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 14rare bonus tracks.Ferry Cross the Merseyitself has nineGerry Marsdenoriginals, and aside from thehits (the title track and "It's Gonna Be All Right"), these rarely show up on compilations; they havethesame lightweight, energetic Merseybeat charm of most of their early material.Thealbum(which accompanied the long-goneFerry Cross the Merseyfilm) also hadsomedecent guest tracks by fellow Liverpudliansthe FourmostandCilla Black, and amoodyinstrumental by theGeorge MartinOrchestra. The bonus cuts aren't quite up to the samelevel,but they're pretty hard to come by otherwise: four songs that only appeared on anobscurecompilation LP, rare singles from 1966 and 1967, the "film version" of "It's Gonna Be AllRight"(identical to the single except for a few more instrumental bars at the beginning), andtheirsuper-rare 1966 live EP,Gerry in California.