At last from Hit Parade Records, the new audiophile-quality reissue label, comes the Definitive collection of all the original hits from one of the '50s most versatile pop song stylists. These are not re-recordings from her later years like those found o
Georgia Gibbs Collection - Complete Original Hits I enjoyed this selection very much. So songs I wasn't familiar with, but yet this CD was very good listening pleasure. Submitted by elmer1943 (Los Angeles, California) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Good Ole Memory Lane The Great Ms Georgia Gibbs...
This CD is worth buying purely for the best version of "Seven Lonely Days" (sorry Patsy)everything else is a bonus. Unbelievable quality despite mono. Listen very carefully to each track and you'll hear a different Georgia Gibbs every time. No artificial talent or electronic enhancing here. Just a great vocal styliste with sober backing. Submitted by chris.torenbeek (Brisbane Australia) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
$7.95 Recorded between 1945 and 1964. Includes liner notes by Joseph Laredo.
Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Audio Mechanics, Los Angeles, California).
MCA/Decca's full-priced 18-track Burl Ives collection Greatest Hits, released in 1996, was still in print when the label issued this 12-track budget set five years later, so it's worth comparing the two. The less-expensive album actually contains a couple of big hits -- Ives' Top 40 pop/Top Ten country cover of Hank Thompson's "Wild Side of Life" from 1952 and the 1962 single "Mary Ann Regrets," which went Top 40 pop and Top 20 country and easy listening -- not featured on the more ...
$9.89 Collecting recordings from throughout the first five years of early-1960s heartthrob Bobby Rydell's career, this compilation features his first hits, like the Doc Pomus composition "I Dig Girls," standards like ...
$10.09 The Chubby Checker installment in the Cameo Parkway series, an excellent string of discs highlighting the label's artists from the late 1950s and '60s, will disappoint ...
$11.75 The second album by suburban New York quintet This Day and Age comes across as post-rock's answer to Coldplay and Keane. This is not the insult it might appear to be at first blush, because The Bell and the Hammer does something surprisingly few albums in this style are able to achieve: these songs fuse atmosphere and style with substantial pop song hooks ...