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Gerry & the Pacemakers
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Release Date: 1965
Label: Repertoire
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Granted, all but fanatics should be satisfied with a best-of for Gerry & the Pacemakers. But British Invasion specialists could do worse than pick up this reissue, which packages their 1965 LP with 14 rare bonus tracks. Ferry Cross the Mersey itself has nine Gerry Marsden originals, and aside from the hits (the title track and "It's Gonna Be All Right"), these rarely show up on compilations; they have the same lightweight, energetic Merseybeat charm of most of their early material. The album (which accompanied the long-gone Ferry Cross the Mersey film) also had some decent guest tracks by fellow Liverpudlians the Fourmost and Cilla Black, and a moody instrumental by the George Martin Orchestra. The bonus cuts aren't quite up to the same level, but they're pretty hard to come by otherwise: four songs that only appeared on an obscure compilation LP, rare singles from 1966 and 1967, the "film version" of "It's Gonna Be All Right" (identical to the single except for a few more instrumental bars at the beginning), and their super-rare 1966 live EP, Gerry in California. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	It's Gonna Be All Right	Marsden
2	Why Oh Why	Marsden
3	Fall in Love	Marsden
4	Think About Love	Marsden
5	I Love You Too	Jaques, Ryan
6	All Quiet on the Mersey Front	Martin
7	This Thing Called Love	Marsden
8	Baby You're So Good to Me	Marsden
9	I'll Wait for You	Marsden
10	She's the Only Girl for Me	Marsden
11	Is It Love	Willis
12	Ferry Cross the Mersey	Marsden
13	It's Gonna Be All Right	Marsden
14	Come Back to Me	Marsden
15	When Oh When	Marsden
16	Give All Your Love to Me	Marsden
17	Hallelujah I Love Her So	Charles
18	Way You Look Tonight
19	Looking for My Life
20	Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine	Simon