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The Hit Singles Collection by: Bobby Darin List Price: £9.99 Price: £5.57 You Save: £4.42 (44%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227832629 Format: Import Label: Elektra Manufacturer: Elektra Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elektra Release Date: March 03, 2008 Studio: Elektra Sales Rank: 14239 MPN: 78326 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Hopping from one genre to anotherBobby Darin seemed to touch everything except Beatles Music-he would have got round to it if he'd lived long enough. His version of If I were a Carpenter is definitive. For him it began with one lost night when both he and Connie Francis were total unknowns and he covered Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line. 2 years later he'd begun a chart career with some groovy rock'n'roll before reinventing himself a year later as a Sinatra clone. He was accused of copying Sinatra but so what-everybody copies.Even Sinatra who in 1960 copied Bobby Darin! Yes that's perfectly true as Frank put out a version of Old McDonald had a farm-ascloseasthis to Darin's version of Clementine where each verse rose up a semitone. Never anywhere ... Read More: Rating: - Almost all of Bobby Darin's Top 40 hits on one CD"The Hit Singles Collection" comes to us courtesy of Rhino, which means you know you are going to get not only 20 choice tracks which include (almost) all of Bobby Darin's Top 40 hits but also solid liner notes from Bill Dahl. The chief attractions are the Top 10 hits, which would be "Splish Splash" (#3), "Queen Of The Hop" (#9), "Dream Lover" (#2), "Mack the Knife" (#1), "Beyond the Sea" (#6), "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" (#5), "Things" (#3), "You're The Reason I'm Living" (#3), "18 Yellow Roses" (#10), and "If I Were a Carpenter" (#8). As you can see, that is half the album right there. Overall the songs reflect the wide range of Darin's career, where he did everything from popular standards to rock 'n' roll with a bit of folk-rocker ... Read More: Rating: - Just the essentialsThis collection contains twenty of Bobby Darin's finest songs from his peak years, ranging from his rock'n'roll music to his Sinatra-styled ballads. Dream lover, You must have been a beautiful baby, Things, If I were a carpenter, Mack the knife and Beyond the sea were top ten hits in Britain and America. This set also includes the British top ten hits Lazy river, Clementine and Multiplication and the American top ten hits, Splish splash and Queen of the hop. Apart from those major hits, there are other great songs here such as Early in the morning, Plain Jane, Artificial flowers and 18 yellow roses. More comprehensive collections are available but as an introduction to Bobby's music, this is brilliant, containing all the essentials ... Read More: |
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