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Barry Biggs - -Sideshow - The best of Barry Biggs

Released 15 March 2004

The big hit Sideshow is probably and rightly the best of the bunch. If you like the vocal on that then you will like the rest. The vocal, akin to Russell Thompkins Junior of the Stylistics, a high falsetto.   Much of the material is covers of US soul hits from the likes of Blue Magic, ChiLites, Temptations, Eddie Holman given the lazy commercial reggae feel.

Barry actually started many years earlier than when the hits came, back in 1969 or thereabouts and the earlier tracks are included such as Work all day.

There is a great version from 1970 of Leon Haywood's It's got to be mellow, typical Jamaican beat with wonderful US harmonies. Another favourite is Reflections of my life from the eighties.

Barry Biggs: Sideshow: The Best Of Barry Biggs (TJACD166)

 

Format: CD album
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Featuring 'Work All Day', 'Sideshow', 'You're My Life', 'Three Ring Circus', 'What's Your Sign, Girl' and 'Wide Awake In A Dream', all of which breached the UK chart top 60 during the late seventies and early eighties, this collection also includes Barry's debut solo recording, 'My Cherie Amour', along with an array of Jamaican hits, most notably 'A Promise Is A Comfort To A Fool', which in 1982 topped the Reggae charts. Quite simply, there has never been a more comprehensive collection of his work.

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Tracklisting

  Sideshow - Listen

  Three Ring Circus - Listen

  Wide Awake In A Dream - Listen

  Work All Day - Listen

  What's Your Sign Girl - Listen

  You Are My Life - Listen

  Reflection Of My Life - Listen

  It's Got To Be Mellow - Listen

  Show Me Your Company - Listen

  Promise Is A Comfort - Listen

  My Cherie Amour - Listen

  How Could I Let You Get Away - Listen

  Just My Imagination - Listen

  Sweetest Little Thing - Listen

  Love Come Down - Listen

  One Bad Apple - Listen

  Sincerely - Listen

  Love Grows - Listen

  Why Must You Cry - Listen

  I'll Be Back - Listen

  Conversation - Listen

  Hey There Lonely Girl - Listen

  Have You Seen Her - Listen

 

 

 

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