Them  –

1)  Happy Tiger Years (Them & In Reality)
2)  Now - And "Them" / Time Out! Time In For Them


Etichetta: Synton – 1610973

CD, Compilation
Paese: Austria
Uscita: 1968 1969 1970
Genere: Rock
Stile: Psychedelic Rock

Note by LONGJAM:
This torrent is a three Lp affair, from 1968 to 1970
THEM without VAN MORRISON...
they became even and hard rock three trio! ( this in 1970)
check teh powerfull tunes of the trio on tracks 11-16!!!!!

the medley-  Gloria/Baby Please Don't Go
is a piece of history in rock! :-)



1 I Keep Singing
2 Lonely Weekends
3 Take A Little Time
4 You Got Me Good
5 Jo Ann
6 Memphis Lady
7 In The Midnight Hour
8 Nobody Cares
9 I Am Waiting
10 Just A Little
11 Gloria
12 Baby Please Don't Go
13 Laugh
14 Let My Song Through
15 California Man
16 Lessons Of The Sea
17 Rayn
18 Back To The Country
19 Can You Believe
20       Witch Doctor 2:38
21 What's The Matter Baby 2:45
22 Truth Machine 2:09
23 Square Room 9:56
24 You're Just What I Was Looking For Today 2:56
25 Dirty Old Man (At The Age Of Sixteen) 1:47
26 Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out 3:34
27 Walking In The Queen's Garden 3:06
28 I Happen To Love You 2:57
29 Come To Me 2:25
30 Time Out For Time In 2:56
31 She Put A Hex On You 2:25
32 Bent Over You 3:19
33 Waltz Of The Flies 2:25
34 Black Widow Spider 4:33
35 We've All Agreed To Help 2:20
36 Market Place 3:02
37 Just One Conception 5:06
38 Young Woman 2:45
39 The Moth 3:19


CD label reads The "Tower" Years.

   Matrice / Runout: GZ J52015 1750

1-10  from "Them"
11-19 from "In Reality" P 1970-71
20-36 from "Now - And "Them" / Time Out! Time In For Them


THEM WITHOUT VAN MORRISON!




THe group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion.[39] After the success of "Here Comes the Night", the band scored a chart hit again later in 1965 with "Mystic Eyes", which reached No.33. Them Again, released in April 1966 in the US, also charted and the band began a US tour in May 1966.[40] From 30 May to 18 June, Them had a residency at the famous Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. For the final week The Doors opened for Them and on the last night the two bands and Morrisons jammed a twenty-minute version of "Gloria" and a twenty-five-minute version of "In the Midnight Hour".[41] Them went on to headline at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California, and then to Hawaii, where disputes erupted among band members and management over money. The band broke apart, Morrison and Henderson returning to Belfast while Ray Elliott (born Raymond Elliott, 23 January 1939, in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland) and David Harvey (born David Tufney, 29 July 1943, in Bude, Cornwall) decided to stay in America.[42]

Van Morrison has placed the break-up of Them in context: "There was no motive behind anything you did [back then]. You just did it because you wanted to do it and you enjoyed doing it. That's the way the thing started, but it got twisted somewhere along the way and everybody involved in it got twisted as well, including me."(1967) "You can't take something like that, put it in a box and place a neat little name on it, then try to sell it. That's what they tried to do. That's what killed Them." (1973)[43]

Van Morrison went on to great success and fame as a solo artist, but Them's combination of garage rock and blues proved a major influence on the next generations of rock musicians, and the group's best-known singles have become staples of rock and roll.[5]
Post-Morrison
Belfast Gypsies

In late August 1965, Billy Harrison and Pat McAuley formed a rival Them, competing with the Morrison/Henderson line-up and leading to legal action.[44] In March 1966, the latter won the rights to the name while the former, now without Harrison but with Pat's brother Jackie McAuley (born John James McAuley, 14 December 1946, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; ex-Them, ex-Kult), were only allowed to call themselves 'Other Them' in the UK The McAuley brothers became, unofficially, Them Belfast Gypsies (or Gipsies), though they were never actually billed as such, and recorded two singles on Island Records (one released under the name Freaks of Nature) and one Swedish-only album, all produced by Kim Fowley.[45] They toured Europe billed as Them and released a French EP under that name but broke up in November 1966.[46] Not long after that the Morrison line-up also split. In March 1967 Morrison did a short tour of the Netherlands backed by Cuby & the Blizzards, actually only the Blizzards without leadsinger Cuby that is, and then left for New York to start his solo career. The rest regrouped in Belfast, recruited Kenny McDowell (born Kenneth McDowell, 21 December 1944, in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) (ex-Mad Lads) as lead singer and continued touring and recording steadily after relocating to the US in early 1967 at the invitation of producer Ray Ruff.
1968 until dissolution

Two albums, Now and Them and Time Out! Time In for Them, found the band experimenting with psychedelia.[47] Then Jim Armstrong and Kenny McDowell returned to Belfast to perform as Sk'boo (Armstrong, McDowell and Ray Elliot reunited in Chicago in 1969 as "Truth" and recorded a number of demos and soundtrack songs later released as Of Them and Other Tales).

Henderson hired session musicians for two more records for Ray Ruff's Happy Tiger Records, in a hard rock vein with country and folk elements; Them (1969) features Jerry Cole as guitarist while Them in Reality (1970) features lead guitarist Jim Parker and drummer John Stark (both ex-Kitchen Cinq). Henderson also co-wrote a rock opera, Truth of Truths, produced by Ray Ruff in 1971.[48] These efforts were met with consumer indifference and in 1972 Them dissolved. Alan Henderson, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon reunited in 1979, without Morrison, recording another album, Shut Your Mouth and undertaking a tour of Germany using Billy Bell on drums, and Mel Austin as vocalist. Since the 1990s, Wrixon had toured under the moniker of "Them the Belfast Blues Band", at one point comprising ex-Them guitarists, Jim Armstrong and Billy Harrison.

Alan Henderson died on 9 April 2017 in Big Lake, Minnesota, at the age of 72.[49][50]




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