Ernie Maresca - Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)

JASMINE RECORDS

£10.49

Cat. no: JASCD1118
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988111828
Release Date: 30th April 2021
Genre: Rock & Roll

Far better known as a songwriter than singer, Ernie Maresca’s brief recording career nonetheless yielded the R&R classic, ‘Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)’, which guaranteed him a pride of place entry in the pantheon of “One-Hit Wonders”.

This compilation presents Maresca’s entire recorded output for the Seville label between 1960-62, including both the mono and stereo mixes of his irresistible hit. The sixteen bonus tracks feature a number of celebrated performances of his songs, including his three all-time biggest hits, Dion’s definitive versions of ‘Runaround Sue’, ‘The Wanderer’ and ‘Lovers Who Wander’.

Also featured are The Belmonts, The Regents, Nino & The Ebb Tides, Ricky Shaw and Billy Fury, the latter with a cheeky UK re-imagining one of his lesserknown Popcorn killers.

Maresca’s recordings are notoriously hard to find elsewhere on CD, and this is the first compilation to present a coherent career overview, including some of the hits he wrote for other artists.

Tracks: I Don’t Know Why / Lonesome Blues / Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself out) (Mono - 45 Version) / Crying Like a Baby over You / Mary Jane / Down on the Beach / Some Day You’ll Change Your Ways / They Don’t Know / What Good is Living / How I Cry / I’m Gonna Make it Somehow / Subway Blues / Can’t Forget About You / Something to Shout About / How Many Times? / Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself out) (Stereo Version) / Dion & The Belmonts - No One Knows / Dion & The Belmonts - A Lover’s Prayer / The Regents - Runaround / Dion - Runaround Sue / Linda Laurie - Stay-at-Home Sue / Dion - Lonely World / Nino & The Ebb Tides - Happy Guy / Dion - The Wanderer / The Regents - Lonesome Boy / The Regents - Oh Baby / Dion - Lovers Who Wander / Ricky Shaw - A Fool’s Memory / The Desires - Story of Love / The Desires - I Ask You / The Belmonts - Come on Little Angel / Billy Fury - Running Around