Be warned: despite the cunning title and graphics, this is not a Georgie Fame release! In fact it’s better than that: what you get are 25 tracks that underwrote the Georgie Fame sound and, more importantly, laid the bedrock for the early 1960s Mod and R&B movement. Not a lot of jazz you might therefore comment: but this is also music that nourished a generation of musicians that would find expression in so much black Brit jazz of the 1980s and beyond. So we get Major Lance’s ‘The Monkey Time’ (so influential on Laura Nyro) rubbing alongside Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan’s ‘Yeh Yeh!’, Ray Charles’ ‘Get On The Right Track Baby’ jostling with Lord Kitchener’s outrageous ‘Dr Kitsch’, with other notable influences like Jimmy McGriff, Lee Dorsey and Mose Allison to the fore. If nothing else this CD is the only party soundtrack you’ll need.