Paul Collins Pick

I always knew them as the Beat, but they ended up being Paul Collins' Beat and eventually as Paul Collins and every variation thereof. A few days ago the pick was The Nerves and that's where Paul Collins came from. It's where the they became the Breakaways (however briefly) and then he broke off to become The Beat. Even from those early days, I loved his song Rock N Roll Girl which for some reason is still not his most famous song. I don't understand why it isn't. But he does have quite afew other good songs over the years as evidenced by this pick. I included a Breakaways track and a couple of Nerves tracks that were in the Nerves family pick. Sorry but you need them to get the rest.

Paul Collins Pick

01 The Breakaways - Walking Out On Love

02 Paul Collins Beat - She Doesn't Want to Hang Around with You

03 The Beat - Let Me Into Your Life

04 Paul Collins' Beat - Dance Dance

05 Paul Collins - It's Gonna Be A Long Time

06 Paul Collins' Beat - Give Me The Drugs

07 Paul Collins' Beat - On The Highway

08 Paul Collins Beat - Hey DJ

09 Paul Collins' Beat - Dreaming

10 Paul Collins - Rock And Roll Shoes

11 Paul Collins - I Need My Rock N'roll

12 The Beat - Working Too Hard

13 Paul Collins - Helen

14 Paul Collins Beat - I Still Want You

15 The Nerves - Give Me Some Time

16 The Beat - You Won't Be Happy

17 Paul Collins' Beat - Broken Hearted

18 Paul Collins' Beat - All Over The World

19 The Beat - There She Goes

20 Paul Collins - Only Girl

21 Paul Collins - C' Mon Let's Go!

22 The Beat - Rock N Roll Girl

23 Paul Collins - Go

24 The Nerves - When You Find Out

Beat The Case Of The Nerves

The fancy title is because I was looking at some Erle Stanley Gardner books as I was coming up with it. He wrote all the Perry Mason books (and as AA Fair wrote my favorite detective novels with Bertha Cool and Donald Lam). All his Perry Mason books are titled "The Case of the ..." and when the main protaganists of the band The Nerves end up being The Beat and Peter Case, it just made sense in my head. Really it's The Nerves Family Pick. Nerves became the Breakaways which turned into solo stuff for Jack Lee, The Beat (later Paul Collins Beat) and The Plimsouls which led to Peter Case solo. These guys are semi famous. Their songs ended up in Caddyshack, and Valley Girls as well as covers by Blondie that went ballistic. I liked most all of it. I have saved a few tracks to be used only in solo picks, so don't despair if your favorites aren't there yet. But these are my very favorites of each. I know it's Halloween, but I decided to send you to another site (Groovy Library) for some great Halloween tracks instead of posting some myself. George did a great job with Halloween this year!

Beat The Case Of The Nerves

01 The Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone

02 The Nerves - Give Me Some Time

03 The Nerves - When You Find Out

04 The Breakaways - One Way Ticket

05 The Breakaways - Walking Out On Love

06 Jack Lee - It's Hot Outside

07 The Beat - Let Me Into Your Life

08 The Beat - Working Too Hard

09 Plimsouls - Now

10 Plimsouls - Zero Hour

11 The Beat - There She Goes

12 Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

13 The Beat - Rock N Roll Girl

14 Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once

15 Peter Case - Steel Strings

16 Paul Collins' Beat - Dreaming

17 Peter Case - Banks Of The River

18 Peter Case - On The Way Downtown

19 Peter Case - Beyond The Blues

20 Peter Case - Gone

21 Peter Case - Entella Hotel

22 Peter Case - Every 24 Hours

23 Paul Collins - I Need My Rock N'roll

24 Plimsouls - Playing With Jack

25 Paul Collins Beat - I Still Want You

26 Peter Case - Coulda Shoulda Woulda