Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame (1968)

Georgie Fame (born June 26, 1943 in Leigh , Lancashire , England ; actually Clive Powell ) is a British rhythm and blues musician.

Life

At the age of 16, Clive Powell was signed by manager Larry Parnes , who was known for giving musicians new names like Marty Wilde and Billy Fury . This is how Clive Powell became Georgie Fame .

From 1960 Fame played keyboard in Billy Fury's band , the Blue Flames , which he soon took over and with whom he topped the English charts in 1964 with "Yeh Yeh" and in 1966 with a cover version of the Bobby Hebb song Sunny .

Georgie Fame - The Ballad of Bonnie And Clyde

After the Blue Flames disbanded in 1966, Fame began a solo career playing with Mitch Mitchell and John McLaughlin . His biggest solo hit was The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde , the track reached number 1 in England on January 20, 1968, and Georgie Fame came in at number 9 in the German charts. In the same year he joined Count Basie and his orchestra Great Britain and Germany on. He also appeared in a vocal trio by Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross .

From 1971 to 1973 Fame formed the duo Fame & Price with Alan Price . You had a hit with Rosetta .

In 1974 there was a short, unsuccessful revival of the Blue Flames. Georgie Fame was relatively quiet in the 1970s and 1980s. Occasionally he published jazz recordings such as B. 1981 the album In Hoagland , on which he could be heard together with Hoagy Carmichael and Annie Ross, and 1989 the album A Portrait of Chet with musicians such as Frits Landesbergen and Ellen Helmus .

Between 1989 and 1997, Fame played the keyboards on all of Van Morrison's albums . The solo albums in the 1990s received consistently good reviews.

From 1998 Georgie Fame was a member of the Rhythm Kings of his friend Bill Wyman . On his solo albums he now mainly dealt with jazz and blues . Published in 2000 Georgie Fame's acclaimed jazz album Poet in New York , the style of the Eddie Jefferson developed and Jon Hendricks -driven Vocalese is inspired style.

Discography

Georgie Fame (2013)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1964	Fame at Last	-	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	-
1965	Yeh yeh	-	-	-	-	US137 (3 weeks) US
1966	Sweet Things	-	-	-	UK6 (22 weeks) UK	-
	Sound venture	-	-	-	UK9 (9 weeks) UK	-
1967	The Two Faces of Fame	-	-	-	UK22 (15 weeks) UK	-
1968	The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde	-	-	-	-	US185 (4 weeks) US

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More albums

• Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo  (1964), Columbia 33SX 1599
• Get Away  (1966),  Imperial Records  LP 9331
• The Third Face of Fame  (1968), CBS BPG 63293 (mono) SBPG 63293 (stereo)
• Seventh Son  (1969), CBS 63786
• Shorty featuring Georgie Fame  (1969) Epic  BN 26563
• Georgie Does His Thing with Strings  (1970), CBS 63650
• Going Home  (1971), CBS 64350
• Fame and Price, Price and Fame: Together!  (1972), CBS 64392
• All Me Own Work  (1972),  recapitulation  K 44183
• Georgie Fame  (1973),  Iceland  ILPS 9293
• Right Now  (1979),  Pye  NSPL 18600
• Closing the Gap  (1980),  Piccadilly  N 137
• In Hoagland  (1981), featuring the songs of  Hoagy Carmichael  (with  Annie Ross ), Baldeagle BELP 181
• In Goodmansland  (1983), featuring the songs of  Benny Goodman  (with  Sylvia Vrethammar ), Sonet SNTF 908
• Samba (EP)  EP (1986),  Ensign Records  ENYX 605
• No Worries (album)  (1988), CBS 4668682 (Australia)
• Cool Cat Blues  (1991), Blue Moon / Go Jazz R2 79352 (US)
• Three Line Whip  (1994), Three Line Whip TLWCD 001
• The Blues and Me  (1996), Go Jazz Records
• How Long Has This Been Going On  (1996), Van Morrison with Georgie Fame and friends, Verve
• Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison  (1996),  Verve Records
• Name Droppin ': Live at Ronnie Scott's, Vol. 1  (1997), Go Jazz Records
• Walkin 'Wounded: Live at Ronnie Scott's, Vol. 2  (1998), Go Jazz Records
• Endangered Species  (with  The Danish Radio Big Band ) (rec. 1993, ed. 1999), Music Mecc
• Poet in New York  (2000), Go Jazz Records
• Relationships  (2001), Three Line Whip
• The Birthday Big Band  (1998 55th-birthday concert) (2007), Three Line Whip
• Charleston  (2007), Three Line Whip
• Tone-Wheels 'A' Turnin  (2009), Three Line Whip
• Swan Songs  (2015), Three Line Whip
• Georgie Famie with Uschi Brüning & Alan Skidmore Quartet A Declaration of Love (rec. 2008, ed. 2015). ITM

