rtist: Tommy James And The Shondells
Title: Celebration: The Complete Roulette Recordings 1966-1973
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Parlophone Records / Warner Music Group / Cherry Red Records
Genre: Rock, Pop Rock, Psychedelic
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 6:56:19

Albums:
CD 1 - Hanky Panky + It's Only Love
CD 2 - I Think We're Alone Now + Something Special - Best Of Tommy James And The Shondells
CD 3 - Momy, Mony + Crimson And Clover
CD 4 - Celophane Symphony + Best Of Tommy James And The Shondells
CD 5 - Travelin' + Christian Of The World
CD 6 - My Head,My Bed And My Red Guitar + Non LP Singles

Tracklist:
01. Hanky Panky
02. I'll Go Crazy
03. I'm So Proud
04. The Lover
05. Love Makes the World Go Round
06. Good Lovin'
07. Say I Am
08. Cleo's Mood
09. Don't Throw Our Love Away
10. Shake a Tail Feather
11. Soul Searchin' Baby
12. Lots of Pretty Girls
13. Thunderbolt
14. It's Only Love
15. Hold On a Little Bit Longer
16. It's Alright
17. Juanita (Nothing Is Going to Stop Our Love)
18. Big Time Operator
19. Ya Ya
20. We'll Have a World
21. Don't Let Love Pass You By
22. Pick-Up
23. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
24. Fanny Mae
25. Some
26. Hold On to Him
27. She Cried
28. Wiggle Wobble
29. The Cheater
30. Soul Serenade
31. As We Go Through Life
32. I Think We're Alone Now
33. Trust Each Other In Love
34. What I'd Give to See Your Face Again
35. Baby Let Me Down
36. Let's Be Lovers
37. Run, Run, Baby, Run
38. Mirage
39. I Like the Way
40. California Sun
41. (Baby, Baby) I Can't Take It No More
42. Gone, Gone Gone
43. Shout
44. Out of the Blue
45. Gettin' Together
46. Love's Closin' In On Me
47. Real Girl
48. I Want to Be Around You
49. There's So Much Love All Around Me
50. Some Happy Day
51. So Deep with You
52. Sometimes I'm Up, (Sometimes I'm Down)
53. You Better Watch Out
54. Wish It Were You
55. World, Down On Your Knees
56. Lost In Your Eyes
57. Mony Mony
58. Do Unto Me
59. (I'm) Taken
60. Nighttime (I'm a Lover)
61. Run Away with Me
62. Somebody Cares
63. Get Out Now
64. I Can't Go Back to Denver
65. Some Kind of Love
66. Gingerbread Man
67. One Two Three and I Fell
68. Crimson and Clover (Long Version)
69. Kathleen Mcarthur
70. I'm a Tangerine
71. Do Something to Me
72. Crystal Blue Persuasion
73. Sugar On Sunday
74. Breakaway
75. Smokey Roads
76. I'm Alive
77. Crimson and Clover (Reprise Version)
78. Crimson and Clover (Single Version)
79. Cellophane Symphony
80. Makin' Good Time
81. Evergreen
82. Sweet Cherry Wine
83. Papa Rolled His Own
84. Changes
85. Loved One
86. I Know Who I Am
87. The Love of a Woman
88. On Behalf of the Entire Staff & Management
89. Sweet Cherry Wine (Single Version)
90. Contact
91. Ball of Fire
92. Bloody Waters
93. Red Rover
94. Candy Maker
95. She
96. Talkin' & Signifyin'
97. Travelin'
98. Gotta Get Back to You
99. Early In the Mornin'
100. Moses & Me
101. Kelly Told Anne
102. Ball and Chain
103. Meet the Comer
104. Midnight Train
105. Light of Day #2
106. Come to Me
107. I Lost My Baby
108. Lady Jane
109. Quick Silver
110. Christian of the World
111. Kings and Things
112. I'm Comin' Home
113. Sing Sing Sing (Parts 1 & 2)
114. Draggin' the Line
115. Sail a Happy Ship
116. Light of Day
117. Bits and Pieces
118. I Believe In People
119. Church Street Soul Revival
120. Another Hill to Climb
121. Adrienne
122. Silk, Satin, Carriage Waiting
123. Nothing to Hide
124. Tell 'Em Willie Boy Is Comin'
125. White Horses
126. The Last One to Know
127. Rosalee
128. Paper Flowers
129. Walk a Country Mile
130. Who's Gonna Cry
131. Forty Days and Forty Nights
132. Kingston Highway
133. I Live to Love a Woman
134. Fortunada
135. Dark Is the Night
136. Cat's Eye In the Window
137. Love Song
138. Celebration
139. Boo, Boo, Don't 'Cha Be Blue
140. Calico
141. Hey, My Lady

• Between 1966 and 1973, Tommy James issued thirteen albums on Roulette either as a solo performer or with The Roulettes. All of these recordings now appear on this definitive 6-CD set. This includes “Greatest Hits” or “Best Of” albums which of course duplicated tracks from regular albums. These tracks have been left in their respective original albums.

• Although these albums have all appeared on CD reissues at various times over the years, this is the first box set to gather together all of the recordings in one set. In addition, there is the bonus of all of the recordings that never featured on the original LPs. Some of these tracks are making their CD debut within this collection.

• The 141-track box set features 16 tracks that were only ever released on 45s or were previously unissued until earlier compilations were released on CD. Produced by Bob Fisher whose detailed essay covers the entire history of the group with quotes by Tommy James from his biography and the notes to previous reissues. The booklet includes details of all of their chart achievements in the USA and the UK along with numerous reproductions of advertisements, reviews and news stories from music industry magazines.

• Designed by Michael Robson and mastered by Simon Murphy this is the definitive collection of Tommy James & the Shondells tracing their career from garage and bubblegum pop band through career defining psychedelic albums into Tommy James solo years as an introspective singer/songwriter.

• Disc One contains the first two albums “Hanky Panky” and “It’s Only Love” plus the non- album B-side of the ‘Hanky Panky’ 45 and six titles previously unissued which made their first and only appearance on a long deleted 1997 CD set.

• Disc Two contains the albums “I Think We’re Alone Now”, “Something Special” and “Getting Together”.

• Disc Three features ‘Mony, Mony’. Their first and only UK No 1 single and the album titled after that hit alongside their classic psychedelic album, “Crimson & Clover” and the 45 version of the title track.

• Disc Four presents their second career defining psychedelic album “Cellophane Symphony” including the long version of the title track and a track from the album sessions, ‘Contact’, only previously released on the aforementioned 1997 compilation. Disc four also features the one track on the album “The Best of Tommy James & The Shondells” that hadn’t been on an album before, ‘Ball of Fire’ and the first seven titles on “Travellin’” the last Tommy James & The Shondells album.

• Disc Five opens with the continuation of the “Travellin’” album with its last three tracks before moving on to the first Tommy James solo albums “Tommy James” and “Christian Of the World” which features his last major hit single, ‘Draggin’ the Line’.

• Disc Six concludes the box with his last album for Roulette, 1971’s “My Head, My Bed and My Red Guitar” his country -rock album co-produced in Nashville with Pete Drake and featuring such legendary country sidemen as Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Charlie McCoy, Buddy Spicer and others