Georgie Fame Heard Them Here First

2015 compilation. A hero to several generations of mods and a genuine British musical icon, Georgie Fame made his first real impression in the UK playing his own exciting brand of jazzy soul that was informed by the kind of American music he liked himself and played as a working musician with his band, the Blue Flames, from 1963 to 1966. The latest in Ace's ongoing series devoted to the influences and inspirations of major musical talents, Georgie Fame Heard It Here First presents a representative selection of the sounds that shaped the man's tastes in Jazz, RB and Soul and that got his career on the right track Baby!. Many of the songs were largely unknown to all but the hippest members of the record-buying public when Georgie recorded his versions, and several of them had not been issued in this country when he did. The featured repertoire is largely drawn from what Georgie recorded du