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1967	Hall of Fame	-	-	-	UK12 (18 weeks) UK	-

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More compilations

• Fame Again  (1979)
• Georgie Fame 20 Beat Classics: 1964-1966 . (1982) RSO Records UK Ltd: RSO RSX1 (2479 266) 1 LP .
• On the Right Track: Beat, Ballad and Blues (1992)
• The In-Crowd (1998)
• The Very Best of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames  (1998)
• Funny How Time Slips Away  (2001)
• Somebody Stole My Thunder: 1967-1971  (2007)
• Georgie Fame: Mod Classics 1964–1966  (2010),  Ace Records  (CDBGPD 206)
• The Whole World's Shaking: Georgie Fame Complete Recordings 1963-1966 . (October 2015) Universal / Polydor: 4739865 (5 CDs  box set ).

EPs

• Rhythm & Blue-Beat  (1964), Columbia SEG 8334
• Fame at Last  (1964), Columbia SEG 8393

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1964	Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh	-	-	-	UK1 (12 weeks) UK	US21 (8 weeks) US
1965	In the meanime	-	-	-	UK22 (8 weeks) UK	US97 (2 weeks) US
	Like We Used to Be	-	-	-	UK33 (7 weeks) UK	-
	Something	-	-	-	UK23 (7 weeks) UK	-
1966	Get away	DE32 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK1 (11 weeks) UK	US70 (7 weeks) US
	Sunny	-	-	-	UK13 (8 weeks) UK	-
	Sitting in the Park Sweet Things	-	-	-	UK12 (10 weeks) UK	-
1967	Because I Love You	-	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	-
	Try My World	-	-	-	UK37 (5 weeks) UK	-
	The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde The Third Face Of Fame	DE9 (5 weeks) DE	AT5 (20 weeks) AT	CH2 (11 weeks) CH	UK1 (13 weeks) UK	US7 (14 weeks) US
1969	Peaceful	-	-	-	UK16 (9 weeks) UK	-
	Seventh Son Seventh Son	-	-	-	UK25 (7 weeks) UK	-
1971	Rosetta	DE43 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK11 (10 weeks) UK	-	with Alan Price
1986	Samba (Toda Menina Baiana)	-	-	-	UK81 (2 weeks) UK	-

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More singles

• 1964: Do the Dog
• 1964: Thu Re Wed
• 1964: Bend a Little
• 1968: La Ballata Di Bonnie E Clyde
• 1970: Somebody Stole My Thunder
• 1974: Ali Shuffle
• 1976: Yes Honestly
• 1976: Sweet Perfection
• 1977: Daylight

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1986	New York Afternoon	-	-	-	UK70 (5 weeks) UK	-	Mondo Kane feat. Georgie Fame
1996	That's life	-	-	-	UK92 (1 week) UK	-	with Van Morrison

literature

• Uli Twelker: Georgie Fame - There's Nothing Else To Do (Gütersloh: Uli Twelker Publishing, 2014; 492 pages, in English).

Web links

Commons : Georgie Fame  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dafydd Reese et al. a .: 40 Years Of NME Charts. Boxtree, London 1992, p. 190
2. ^ Günter Ehnert (ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956 to 1980. Taurus Press, Hamburg 1990, p. 71
3. ↑ Count Basie and His Orchestra & Georgie Fame, Royal Festival Hall , Count Basie & Georgie Fame  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Poster: Günther Kieser  
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US