Absolutely the Best [Original recording remastered]

Four Preps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 26, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Fuel 2000
• ASIN: B0009299ZQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,268 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lazy Summer Night

2. 26 Miles (Santa Catalina)

3. Big Man

4. Dreamy Eyes

5. Summertime Lies

6. She Was Five and He Was Ten

7. Down by the Station (Early in the Morning)

8. Got a Girl

9. More Money for You and Me Medley: Mr. Blue/Alley Oop/Smoke Gets in ...

10. The Big Draft: I'll Never Smile Again/Love Is a Many Splendored ...

11. Great Songs Medley: I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You/The ...

12. A Letter to the Beatles

13. Let's Call It a Day Girl

14. Draft Dodger Rag

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Everyone Is Missing, February 1, 2006

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Lawrence W. Bromley "Most Famous Critic In My... (Coral Springs, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Absolutely the Best (Audio CD)

Nowadays, if a station plays Four Preps music, it might be "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)", "Big Man", or even "Down By the Station." The two oldies stations in my area, in fact, DO play them. One, now off the air, even used to play "More Money For You And Me". Despite a boast of "The largest record collection in Florida", a request for "More Money" is met by, "We don't have it." That is why anyone who loves The Four Preps and 4-part harmony MUST get this CD.
"More Money" is joined by two more medleys, "The Big Draft" and "great Songs". All three feature nearly dead-on impressions of top vocal groups of the 50s and 60s, with spoof versions of those groups' hits. The Preps first hit, "Dreamy Eyes", is also included. Two more songs pay a kind of tribute to the Beatles and The Four Seasons. "A Letter To The Beatles" tweaks the Liverpool lads (who were supposedly upset over it) and the sometimes insane Beatlemania of the 60s. And "Let's Call It A Day, Girl" is a tribute to Frankie Valli's group in a way that anyone who has heard Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" would recognize.
Overall, three of the songs on the CD have goten decent airplay in recent years, but all fourteen deserve much better treatment. Until some radio station gets wise, all I can say is definitely get this CD, because "Absolutely the Best" is not just a title, it is "Absolutely" the truth. Buying the CD will be the only way to enjoy these Four Preps gems.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Four Preps - Timeless harmonies from an innocent age!, September 18, 2010

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John C. Michalke "Music and book lover" (Albany, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Absolutely the Best (Audio CD)

The Four Preps signified the fun and innocence of 1950s music and were among the greatest of the vocal quartets of that era. Their vocal harmonies drifting from your radio on those sultry summer evenings, while lying in a hammock under a moonlit sky. . . we should all have had such an experience!. Listening to them again, and again, never becomes tiresome or boring.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, August 27, 2008

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Violet (Middle East) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Absolutely the Best (Audio CD)

Totally disappointed in this. Listened to it once and put it back on the shelf. Much of it was live and felt like a protest concert.