Track Listing

1. My Baby - The Girls
2. I'd Rather Fight Than Switch - The Tomboys
3. Get Away From Me - The Angels
4. Boy, What You'll Do Then - Denise & Company
5. Chew Chew Fee Fi Fum - Goldie & The Gingerbreads
6. Only Seventeen - The Beattle-Ettes
7. Do The Dog - Sugar & The Spices
8. I Got A Guy - Kathy Lynn & The Playboys
9. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - The Goodees
10. (I Could Write A Book) About My Baby - The Pandoras
11. They Are The Lonely - Pat Powdrill & The Powerdrills
12. Heart - The 2 Of Clubs
13. Help Me Boy - The Daughters Of Eve
14. Skinny Vinnie - Goldie & The Gingerbreads
15. Hully Gully Guitar - The Percells
16. Rock City - Kathy Lynn & The Playboys
17. Sticks And Stones - (Lonnie Mack &) The Charmaines
18. Take My Hand - Goldie & The Gingerbreads
19. Boys Can Be Mean - Sugar & The Spices
20. Guitars, Guitars, Guitars - (Al Casey With) The K-C-Ettes
21. Vip - Goldie & The Gingerbreads
22. Come On Along - The Hairem
23. My Love - The Girls
24. Outta Reach - She

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58295 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
And you thought the Shangri-Las were a piece of work? Well, gals with even greater attitude abound all over Ace's latest CD salute to the fairer sex! Unlike any other girl group CD on Ace, this one - as its title implies - mostly features girl bands who not only sing up a storm but play one up, too! Packed with extreme rarities and previously unissued masters by such genre favourites as the Goodees, She, the Girls, an incognito Jackie De Shannon and Goldie and the Gingerbreads - thus guaranteeing core interest immediately!

Customer Reviews

Axe-filled garage bliss
Girls with guitars is surely what we need, especially if they are electric guitars, and they are not in short supply on this 24-track pheromone-fuelled collection from Ace. At first glance most of the names may seem unfamiliar but the copious notes in the fact-filled 20-page booklet show that there was some considerable pedigree amongst the producers, arrangers and writers if not the performers, and even here there are one or two familiar names, such as Darlene Love, Fanita James, Grazia Nitzsche, Genya "Goldie" Ravan and Pat Powdrill from the Ikettes. Goldie and the Gingerbreads were known in the UK for their Decca singles, but the four tracks here were recorded earlier for Scepter subsidiaries in the States and were unheard over here. The album description also mentions the appearance of Jackie DeShannon under a pseudonym, but there is no documentation of this on the record and I was unable to identify her. Actually, it doesn't matter how obscure these singles are, especially in the UK, where they were unlikely to be heard on the radio; as always, it's what's in the grooves that counts, and Ace, in the form of compiler Mick Patrick, has not let us down in this axe-filled female celebration of adolescent noise.