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THE ACTION IN MY LONELY ROOM EP 10inch FOUR PREV UNREL TRACKS FROM THE MOD LEGENDS!!
THE ACTION IN MY LONELY ROOM EP
2014 TOP SOUNDS (UK) 10inch LIMITED EDITION (1000 copies only Worldwide) EP OF 1964/5 RECORDINGS INCLUDING FOUR PAGE BOOKLET
A drop dead
gorgeous 10inch EP from legendary Mod band The Action featuring four previously
unreleased tracks recorded during 1964 and 1965. To quote Steve Marriott
"We all tried our hand at getting that Motown sound you know... all the
bands in the mid ‘60s.
The best ones at it were the Action... They were an amazing band.”. Alongside
the Small Faces and the Who, London’s ACTION were undoubtedly Britain’s premier
mod band during the mid 1960s, and their chain of five singles for Parlophone
from October 1965 to June 1967 are venerated as one of the finest runs of 45s
of the period (or indeed of any period really). Subsequent releases of the
group’s material such as The Ultimate Action, Rolled Gold, Uptight And
Outasight and CD repackages of the band’s EMI output, plus the Action’s period
of reformation, have endeared the group to a huge swell of post 60s fans and
the band command a level of respect and adulation rarely bestowed on many other
groups of their era. Sadly with the aforementioned slew of records and CDs the
well of archive Action material appeared to have run dry...until now that is!
The excellent book on the Action 'In The Lap Of The Mods', published in 2012,
shed light on a previously rarely documented aspect of the Action’s recording
career, specifically their audition for the Decca record company in May 1965.
Indeed some copies of the book included a limited edition vinyl 45 extracted
from an acetate recently discovered from that audition, which was a supreme
version of the Temptations ‘Why You Wanna Make Me Blue’. That recording, taped
six months before their EMI debut, makes a welcome re-appearance here and since
the book came out another acetate from that Decca session has surfaced, one
side of which features a wonderful interpretation of one of many people’s
favourite Action tracks ‘In My Lonely Room’, which incredibly surpasses the
later recording for Parlophone and has a real ‘live’ feel to it. Coupled with
‘In My Lonely Room’ was a fine rendition of the Impressions’ ‘You’ll Want Me
back’, which finds the Action in a more mellow blue eyed soul groove and
showcases perhaps the most Reggie King’s leap in vocal prowess in the
comparative short space of time since the band’s recordings for Pye as the Boys
barely six months previous. Not that the Boys’ single for Pye was a slouch –
far from it – and Top Sounds round off the EP with another previously
undocumented recording. Committed to acetate during their time as the Boys was
one of Reggie King’s earliest compositions, and ‘Fine Looking Girl’ exposes
further the pre-emptive Action in rather good form indeed. Restored to the best
possible standard from the original acetates, the four selections on In My
Lonely Room are a fascinating, important and invaluable document of the
emergent Action and probably our last chance to catch some new unbelievable
ACTION!
NEW UNPLAYED STOCK