Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. The Fortunes - Caroline (Main theme to Radio Caroline)
2. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
3. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street
4. Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
5. Small Faces - Hey Girl
6. Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High
7. Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo
8. The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
9. The Four Seasons - Let's Hang On (To What We've Got)
10. Lee Dorsey - Working In The Coalmine
11. Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
12. Otis Redding - My Girl
13. Lulu - To Sir With Love
14. Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me
15. The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun
16. Gene Pitney - I'm Gonna Be Strong
17. Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey
18. Bobby Darin - If I Were A Carpenter
19. Sandie Shaw - Girl Don't Come
20. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Goin' Out Of My Head
21. Dobie Gray - (I'm In With The) In Crowd
22. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - Got To Get You Into My Life
23. Graham Bonney - Supergirl
24. Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
25. B. Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker

Disc 2:

1. Phil Upchurch Combo - You Can't Sit Down
2. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
3. Manfred Mann - If You Gotta Go, Go Now
4. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
5. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence
6. Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
7. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
8. The Beach Boys - Sloop John B
9. The Animals - It's My Life
10. The Hollies - I'm Alive
11. Love Affair - Everlasting Love
12. The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
13. The Move - Night Of Fear
14. Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining
15. The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
16. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Bend It!
17. The Troggs - Wild Thing
18. The Kingsmen - Louis Louis
19. The Rockin' Vickers - Dandy
20. The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me
21. Jay & The Americans - Livin' Above Your Head
22. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Jenny Takes A Ride
23. PJ Proby - Hold Me
24. The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
25. The Creation - Painter Man
26. Love - 7 And 7 Is
27. Tim Rose - Morning Dew
28. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
29. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger

Disc 3:

1. Mood Mosaic - A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass
2. Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today
3. Gene Pitney - Backstage
4. Peter & Gordon - A World Without Love
5. The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You
6. Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love
7. The Swinging Blue Jeans - You're No Good
8. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
9. The Toys - A Lover's Concerto
10. The Ad Libs - The Boy From New York City
11. Jewel Akens - The Birds And The Bees
12. Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road
13. The Honeycombs - Have I The Right
14. The Newbeats - Bread And Butter
15. The Chiffons - Sweet Talkin' Guy
16. Sue Thompson - Paper Tiger
17. Norma Tanega - Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
18. Sandie Shaw - Message Understood
19. Cher - Bang Bang
20. Twinkle - Terry
21. Roy Orbison - Too Soon To Know
22. Shirley Bassey - The Party's Over

Disc 4:

1. Bob Crewe Generation - Music To Watch Girls By
2. Paul Jones - I've Been A Bad Bad Boy
3. Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera
4. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
5. Donovan - Mellow Yellow
6. Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson and Clover
7. Cryin' Shames - Please Stay
8. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
9. The Young Rascals - Groovin'
10. Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)
11. Warm Sounds - Birds And Bees
12. Twice As Much - Sittin' On A Fence
13. Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites
14. David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer
15. The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains
16. Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On
17. The Seekers - Georgy Girl
18. The Hollies - On A Carousel
19. Lulu - The Boat That I Row
20. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - In The Country
21. The Turtles - Elenore
22. John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
23. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
24. Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
25. The Roaring Sixties - We Love the Pirates

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1493 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-06
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Customer Reviews

A patchy collection
101 Pirate Radio Hits is Virgin Records attempt to cash in on the success of the film The Boat That Rocked. It has competition from the films official soundtrack and also from EMIs offering Rockin' With The Pirates. They are all around a similar price but offer from two to four discs per collection.

This package offers, rather obviously, 101 tracks - most are well known, others are more obscure, and are spread across four discs. Unlike EMIs collection which only draws from the EMI catalogue this one from Virgin gathers material from a far wider range of labels. Unfortunately the audio quality of the tracks is extremely variable and swing from mono to stereo with little programming or thought.

As well as being generally variable the audio quality of some tracks is downright poor, obviously not taken from anything near a first generation master tape. Other tracks suffer from being unusual stereo mixes which, although still the original recording, sound extremely unfamiliar. Another reviewer says he thought some tracks were re recordings but I have to say that, on only one playing through, I think that these are all original recordings - but the poor audio quality of some tracks could easily fool someone into believing that they were not.

Certainly Caroline is the original version, but the audio quality lets it down - anyone who remembers the song thumping out of Radio Caroline's AM transmitter will be disappointed with this sonically unspectacular offering! Also, A Whiter Shade of Pale is the original recording but presented here in the form of the 2006 remastering.

This is a reasonable collection of mid sixties pop, with a few tracks which can be harder to find elsewhere. Most mid sixties pop tunes could be called Pirate Radio Hits, but a few on this collection do stand out more than some others. For around a tenner its not bad value if you don't already have much of the material - otherwise the patchy quality makes me unable to recommend it more highly.

If you do fancy a Pirate CD then I would highly recommend Rockin' With The Pirates. This is a much better collection, compiled by Tim Chacksfield, engineered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road and including an informative booklet by Phil Smee. A couple of quid more, only three discs, but a much better product!

hope this helps
great collection of songs but i have to say that some of them are not the original 60's recordings eg the fortunes caroline procol harum whiter shade of pale i have found 6 up to now just skipping the tracks

Same Old Songs Re-Packaged
Whilst the majority of tracks on this CD are either top 10 hits or well known, and there's no denying they are all great songs, they can be found on the majority of other 60's compilation CD's. In fact I think a couple of the tracks are pre-pirate too. It's a pity that the compilers could not have tracked down some of the rarer songs that were part of Big L's Fab 40.