THE FOURMOST First And Fourmost LP PARLOPHONE 1965 MONO UK orig GEORGE MARTIN

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 The roots of this Merseybeat band go back to Liverpool's Bluecoat Grammar School 

where Liverpudlians Billy Hatton and Brian O'Hara were in a part-time band known 

as The Four Jays in the late fifties and early sixties. 

The Four Jays' great claim to fame is that they debuted at Liverpool's Cavern Club 

on 1 March 1961, 20 days before The Beatles' first appearance there. 

By September 1962 Mike Millward (the only non-Liverpudlian in the band) 

and Dave Lovelady had been recruited when the guitar and the drum slots 

became vacant and by November that year they had turned 

professional changing their name to The Four Mosts.

Their big break came in June 1963 when Brian Epstein became their manager, 

modifying their name to The Fourmost and getting them a contract with EMI's Parlophone label

"FIRST AND FOURMOST"

Produced by GEORGE MARTIN

1965     LP     PARLOPHONE RECORDS      PMC 1259   MONO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL COPY

Released in a laminated (front) with 'Flipback' cover

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  PARLOPHONE -  BLACK/YELLOW LABELS - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: PMC 1259

Catalog on labels: PMC 1259  (XEX.555 / XEX.556)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): XEX 555-2

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): XEX 556-2

On labels: Made in Gt. Britain       

?1965 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 9 o'clock)

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On Back Sleeve: ? 1965      Liner notes by TONY BARROW

£ Trade Mark Of The Gramophone Co. Ltd.

6510  Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending    PMC 1259  PCS 3072

from my records collection

tracklisting

TILL YOU SAY YOU'LL BE MINE - YAKETY YAK - GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS

MY BLOCK - SO FINE - SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL - THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

TODAY I'M IN LOVE - THE IN CROWD - BABY SITTIN' BOOGIE

HEEBIE JEEBIES - SURE TO FALL (IN LOVE WITH YOU)

BOUND TO LOSE MY HEART - SOMETHING'S GOT A HOLD ON ME

  grading

RECORD  EX (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ (please, see pictures and read above description)

 This is a good album. The Fourmost were better than most of the other Liverpool bands of the period at mixing a good, 

hard guitar attack with pleasing harmonies and some pleasing lead lines on the breaks. 

Moreover, this album gave them a chance to preserve some of the harder rock numbers that they'd been building their reputation on for years. 

So their cover of "My Block" is a perfectly respectable piece of Merseybeat-style rock & roll, even with the faux-Spanish feel to the guitar break, 

and they do a credible midtempo rock job on "Some Kind of Wonderful." "Till You Say You'll Be Mine" features 

one of the better acoustic and electric 12-string guitar arrangements of the period this side of the Beatles or the Searchers. 

And they rock out loud and hard on "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Heebie Jeebies," a pair of Little Richard classics, 

just to show their harder side; they're not afraid to cover Etta James ("Something's Got a Hold On Me"), either...(AllMusic)