Anthology: A Mirror of His Mind -- Hits and Highlights 1968-1975

Product Description:
Subtitled - A Mirror Of His Mind - Hits & Highlights 1968-1975. 23 track retrospective by the accomplished session player/song writer who wrote hits for Elvis Presley, Deep Purple, Lynn Anderson, Johnny Rivers, The Osmonds, Lena Horne, Linda Ronstadt, Manfred Mann, B.J. Thomas, Petula Clark and Ray Stevens. Includes his own smash 'Down In The Boondocks', plus ' Hush', 'Rose Garden' and 'Games People Play'. 23 tracks. Raven. 1999.

Anthology: A Mirror of His Mind -- Hits and Highlights 1968-1975,Joe South,Raven [Australia],Country,Pop,Pop/Rock,Popular Music,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter

Average customer rating:

Not the original single / chart versions

Brilliant singer-songwriter

Not The End Of A Rainbow

COULDN'T BE BETTER

A great album from an overlooked star

Anthology: A Mirror of His Mind -- Hits and Highlights 1968-1975
Joe South
Manufacturer: Raven [Australia]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JG1Q
Release Date: 2001-12-10

Tracks:

Hush
Down In The Boondocks
Games People Play
Mirror Of Your Mind
All My Hard Times
Rose Garden
The Greatest Love
Redneck
These Are Not My People
Don't You Be Ashamed
Birds Of A Feather
Untie Me
Concrete Jungle
Clock Up On The Wall
Children
Be A Believer
Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Don't It Make You Want To Go Home?
High On A Hilltop
Real Thing
Save Your Best
Midnight Rainbows/It Got Away
Home And Homesick

Product Description

1. Hush
2. Down In The Boondocks
3. Games People Play
4. Mirror Of Your Mind
5. All My Hard Times
6. Rose Garden
7. The Greatest Love
8. Redneck
9. These Are Not My People
10. Don't You Be Ashamed
11. Birds Of A Feather
12. Untie Me
13. Concrete Jungle
14. Clock Up On The Wall
15. Children
16. Be A Believer
17. Walk A Mile In My Shoes
18. Don't It Make You Want To Go Home?
19. High On A Hilltop
20. Real Thing
21. Save Your Best
22. Midnightrainbow giIt Got Away
23. Home And Homesick

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Not the original single / chart versions.......2005-06-08

Like I said in the title, these are not the original versions that we all know from the international hitparades. It should have been written on the cover. So it's verrry disapointing! The photo album inside is OK, but I'm gonna sell mine I'm affraid.
I have to look further for the original versions!

Brilliant singer-songwriter.......2005-03-07

Joe South began as a session guitarist, working in both Nashville and Muscle Shoals. He played on many country records but also on records by Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel. He later had a major international hit with Games people play and another major American hit with Walk a mile in my shoes, but may ultimately be better remembered as a writer of hits for others, notably Deep Purple (Hush), Billy Joe Royal (Down in the boondocks), Lynn Anderson (Rose garden), These are not my people (Freddy Weller) and Birds of a feather (Paul Revere and the Raiders) - a truly diverse selection of artists.

Joe's songs often contain very interesting lyrics that generally reflected his own insecurity and frustrations (so obvious in Rose garden, a song in which he clearly indicates that he's not going to live up to other people's expectations). As such, many people found them easy to relate to and that may be the basis of their popularity - listen to Concrete jungle, Clock up on the wall, Children and some of the other songs.

Die-hard fans may not be satisfied, but this compilation contains all the essential Joe South tracks that everybody else expects to find here (his own hits and his original versions of his other famous songs), plus some other great songs that are also worth hearing.

Not The End Of A Rainbow.......2004-08-25

A pity this misses the care South put into his well-crafted albums. Really, he deserves a re-release of some of those, for me, seminal 70s discs. Most poignantly, 'Midnight Rainbows', which I have occasion to pull out of the racks for a spin. This is a marvellous and emotive work, wraked at moments with pain & loss and yet triumphant in the final assessment;crowned with joy & wonder.If it were available it would be 5 stars all the way. I think it's the deep gravity of his voice that takes some attuning to. 'To Have To Hold & Let Go'. & 'God Forgave Me' should absolve any doubts.

COULDN'T BE BETTER.......2003-06-27

I AGREE WITH THE OTHER REVIEWERS. I'VE BEEN A JOE SOUTH FAN SINCE 1966. GAMES PEOPLE PLAY WON 12 GRAMMYS. ALONG WITH SOME OF THE OTHER MENTIONED. GREATEST LOVE B.J. THOMAS. DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS BILLY JOE ROYAL. I KNEW YOU WHEN BILLY JOE ROYAL, SOME OF THE GREATEST LYRICS I'VE EVER HEARD. HIS VOICE CARRIES THE EMOTION THAT HE SEEMS TO FEEL WHEN HE WRITES THEM. ALL MY HARD TIMES WAS DONE BY THE KINGSTON TRIO (ALL MY SOROWS) AND THE TURTLES (ALL MY PROMISES). THE ONLY WRITERS WITH LYRICS ON PAR ARE CAT STEVENS AND ROY ORBISION.

A great album from an overlooked star.......2003-02-12

John Cougar Mellencamp used to do a medley of Joe South's song in his concerts and let a lot of people know what an important performer Joe South was. This album has it all. The hits he wrote for other people (I did not know before I bought this album that South had written Hush, I knew about the other songs but that was a pleasant surprise) and his own hits are here as well.

A performer who touches your sole and put out some tremendous music.

Don McNay...

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