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Billy Burnette Fans!
Any Billy Burnette fans out there? I've added the first three solo albums of Billy's to my blog today, so if anyone is interested, feel free to take a look (and listen).
http://fleetwoodmacmusic.blogspot.com/ Chris |
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Should there actually be any Billy Burnette fans on here, there are now the following three albums on the blog available for download:
- Gimme You - Billy Burnette (1980) - Try Me http://fleetwoodmacmusic.blogspot.com/ These are in addition to other hard to find Billy albums that are on there: - Billy Burnette (1972) - Billy Burnette (1979) - Between Friends - Soldier of Love - Brother to Brother Enjoy! Last edited by chriskisn; 10-02-2008 at 07:28 PM.. |
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I HIGHLY recommend Between Friends. All My Life and Hey You Got Away are classic.
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Poor Billy so under-rated. Not sure if there are so many Mac fans on here who are also Billy fans. Almost all of his albums are great - the 1972 one is probably an exception in my opinion.
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Billy Burnette? Who is he?
Between Friends and Try Me are his best solo albums, IMO. I'll agree that the '72 album isn't great, but it has its moments. Are You With Me Baby is also fantastic as is Bekka and Billy. His Frog Prince/One Extreme to the Other single from '69 is also pretty awesome (and no, Frog Prince is not one of his worst songs!) as is the Just Another Love Song/Baby single with Jawbone. Actually, I like pretty much everything B.B.'s done. Incidentally, you've listed Try Me as having been released in 1885. Somehow I don't think the album is quite that old. |
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I've fixed that little typo. Just goes to show that typing and alcohol just don't mix. Well I thought Frog Prince was bad, but then its all a matter of opinion isn't it. He must have been young when he did that song though... |
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BTW, I just posted a link to your blog on my Billy site (Billy-Burnette.com). Hope you don't mind. |
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I've always been partial to his eponymous 1980 album (probably because that was my initiation to Billy Burnette's music)...the one with "Danger Zone" & "Don't Say No". Since "Don't Say No" was a minor hit in 1980, I'm really surprised that it wasn't incorporated into Fleetwood Mac's set at some point during his tenure. The drumbeat on that song just screams "Mick Fleetwood".
Other Billy tunes that Fleetwood Mac should've done live: Gone Again Try Me It Ain't Over In Just A Heartbeat Let Your Heart Make Up Your Mind Brother To Brother Are You With Me Baby is just awesome throughout. Gimme You was also a great album...the first of three versions of "The Bigger The Love".
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Pity that these old albums are so hard to find on CD. I've been searching for them for years and only got my hands on them in the past few weeks. Now all I need is Memphis in Manhattan and I'll have all the Billy albums. Amazingly enough though you can give people links to albums like these old Billy ones, which I think are great and nobody seems to want them. Everybody seems to want John Stewart's Bomb's Away Dream Babies instead!!! Oh well... |
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Oh, and you simply must get Memphis in Manhattan. "My Love Will Not Change" is absolutely one of my favorite Burnette songs ever! Quote:
That doesn't surprise me one bit. I mean, Bombs Away Dream Babies is a fantastic album and I love John Stewart (R.I.P.), but I think too many Mac fans have blinders on when it comes to the members of the band. If it's not Nicks, Buckingham, McVie or Green, it may as well just not exist. |
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Thanks John.
I didn't know that. I guess you learn something new every day. So he could've been as young as 14 then. "Frog Prince" may not be earth-shattering, but for having been made by a teenager I'd say it's pretty damn good. |
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Billy's 1972, 1979, 1980 albums along with Between Friends and Gimme You have definitely not been released on CD format. I know that Soldier Of Love and Brother To Brother were released on CD in Japan (but not America?) I am under the assumption that Try Me may have been released on CD in Japan too given the other two Curb releases were released on CD, but I've never seen an actual copy anywhere.
Given the amount of substandard music that's released, you would think somewhere along the line that someone would rerelease these albums. Obviously there's a fanbase for Billy, otherwise how would he be able to keep releasing albums all these years? Matt |
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I've seen from the Penguin discographies that some of his singles have charted in the country charts over the years, but does anyone know actually how commercially successful Billy's solo stuff has been? |
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