Chris Farlowe always seemed destined for great things as a singer — and based on the company he kept on-stage and the people he worked with in the mid-'60s, he did succeed, at least on that level. In 1966, with his EMI contract up, Farlowe was snatched up by Andrew Oldham, who knew a thing or two about white Britons who could sing R&B, having signed the Rolling Stones three years earlier, and put him under contract to his new Immediate Records label. Immediate's history with unestablished artists is mostly a story of talent cultivated for future success, but with Farlowe it was different — he actually became a star on the label, through the label. His luck began to change early on, as he saw a Top 20 chart placement with his cover of the Jagger/Richards song »Think,« which the Rolling Stones had introduced as an album track on Aftermath. That summer, he had the biggest hit of his career with his rendition of the Stones' »Out of Time,« in a moody and dramatic version orchestrated by Arthur Greenslade, which reached number one on the British charts. Immediate, his label, always in dire financial straits, tried repackaging his songs several different ways on LP, but after 1967 his recording career was more or less frozen until the label's demise in 1970. Still, along with Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo and Paul Jones, Farlowe remains one of those voices from 1960s England that — with good reason — hasn't faded and simply won't disappear. This well-chosen 24 track compilation contains all his Immediate singles and his best album tracks from this period.