe Lu   

6. Kathy Lynn & The Playboys - I Got A Guy   

7. Karen Verros - You Just Gotta Know My Mind   

8. The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore   

9. The Delmonas - Lies   

10. The Tomboys - I'd Rather Fight Than Switch   

11. The Lady-Bugs - How Do You Do It   

12. The Hairem - Like A Snake  

 Girls With Guitars - Know Why! (2020) LP

01. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Look For Me Baby   

02. Debbie Williams & The Unwritten Law - Love Seems So Hard To Find   

03. The Belles - Melvin   

04. Glenda Collins - Thou Shalt Not Steal   

05. The Chymes - Quite A Reputation   

06. The Rums And Coke - Glad All Over   

07. Sandy Edmonds - Come See Me   

08. Denise - Boy, What'll You Do Then   

09. The Chicks - The Rebel Kind   

10. The Wrongh Black Bag - I Don't Know Why   

11. The Beas - Nothing Can Go Wrong   

12. The Debutantes - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place   

13. She - Piece Of You   

14. Girls Take Over - Stardust Come Back   

Girls With Guitars -  Gonna Shake! (2022)

01. The Belles - Melvin   

02. The Missfits - Dimples   

03. Girls Take Over - Hi Heel Sneakers   

04. She - Don't Leave Me Baby   

05. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - What Kind Of Man Are You   

06. The Debutantes - Little Latin Lupe Lu   

07. The Liverbirds - Diddley Daddy   

08. The Beat-Chics - Now I Know   

09. The Ace Of Cups - Circles   

10. The Myysteries - Give Me Rhythm And Blues   

11. The Missfits - You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover   

12. The Debutantes - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place   

13. Debbie Williams & The Unwritten Law - Ask Me   

14. The Wrongh Black Bag - I Don't Know Why   

15. Joyce Harris & The Daylighters - I Got My Mojo Working   

16. Chyo & The Crescents - Pink Dominos   

17. Sandra Barry & The Boys - Really Gonna Shake   

18. The Belles - Come Back   

19. The Beat-Chics - Skinny Minnie   

20. The Bootles - Never Till Now   

21. The Missfits - I’m Talking About You   

22. Debbie Williams & The Unwritten Law - Love Seems So Hard To Find   

23. The Chymes - Quite A Reputation   

24. The Wrongh Black Bag - Wake Me, Shake Me   

25. Girls Take Over - Stardust Come Back   

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