Black Is Black: Anthology 1966-1969 by Los Bravos (CD, 2017)

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What a hit it was, though. "Black Is Black" is a towering example of what made the '60s so great musically, with a Motown beat, soul-jazz organ, glitzy soul horns, and over-the-top emotional vocals.

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Record LabelRPM, IMT
UPC5013929599925
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046026222

Product Key Features

Release Year2017
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistLos Bravos
Release TitleBlack Is Black: Anthology 1966-1969

Dimensions

Item Height0.41 in
Item Weight0.25 lb
Item Length5.59 in
Item Width4.91 in

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Number of Tracks60
Number of Discs1
Tracks1.1 Black Is Black (Negro Es Negro) 1.2 No Se Mi Nombre (I Want a Name) 1.3 Will You Always Love Me (Has de Amarme Siempre) 1.4 Quiero Gritar 1.5 Una Flor Corte 1.6 Recopilacion 1.7 I Want a Name 1.8 Trapped (Prisionero) 1.9 Baby, Baby (Vive) 1.10 Make It Easy for Me (Don Felipã?N) 1.11 She Believes in Me (Me Espera) 1.12 Stop That Girl (La Parada Del Autobã?S) 1.13 Give Me a Chance (Dame Una Oportunidad) 1.14 I'm Cuttin' Out (Se Acabã?) 1.15 Two Kinds of Lovers (Dos Clases de Enamorados) 1.16 You Won't Get Far (La Primera Amistad) 1.17 Baby, Believe Me (La Moto) 1.18 I Don?T Care 1.19 Don't Be Left Out in the Cold 1.20 Uno Come Noi 1.21 Going Nowhere 1.22 Brand New Baby 1.23 I'm All Ears (Soy Todo Oidos) 1.24 You'll Never the Chance Again (No VolverãS a Tener Suerte) 1.25 Like Nobody Else (Como Nadie Mas) 1.26 I'm Wearing a Smile (Llã?Vala Una Sonrisa) 1.27 Te Quiero As㍠(Like She Feels Tonight) 1.28 Bye Bye Baby 1.29 Don't Get in My Way (Sigue Tu Camino) 1.30 Come When I Call (Ven Cuando Te Llame) 2.1 Show Me (Ensã?Ã?Ame) 2.2 Sympathy (SimpatãA) 2.3 I?Ve Been Hearing Things 2.4 Then the Sun Goes Down 2.5 Get Out of My Life 2.6 This Way, That Way (Donde Estes) 2.7 Down Down 2.8 Bring a Little Lovin' 2.9 Make It Last 2.10 Play with Fire and You'll Get Burned 2.11 You Got Until the Morning 2.12 I'll See You Through 2.13 Deeper Roots 2.14 Yakipo 2.15 She's My Girl 2.16 Dime Donde Estoy 2.17 If I Were a River 2.18 Just Holding on 2.19 We'll Make It Together 2.20 Save Me, Save Me 2.21 Baby I Love You 2.22 Cool It 2.23 Individuality 2.24 Viva la Vida 2.25 Amor y Simpatia (Love and Sympathy) 2.26 Dirty Street 2.27 Live Girl 2.28 Wait a Minute 2.29 Como Superman 2.30 Two People in Me
Notes2017 two CD set. Spanish Beat band Los Bravos shot to fame in 1966 with the Motown-styled blue-eyed soul classic 'Black Is Black', which was a huge hit across the world (# 2 in the UK and # 4 in the States), selling over a million copies. This success prompted a prolific output of singles and albums from the Madrid-based band, some of them issued on Decca in the UK but many more restricted to domestic release in their native Spain on Columbia. Follow-up single 'I Don't Care' reached #16 in the UK charts. Additionally, 'Going Nowhere' and 'Bring A Little Lovin' were minor hits in the US and Australia. The band were formed out of the ashes of two other Spanish bands, Los Sonor and The Runaways, and were fronted by a German singer, Mike Kogel (alias Mike Kennedy). A sixty-track double CD, Black Is Black is the first comprehensive retrospective of Los Bravos, mopping up the lion's share of their recordings from 1966-1969, including all their singles A's and B's, key album tracks and rarities. All their albums are featured: Los Bravos (recorded in London with Ivor Raymonde, 1966), reworked outside Spain as Black Is Black, the film soundtrack Los Chicos Con Las Chicas (1967), Las Canciones de la Película Dame Un Poco de Amor (alias Bring A Little Lovin') (1968) and Ilustrisimos (1969). In 1967, the band participated in the San Remo Music Festival with the song 'Uno Come Noi'. In their home country, they were huge stars, prompting two films based around them. The package also boasts exhaustive sleeve-notes and a host of photos and rare images, offering a long-overdue reappraisal of Los Bravos' prolific output during the second half of the '60s.

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  • Back to the 60s with a group who was more than "Black Is Black".

    As complete a collection as you are likely to find of Spain's Los Bravos. This 2 CD set from RPM covers their most productive years 1966 through 1969. Excellent remastering of these songs, most in English thanks to the multi-lingual lead singer Mike Kogel (who would later launch a solo career as "Mike Kennedy"), plus a few Spanish language hits from that period. A detailed booklet traces the group's history retelling the high points and low points (i.e, the tragic suicide of founding member Manuel Fernández following the loss of his wife and unborn child in a terrible auto accident). With renewed interest in the group thanks to inclusion of their "shoulda been a bigger hit than it was" single "Bring A Little Lovin':" (written exclusively for the group by the legendary Harry Vanda and George Young of "Easybeats" and "Flash and the Pan" fame) in the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood", this release proves there was more to Los Bravos than "Black Is Black". The one down side is there was literally no room to include the group's radio commercials for Coca-Cola.

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