Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. The Little Girl I Once Knew - The Beach Boys
2. Cara Mia - Jay & The Americans
3. Wonderful World - Herman's Hermits
4. Neon City - Billy J Kramer with The Dakotas
5. Blue Ribbons- The Paramounts
6. Bring It On Home To Me - The Animals
7. Cheryl's Going Home - Adam Faith
8. I've Been Wrong Before - Cilla Black
9. I'll Be There - Gerry and the Pacemakers
10. On My Word - Cliff Richard
11. Down In Mexico - The Boston Crabs
12. I Put A Spell On You - Manfred Mann
13. Make Me Know You're Mine - The Swinging Blue Jeans
14. Eight Days A Week - Alma Cogan
15. Let The Water Run Down - P.J. Proby
16. Sweet Love - The Sons Of Fred
17. I Found A Girl - Jan & Dean
18. If I Needed Someone - The Hollies
19. Go My Way - Valerie Mitchell
20. I Have Cried My Last Tear - Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
21. The Long Cigarette - The Roulettes
22. Was It Me - The Marionettes
23. Some Things You Never Get Used To - Calvin James
24. Woman- Peter & Gordon
25. Where Do You Go - Cher

Disc 2:

1. Jenny Take A Ride - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
2. Tired Of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared Of Dying - Manfred Mann
3. Look At Me Girl - Bobby Vee
4. I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Around - The Shotgun Express
5. He's A Good Face, But He's Down And Out - The Gaylords
6. Got To Get You Into My Life - Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
7. All About Love - Garnet Mimms
8. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
9. I See The Light - Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
10. Blue Turns To Grey - Cliff Richard
11. Tar And Cement (Il Ragazzo della na Gluck) - Verdelle Smith
12. It's Too Late - Bobby Goldsboro
13. I Can't Let Go - The Hollies
14. Super Girl - Graham Bonney
15. The Man Who Took The Valise Off The Floor At Grand Central Station At Noon - She Trinity
16. I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out Anymore -New York Public Library
17. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
18. I Can Make It With You - Jackie De Shannon
19. No I In YourHeart - Herbie Goins & The Nightimers
20. High Time - Paul Jones
21. Turn On Your Lovelight-Dean Parrish
22. Hanky Panky - Tommy James and the Shondells
23. Caroline, No - Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
24. Haywire - Bean and Loopy's Lot
25. Baby Never Say Goodbye - Bo Street Runners

Disc 3:

1. Waltzing Matilda - Frank Ifield
2. I've Been A Bad Bad Boy - Paul Jones
3. Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind
4. Tallyman- Jeff Beck
5. Little Games - The Yardbirds
6. Reservations - Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
7. Niki Hoeky - P.J. Proby
8. The Hand Don't Fit The Glove - Terry Reid
9. The Boat That I Row - Lulu
10. Cousin Jane - Barry Benson
11. Gotta Get Out The Mess I'm In - The Young Idea
12. Georgy Girl - The Seekers
13. Down Thru' Summer - Ross Hannaman
14. The Idol - The Fortunes
15. Fragile Child - The Chances Are
16. Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West
17. Tremblin' -The Swinging Blue Jeans
18. All The Children Sleep (Mejor) - Force West
19. Behind The Door - Cher
20. The Loser (With A Broken Heart) - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
21. Just Like A Man - Emma Rede
22. A Walk In The Black Forest (Our Walk Of Love) - Salena Jones
23. Roll With The Punches - Garnett Mimms
24. She - Del Shannon
25. You Ain't As Hip As All That Baby - Jay & The Americans

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10885 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-13
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

Customer Reviews

Loads and LOADS of rarities!!!!
First of all, if you're just wanting to buy ANOTHER 'best of' of the sixties compilation, then this one isn't really what you're looking for. However if you own just about everything that came out in that marvellous decade, and have even started giving your b-sides a spin (!) then you'll LOVE this collection.

Of course there a few Top 20 hits across these 3CDs, but the majority are rare songs that didn't reach the chart, or if they did they became either one-hit wonders or only scraped into the national Top 40.

The only downside of this collection is they could've slotted in some fantastic "pirate" advertisements or radio jingles, like another CD i bought off Amazon ("We Love the Pirates: Charting the "BIG-L" Fab 40") which is faultless ;)

Great sounding collection
Rockin' With The Pirates is EMIs attempt to cash in on the success of the film The Boat That Rocked. It has some competition from the film's original soundtrack CD and another collection, from Virgin Records, called 101 Pirate Radio Hits. EMI have put a bit more effort into this offering than Virgin did with theirs however.

This compilation only draws from EMIs catalogue so that rather limits the choice of material available to be included a bit, but EMI was a very major label during this era so there is still plenty of variety here. There are 3 CDs in the set with 25 tracks on each; Tim Chacksfield, whose name will be familiar to serious music fans, is the compiler and had the enviable tasks of trawling through EMIs vaults to find his favourite music from the Pirate Radio era.

Anyone who lived through that era themselves would probably have their own favourites so the selection here is very subjective. The banner says Big Hits, Classic Tracks & Lost Gems and they are all here. But I would really have liked more Lost Gems to have been included as a lot of the tracks featured here are easily available elsewhere, and a lot of people will own them already. However, I guess the real market for this CD is those looking for a tie in to the film and who may be new to the music from this era.

The CD sounds really good, much better than the 101 collection, and the tracks have been remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road studios. Some are remastered especially for this collection, others over the last few years for other projects; Amazon has a detailed track listing which gives much information on remaster dates and other information - also the chance to listen to samples, or to buy individual tracks.

Rockin' With The Pirates is completed by the inclusion of a small, non illustrated, booklet with information on the artists and music. This is annotated by Phil Smee, another name which will be familiar to music collectors, and is very informative - even sixties music fans may learn a few things here!

All in all a very nicely produced package which has been compiled by people who care about the music. The choice of tracks is obviously subjective and will suit some buyers more than others but, that aside, the care and attention to detail and sound quality make this a five star collection. A much better product than the 101 alternative.

Better Than The Usual 60's Compilation
Unlike the 101 Pirate Hits CD, this one hits the mark a little more with the inclusion of "Lost Gems". Out of the 75 tracks on this set, there's probably a dozen or so that I haven't got, so the purchase was worth it. But I would have given the release 5 stars if it had an extra disc with even more lost gems, and there are plenty of tracks that were played in Big L's Fab 40 that have not seen the light of day on CD.

Although I have all of the Big L jingles, (& some Caroline although not sure Caroline had that many anyhow), it would have been nice as previously mentioned in another review to have included some ads in this set as links between songs.