1-CD Digipak with 44-page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 85 mns.

Attentive record company executives from Germany took notice of this and it led to Tempo Records, a small label founded during the 1930s with a long history of German language releases, making a 180 degree turn. The two CDs 'Beat mit Tempo' are documents of a short lasting musical era, unique evidence of a change in taste. Bear Family has excavated the Tempo masters, a collection of cover versions of popular songs of the Beat Revolution, originally released in quick succession. Initially, the Munich-based record label had released a wide range of highly commercial music, from traditional German folk music to Schlager songs. Now they began adding English language songs to their repertoire, a major step for a label focussing on vocalists like Fred Bertelmann. Bertelmann, Peggy Brown, Rainer Bertram, Teddy Parker, and many others also recorded for Tempo under various pseudonyms.
Most of the musicians copying beat music for the Munich company remained nameless, working under pseudonyms. Although the Blue Cats, the Venture Five, the Gamblers, the High Tops, or the Four Kings bore English names, they most likely had never been to England or America. In most cases you could easily detect their German accent. It may well be, though, that one or another Englishman played in the Beat Kings. At least we know something about Jimmy Field's bio: the singer, real name Claus Herwig, later changed his name from Jimmy Fields to Teddy Parker. While studying law he won an amateur vocal contest and signed a contract with TEMPO RECORDS. He received his stage name, Teddy Parker, from Telefunken in 1962, a pseudonym he's using until today.

Track Listing

• 19th Nervous Breakdown
• Keep On Running
• Green Tambourine
• Get Off Of My Cloud
• Paperback Writer
• Mighty Quinn
• Happy Jack
• I Feel Fine
• Greensleeves
• Touch Me Touch Me
• Woolly Bully
• The Last Time
• Somebody Help Me
• Mr Tambourine Man
• A Hard Day's Night
• Black Is Black
• Pictures Of Lily
• Satisfaction
• With A Girl Like You
• Balla Balla
• 2000 Light Years From Home
• Eight Days A Week
• Sha La La La Lee
• Carrie Anne
• Paint It Black
• I'm A Believer
• Little Girl
• Jackson
• San Francisco
• Nowhere Man
• On A Carousel
• Hang On Sloopy

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 85:29 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 07/15/14

UPC: 5397102172359