"Please Stay", by The Cryin Shames, was the last song by producer Joe Meek to enter the UK Top 40, peaking at No. 26. Released on 18 February 1966, the song should have reached the top, but its progress was held back by the fact that the Decca record label had not pressed enough copies to meet demand. The collaboration should have been long and successful for both of them, but the Cryin Shames story is cursed with bad luck and, sadly, within a year of the success of Please Stay the band broke up and Joe Meek died. This compilation brings together a first part of the material collected by Cherry Red on the double CD The Tea Chest Tapes .

TRACKS:

A1 The Cryin' Shames– Please Stay 3:11
A2 The Cryin' Shames– What’s News Pussycat (Extended Fade) 2:48
A3 The Cryin' Shames– Nobody Waved Goodbye 2:52
A4 The Cryin' Shames– You 2:08 
A5 Paul & Ritchie & The Crying Shames– September In The Rain 2:31
A6 Paul & Ritchie & The Crying Shames – Come On Back 2:32
A7 The Bumblies– Please Stay (Audition) 4:04
A8 The Bumblies– Mr. Tambourine Man (Audition) 2:04
A9 The Bumblies– Pain In My Heart (Audition) 1:50

B1 The Cryin' Shames– I’ll Keep Holding On (Version 2) 3:48
B2 The Cryin' Shames– Land Of 1,000 Dances 4:33
B3 The Cryin' Shames– Gloria 3:12
B4 The Cryin' Shames– No Good Without You Baby 3:18
B5 The Cryin' Shames– She Belongs To Me 3:10
B6 The Cryin' Shames– My Girl 2:56
B7 The Cryin' Shames– As Tears Go By 3:08